So it's all done and dusted then - and Tony Mowbray is back at The Hawthorns.
But it all means another irony in that Mowbray returns to take over from one of his first summer signings in that first spell in charge – Chris Brunt.
Brunt, aided by Damia Abella and Boaz Myhill, has been in interim charge of the players since the Christmas Eve departure of Carlos Corberan.
They will be in the dugout for the final time (and that's for definite this time!) at The Hawthorns on Saturday for the Midlands derby against Mark Robins' Stoke City.