Town general manager of football operations Lee O’Neill says owner Marcus Evans will take as long as necessary to appoint a successor to Paul Lambert, who left the club along with his assistant Stuart Taylor yesterday.
Former Chesterfield, Portsmouth and Wigan boss Paul Cook is a strong favourite for the role, but O’Neill says Evans is in no rush to make an appointment and confirmed that first-team coach Matt Gill will be in caretaker charge. We understand he will be assisted by academy head of player and coaching development Bryan Klug.
"Marcus is working on it now but will take as long as is needed,” O'Neill told the club site.
"He'll be speaking to people about the role and in the interim period we are confident that Matt can do what is needed on a game-by-game basis.
"Our goalposts haven't changed though, and we want to get the results that can get us promoted this season.
"We feel with a new manager and some momentum we can push on for the remainder of the campaign."
Regarding tomorrow night's game at Accrington, he added: "Matt Gill is going to step in and take charge tomorrow.
"He will be assisted by Bryan Klug, and all the usual first-team staff around that.
"The boys have been in good form, and the focus is 100 per cent on the game tomorrow night.”