YATE Town have been contacted by a couple of interested parties about the vacant manager and assistant manager posts at Lodge Road.

Town won their second game under director of football Nigel Hawkins on Tuesday night when they beat Fleet Town 2-1 away. That came just a few days after a 3-1 home Southern League South and West Division One victory over Shortwood United.

That match against Shortwood was Hawkins’ first game in charge after the dismissal last week of manager Rob Cousins and assistant Michael Meaker.

Chairman Colin Pick said: “We have had a few good guys who have enquired (about the jobs). There is a bit of activity and we have had a few emails through.”

As for the timing of installing a new manager, Pick added: “Nigel will make the decision. He would like to try and get someone in situ before the end of the season but we are not rushing it.”

Cousins and Meaker parted company with Town after a board meeting a week last Monday decided they needed to change after poor form and the club’s inability to win a trophy or reach the play-offs during the duo’s tenure in charge.

The only downside to an encouraging week has been the loss of last year’s Player of the Season, midfielder Bradley Abraham, who was in the side that beat Shortwood last Saturday but has now signed for Paulton Rovers.

And Yate are set to be without another midfielder soon but this time to a side further away that the West Country.

Pick said: “We are losing James Hamer who is going to either New Zealand or Australia to join a club.”

Nevertheless, Pick is encouraged by the way Yate have responded to the change in command on the playing side as they continue to sit sixth in the table ahead of Saturday’s away clash at Tiverton Town.