AT all times in the process we have remained focused on one clear set of criteria - we want someone who is genuinely passionate about being the manager of Swindon Town.
This is not a role for somebody who is looking for just another club to get back into football management - and there are lots of those people around.
It would have been easy to have brought any of those candidates in five weeks ago, but we didn’t want to go there.
Whoever we appoint is coming to this club to help us achieve a three to five year objective, which is to be in the Championship and to stay in the Championship.
I don’t want someone that will put their head above the parapet the minute a vacancy emerges, at a Blackburn or a Sunderland, or a Hartlepool.
I cannot totally mitigate that happening, but I want as best as possible to avoid it.
We have dispensed with the ‘wow’ factor - we have spoken to some fabulous people, but they have been dispensed with either because their clubs wanted to hold onto them or it just hasn’t been right because they have not necessarily seen it as a three to five year appointment.
The board want someone who can inspire, motivate, communicate and provide structure and discipline to the playing squad, as well as being an absolutely top class coach.
We believe we have a squad capable of achieving many great things, they just need to be galvanised, directed and disciplined.
It doesn’t take a genius to identify there is a little bit of ill-discipline at the moment, and that creeps out onto the field - and we are losing or drawing games when we should be burying teams.
I want them to make training hard, for the players to put the yards in, and I want them to enjoy playing for Swindon on a Saturday afternoon.
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