This week, nine years ago, Kaizer Chiefs were jolly and would have dismissed anyone telling them that this would be their last trophy joy for almost a decade as being a psychiatric patient.
Yet this is what Chiefs have endured since Stuart Baxter lifted the last of his four trophies at the club.
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The nine-year trophy drought bell has rung loud this week with the club's management scratching their heads about the final decision on who will take over.
They have had interest in a Brazilian coach, in Alexandre Gallo, who they engaged last year and then had Vanderlei Luxemburgo's name in their inbox.
It appears they have been swayed towards a Brazilian/Portuguese coach with Alexandre Santos also mentioned in recent days.
Several other options are being considered.
Chiefs are seeking to seal the deal for their new man before the end of the season.
As commotion builds up about who the next coach that will take over from caretaker coach Cavin Johnson is, there has been bittersweet memories of when they ruled the domestic scene.
It was on May 9, 2015, that Chiefs went up the podium as league champions at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium.
None of the players in the matchday squad that day are still at the club with only Lorenzo Gordinho and Bernard Parker still active in the DStv Premiership from those that were in the starting XI that day.
The team that was on the field from the first whistle had Brilliant Khuzwayo, Siboniso Gaxa, Tsepo Masilela, Tefu Mashamaite, Gordinho, Mandla Masango, Willard Katsande, Reneilwe Letsholonyane, Siphiwe Tshabalala, Matthew Rusike and Parker.
On the bench there was Ivan Bukenya, Siphelele Mthembu, Reyaad Pieterse, Kgotso Moleko, Hendrick Ekstein, George Maluleka and David Zulu.
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The next appointment that Chiefs will make will be the fifth consecutive off-season change that the club makes with Gavin Hunt, Baxter, Arthur Zwane and Molefi Ntseki all having come on board at the start of new campaigns.
These appointments came after Steve Komphela, Giovanni Solinas and Ernst Middendorp all failed to deliver silverware.
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