Coaching Staff follow up

Change will not be confined to a major revamp of the playing staff. The backroom staff, although remaining in place, will have redefined roles.

The structure for the treatment and preparation of players will also be overhauled following the retirement of long-serving physiotherapist Malcolm Stuart.

Slade said: “The medical department will probably see the biggest change. That has got to be looked at quite clearly.

“It might well be that we have two physios to deal with the first team and the reserves and anything else we need.

“I think there has to be a separate fitness and conditioning department, rather than personnel sort of having a dabble at different roles. That needs defining and needs to be done properly. I am a great believer that if you do something you have got to do it properly.

“The technical side of the football club – the analysing, the information that we get – needs absolute definition and what we can do within our financial constraints.

“I am looking at all that, the complete structure, objectively. Dean (assistant manager Dean White) and Bob (reserve team manager Bob Booker) will work within that structure.

“It’s okay saying you want to be a Championship club but you have to have a structure and gear up for that – it doesn’t just happen.

“That’s massively on my agenda, to prepare the club from a staffing point of view and off-the-field as well as on the field.

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