Vice-chairman Rex Garton is sure Iron supremo Steve Wharton will return to oversee matters at Glanford Park.

The chairman, who suffered a heart attack in March, is currently on the road to recovery.

No date has been put on a possible comeback, but Garton - who BBC Radio Humberside say expects to still be acting chairman at the start of next season - is sure Wharton will return in due course.

"I think he will do," he told the radio station,

"It's going to be up to Steve entirely to see what the level of his involvement will be because he puts a phenomenal amount of time into the football club - more than anybody will realise.

"So it's going to be his decision, hopefully soon he will be taking a more active part again."

Garton was pleased to say that the chairman's health as improving and that he had spoken to him at length on the phone prior to Sunday's season finale against Colchester.

He also added that the chairman's illness hasn't set plans for a new stadium back.

Garton said: "I had a brief conversation with Steve about a month ago, and he did explain that although he's been incapacitated it will not have set things back.

"At the moment, there are discussions going on with other parties, but we probably won't know again for a little while yet on whether there is any further movement on that.

"It is difficult to say (when), but I think there are quite a number of issues to be discussed between the local authority and the developers."