The Blues boss has won six and drawn two of his opening 10 league games.





That is a better record than six of his predecessors - Lee Clark, Chris Hughton, Alex McLeish, Steve Bruce, Trevor Francis and Barry Fry.





You have to go back to the beginning of the 1991-92 season, in the old Division Three, when Terry Cooper began his stint in the St Andrew's hot seat, for a more impressive sequence.





Cooper's Blues opened up with four straight league wins and added another two towards the end of a 10-game stretch. They drew three times and lost just once, in the eighth outing, at Hartlepool United.





That season the Blues of Ian Clarkson, John Frain, Martin Hicks, Trevor Matthewson, Ian Rodgerson, Mark Cooper, Nigel Gleghorn and Simon Sturridge won promotion as runners-up.





Current first team coach Mark Sale joined Blues in the March of that campaign from Rocester.





Rowett's Blues also progressed to the fourth round of the FA Cup following victory at Blyth Spartans last Saturday.





And the 6-1 St Andrew's defeat of Reading in December represented Blues highest score at home since Fry's side hammered Blackpool 7-1 on New Year's Eve, 1994.



