DEPARTING Magpies’ player-manager Mark Jermyn believes his replacement at the Avenue has to hold “the values of what Dorchester Town is all about”.

The county town chief and assistant Nick Crittenden handed shock resignations from their roles at the club on Saturday, with their final game at the helm to be the Ridgeway derby on Boxing Day against Weymouth.

Jermyn believes his announcement gives the club’s board enough time to hear ideas from potential candidates for the manager’s position, before his own final battle.

He told Echosport: “I believe the Weymouth game is enough time to listen to people and see who is out there.

“We have given the board enough time to go out, listen to people and hear what they have to say.”

He added: “I think it’s important that they get someone who knows the standard of player that they are going to be paying, really.

“If the next manager knows of a striker who gets 20 goals per season at £100 a week or £120 a week then brilliant, because really I don’t.

“They have to employ the right person and someone that holds the values of what Dorchester Town is all about.”