With our current lack of readies, paying compensation to a club for a decent manager would affect our megre tranfer kitty. I would be in favour of McCoist stepping up as he is the right age, served his apprenticeship well under Smith and has been picking the sides for the cup games, and lets be honest, we've done quite well in the cups since Walter and Ally came back. I remember when Souness went to Liverpool, there was not a lot in favour of Smith stepping up as he had no managerial experience, but he done not bad since then.