My view is that we had a relatively unique set of circumstances befall us. Most Clubs know in advance that they are going to ditch their Manager and start looking for replacements with focus and have set things up prior to departure.
Our ex- Gaffer left for probably the only job that could possibly have taken him away. his home town Club and a massive Club at that, in comparison.
My view is that Bikul were convinced that Corberan had both bought into the long -term project and perhaps understandably led to some complacency in having a plan B.
The Wicky debacle however seems extremely suspicious with hindsight and no transparency forthcoming. I don't buy the ' assistants can't come ' excuse. I think either someone somewhere did not prepare properly whether us or more likely Wicky himself or Wicky got cold feet seeing the limitations of the task ahead. Either way I somehow feel we dodged a bullet.
We are a big enough Club to attract a high standard of Coach, but in our current state that Coach has to have incredible self-belief, something I believe CC had in spades. As it stands we have an outside chance of promotion, but those odds have gone a tad south with Majas' injury.
I do not think that Bikul have spectacularly failed, but if they rush an appointment now it will be the wrong move. They have been given some breathing room in a sense, with the option of TM as a sound plan B. A Club statement on the Wicky fiasco would help though.
I looked at other championship teams to have lost a manager in the last 10 seasons and the mean time of replacement was 10 days, with the successful ones usually inside a week. We have taken comfortably longer than any of them at this point so I don't think we should be excused. Ultimately we have absolutely zero reason to have not been doing the background work when Corberan had been touted for just about every job going this season.
The actual truth behind Wicky we probably will never know properly, but even if it wasn't the clubs fault, its really poor we did not have a second choice ready to go straight away. How exhaustive can we have been if its back to the drawing board? I don't accept that there's simply no one available when we've taken longer than every other club in the top 2 divisions.
Ultimately it will be the quality of a manager who comes in that will be historically judged but unless Brunt bales them out with some good results over the next week/s, if we miss out on the play offs by a few points, or indeed if we do not end up with a good manager after all this faffing (see the Pepe Mel fiasco) it will look terrible for the new owners.