Brown expects his future at Motherwell to be clarified by chairman John Boyle
By John Barnes
Craig Brown expects to find out within the next 24 hours whether he has a long-term future at Motherwell.
The 69-year-old current caretaker boss will hold talks with chairman John Boyle, who has returned from holiday.
Brown and assistant Archie Knox were appointed on an interim basis following Jim Gannon's dismissal last month.
"I'll be speaking to John tonight or tomorrow and maybe something will emerge from that chat but we're not pushing him," Brown told BBC Scotland.
Well suffered disappointment in midweek when they lost 2-0 away to Inverness in the Scottish Cup.
However, Brown said he and Knox were planning for their first game in charge at Fir Park - Saturday's league visit of St Mirren.
And, with the transfer window to close at the end of the month, Brown still hopes to bolster his squad.
"Well, to be fair, we've been told to carry on as if you were in the job and within the financial constraints that exist within every club," Brown added.
"So, we're doing that and are on the phone constantly. Agents have been phoning us constantly and we've got a lad on trial at the moment and we'll take a look at him in training.
Motherwell aim to retain John Ruddy (left) and Lukas Jutkiewicz
"It's not the best environment in which to judge, so we're frustrated from that point of view.
"But we've got a couple of irons in the fire and trying to get a loan deal and maybe a signing."
However, Brown said he was confident the current squad at Fir Park was good enough to retain a place in the top six.
The interim boss also revealed that chairman John Boyle would decide whether Well's Scottish Cup exit would impact on hopes to keep Everton loan pair John Ruddy and Lukas Jutkiewicz beyond January.
"If exit from the cup means these guys have got to go back to Everton then that will be a major disappointment," Brown added.
"They both like it here and want to stay. As long as Everton manager Davie Moyes has a fully-fit squad, particularly the goalkeeping situation, it'll mean that he can leave the players here."
Brown said he was delighted with the Motherwell players since he succeeded Gannon.
"They deserve to succeed because the application has been absolutely first-class; anything they've been asked to do in training they do," said Brown.
"When we arrived, Motherwell were bottom of the form league, so we've got to get up this form league with some victories.
"We've got St Mirren, Falkirk and Aberdeen and these three fixtures are very important and we hope to get something."
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