[BaggyBomber]

No Baggy I am just saying that it is a fruitless debate because we will never know what would have happened if he had.

I am not saying he should have or he shouldn't, just he didn't so we will never know what would have happened if he had.  Which is what renders it a fruitless debate.

You are certainly correct that this has been one of the best dynasty's (10 years behind you) and I have a lot of both respect and gratitude for what JP has done for the club.  The only other I could think of was as the time of Giles/Atkinson, though those times were looked on through rose coloured glasses  

I agree we have had other good, perhaps great, times under, as you cite, Giles and Atkinson and I would add Buckingham and Hagan.  However, I felt those times came along, to an extent by happy happenstance and would only be, perhaps, fleeting.  I never really thought anything substantial was going on to the infrastructure.  Albion, love it as we do, has always seemed happy leaving the future to kismet.  I remember a Board member, many years ago quoted as saying something to the effect that it didn't really matter to them whether we were in one division or another, we'd be alright.

Well, I felt, definitely within a couple of years of his chairmanship that JP didn't operate that way.  His was a business, root and branch change and set-up of the whole Club and, in my opinion, with a bit of a wobble after losing Woy and Dan Ashworth, it has been eminently successful.  In a football world that has changed out of all recognition since I saw my first first team match in 1953, JP, should he go, will leave our Club in very good order and I, for my part, will say enjoy the money you have made doing it, Jeremy.  Albion has been, and is, a very significant part of my life.