Cox in at Hill

Burgess Hill Town have announced the appointment of Dean Cox as their new manager.

Dean and his management team of Will Hendon, Steve Carlberg and Ross Ball resigned from Pitching In South East rivals Lancing yesterday, although the news was only announced this morning.

At a risk of repeating ourselves:

Dean joined the Lancers in December, and succeeded in steering them to safety and a best ever thirteenth place in Pitching In Isthmian South East. Prior to his time at Culver Road, he spent the 21-22 season helping Worthing to a Pitching In Isthmian Premier title triumph, making twenty nine appearances as the Mackerel Men, managed by his former Brighton and Hove Albion team mate Adam Hinshelwood, triumphed by ten points and scored one hundred goals.

Dean spent the previous few years elsewhere in Sussex, turning out for Eastbourne Borough in the National League South. He moved to the Sports from Crawley Town, but was better known for his time with Leyton Orient- more nearly three hundred appearances- and at Brighton and Hove Albion, where he played almost two hundred times.

Hillians Managing Director Vince Alfieri told the club website:

“Firstly, I would like to thank Lewis Taylor and his assistant Dean Sammut for stepping in for the last 7 games of last season and keeping the club in the division on the final day. Reviewing last season, we recognise that for a club with our amazing fanbase, simply surviving in the league is not acceptable and therefore we have a strong ambition to move the club forward both on and off the pitch.

In Dean and his team, myself and the board truly know we have the right people to transform our playing squad and develop a high-performance culture around the team, this will enable us to win more football matches and compete at the top end of the league.”

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