Has Jemmo Actually Gone?

Since the appointment of Neil Aspin as new Town manager, we are yet to have word regarding his choice of assistant. At the same time, unless I have missed something, there doesn't seem to have been any statement from the club regarding last season's coach, Nigel Jemson. We all seem to understand that he has left, but are we 100% sure?

His brief managerial stint seems to have sealed his fate. With a play-off place still possible his leadership bagged us 3 points from a possible 12 as the season died a death – 6 from 12 (requiring a win against Curzon) could have earned us a crack at promotion.

Add that young Nige seems to have been the butt of accusations and damaging hearsay for sometime now. Ridiculed for kissing the club badge, many fans believe that he contributed to a split the dressing room -with unconfirmed rumours from various sources driving the speculation. But that is all it is, speculation.

Despite the absence of hard facts, fan opinion was united in rejecting Jemmo as a candidate to replace Vince on a full time basis. Sifting through a collection of Messageboard polls and postings, its hard to find a single comment in favour of Nigel. His case wasn't helped by his eagerness to rubbish the team in his small run of post match comments. His words included such gems (no pun intended) as ' I've had to work with my hands tied behind my back and I've got a group of players that aren't mine' and 'I want to play football the right way and the lads here aren't used to that.' These statements don't feel like the words of a leader, or indeed, a person who we would want to be connected to our club again.

The thing we do know is that Jemson was part of something that failed in some way. On the pitch things were not right for some time. He was the coach. These are facts. Lets hope that the assumption he won't be back is a correct one – besides, Neil Aspin looks a lot harder than JV.