Lincoln City: Interim head coach Tom Shaw buys Imps time to find new boss
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Tom Shaw has been a coach at Lincoln City for five years
Interim head coach Tom Shaw has bought Lincoln City time to find a new boss, says Imps chairman Clive Nates - but he would not reveal if the caretaker is being considered for the job full-time.
Shaw has won both games since filling in at Lincoln following Mark Kennedy's dismissal seven days ago.
Tuesday's win against Charlton moved them up to ninth in League One.
"With Tom, the whole focus is producing results on an interim basis," Nates told BBC Radio Lincolnshire.
"I don't want to comment if Tom is in line for the job or whether any other candidates are in line for the job. It's just not fair on Tom or any other candidate if I do so."
Nonetheless, Nates praised the job Shaw has done in the past week after Kennedy became the first Imps boss to be sacked, rather than leave by mutual agreement or for another job, for almost nine years.
"In making the decision to part with Mark, we always had confidence that Tom and the team supporting him would be OK in the interim," Nates said.
"We think Tom will be an outstanding head coach, we have full faith in him and we can see that clearly tactically, with the way team selection was handled last night [Tuesday] and the commitment and quality of the players."
Shaw has stepped up as caretaker from his role as first-team coach, having previously worked with the club's academy.
Nates said the two wins under Shaw have "certainly helped" ensure Lincoln can be thorough in their search for Kennedy's permanent replacement.
He added that they have whittled their hunt down from "hundreds" of names to a shortlist that will be interviewed.
"We do have time to make the right decision," Nates said.
"We have a database of probably a few hundred managers that have been monitored. Obviously some work has been done on those we thought might be a candidate in the future.
"In addition to that, a number of managers or head coaches, either directly or through their agents, have contacted either myself, Liam [CEO Liam Scully] or [head of football] Jez [George] through various means.
"Then it's a case of looking to see, of those applications, whether we had thought of that person as being somebody that might be interested in the job.
"There have been one or two that have been added to the list, that we were looking at previously."