Maybe so. I'd certainly like us having more of a vision in place, & a sustainable template (meaning, like Swansea or West Brom, that we could lose a manager & slot another one in pretty seamlessly without it causing great difficulties). But, even so, we need the right manager regardless, to galvanize us & get us rolling, just like every other underachieving club (or treading-water club) does. Perhaps West Brom are the ideal club in terms of sustainability? In honesty, who knows where Swansea or Bournemouth will be in 5 years time? Or, for that matter, whether yourselves or Leicester can maintain current lofty positions?
Just going back to those clubs you mentioned earlier when you asked "why are the likes of Stoke, West Brom, Swansea in the Prem, while SUFC are stuck in the Third Division waiting for the right manager to appear?", it does seem that having that "right fit" manager to start it all off is key - especially in Stoke's case with Pulis. There's plenty of big clubs wallowing in the Championship, even getting overtaken by more dynamic clubs on the rise (like Bournemouth, Hull, Swansea*). Loads more too on the slide into oblivion (like Blackpool). What each & every one of those clubs would do for a "right fit" manager?
(* All of whom had their own special managers who galvanized their clubs & got them shooting upwards - Howe, Brown, Jackett/Martinez)
