In fairness I think he has been in the frame for the job a bunch of times(wasn't the Hughes pick between the two of them and he interviewed during the Ball-Clark season(we went through so many managers that year I don't recall which time!!!!), clearly not recently or since the take over, in many respects he is the reverse of Alan Ball look at his career and he has made almost all the teams he has managed perform better than they had and/or after he left. What would he have done with real money and being able to compete with the top 4, we, likely will never know.