What I have yet to grasp is the owners have repeatedly boasted that the beauty of the present coach recruitment model is "continuity". Whoever is appointed the owners claim the style doesn't change and the new coach fits seamlessly in.

I understand Ismael, Murray, Mowatt, Dike, Sollbauer, Chaplin etc were all desperate to give it another go at Barnsley this season and maintain a continuity of personnel but it surely would have little effect if, for reasons best known to themselves, they decided to leave.