AND, with the dismissal late on Tuesday afternoon of Aaron Healey, long-time assistant coach at Melbourne Victory, the revolution was complete.

In four months the dual A-League champion's founding chairman, Geoff Lord, long-serving chief executive Geoff Miles, coach Ernie Merrick and his assistant, and football operations manager Gary Cole dumped on Monday night, had all been dispatched or departed.

It's a culling process that would have made Robespierre approve as first one, then another, of Victory's Ancien Regime were lopped. If severance payments rather than Madame La Guillotine were the chosen method, the bloodletting has been no less complete.

Was it necessary? Should the new board, headed by Anthony Di Pietro, have exercised restraint? Was Victory so broke that it needed such dramatic fixing?

I would argue that the answers to those questions are: yes, no, and yes. Miles left of his own accord just before Christmas. Some suggested he was pushed to make way for Richard Wilson, the new CEO, but Miles, a former head of Football Victoria, always said he had run his course after five years and was ready for a new challenge.