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Culture change repeat history
to implement from the first day of pre-season.
“I have had quite a few experiences of adversity in my career but they have all been fabulous and you learn from them.
“As you go along they help you, you see things and you know how to deal with them.
“So what’s happened in the past all adds up to make you more prepared for what you do next.”
Having never worked in Scotland before, Bowyer admits there is much to get to grips with.
Analysing the quality he has to work with at Dens Park will be one of his first jobs when pre-season starts next week.
He plans to supplement the existing squad using both his experience of the game down south and the knowledge of Scottish football that already exists at the club. But Bowyer admits there will inevitably be one or two current players who will be heading for pastures new.
“There might be some there who feel they might want to go elsewhere and play at a higher level,” the ex-Bradford boss added.
“I’ve got to have those conversations with them.
“I am not one of these managers who is daft enough to think we are going to keep every player here.
“I’ll assess the squad over the first couple of weeks and see exactly where we’re at.
“It’s a clean slate for everybody. “And obviously if we feel there are players out there in the market, in England and Scotland, who we feel could come in and enhance the squad, that’s something we’d take to the board and say, ‘listen, this lad’s achievable and we think he’d fit in with what we’re trying to build, let’s get this done’.”