UM, you are living in a dream world if you really think that had they stayed until the end of the season and then let go.If they had been there to the end without a doubt we would have been doing ok, and so they would then have made the transition.
Had they done well they would have deserved to have been installed as the main men and all season long people pointed out that had GB been sacked that's who we would have got.
As for NP the jury is still out, I quite liked him but he still took us to the brink of relegation.