This time next week we should all know the identity of the successor to Kevin Nicholson as Torquay United manager.
Many names have been linked with the role with former Cheltenham manager Mark Yates, ex Gulls boss Paul Cox, Ronnie Moore, Marcus Bignot and Richard Money.
With five defeats in their opening six matches, the first task facing the successful candidate would be to make United tougher to beat - after keeping a clean sheet on the opening day of the campaign against Tranmere Rovers, the Gulls have conceded 15 goals in five games.
And one piece of advice that will particularly ring true for the new United boss is a pearl of wisdom that former Gulls caretaker manager Neil Warnock imparted to Kevin Hodges ahead of the 1996-97 season, which was documented in Garry Nelson's book 'Left Foot in the Grave'.
In the book, which charted the campaign that Nelson formed a coaching triumvirate with Hodges and Steve McCall, as they attempted to rebuild the Gulls from the wreckage of the disastrous 1995-96 campaign, Warnock informs Hodges of one trait among his players to be aware of on the eve of the new season.
Warnock told Hodges: "Players in the lower divisions tend to share a common characteristic. They don't remember things!"
The current Cardiff City manager also went on to say, "To lodge a tactic in the memory, you have to repeat and repeat your drills. What squads have pat by the end of week one can disappear from their minds by the end of week two."
By this stage of his career, Warnock had guided Scarborough, Notts County, Huddersfield Town and Plymouth Argyle to promotions - in addition to his 'great escape with the Gulls in 1993 - and would later go on to do the same with Sheffield United and Queens Park Rangers. His Cardiff City side currently sit at the top of the Skybet Championship table.
Two years later, Hodges led United out at Wembley in the Division Three Play-off final against Colchester United in charge of a line-up which included McCall as his player-assistant manager (Nelson had since departed Plainmoor for a position in the PFA Marketing Department by this stage). It represented a truly remarkable turnaround for a club that had almost dropped out of the league two years earlier.
If Nicholson's successor does oversee a similar transformation to the one that Hodges and McCall managed, it will be a surprise if they achieve it without following Warnock's wisdom.
