Swindon Town interim head coach Gavin Gunning said that he hopes Charlie Austin is still with the club next season.

During the final game of the season, Austin put any doubts about whether he would reach the 200-goal mark to bed as he scored a fine first-half brace in the 3-3 draw with Morecambe to bring up “201 for me, 203 to Sky.”

Those two goals meant that he finished the season as Town’s top goalscorer with 12, the tenth time in his professional career that he has hit double-figure goals in a season.

The 34-year-old is out of contract this summer, and speaking to BBC Radio Wiltshire after the game during the post-match end-of-season lap of appreciation said: “All that kind of stuff is way over my head now, I just want to enjoy this now because I don’t know if I will be back or not.”

Gunning said that he would like the club captain to remain part of the squad for next season, but had not been given an indication of what the striker wanted to do beyond the current campaign.

He said: “I spoke to Chaz yesterday morning and he will always be that guy who wants to score more goals, but he hasn’t said anything to me about what he is doing.

“I think that he is good for the squad and for the environment.

“You don’t know what Chaz is thinking because it is tough when you have been such a successful player and had an amazing career.

“He can do what he wants when he wants, if he wants to play on then he can play on and if he doesn’t then that is how it will be.

“It is not going to be a financial thing, that won’t be the motivation for him because he has had an unbelievably successful career.

“It will be that drive of does he see a project that he can buy into? So, we will see.”

Speaking back in March, Austin said that he had made up his mind on what he wanted to do next season, but remained tight-lipped about what his intentions were.

He said: “Between my wife, I have had the conversations [about next year], but that is nothing to do with you guys, so we will have to wait and see.

“I have had the conversations, but you will have to wait and see.”