Abingdon Town's new manager Kevin Lloyd is looking on the positive side, following his appointment by the club's new owners, Oracle Leisure.

Lloyd, 35, who played left back at Milton United during the 1990s, comes into the hot seat after the previous management team of club manager Nobby Hayward, director of football Paul Lee and first-team coach Kelvin Alexis quit following disagreements over the new Oracle regime.

His assistant will be his former Milton teammate Tom Larman, whose father, also called Tom, has been appointed Town's new general manager.

Next season the club play in the Hellenic League, competing against old rivals Abingdon United and several other Oxfordshire clubs.

"I'll probably be the most inexperienced manager in the league, but I'm looking on it as a tremendous opportunity," said Lloyd.

Lloyd, who has passed his coaching badge, is looking forward to the club facing local rivals such as Abingdon United, Milton and Wantage in the Premier Division.

"I'm hoping that most of last season's team will stay at Culham Road, but I'm realistic to know that some will leave," he said.

Abingdon Town start training on Tuesday, June 28 (7pm).

The change of ownership came about on Tuesday night when members agreed to sell the club lease to Oracle Leisure, the owners of the Culham Road ground, for £1.

The club will be transferred into private hands, severing 135 years of Abingdon Town being community-controlled.

Anger and resentment bubbled to the surface at the meeting over deteriorating relations with Oracle and their decision to exercise an option to buy the lease drawn up when the club sold the ground two years ago for £205,000.

After a 70-minute meeting attended by 20 members, it was decided to sell the title of the club and all its assets.

At the special club meeting, Roger Nichols, who resigned as general manager, said there had been "unpleasant" and "unsavoury" meetings with Oracle Leisure

He said: "When the agreement to sell the ground and the option to buy back the lease was drawn up, it was not made clear to us that the option could be initiated by one party without the consent of the other.

"We thought the lease option was a consensual agreement and not to be activated on a whim."

Oracle Leisure own Abingdon's nightclub Stratton and is run by brothers Martin and David Stephens.

Oracle exercised their option to buy back the lease because they want total control of the club and facilities so they can apply for planning permission to improve amenities and develop a bigger social club.