Does anyone no ewt.............

Yes - there is a press conference this afternoon with Lowes and Gatcliffe heading the table with another, yet to be confirmed, person.

Hanley? Smith?

tony smith, reliable source

Honest? Hope your correct mate...I'll put him in my avatar anyhow..

I thought after that thread last night, that I would not see the words "reliable source" again...

I couldn't have been more wrong...

Didn't Lowes say he'd only stay for head coach or else he would go elsewhere? Or am I getting mixed up with someone else?

Personally I can't see Lowes accepting a back seat now, after the time he's had in charge. Plus after the fiasco this season has been so far would anyone want him in a coaching role at the club? If/when a new coach moves on Jimmy, as assisstant, would be prime candidate to take over again.

How's this going to work then? Presumably if someone else is being brought in 'above' Lowes, as it were, then this new person will inevitably make changes, start to do things a bit differently, etc. in an attempt to put right our current failings.

Meanwhile, Lowes will have to stand there nodding and backing up his new superior, which will be a tacit admission that much of what he (Lowes) has been doing hasn't worked.

Skysports and running the same story as sportinglife, press conference sometime today with Smith and Hanley both linked.

"...to try and stem the national tide of falling interest rates Heathcotes will announce today that the price of beer at the Halliwell Jones stadium will increase by a further 40p per pint..."

office circular at heathcotes hq this morning