JOHN STILL says he has signed a two-year contract extension at Dagenham & Redbridge to ensure the club is heading down the “right path”.
The 66-year-old is a Daggers legend and is in his third spell as manager of the club having returned to take charge again at the start of 2016.
Despite being unable to guide the club to League Two safety last season, he has built and a young and hungry squad at the Victoria Ground that is currently second in the National League.
Still signed the contract extension, which will see him remain with the Daggers until the end of the 2018-19 campaign, before Saturday’s 2-1 win against fellow promotion hopefuls Forest Green Rovers.
The veteran boss has won promotion from Non-League‘s top flight three times during his career – with Maidstone United in 1989, Dagenham in 2007 and Luton in 2014 – and will be hoping to add a fourth to that list.
Still told the club’s website: “I think that I was quite open when I came back to the Daggers that this season could be my last year, and if I am being honest it has been a funny season this year because we brought a lot of young players in and we was not sure how they would all do.
“The players we did bring in have done great for us and I believe that they will keep on growing, we have had the difficulties with the club situation in terms of a new owner.
“I just felt that when the club spoke to me that the club has been stabilised this year on and off the pitch. Hopefully as a club we can all push on and I felt that having spoken to the club about it the situation that we are in, where I feel that the club is growing I feel that it is right that I stay initially to make sure that everything that we do is leading us in the right path.
“Dagenham & Redbridge is my club and when I do go, whether we are in this league or in League Two I would like to look back when I go that I have left all of the foundations for this club to grow again and that is how I feel.”
