Sedge have had a lot of interest in their vacant managerial position but there is still time for potential applicants to register their interest.

The Spen club launched the search for a new boss after Billy Miller stepped down last week.

The outgoing boss was later named as the new manager at Harrogate Railway Athletic and revealed that assistant Lee Ashforth would be joining him.

Liversedge chairman Steve Newton, a former manager himself at the club, said: “There has been plenty of interest and all the candidates are of a high standard but we won’t be drawing up a short list just yet.

“We gave Monday as the deadline so anybody who contacts us before teatime on that day will be considered.

“The plan is to have someone in place by next Saturday as we think that will give the new man time to get his pre-season planning done.

“Billy arranged some friendly fixtures before he left us so it is just a matter of the new man getting his training schedule organised.

“One of our applicants said to me that it was barely enough time but, like I told him, I only found out we needed a new manager last Thursday!”

Miller was in his second spell at Clayborn but his first in charge of the senior side in his own right as his last stint was as Sean Regan’s assistant. He is well liked at the club and will be missed, as will former keeper Ashforth.

Newton added: “I have a lot of time for Billy and am sad to lose him but he has left in the right way and for the right reasons, so we wish him well.

“The travelling was a problem for him and, even though Lee is a Bradford lad, they decided to go as a pair, but he also leaves with our gratitude after what he did for our club.”