Apparently, David Moyes was interviewed for the Saints job around 2001, pre-Strachan, when he was at Preston. Lowe wanted him to join. Sticking point was that Moyes wanted to bring his back room staff with him and Lowe wanted to keep the existing coaching team. I would also guess that Moyes was smart enough to realise that working for Lowe would not be that great.
The last 10 years could have been a bit different. Apart from anything, we would have been spared a certain poster from bleating on about not getting Hoddle back in 2004,