NEW manager bounce in sport is a thing. For decades, more recently than before, a team on the wane will sack their head coach and bring in a new one in the hope that they can turn it around.

The way they do this ranges from new tactics, a different view on the way the game is played down to bringing back the players’ chips and ketchup — Harry Redknapp loves using this method to get players back to their best.

West Brom fired Tony Pulis and brought in Alan Pardew in the hope that the former Crystal Palace manager would provide said “bounce.”

It never came. If anything, Pardew put the club in a more perilous situation and when he was sacked, it was all but certain they would be relegated.

In came Darren Moore. Moore has given the club a fighting chance of Premier League survival.

Having beaten Manchester United at Old Trafford, something only Manchester City have done since Jose Mourinho arrived last season, Moore followed it up last weekend with a 2-2 draw against Liverpool.

The former Baggies defender has got the team battling again. While they are eight points adrift of safety with three games left, many believed they would be relegated by now.

It is virtually impossible that Moore keeps them up but he has done a terrific job while in charge.

So why isn’t his name being viewed as the permanent successor? He knows the club, the players clearly respect and have responded to his methods.

Or why isn’t he being viewed as a future managerial star? Sure, his name will be tarnished with being the man who relegated West Brom but he’s the fall guy.

Pulis and Pardew are responsible for taking the club down, not Moore.

This may be premature given that Moore may indeed get a full-time managerial job over the next few weeks. He may even be appointed Baggies boss over the next 72 hours.

But I find it quite disrespectful that he isn’t the bookmakers’ favourite for the role. That is currently Dean Smith who is charge of Brentford.

Smith’s Brentford side are currently one point off the play-offs and while he is doing a good job in that division, what more does Moore have to do?

Only after the draw with Liverpool did Moore’s odds lower. Now he is above Mick McCarthy, on some betting sites, who is forever linked with jobs despite never really excelling in one role and more often than not, leaving the team in a worse shape than he found them.

If I was in charge of West Brom, for starters I never would have hired Pardew, but I would have certainly started talks with Moore after the victory in Manchester and would have secured his future after the comeback draw with Liverpool.

Moore is proving to be a shrewd manager and while only early days, he has an extremely bright future. He should be viewed as a potential star but is still being seen as just a coach.

You only have to look at the appointment of Joey Barton at Fleetwood to see where I’m coming from — not to mention further proof that the Rooney Rule must be put in place as soon as possible.

This may be a bit of a reach but hear me out.

Barton is a troubled individual to put it lightly. Currently banned from football for betting on games, including ones he played in, the former midfielder has his first job in club management. Full-time. On a permanent basis.

Moore, with three games more experience at the top level, couldn’t even get a job interview. No-one did to be fair. But that Fleetwood chair Andy Pilley said that Barton “not only brings a host of experience and profile, but I also feel he has the potential to become one of the best in the new generation of coaches," is somewhat laughable.

It is alleged that Barton was promised this role months in advance and at that time, Moore was merely a West Brom coach.

But even then, more experience than Barton. Pilley has hired his mate and hasn’t even tried to hide it.

Alan Shearer is still seen as a potentially successful manager despite in his eight games in charge of Newcastle, showing nothing to back up those claims.

Ironically, Barton played under Shearer in that Toon side and did what he did best, kick someone and get sent off in a crucial game.

But Moore, in the self-proclaimed “best league in the world,” is still fighting to show people that he may have figured out how to win games in the Premier League despite getting off to a wonderful start.

He may have been part of one of the worst teams in the league’s history but on the sidelines, it looks like he has what it takes to make it at this level.

I for one hope that not only does he get the West Brom job, that top-flight teams who part ways with their boss over the summer take a long hard look at him and give him a chance.

The likelihood is that Pardew, Pulis when he becomes available again, and other tried and tested failures in the Premier League get given another chance to condemn a team to the Championship.

All the while Moore gets pushed back behind the scenes and his managerial career remembered only by those who called for change.