Perfect common sense you speak there.

I would add that Roy has for the vast majority of the time served up boring football, although I have to admit it was boring and relatively successful, therefore looking for a change was perhaps unjustified.

However it is now both boring and failing to get results which is not a great combination. When you add on what looks like unmotivated players it is a recipe for disaster.

I hope he can turn this around and guarantee safety but I’m not convinced it will be that easy for him to do.

I want to see the players playing like it is an FA Cup semi-final against Brighton, but will we see that sort of commitment? If they can’t get up for this match knowing what it means to the fans then we will know they have lost interest.

I don't recall Pardew losing 7-0 as manager ( although he lost 9-0 as a player) or 7 games on the trot as manager.
Willo, you yourself have said you can hardly see where a point is coming from for the rest of the season, in particular with the absence of Zaha.
Hardly a ringing endorsement of Hodgson.
The drift under Hodgson has long been evident, as it was with Pardew.

There's an incredible amount of angst being spewed out in this thread, but it still seems to me that no-one disagrees with the preferred outcome.

It's all a question of timing.

Now is not the right time to part company with the manager. He's done well to keep us in the PL with limited resources and it would be ungracious in the extreme to wave goodbye before the season ends. Parish has his faults too - nobody's perfect - but I'd be very surprised if planning for Roy's replacement is not well progressed by now.

I hope to see Roy being thanked for doing a great job after he resigns gracefully in August. Then we make all the necessary changes to the squad to give us a bright start to our next PL campaign.

There's an incredible amount of angst being spewed out in this thread, but it still seems to me that no-one disagrees with the preferred outcome.

It's all a question of timing.

Now is not the right time to part company with the manager. He's done well to keep us in the PL with limited resources and it would be ungracious in the extreme to wave goodbye before the season ends. Parish has his faults too - nobody's perfect - but I'd be very surprised if planning for Roy's replacement is not well progressed by now.

I hope to see Roy being thanked for doing a great job after he resigns gracefully in August. Then we make all the necessary changes to the squad to give us a bright start to our next PL campaign.

I agree too but would like to see Roy resigning within a week of the season ending and not leaving it as late as August. Also I hope Parish is already lining up his replacement.

But when we lose, people will say for the millionth time that its just a one off and we should keep him so he can do exactly the same against Fulham, and ever other team til the end of the season.