Ironwoods plan was never going to Freaking work

Lets pretend for a moment that rwby listened to James plan, and decided not to tell the others.

His plan would still fail

He had already fallen For Cinders gambit, so either the powers would have gone to Penny, the literal “Protector of Mantle” who obviously was never gonna go with his plan or they would have gone to Cinder. And I don’t even wanna explain how much worse that would have been.