Colliver and Ward will take a watching brief for the game against Tadcaster Albion on Monday before taking up the reigns on Tuesday 28 December in preparation for the New Year’s Day game at Ingfield against Brighouse Town.

Colliver’s last appointment was at NPL Premier Division side Grantham Town, which he left a few weeks ago, and before that he had had extensive managerial experience at Staveley Miners Welfare, Sheffield FC and Handsworth.

Ward, a former England Youth international, recently led Buxton to a 20-game unbeaten start to the season and before that had been involved at AFC Mansfield and Hednesford Town amongst others.

Chairman James Rogers told https://www.ossettutd.com: “Following the departure of Wayne Benn last week, whilst it was important that we moved swiftly to appoint a replacement, we also needed to ensure we found the right management team to achieve our ambitions looking forward. 

“I am, therefore, really pleased that we are today able to announce the appointment of Jas Colliver and Mark Ward as our new management team. 

“They have the experience we were looking for, with time spent at both step four and step three of the non-league pyramid and they both have a very clear vision of what they will bring to Ossett United Football Club.

“Their short-term aim is to build on the good work shown in the earlier part of the season and get the feel good factor back into everyone involved with the club.   From there we can then kick-on and get this club where it needs to be.

“I’d like to also thank James Walshaw and Ross Killock for the great leadership they have shown over the last week in their caretaker role in preparation for our game on Monday”.