Darren Lehmann doesn't want to do it forever. Justin Langer is adamant he is filling in and not rehearsing. Jason Gillespie says thanks but no thanks. Ricky Ponting, like so many recent retirees, could earn that much playing a couple of rounds of golf with corporate clients.
Finding the next coach of the Australian team is proving a bit of a challenge. Lehmann is contracted to   June 2017 and the search is on for a replacement. The powers that be and the players would be happy if he stayed on forever, but it is a gruelling assignment even when you don't have a young family - as Lehmann does. 
The right coach and the right chemistry is critical. The combination of Mickey Arthur, Michael Clarke and assorted support staff dragged the outfit to one of its most humiliating lows. Homeworkgate is an example of just how wrong it can go.
Lehmann has lent the car to Langer while he has a break from the side in the UK. He approached Gillespie this week after publicly flagging he wouldn't mind luring his former Australian and Redbacks teammate away from his coaching spot at Yorkshire. It didn't go well.
"I want to make it very clear there were no job offers from Darren," Gillespie told the BBC this week. "It was merely gauging interest. We had a discussion. I said, 'thanks for the chat, I really appreciate it, I'll talk to you tomorrow'.
"We left it at that, and I informed him that I'm not going to put my name forward, I'm not going to apply for a role at Cricket Australia. So we can end all the speculation right now." Gillespie is in the midst of an English county campaign with Yorkshire. "Darren had mentioned on radio in Australia that he'd be keen to get me back into the system over there.
"I was always going to catch up with Darren when he was over here because he's one of my best mates but I got stuck into him a bit because he didn't need to mention my name on the radio." Gillespie has four young children and enjoys the home life afforded by the current job.
"It's well known I have a young family and the consideration is do I want to be away from home for 250-plus nights a year?" he said. "At this point in my life I am not prepared to be away from my family for that kind of time. So, it is not on the radar. I am not applying for any international cricket roles. I'm a young coach and I have a lot to learn." Langer, who is filling in while the Australians play a one-day and T20 series in the West Indies, says he does not want the job.
"I don't see it as an audition, I see it as an experience and a great opportunity," Langer said. "There is no doubt I will learn lessons." Langer was batting coach and enjoyed that role, but returning to Perth to coach WA reminded him just how much he enjoys being around his own family. He has four daughters who are a little older than Gillespie's children.
Dealing with matters at hand, Langer has floated the idea of playing two spinners during Monday's first ODI match in Guyana.
"In Guyana maybe we will play more than just the one of them," Langer said."I know Nathan Lyon's desperate to get back into the one-day side and he's made that public and he's privately said the same thing. Adam Zampa's had a really good start to his international career and (bowls) leg-spin, so we might look at how many left-handers and how many right-handers are in the different opposition combinations."