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Ebbsfleet United looking for a new manager having sacked Jamie Day after less than five months in charge

Ebbsfleet United owner Dr Abdulla Al-Humaidi Picture: Andy Payton
Ebbsfleet United owner Dr Abdulla Al-Humaidi Picture: Andy Payton

Ebbsfleet United need a new manager and we want to know who you think should get the job.

Jamie Day was sacked by Fleet on Tuesday afternoon after less than five months in charge and the rumours have already started regarding his possible replacement.

Among those being discussed is former Fleet captain Daryl McMahon, who was put in caretaker charge of the club when Day's successor Steve Brown was fired in November.

McMahon left Ebbsfleet to sign for Boreham Wood in January but he remains in charge of the Fleet's successful academy programme.

Also in the frame is Alan Devonshire, who has just left Braintree Town after rejecting a new contract at the Conference club.

Peter Taylor might consider another job in Kent football having not returned to management since Gillingham fired him on New Year's Eve, while current Gills No.2 Andy Hessenthaler enjoyed success during his days in non-league football at Dover Athletic.

The man now in the Crabble hotseat, Chris Kinnear, not only led the Whites out of Conference South last term - at Ebbsfleet's expense - but he's guided them to a top-half finish in their first season back at non-league's top table. Kinnear lives not far from Gravesend.

Surely the dream appointment for Ebbsfleet would be John Still, who has led three clubs from non-league to the Football League during his long management career. Still took Maidstone up in 1989 and repeated the feat with Dagenham & Redbridge in 2007 before making it a hat-trick with his current club Luton 12 months ago.

Ambitious Margate turned to Terry Brown when they welcomed new investors last year, while some Fleet fans have always wondered what the club's longest-serving manager Liam Daish would have done with the budget put up by Kuwaiti owner Dr Abdulla Al-Humaidi.

So who's the best man for the job? Have your say in our poll below.

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