Huddersfield Town coaching trio follow Lee Grant out the door
Huddersfield Town have announced the departure of Lee Grant's backroom team following his sacking as manager.
Grants dismissal was announced on Saturday evening but it has taken until Monday afternoon to finalise the departures of his assistants, Mark Bridge-Wilkinson, Paul McShane and Jonathan Robinson.
Goalkeeping coach Chris Elliott will remain at the League One club.
All four joined after Grant's arrival in the summer.
Former Hull City centre-back McShane left a coaching job at Manchester United, whilst ex-Bradford City player Bridge-Wilkinson returned to the club after a decade in Liverpool's academy. Robinson had been out of work since a stint in Saudi Arabia Steven Gerrard’s assistant with Al-Ettifaq.
Elliott moved from Leeds United, where he had been coaching the academy goalkeepers.
Grant was sacked with the Terriers in the League One play-off places, but vulnerable with plenty of teams able to catch them by winning games in hand.
Chairman/owner Kevin Nagle invested heavily in the summer with the aim of winning automatic promotion, and also gave the impression he was not happy with a style of football which never won supporters over.
In announcing the sacking, Nagle explained that the timing was to give Huddersfield a good chance of getting his ambitions back on track, and the club are understood to be working quickly to get a replacement installed in time to prepare the team for Saturday's visit of Bradford City.