Cecil still had the support of owners such as the Niarchos Family and Khaled Abdullah/Juddmonte. Even at his lowest point, there was a chance he would train something good again.
Nicholls has very few big owners left. One or two for the McNeill Family and the Ferguson/Mason team.
Who else? McManus doesn’t seem to send him anything now. He has nothing from the owners Mullins and Elliott have.
He was nowhere to be seen at Cheltenham and he didn’t even have a good Aintree this year.