In a league which has a small salary cap .... the choice of coach and forward planning to replacing a coach will decide where teams finish... EM was let go by MV because he was considered not capable of coaching at A-League level... it always concerned me that after the so called world wide search [over some months] how the Nix's board choose a coach that every other club's tho was not at A-League standard any-more ...
Maybe the Nix's should do a SFC and get a technical expert in to help EM... just like SFC did for Cranky ...I do not think this is correct at all.
To my best knowledge EM was let go of because the board of MV (chiefly Geoff Lord) wanted a coach that could ensure repeat championships for the club. Ernie had a difficult start to the new season after winning the previous season and the board decided he's not going to bring home the toilet seat for that year. This is different from saying he was not of a A-League standard. If he wasn't, they would not have won the previous season in the first place. That they chose to replace him with less than successful guys, that's another story.
Ernie did not want to go to another club at that time because this was a politically charged time and coaches were doing merry go rounds then (Kosmina, Farina, Vidmar, van't Schipp, McKinna, Magilton etc.). He had a clean break by going to Hong Kong. If he proves something by taking The Nix higher up in his tenure here, his future pricetag to the other A-League clubs will go up higher.