He was not everybody's choice for the job after that but having been given it on a full-time basis in mid-May and then allowed to spend freelyenough to sign 12 players, he cannot have expected he would have been out of a job before the Premier League boys had even got underway.
It needs to be able to move freely, it needs to be portable enough to use in different rooms and it needs to feel like a modern controller not some tethered old fashion design.
And the then Northern Ireland health minister Bairbre de Brun indicated there was not enough funding to make the drugs freely available in the province.
All that was needed to make a mechanical energy-storage system was a good enough rotational seal, so the flywheel could spin freely inside a vacuum chamber with no air resistance.
Not only can voters freely voice - and check out - their worries about money politics, but enough among them now value their vote sufficiently not to sell it.