Wilder's success in leading Northampton to the top of League Two has already seen him linked with other jobs this season but the speculation has come to nothing and he gives the impression of being a manager genuinely happy with his current post.
Bolton, adrift at the foot of the Championship but under new owners, parted company with Lennon at the start of the week and their former assistant manager Brown, presently in charge at Southend United, is odds-on to take the job.