It must be hoped he will be given that but, as he is Derby's fifth manager of the calendar year and the chairman, Mel Morris, is, shall we say, 'hands-on' (last season he took it upon himself to visit the dressing room and give the team a personal ticking off, and that was after a draw) the lurking fear is he might not be.
But the entire season, Lane has been his own personal ticking time bomb.
We Americans, black and white, have been taught to reduce it to a set of personal ticks (speech patterns, handshakes, musical taste) and socio-economic caste.
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That Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011, Warner, 12) should fit the bill so neatly does credit to Ritchie's craftsman-like skills; he may be an utterly rotten auteur but when shackled to the demands of a big studio franchise he knows how to deliver the good-looking goods with just the right amount of "personal" visual ticks.
Personal incomes ticked up 0.5% in April, according to the Commerce Department, and the 0.1% decline in consumer spending was a hair better than expected.
On the economic front, personal income ticked higher in May, but a chunk of the rise was attributed to the government's stimulus payments.
One of the culprits in Monday's choppiness was the Commerce Department's latest snapshot of the American consumer, which showed personal spending ticked up at a slower pace in September, just 0.2%, than it had in the prior two months, 0.5% in July and August.
"Safeguard his/her rights" was ticked in 92% and "manage his/her property" in 98% and "ensure his/her personal needs" was ticked in 91%.
