The club can confirm that they have parted company with Chris Beech and his assistant Nick Anderton.

The club would like to place on record their thanks to both Chris and Nick and wish them all the best in their future endeavours.

Club Chairman David Haythornthwaite will be providing an update to the club website on the reasoning, and how the club intend to move forward tomorrow evening.

In the meantime, Chris Neal and Nathan Delfouneso will be taking charge of all first-team matters ahead of Tuesday night’s game against Southend United.