Brighouse Town will be stepping onto the rungs of the non-league ladder under a man who knows exactly what he is letting himself in for.

The manager for Town’s first season in the Northern Counties East League will be Mark Brier, who was chairman of Liversedge last season.

Brier is a qualified coach and went to Sedge after being asked by then manager Eugene Lacy.

In his time there, Brier coached and managed the under-19s, the reserves and ran the commercial side at Clayborn. He knows every aspect of the infrastructure of a club and is thrilled at the prospect of working for Brighouse.

“I’m a football coach and that is why I went Liversedge and that is why I have come to Brighouse – to manage, coach and hopefully help the club establish itself in the pyramid system,” said Brier.

“I really enjoyed my time at Sedge and I think it surprised everyone, me included, when the decision was made to leave. There was no falling out but I told them that I wanted to apply for the manager’s job at Brighouse.

“Luckily I was offered the job after they had interviewed the applicants and the speed at which everything went after that was what took everyone by surprise.”

Brier lives less than half a mile from the Brighouse ground and they are the club he went to watch when Sedge did not have a game.

“I’m excited by the prospect, as it is a blank piece of paper and a bright start for Brighouse Town,” he said.

“It’s a town and it’s their team, so that makes me proud to be a part of it and I’m looking forward to the responsibilities that will come with it.”

Brier explained that he has carte blanche to build a side but the bad news is that there is little money for the squad due to the financial underpinning going on within the club as a whole.

He said: “I’m looking for players who want to play for a club, not for a pay cheque. That is not to say we can’t do deals. If players bring sponsorship with them they will get their cut of that, otherwise we will only be meeting expenses.

“Despite that, we had at least 30 players new to the club at the first pre-season training session and at least 75 per cent of them were players I have introduced to the club.

“There are no guarantees that they will be here when the season starts and I can’t guarantee any of them a place in the team but the interest in the club at the moment is amazing.”