SCUNNERED Bryan Slavin dramatically resigned as Ardrossan Winton Rovers manager on Monday night... just six months after taking over the reins.

He claims players have let him down and admits the experience has put him off returning to football management.

The move comes 48 hours after the 5-3 defeat at Lugar and just a month after Drew Walsh stepped down as assistant manager.

Winton said in a statement on Tuesday: "Ardrossan Winton Rovers regrettably accepted the resignation of Club Manager Bryan Slavin at last evening's committee meeting. The club would like to thank Bryan and his assistant manager Drew Walsh for their hard work and commitment over the past six months and wish them well in their future."

Chairman Pat Breen said: "I can confirm that Bryan Slavin offered his resignation on Monday and we accepted it. We brought in local coaches with contacts but unfortunately things did not work out. Mark McCann, the coach will continue as caretaker manager until the end of the season. We now must aim to win our last four games and finish in the top seven, which would mean playing in League One. It's unthinkable that we could be playing in the bottom league."

Former Largs Thistle boss Slavin admitted attempts at bringing the players into line had failed and said: "The bottom line is players are resisting what I was trying to do and when that happens there's not point hanging around. I tired cajoling them and shouting at them but it didn't work. The training from Mark McCann has been first class. The majority were resistant to taking on our ideas and when that happened I was a dead man walking. It became clear on Saturday that I had less allies than I felt, it was time to walk.

"It's got to the stage where I don't see myself going into management again. This experience has scunnered me.

"I might in the future go back in terms of coaching or being an assistant manager. I come from a more traditional training method of expecting work-rate and application, I don't know what the players want. I take the responsibility for results. Whatever my approach was was not the right way for the players. That's when you realise you are not the right guy for the job."

He feels major changes are needed and added: "There has to be a massive clean out of the playing staff and the new manager needs to come with in a big broom and sweep the place. They must give the manager a free hand to do anything, overall the players are not good enough. There's plenty of ability, it is not just about that. You need application and desire, which is why Saltcoats beat us twice this season. When players want to do their own thing, it all falls apart.

"We hoped we could got enough out of them until the end of the season but I couldn't see us getting any more points under me. It has been going on for a while people not listening but Saturday was the straw that broke the camel's back."