NEW Eccleshill United manager Sean Regan is looking forward to getting stuck into the role after being a part-time coach with the club.

The former Liversedge boss and Thackley assistant was invited to the club in the close-season and offered the hot-seat. But he could not commit fully to it at that stage, so he coached and advised Mark Greaves and Hayden Lobley.

When that pair parted company with the Eagles last month, the committee again turned to Regan and this time he agreed to take the job.

After one game in charge, Regan said: "I'm really excited about working with this group of players and I'm delighted to be at this really well-run club.

"I'm having to prioritise certain things – my day job is the most important – but there is a lot of support within the club from the chairman and the rest of the people behind the scenes, so it's going well.

"I have brought Billy Swiatek in as an assistant and he's a good man who has been involved around non-League. I've worked with Billy in his full time role, although not at a football club, but we work well together.

"Whatever level you work at, you want to keep standards high and we do that in training and in games. It's a bit like when me and Billy Miller were together at Liversedge."

Regan has worked in the full-time game at Scunthorpe United, and other clubs even higher up the pyramid, but as a coach.

Now he wants to get back to managing and feels Eccleshill is the ideal club, saying: "Everyone is always learning – us and the players.

"The players here want to learn and develop and I've seen that in them in training over the last couple of weeks. It's been a good atmosphere and things have improved in general.

"It helps coming to a place where you know a lot of the players already and most of them here only know me as a manager, not a coach.

"I've been involved with the FA and the County FA as a coach, and I was quite happy, but you miss the game.

"I've got a managerial background as well as a coaching one and I believe that the management side is my strong point really.

"I like to get to know the characters and the more you do that and build that two-way respect, the more you get from the players.

"We've got an honest, hard-working group that are willing to work and with a squad of players like that, anything is possible. I'm really looking forward to working with them."