[SaltergateBorn]

But a lot of successful managers aren`t very likeable people, Dancing. At the end of the day – certainly in football – they`re judged by results and by and large they achieve that by motivating their players; and different players are motivated in different ways. Some need the ’arm round the shoulder’, some need the ‘kick up the arse’.

Don`t get me wrong. I`m not advocating JS as the ideal next manager for us; I`m not even sure he`d be my choice (although I`m not sure who would, to be honest) but in general terms I don`t like the idea of managers going back to clubs where they`ve had a bit of success previously. As far as I can see, although I can think of a couple of exceptions, it rarely works second time around and, as you say, he succeeded only to fail later with us.

Anyway, from what you say it sounds as though it`s a done deal.