Bognor Regis Town hope Dan will still be the man next season

The team are now comfortable in mid-table with three games remaining after flirting with the threat of relegation before Hollands took over.

Lincoln quit the Nye Camp outfit after the 1-1 Isthmian South Central division draw at already-relegated Fareham that ensured Bognor’s status.

The keeper is set to get married then heads to Australia to play cricket and it is believed he wants to ply his trade as a custodian at a higher standard next term.

But Hollands will endeavour to persuade him to return, he said, after his side notched up a seventh game without defeat under his stewardship at Cams Alders on bank holiday Monday.

Speaking to Rocks Radio, the manager – who looks to chalk up eight games without loss at home to Raynes Park Vale on Saturday – said: “Dan has been a great servant for the club.

“He came in before my time, he came and helped Jamie [Howell] and he has some stuff going on so that's the last we will see of Dan for the season. We wish him all the best and thank him for what he has done. He has been superb.

“He is a great goalkeeper and he is great around the place too. Next season he wants to play at a higher level but it doesn't mean we won't talk to him, have some conversations and go from there.”

Meanwhile, Hollands says he was pleased to see young attacker Charlie Glasspool get on the scoresheet at Fareham and added that he was pleased with the progress he is making.

He added: “Charlie got his first goal for the club and he is improving week on week; he is a good lad, he wants to improve, he wants to work hard and it was nice for him to get a goal.

“I thought it was a great header and good delivery from Henry [Searle] – it was probably the only highlight we had in the game if I am being truthful.

“You can blame the performance on a number of things but ultimately the game was one to forget.

“You have to analyse it, take a few things out of it.

“If we are here next season we have to make decisions on players. Can they play in game like that, changing formation, taking information on board? And we got a few answers.

“Hopefully we can be better than this game. We need to be better in possession. Even out of possession we were sloppy. When the lads do well I will praise them and when we are not so good we have to be better.

“We went from a 4-2-3-1 to a 4-4-2 and that may have had a part in it and we changed a few bodies which, again, can disrupt things. But the lads that have been brought in have been training and understand what we expect and what we want to do, the patterns we try to play but we didn't show any of that and that is a disappointment.

“But you are going to have these days… we went 1-0 up but were nowhere near the standards we want and we ended up with a point away from home so that is the only thing.”