It may be the right time to go back to having a full-time manager at the Braintree Town helm, according to chairman Lee Harding.

The Iron chairman, along with the club's board of directors, is reviewing applications for a successor to Brad Quinton after he exited as boss after the 2-1 defeat Eastleigh on Saturday that left them bottom of the Vanarama National League table with just six points from a possible 45.

Despite that precarious position, Harding has said that he doesn't see a need to rush into making an appointment, but he does think it may be beneficial to change the way the role is done.

As he had last year in the National League South, Quinton balanced his managerial responsibilities alongside the demands of a full-time job, but Harding said it may be time to appoint a manager who did it full-time in the way that previous bosses had done when Braintree has been in non-league football's top flight.

Harding said: "Everyone wants an easy life and every manager wants to come into a job where the team is top of the league and has ridiculous amounts of money to spend, but clubs in those positions don't change their managers often.

"In life, you see jobs coming available because the predecessor has not been able to do it; we are where we are - at the bottom of the table - because we have won just once all season.

"We aren't going to be the most attractive club in the country, but I think we are still attractive to good managers.

"The advert that we have put out says that we'd like someone with a bit of experience and we are offering reasonable money for the role, whether that is full or part-time.

"As a club, our players are predominantly part-time, with some full-time, but it's been different with our managers recently.

"Looking back at our previous National League managers, Alan Devonshire was full-time, Danny and Nicky Cowley were nearly full-time even though they were still employed as teachers and Jamie Day and Hakan Hayrettin were both full-time.

"Perhaps we will go back to that after Brad.

"I just want someone who fancies a challenge and sees the opportunity that we offer.

"I'm not expecting us to win every game, but if it is someone who can ease us away from the foot of the table with sensible, although limited, resources, they could be with us for the long term in much the same way that Alan Devonshire was."