Danny Lennon and Terry Butcher are the early frontrunners for the Ross County manager’s job after the departure of Derek Adams.
Adams and his father, George, director of football at the club, were sacked by County yesterday and already a queue of interested parties is forming.
Both managers are out of work, with Lennon, who had a brief spell as a player at Victoria Park in 1999, leaving St Mirren at the end of last season and last night saying the Dingwall post would interest him.
Lennon said: “It’s certainly an attractive position. I spent a bit of time there at the end of my playing career and it’s a lovely place with lovely people.
“Derek has laid a foundation there and it’s a great opportunity for someone to go and pick that up and take it over. The chairman is a man I have got a lot of respect for. In many ways they’re a model club, and they’re passionate about their football.”
Former Caley Thistle manager Butcher was removed from his position in charge of Hibs in the summer. However, his situation is understood to be somewhat more complicated, given he is currently on a year’s paid “gardening” leave from the Easter Road club and is in no rush to return to management.
While the search begins for a new manager County chairman Roy MacGregor insists it is unlikely director of football George Adams will be replaced.
MacGregor said: “I doubt if that will happen again. It will probably be a different relationship. That put a pressure on the manager as it was an unusual circumstance. By and large it worked for us but it is very unusual.
“I haven’t got to any stage yet. I think we need to sit down now and look at it.”
MacGregor backed the current Victoria Park squad to come good under the new manager after a run of four consecutive Premiership defeats.
He added: “What we’ve got today, in terms of value for money in the dressing-room, is the best set of players we’ve had. We just feel we have to deal with that in a different way. This is a change of emphasis and it was both a football and a non-football decision, in style and how we deal with things. We’ve been trying to find our feet in the Premiership and short-term contracts are not the way the club is going to go.
“That’s nothing to do with the football director or the manager, that’s about the club getting mature.
“I felt the third year was a pretty defining year where we needed to make long-term decisions for this club if we want to stay in a Premiership club.”
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