MAIDSTONE United have named reserve-team boss Peter Nott as caretaker manager until the end of the season.

Nott and his assistant Tony Cornwall are charged with keeping the club in the Ryman Premier League after co-managers Lloyd Hume and Alan Walker ended their five-year reign on Monday.

Chairman Paul Bowden-Brown said: "We are all grown men but I have to admit the past 48 hours have been very traumatic for me, having to say goodbye to Alan and Lloyd and then ask two loyal servants of the club to steady this ship, drive it forward and make sure we are playing Ryman Premier Division fotball again next season."

Nott and Cornwall, who have run Stones' reserves for the past eight years, said in a jonit-statement: "There was certainly a little bit of a tingle in both our stomachs when the chairman offered us the post, as it is something we had always hoped we would be offered one day."

Meanwhile, Jay Saunders has been offered a player-coach role and is set to make a decision over the next couple of days.

Maidstone face Hendon at Homelands in Ashford tonight (Tuesday, 7.45pm).