Sittingbourne FC already have 5 candidates to replace Matt Wyatt, who resigned as the club’s manager last week.

Speaking before the team’s 2-0 loss at home to South Park in the Ryman Division One South the club secretary John Pitts explained that there are “already 5 good quality candidates” to take the place of the straight talking Wyatt.

The club currently sit in fourth position in the table after 15 matches, despite knowing that Wyatt has been ready to leave since last week but there were differences between himself and the club board.

“Where we differed a lot was over the budget, we agreed a budget at the beginning of the season which was not kept to”.

“As a small club with very little income we couldn’t keep overspending the budget” Pitts explained.

A day after Wyatt left the club player- of- the- year Nick Dunsdon also walked away from Woodstock Park but Pitts does not believe the team will not suffer as a result of the changes “there aren’t many changes from the manager’s previous line up, only Nick Dunsdon has left, he hadn’t begun the last five or six games anyway so not a lot of change is expected to be honest.

Barry Crimmen has become the club’s caretaker manager after being Wyatt’s assistant for the first two months of the season and made just one change from the Brickies’ last league match.

“Unfortunately this situation is not a new thing for us, Richard Brady left with most of the team last year so it happens, most of us are quite used to it but we know we will get good quality candidates”. Pitts wants the new manager to come into the club as a well-rounded person “We don’t just want someone who is good with the team, but to be able to manage within the budget which we set”.

“We were doing really well in the respect league as well, we were fourth or fifth in the country and we would like that reinstated; the main things we are looking for is good budget management, good man management and respect”.

Sittingbourne will play on Tuesday at home to first- place Burgess Hill Town as the team look to maintain their good start to the season.