If we are credeting Doug with MON's appointment then out of the five Lerner appointments only Lambert's seemed a good idea at the time. Houllier - out of management for a while and health issues. McLeish - just been relegated from the PL. Sherwood - little managerial experience and thrown into a relegation battle. Garde - no experience of managing in England and thrown into a relegation battle (given time to sort it as it was 'early doors' but no money to help him sort it). We really did write the manual that should have been called 'How To Get Relegated - (if at first you don't succeed, keep trying)'.