Further to the news we brought you last night that Brian Thomson has resigned from the post of Rothes Manager following the sale of Michael Ewen to Deveronvale, we can confirm the second managerial bombshell in the space of 24 hours.

Fort William boss Rab Mulheron has given the Claggan Park club notice he too is leaving and will take one final training session tonight due to the holiday absence of John Haggerty. The popular Mulheron has accepted an offer from Lossiemouth to be their Assistant Manager and he will officially take up duties with immediate effect after tonight.

Lossiemouth have been without a No 2 to Tommy Madden since Madden was promoted from that role last season in the wake of the departure of Jim Walker. In the interim, long serving Coasters stalwart Kevin Williams has been filling the breach. The Aberdonian boss will now look forward to the start of the Scot Ads Highland League season with the vacancy suitably filled:

I am delighted that Rab is joining us, he is exactly the type of coach I was looking for. He is somebody who has not only been in the HFL for years, but is well respected and a very decent coach. He also has a great range of contacts

Mulheron said the decision to leave was not one he took lightly:

It breaks my heart to be leaving the Fort as they have been a great club to me but I think I had gone as far as I could with the position. I have got pride in myself for what I have done there and I will never say a bad word about them.

John Flannigan and John Haggerty begged me to change my mind but I had to know that everyone felt the same way with the direction in which I wanted to take the club. I did not get that impression at the AGM on Thursday night.

I will always have a soft spot for the Fort and their result will always be the first I look for. A magnificent club and I cannot thank Mr Flannigan and Colin Nielson enough. It is the hardest decision I have had to make in football, that is the honest truth.

I met up with Tommy Madden on Sunday night for around two hours and he gave me a wee zip back in my outlook to football. We had a good chat and he asked me what I thought about it, but he did not have to ask me for long as he sold the club to me very well. In actual fact he reminds me of myself when I was a bit younger.

People will wonder why I am moving to a No 2 position, well I have been through a lot health wise in the last year and I could feel the stress all coming back again.

I can now be in Lossiemouth in less than an hour as opposed to two hours before and that will take a lot of the pressure off. I am looking forward to the massive challenge ahead at Lossie and getting on with the job of coaching rather than spending so much of my time travelling and phoning until the early hours of the morning to raise a team

Fort Chairman John Flannigan was extremely disappointed that Mulheron has decided to move on

Rab thought long and hard about it and in the end I had to wish him all the best in the new job. He has been a great servant to the club but he has in addition been a great friend to myself and I will miss him being around the place.

I cannot say anything official about filling the breach as John Haggerty is not back from holiday until Wednesday night and we are not aware what his intentions are. We will obviously sit round the table and discuss the matter as soon as possible.

Although last night was a very disappointing one following the news about Rab, on a positive note we had a follow up meeting to the AGM on Thursday night, with all the new people present on Thursday again turning up.

We have a new club secretary in Eric McKenzie who was with the club previously although he is unavailable Saturday. We also have some others who have a very solid business background and we will hope they will work on maximising the goodwill that exists within the Lochaber area. However we want more people of that mature nature as there is a huge amount of work to be done and new ideas to be implemented

Meanwhile the news doesn't end there for Lossie fans with boss Madden not only welcoming Big Rab! The Torry loon is looking to add anything up to three new players, potentially all on loan in the coming week, as he explained.

A player from Peterhead will train with us this week and we are speaking to a couple of players from Elgin City too so hopefully we will manage to sort out some loan deals

Without specifying the areas of the park he would like to improve, clearly the forward line is a priority with Craig Morrison likely to be missing for up to another four weeks after breaking his arm. His plaster is due to come off on August 20th

We of course have other strikers at the club who have different qualities. Dougie Coull has the brains but not the mobility while young Davie Muir impressed me on his debut but we do not see him as a goalscorer