Hamilton Accies have today announced a board room shake-up that will see Allan Maitland take over all of the football duties, while chief executive Colin McGowan will focus on the commercial side.
Two boards will be formed at the New Douglas Park club, with Les Gray vice-chairman of the football operation.
McGowan will head up a smaller commercial board that will be focused entirely on funding the football operation.
The news comes after the club this evening announced they have parted company with head coach Stuart Taylor.
McGowan says the aim of both operations is to get Accies back up to the Premiership.
Accies were relegated from the Premiership two seasons ago after seven consecutive years, with a poor campaign in the Championship last term seeing them finish sixth.
McGowan said: "There will be a new, bigger, football board, headed up by Allan Maitland as chairman and Les Gray as vice-chairman, and a couple of famous football people.
"That will be 100 per cent a board of Allan's choosing. I don't care who they are, as long as they're good, responsible, football people.
"They will be doing everything that is 'football' - contracts, signing, identifying targets and tying in with the first-team and the youth academy.
"I will have a smaller commercial board, but a strengthened commercial board, with a couple of new faces, and our job is to bring in money.
"That will be whether it's football season tickets, firework nights, gorilla nights, dancing nights... anything. Carnivals, circuses, anything that brings in money that we can then give to the football board.
"My board will continue to bring in money, but will have nothing to do whatsoever with football issues, other than trying to make enough money to fund it.
"I don't take a salary, none of the directors take a salary, and I'm not employing a full-time commercial guy, because I do most of it, anyway."
McGowan says this season's Championship campaign is likely to be the most difficult in recent memory, but wants everybody at the club pulling in the same direction.
He said: "This is going to be the hardest season we've had in the 20 years we've been here. It's going to be difficult, but I don't want my commercial people talking about football.
"I want people focused on bringing money into the club.
"My commercial board is driving all of this forward. I need the football directors to do their job, we will do ours, to try and push to get us back into the Premiership.
"Any fan who wants to talk to me, come and see me on a matchday, but if they want to talk about football, talk to the football board."
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