There used to be a time when a Wales head coach had to ponder whether it was worth his while parking in the long-stay car park at the Vale Resort, so temporary seemed the position.
The whereabouts of the coffee machine at the team headquarters may have been a mystery to one or two by the time they departed.
Between February 2006 and October 2007, four men held the national coaching reins. Similarly, in little over three years up to 1991, another quartet of coaches guided Wales.