I thought the inference from Pearce was that there is a declining group of players, uncertainty at Boardroom level, a history of behaving like a load of fannies in the transfer market notwithstanding COVID and two high profile names have walked from the job.

It goes without saying there’ll be applicants but if their sole motivation is money they may not be of the calibre we”d hope.

Everyone entitled to an opinion of course, but his job is to commentate on the game I would suggest, not opine on the prospects of us being able to attract a manager.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Five teams in the top eight of the Championship are all trying to get back having been relegated one, two and three years ago, if we go down the opportunity to get back has quite obviously improved dramatically over the past three to four years, Norwich look to be up and Watford and Swansea appear to be fighting Brentford for the other promotion place, all the play offs could involve Cardiff quite easily too.

It was but my comment was solely about the myth that potential managers would be lining up to take over as we pay £4.5m per year.

Everything that Pearce said was what many of the supporters already believe to be the truth as either Parish has a masterplan that we know nothing about or else we will be paddling up the proverbial creek without a paddle

Reported that Frank Lampard was earning £75,000 a week at Chelski so cannot see Roy earning more ? One of Pearce's children is a Palace fan and this does show through in his knowledge of what is going on at the club compared to other commentators.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

Jonathan Pearce's wife hails from Croydon and JP knows the area.
I recall,from several years ago, when he was commentating on a game of ours bellowing out "They will be celebrating in the xxx and the yyy" with xxx and yyy being some of the local public houses!

He is from the West Country and has supported Bristol City.

Edited by Willo (01 Mar 2021 9.15am)

My understanding is that his abode is not as far south as Brighton.

In full agreement with you. 0-0 at Chelsea no better than our result, and we will definitely see different football when fans are allowed back.

Hate might be a bit strong, I was angry at yet another disgusting dire performance thats 99% down to the manager and his setup. To then hear him say that he's extremely satisfied with a 0-0 at home to Fulham and a "0-0 was going to be the best we could get today" just made me hate him. Don't get wrong I don't like him, I think he comes across as arrogant and when he gets questions he doesn't like or that are too near to the truth for him I think he turns into a tosser.

No - Im not offering him advice Im just commenting and giving an opinion on what I see every week. I think offering advice to someone like him would be absolutely pointless.

Yes - He's kept us up, He's not the only manager on the planet who could of done that.

Yes - injuries are a problem, his training methods need to be looked at because since he's been here I doubt there's another team anywhere with the amount of injuries we've had.

No - Why would he have forgotten more about the game than you or I ever will? Most of us have been fanatics of our clubs and the sport since before the age of 10. We've watched, examined and taken a massive interest in a sport and team we absolutely love so why does that make our opinions and observations worthless against someone who's lucky enough to have been given a career in the industry? If he was on this forum undercover Id expect him to be one of the ones who talks rubbish and makes no sense if Im being honest.

Curbishley myth - First of all we're talking about something that happened 15-16 years ago which is pathetic. Why do so many people bring this up? After Curbishley they gave Dowie the job for 12 games then Les Reed for just over 1 month, does nobody think that chopping and changing like that might have had an effect. There could have been other things going on too, why would exactly the same thing happen at this club in 2021?

Actually after reading that back I do hate him again so suck on that