This year's annual end-of-season exodus of football managers has included Dolgellau Athletic FC's first team coach, Dave Webber.
In January this blog reported on how the second-year Aberystwyth University undergraduate was faring as possibly the youngest senior coach in the UK, having taken the reins at the Mid Wales Football League Division One outfit in October 2012 at just 19 years of age.
When the geography student took over the Wasps were languishing towards the bottom of the third tier of the Welsh league pyramid after a disastrous start to the season which saw a host of players leaving the club.
Dave Webber
It was hoped that a fresh injection of optimism from the young coach with level one and level two Football Association coaching badges would steer the club away from relegation.
As it turned out the enthusiasm of the Bristolian, who completed a four-hour round trip by public transport from Aberystwyth to the club's Cae Marian ground twice a week, was not enough.
When the season ended the club found itself lying 16th out of 16 teams in the division with a return of just four points from one win and one draw in 30 games.
"I just thought it was best to step away," says Dave, now 20, who was not aided by the club not always managing to field a full complement of 11 players during midweek training or at the weekend.
"It wasn't benefiting me in any way in terms of the coaching experience I was getting from it because the players weren't training," says Dave. "And it was in the best interests of the club as well.
"I was warned when I took it that it's not an easy job. But I was backing myself and believing in my own ability. I thought I had a chance. But the difficulties were beyond necessarily just getting eleven players onto the pitch.
"I was struggling to get across how I wanted them to play, to make them stronger defensively.
"But we had two games when we turned up and didn't have 11 players at the start. When you do that in games there's not much you can do when you are not training and not there for matches."
Dave on the touchline
As luck would have it, despite finishing rock bottom in the league Dolgellau have managed to dodge the relegation bullet.
Due to a knock-on effect caused by the winding up last month of Welsh Premier club Llanelli AFC, only one team will be relegated from the third tier this year.
And despite finishing one place above Dolgellau, Newbridge-on-Wye have opted to take the drop.
"It was a lucky escape," says Dave. "They managed to get away with it and I hope they manage to rebuild and push on from here."
Now back at home in Bristol for the summer vacation, Dave insists he has no regrets from his first stint in senior management.
"I think it was a good experience," he says. "I'm glad I took the opportunity. I've learned a lot from it.
"When you look back on your own performance you think maybe you could have done a few things better early on; been a bit more assertive maybe, or been a bit more open to a couple of players and spoken to players in a different way.
"But that comes from inexperience. I made a few mistakes. I always hold my hand up when I've made a mistake.
"I'm going to try and learn from that. The important part of the experience is taking the mistakes I've made and learning from them, and building on the things that I believe I did alright at."
In January Dave spoke of his ambition to succeed in football coaching, so will he climb straight back on to the horse that threw him?
"I'll see what opportunities come up," he says. "I'm determined to get back into coaching.
"I've had a few offers of shadow coaching back in Bristol for the time that I'm here in preparation for my Uefa B course, if I get accepted onto that.
"Once I build my own base a bit stronger, and make myself better as a coach, that will hopefully allow me to access more jobs or more opportunities to prove myself."
