DAVID Lowe is Blackburn Rovers’ new assistant manager but fans could be forgiven for knowing very little about the 51-year-old despite him having been at Ewood for six years.

So who exactly is the new Rovers No.2?

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Lowe has spent the past six years working with the club’s Academy having joined Rovers in June 2011 when he was named Head of Youth Development.

Most recently he has been working as Head of Academy Coaching before being promoted to assistant manager after the appointment of Tony Mowbray as head coach.

Lowe will work alongside Mowbray, and David Dunn, who was also promoted from the club’s Academy to first-team set-up as part of the backroom re-shuffle.

Lowe has experience of working in a first-team environment during a spell with Tranmere while he also had one game in caretaker charge of Derby County in January 2009.

His first coaching role came at Wigan Athletic, where he had great success as a player when, in 2002, he re-joined the Latics to link up with his former team-mate and then Wigan boss Paul Jewell.

Lowe followed Jewell to Derby County in 2007, taking up the role of Head of the Youth Academy at Pride Park.

After Jewell departed the Rams in December 2008 Lowe took temporary charge of Derby for the league cup semi-final first leg victory over Manchester United before Nigel Clough was appointed as the club’s new boss.

Lowe left Derby three months later and spent time working for United and then Tranmere before joining Rovers.