Only a few short weeks ago Kilmarnock fans were so disappointed with their team that there were online polls and asked if Derek McINnes should continue as a manager.
They had not only achieved the top six, they flirted from relegation and the fear was that it had all become a bit old among the man who had led them out of the championship and led them in Europe during his first two years there.
Well, it seems that Mcinnes is indeed on its way from the Rugbypark, but not because they want to get rid of him. Instead, he emerged as the leading candidate to take over at Hearts, who is expected to make an official approach.
It is a fickle company, football management. You don't become a bad, or even good manager at night, but some in Kilmarnock lost patience with Mcinnes and let themselves forget the work that he had chosen as a manager of content.
Yes, it was a difficult season for Kilmarnock. Just like just about any other club outside the old company, they had difficulty taking up the European challenge and it took far too long to recover. A wave of red cards and injuries has also contributed to a campaign in which they always catched up.
But when it came to the crunch, Mcinnes produced. Three straight victories since the split, four in their last five games, have guaranteed safety for the Ayrshire club and have comfortably released the relegation zone.
They confirmed their survival with a 3-2 triumph over Dundee in Rugby Park on Saturday, when Mcinnes celebrated with supporters, probably aware that he could leave. If he is, he will be relieved to do this on the back of a series that suits the club's time.
Of course you can attribute their recent change to the quality of the opponent in the lower six. Or perhaps the return of the Center half Stuart Findlay, who had missed most of the season.
But it is also true that Mcinnes knows how to win competitions. Although it is not always as beautiful as it could be, it is a safe pair of hands whose work is impressive for a longer period.
This is something that hearts have started to acknowledge, although you wonder why it took them so long. If Mcinnes is now the man for the job, why was he not their target last year when they turned their noses at home -grown manager and instead chose Neil Critchley?
The Englishman turned out to be from his depth, without knowledge of Scottish football, as well as a mentality with a big club. In Harten it is just as important to say the right things and do them.
That will not be a problem for Media-Savvy Mcinnes, which is steeped in Scottish football, with a history of challenging the old company for his eight years at Aberdeen. He could be exactly what hearts need as they hope, with the support of Tony Bloom, to herald an exciting, new era in Tynecastle.
Mcinnes will distribute the opinion among heart fans, who are not the easiest to please. He is not fresh or sexy enough for some of them who worry that his football will not be in accordance with the traditions of the club.
But Mcinnes loves his wing players, his big center-forwards and you can bet he would have received more from this long-legged, one-dimensional heart team Dan Critchley did. Could he take David Watson, the dynamic young Kilmarnock midfielder? Or Danny Armstrong, who struck hearts in January?
He can also have the influence to convince Lawrence Shankland that he must stay in Tynecastle. The striker no longer has a contract this summer, but talks about a new one and he looks more like his old self since the departure of Critchley. Four goals in his last two games include a brace in the 3-0 home victory on Motherwell on Saturday.
You sometimes suspect that Mcinnes would be appreciated if he had not spent almost all his management career in Scotland. Even Aberdeen eventually got a bit tired of him and instead started a fatal plan to play more attractive football among a young, 'modern' coach.
Familiarity has not bred contempt for Mcinnes, but he is taken for granted in some circles, perhaps because he is not strange, his potential is unpleased in England and he rejected Rangers and Sunderland in 2017.
And yet that should be what makes him attractive. Burned in the 15 -month enchantment he was in charge of Bristol City, McINnes has since discovered that his best chance to succeed in a Scottish club, with the right vision, the right resources and the right infrastructure. He and hearts sound like a pretty good fit.