Town have added former Notts County manager Ian McParland to their coaching staff. McParland left the Magpies last month after two years as boss.

Boss Roy Keane has been looking to add another coach to his staff for some while with Peter Taylor recently coming close to being offered a position.

Keane says McParland, known as Charlie, initially came to his attention on a coaching course: “I met Charlie first when I was on my Pro Licence and he’s a good man, which is important. He’s got his qualifications like a lot of coaches and I was keen on bringing a new face and new voice into the training ground.

“He’s somebody I believe I can trust and he’ll be working with the first team, very much hands on, and will be involved for the weekend.”

Former striker McParland, 48, played for Notts County, Hull City, Walsall, Dunfermline, Lincoln, Northampton, Chinese clubs Instant-Dict and Eastern AA, and Hamilton and Berwick in his native Scotland.

Prior to his spell as boss at Notts County, he was a coach at Keane's former club Nottingham Forest for 10 years.

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naa added 13:41 - Nov 27 Sounds like good business to me. Let's just hope Roy is man enough to listen to other people. He makes lots of comments about trust, and people letting him down in the past etc. It seems it's easy to make him consider you a traitor. So let's just hope this partnership works and that it's a two-way street.
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UEFA81 added 14:51 - Nov 27 All we have to do now is get rid of Keane and things might start happening at last.
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ThatMuhrenCross added 14:57 - Nov 27 Does this mean that we're gonna sign Lee Hughes???? Now he would be a good signing. What about Sol Campbell???
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bedsitfc added 15:54 - Nov 27 glad to see a new coach come in as i dont rate tony at all
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Berts_chin added 18:04 - Nov 27 Anyone that's had experience of Instant-Dict should be well prepared for Keano.
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jas0999 added 20:14 - Nov 27 A good addition to the coaching staff. Well done Roy - hope it works out.
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