Who are new Saints coaches Chris Cohen and Alan Sheehan?

Jones brought with him two members of staff he worked with at Luton Town, in first-team coaches Chris Cohen and Alan Sheehan.

The pair helped guide the Hatters into the Championship play-offs last season, and leave them sitting ninth in the second-tier table.

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So who are the two new men in to work alongside Jones at Saints?

Cohen was forced to retire from his playing career early due to injury problems.

The 35-year-old became a Nottingham Forest hero, spending 11 seasons with the club, primarily in the Championship, having helped them clinch promotion from League One in his first campaign.

The Norwich-born midfielder started his career in West Ham United’s academy, debuting in the first team as a 16-year-old against Sunderland in the old First Division in December 2003.

Cohen played 22 times for the Hammers in total, before a permanent switch to Yeovil Town.

After a fine campaign on a personal note with the Glovers, Forest came calling, where Cohen would go on to be named as the club’s player of the season on two occasions, having captained the side.

Knee problems blighted Cohen’s later playing career, and he eventually hung up his boots at the end of the 2017-18 season.

Following a spell as joint-manager of Forest’s under-23s, Cohen left to join Luton, linking up with his former Yeovil teammate Jones in 2020.

He was promoted up to a role as assistant manager in July of this year.

Speaking this summer, Jones said: “We have always earmarked Chris to step up from the moment he came in.

“Chris is key to how we work and key to what I do, because he’s a real trusted assistant. He has really stepped up with the way he conducts himself, the way he’s proved he is a valued member of our coaching staff and how he is really proactive.

“I’m so glad that he’s going to continue his stay with us and especially working as my closest ally, because we’ve had a lot of success since he came to the club.”

Sheehan, 36, only retired from playing professional football earlier this year.

The former defender played for multiple clubs through his career, having moved over to England from Dublin-based Belvedere as a teenager.

He joined up with Leicester City, spending five years at the then-Championship club.

That time also included spells away on loan at the likes of Mansfield Town and Leeds United.

Having made 29 senior appearances for Leicester, scoring two goals, Sheehan joined Leeds permanently.

After loans at Crewe Alexandra and Oldham Athletic, Sheehan then moved on to Swindon Town.

Three years of regular football at Notts County in League One followed, before a switch to Bradford City, with time also spent on loan at Peterborough United.

It was in 2016 when former Republic of Ireland under-21 international Sheehan’s association with Luton began. He was in fact Jones’s first signing as Hatters boss, initially on loan, before turning that deal permanent.

He played a key role in Luton’s rise up from League Two into the Championship, as captain of the side.

Game-time proved hard to come by for Sheehan in the second tier, which led to spells lower down the pyramid at Lincoln City, Northampton Town and finally Oldham Athletic, before retiring in January.

Throughout his career, the Irishman played more than 450 professional games, scoring 30 goals.

A return to Luton instantly followed, as a coach under Jones.

Discussing Sheehan’s return to Kenilworth Road, Jones at the time said: “We believe he’s a good coach and he’ll get even better.

“He’s hungry and wants to learn, and the most important thing is that he knows us, he knows our environment, he’s earned the opportunity by being a wonderful player for us, a fantastic captain and also a fantastic human being, and we believe that with further learning – because he’s had about a year of being a first team coach – he can be a fantastic asset to us.”