[St Charles Owl]

Heckingbottom had some success at Barnsley but was that on the back of the work that Lee Johnson did, we will never know. Either way he took them to a cup final and led them to promotion to the Championship, and followed that up with a very good season seeing them finish in the top half of the table. His mistake was leaving Barnsley when the "big" team came calling and he left to go manage L**ds. They were a club in a bit of a mess and he lasted 4 months, although it also looks like they themselves got a bigger name and replaced him with Bielsa for that reason rather than performances.

If he had stayed at Barnsley he may well have still got a move up the ladder on merit, he was being touted as one of the good young managers in the EFL at the time.