BRAINTREE TOWN boss Danny Cowley will talk to Lincoln City about becoming their new manager but says moving into full-time football would be “very difficult”.
The Iron suffered heartbreak on Sunday as they lost 2-0 to Grimsby in the National League play-off semi-finals with Omar Bogle’s extra time effort sending the Mariners to Wembley.
Cowley led the part-time Essex side to third in the table in his first season in charge after joining from National League South outfit Concord Rangers.
And unsurprisingly, the PE teacher has earned a lot of admirers. One of those, league rivals Lincoln City, made an approach for him on Monday but Cowley won’t be making any snap decisions.
The Imps are searching for a new boss after Chris Moyses stepped down at the end of the season. New director Clive Nates pumped a six-figure sum into the Sincil Bank club and they want a manager with National League experience.
Cowley told BBC Essex: “For me, you can’t make intelligent decisions without having all the information in front of you so for the plan is at some stage to speak to Lincoln.
“From what I’ve been told there’s other clubs that have been interested. Nicky (Cowley, assistant manager) and I are ambitious.
“As a manager you want to challenge yourselves at the highest level you can and to be able to do that in full-time football would be a real challenge for us.
“We’ve only ever worked in part-time football so for us to take our model into a full-time environment would be something we’d like to do.
“I’ve got to say I’ve got a fantastic job and I know Nicky feels the same. We teach at a brilliant school, it’s got fantastic pupils and it would be very, very difficult for me to leave that role.”
