Yeovil Town manager Mark Cooper insists his focus is on football matters, despite Martin Hellier’s departure as chairman at Huish Park earlier in the week.
Stuart Robins was announced as the chairman’s successor on an interim basis, and in turn confirmed that the Hellier Group will continue to invest while a successor is found.
Speaking to the BBC Somerset reporter Jack Killah, Cooper said: “I’ve got a great relationship with Stuart and a good relationship with Martin. I’m just concentrating on the football.
“Whatever that noise is, for us that’s just noise. We’ve got to concentrate on our football. We have to keep trying to win games, and the more games we win, the better proposition the club is for someone.”
The Glovers travel to Altrincham on Saturday off the back of two victories and two clean sheets, and will look to keep the good run going against a team who are winless in their last seven league games.
“The players have worked really hard. We look as though we’re on the front foot, we get around the pitch and have made it difficult for teams in the last two games, and we’ve got a couple of good results.
“We want that to continue on Saturday against a team that will be expecting to be in the play-offs. They’ve had a bit of a sticky run but it’s on the day so we’ve got to go and have a right go at them.
“They’re just in one of those moments, it’s just a tricky spell and that happens in a season. It’s impossible even for the top boys to go through the season without a hiccup and they’re in one of those moments.”
Yeovil’s previous two results have been all the more impressive as they’re missing some key players, although Cooper revealed some positive injury news.
“(Jake) Wannell joined in today for the first time, actual full training with the team. We’ll see how he goes. If he can get through that, then he’ll be involved in the weekend.
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“Morgan (Williams) is probably a little bit longer. And then obviously another big one is (Aaron) Jarvis, who I think will be touch and go for the rest of the season. If that is the case, we won’t take any risks with him.
“I’m not really sure on Jacob (Maddox). I think he’s just got a niggle in his foot and that comes down to pain threshold. Obviously he’s feeling it and he’s not able to train at the minute.”
On-loan centre-back pairing Kyle Ferguson and Frankie Terry have helped keep out Solihull Moors and AFC Fylde, drawing praise from the green and white faithful for their performances.
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“It’s really difficult for the young boys when they come in on loan because they have to earn the respect of the players who are already here. They’re replacing good players, but they’ve put their hand up to carry the flag forward and I’ve been really impressed with them.
“They’ve stood up to the challenge really well in really difficult times. Obviously Frankie came in a couple of weeks earlier than Kyle, but they’ve looked pretty solid together with the help of the goalkeeper and two experienced full-backs either side of them, Alex Whittle and Dom (Bernard).
“We’ve had to set the team up a bit differently to try and help them and give us a bit more solidity, but they’ve done great.”