User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 437: Magnolia, Review and Commentary/@comment-49.145.245.172-20150531123343/@comment-7418318-20150531202507

We aren't considering Gildarts for three simple reasons.
 * 1) He's not there.
 * 2) He doesn't want to job and will just run away again.
 * 3) He isn't really suited in the first place, since he's gone all the time.