Paul Buckle is Bristol Rovers' latest manager - what do fans think?

Paul Buckle has today been named as Bristol Rovers' new manager.

The former Torquay United boss has been chosen as the man to take the Pirates back into League One.

He becomes the fifth man to take charge of Rovers in less than six months.

The club sacked Paul Trollope in December and handed Darren Patterson a caretaker role before Dave Penney's 13-game spell in charge. After Penney's departure in early March, Stuart Campbell took over as player-manager for the final 12 games of the campaign, although he could not save the club from relegation.

Rovers' chairman Nick Higgs said today: "We are delighted to announced Paul Buckle as our new manager. Paul has done a fantastic job with Torquay. He is an exciting young manager who likes to play attractive attacking football, and we think he is the ideal person to get us out of League Two and moving up the leagues.

"There will be a number of comings and goings over the next few weeks as we commence the rebuilding process at Bristol Rovers."

Buckle, 40, started his playing career at Brentford and spent time at nine other clubs, including Wycombe, Exeter, Torquay, Northampton and Colchester.

He took on a player-coach role at Exeter under Alex Inglethorpe and then Paul Tisdale and landed the manager's job at Torquay in June 2007.

He said he was leaving Torquay with a heavy heart after four fantastic years which included three Cup Finals and reinstating the club in the Football League but the chance to manager Rovers was too good an opportunity to turn down.

"I intend to do everything in my power to take Rovers back where they belong," he said. "I will be installing a fresh mentality throughout the club that reflects me, by bringing the high standards that I demanded at Torquay, which resulted in great results."