I have no qualms regarding Mr Lowe.
He did a job. He got paid and has now moved on.
I would liken him to an opportunist.
We were rudderless in the bottom division with the potential for vast improvement.
Simon Hallett gave him a five year target of getting us into the Championship.
He gave us a brand of possession football that was pleasing to the eye, although there were always detractors.
He talked the talk and the crowds returned to Home Park.
He gained promotion at the first attempt thanks to Covid.
The next season was a season of stability, of remaining in the league and of learning what the league was all about, for the players and the coaching staff alike. The season petered out but we stayed in the league.
This season was a season of pushing on up the league, looking for maybe a top ten finish, (possible if we were able to overachieve according to our finances compared to our opponents), but we overdid it a bit and fate put us at the top of the league, we all knew it was a false position because of Covid.
Two and a half years into his contract of being down here on his own, no family and miles away from home which must have taken its toll, and the opportunity to move up to a Championship club in the North West gave him an opportunity to leave on a high.
I don't blame him for going. Put yourself in his place.
What we wanted was a manager who could see out his time with us and achieve, or at least attempt to achieve the target of promotion to the Championship.
Lowe bailed out too soon for many of us, he was not a Plymouth Argyle man, he was just another manager looking for a way of advancing his career. He was an opportunist.
There aren't many similar opportunities in the football league, and he will have to work hard to improve his football teams from here on in.
I don't begrudge him his opportunity with Preston, just disappointed. He did change our outlook, he changed the way the Club was run and did what Hallett asked of him, he just didn't finish the job.
Managers come and go and he has been and gone, and will be remembered for his brand of football.
We now have a manager who appears to be the opposite of an opportunist, someone who is serious about his role in the Club. A young hard working manager who has been an assistant of Lowe's, who has been there with him, and who embraces the way that Lowe (but probably at Hallett's request) has created a single way of playing throughout the Club and will continue with the progress without any hiccups usually found with a change in manager.
We will see whether the new manager is up to the job, but I'd like to think that we have found someone who will give it his all, someone who has the knowledge and the skill to continue with delivering the brand of football that we have been used to, and one that will be able to improve the team, with the assistance of his (our) backroom staff who have been happy to remain with the club during this time of transition.
It will be difficult for our club to remain in and around the play-off positions, but this should be the target and who knows what will happen during the second half of the season, that's the joy of following our football club, isn't it?
The king is dead, long live the king.