Why the rush?
The Brisbane Lions decision to appoint favourite son Michael Voss just one day after the departure of the club's greatest coach Leigh Matthews smacks of a situation in which there was only ever one candidate for the job.
While Voss may well turn out to be just as great a coach as he was a player - what if he doesn't?
Well if he does turn out to be more hype than substance - the Brisbane board will have a lot of explaining to do to the many Lions' members both in Queensland and in Melbourne.
Voss - the captain of the Lions' triple premiership winning teams from 2001-3- has long been touted as the stand-out coach-in-waiting but was not exactly about to be snapped up for a senior coaching position at another club and indeed won't even start with the club for another month until he fulfils his obligations to his current employer - Channel Ten.
So why didn't the Lions go through the proper process - coming up with a short-list of candidates, interviewing them all thoroughly and then deciding on who was best to fill the enormous shoes of four-time premiership coach Matthews - as Hawthorn did when it secured the then low-profile but now highly-rated Alastair Clarkson.
While Voss may have already signed on as an assistant coach at West Coast - he could have got out of his contract with the Eagles just as easily in a month's time as he did less than two months after announcing he would begin his coaching career with the Perth club.
Even if the Lions were hell-bent on giving Voss the job and no-one else, the club would have at least being seen to be conducting the search for Matthews' replacement in the right manner.
But before the greatest coach in the club's history had barely left the place, there were the Lions unveiling his successor.
Exactly what the other former Brisbane players - who unlike Voss already have coaching experience under their belt such as Justin Leppitsch, Brad Scott and Craig McRae - must have made of the Lions 'process' of selecting their new coach would be very interesting.
The Lions' decision to announce their new coach so quickly raises two suspicions.
One is that Voss' rapid elevation - remember he has done no coaching apprenticeship whatsoever - suggests the Lions are deeply concerned about their place in the competitive Brisbane sporting market and feared a major drop-off in support unless they got another big name to replace Matthews - who has done more to grow the game in Queensland than anyone in AFL history.
And the second is it will only add to the suspicions that all was not well in Brisbane between Matthews and his players - although 'Lethal' insisted his decision to resign with a year still remaining on his contract was only because he felt the time was right for him to end his long coaching career.
There have been constant rumours emanating out of Brisbane that all was not well between Matthews and his players but now the players have one of their own as coach - a man far closer in age to them than 56-year-old Matthews - whom, if rumour is to be believed, the Lions' players felt was past his use-by date.
The fact that Jonathan Brown announced his decision