Thompson laid the foundations.
Foundations are fine, you still have to build from there and even you have to admit Peace has built a strong club on those foundations,perhaps without Peace we could still be looking at the foundations.
Divine you are clutching at straws and for someone who started watching the Baggies in the mid fifties, sometime after me might add, you are looking somewhat out of your comfort zone of conjecture and supposed intrigue, you ignore the financial facts and hope to be convincing with the odd snippet, like "Thompson built the foundations". In fact it doesn't take a genius to cut costs and stop the rot, but it takes a lot more to build a business. You have not a shred of evidence that Thompson may have been up to the task