An update from Chairman Simon Gauge
As you will have seen from the statement issued yesterday, we have parted company with Robbie Stockdale and Jimmy Shan and I would like to take this opportunity to thank them for their services.
It is with great sadness that they have left the club and a lot of thanks goes to them for all the hard work they’ve put into the club over the past year, especially at a time of transition to a fan-owned, fan-led club, something that they wholly embraced and bought into.
It wasn’t an easy decision for the board to make because Robbie and Jimmy are good people, but we felt from a football perspective that we wanted to be decisive and make a change now.
The recruitment process for a new manager started yesterday evening and we would like to make an appointment as quickly as possible. However, we want to make the right appointment.
We are fortunate that within the building we have a very capable person in Jim McNulty and he will be taking charge of the team on an interim basis. I know Jim’s personality and he’ll thoroughly relish the challenge, as well as enjoying it.
I know Jim is a very popular character around the club and with supporters, and I ask those travelling to Swindon tomorrow to wish him all the best and get behind the players as we look to start turning around our results.
Simon