Question: If the answer is "it appears so", what is the question?
Answer: Have the Blues, in the end, actually got their coaching thing right?
The announcement yesterday that Tana Umaga was stepping aside for Leon McDonald was, although timing-wise coming out of nowhere, not really a huge surprise.
Much more so is the upside down and back to front process used that, if you remember, only reappointed Tana as Head Coach back in May to now demote him just six months later.
And it is a demotion. Make no mistake about that. Despite the best PR efforts telling us that this is Tana "stepping aside for the good of the franchise" and "wanting to hands-on pursue his passion for the defensive side of the game", we all know this is nothing but a thinly-disguised attempt to provide the man with a softer landing than the perceived embarrassment of being fired before his new contract even began.
And I for one have no problem with that. I like Tana. Always have.