FORMER Colchester United manager John McGreal is in the frame to become the next Swindon Town manager.

According to The Daily Telegraph football reporter, Mike McGrath, McGreal is a name that is being seriously considered by the Town hierarchy to replace the outgoing John Sheridan as first-team boss.

Other names to have been touted as genuine contenders for the job include Robbie Fowler and Paul Tisdale.

Though, in a recent poll of Adver Sport readers, many Town fans said they would like to see ex-Portsmouth manager Kenny Jackett appointed at the County Ground next. Jackett scored 36 per cent of nearly 900 votes in an online poll.

Town's last manager, John Sheridan, resigned following a 4-1 defeat to AFC Wimbledon in April, leaving former assistant manager Tommy Wright in caretaker charge.

Wright too departed the County Ground at the end of this season following just one win in four, leaving Town without any senior coaching staff aside from goalkeeping chief, Steve Mildenhall as the club begins to prepare for life in League Two next term.

McGreal had been noted down on the bookies' shortlists to become the next Town boss since odds were first published, with his current odds at 7-4 as second favourite behind Tisdale.

The Birkinhead-born manager has only previously taken charge of Colchester. First in a caretaker role for one game midway through the 2014-15 campaign, and then taking on the job full time at the end of the 2015-16 season.

McGreal won 76 of his 203 games in total, drawing 55 and losing 72 as he led United to 8th, 13th, 8th, and sixth in four full seasons.

Having been sacked in July 2020 after losing to Exeter City in extra time of the League Two play-off semi-finals, McGreal ended an 11-year association with the Essex club and has been out of work ever since.