To not have a manager in place at this point is pretty poor.

Waking up to this news is unbelievable and quite depressing but I think you're being a little harsh on Favre. If he had actually applied for and pursued the job himself and then done this I would agree with you but by all accounts Parish pursued him, not the other way around in which case the job clearly wasn't attractive enough for whatever reason to persuade him to take it. Well done Parish for finding a good prospect and trying to hire him. Very tough that the effort failed. But there's no real blame to go around here. We move on.

I think it's reached a point now where the situation is rapidly becoming desperate. Dougie, Shaun Derry, and Paddy McCarthy should all be candidates (they're the managers with some experience, albeit in Paddy's case only with younger sides, who are already at the club. They may not be the ideal choice but with the squad needing to be built and contract decisions having to be made next week, it may be best to just get one of them in and give them a shot. If it doesn't work out, we know Parish won't hesitate to remove them by Christmas but we surely can't start pre-season on Monday week with nothing and no one in place?

If I was Parish I'd have one more go at offering the job to Lampard, Nuno, or anyone else on his list today (and I mean TODAY) but if they don't accept immediately and haven't signed up by Monday (a hard deadline) then I'd go with Plan B above. I don't think having no one in place by the middle of next week is a realistic option.

People keep banging on about the fact everything is ok because Everton or Tottenham don’t have a manager yet. Well, we are not Everton or Spurs and I couldn’t give a damn about their managerial situation. Also, neither of those teams have half their squad out of contract.

This is rapidly becoming a farcical situation that the club have allowed themselves to get into. Roy, by his own admission told Parish he was leaving well before the end of the season and the management knew the position regarding player contracts. The potential pre season issues have been known from the moment Roy informed Parish he was leaving.

To not have a manager in place at this point is pretty poor.

People keep banging on about the fact everything is ok because Everton or Tottenham don’t have a manager yet. Well, we are not Everton or Spurs and I couldn’t give a damn about their managerial situation. Also, neither of those teams have half their squad out of contract.

This is rapidly becoming a farcical situation that the club have allowed themselves to get into. Roy, by his own admission told Parish he was leaving well before the end of the season and the management knew the position regarding player contracts. The potential pre season issues have been known from the moment Roy informed Parish he was leaving.

Well said, complete shambles, FdB saga all over again, the lack of a squad and poor transfer budget means that no decent manager is going to want a job that is doomed to failure [Link]

To not have a manager in place at this point is pretty poor.

I’ve been a supporter of Parish , it looked like we had a plan to develop. We had a style of football that was not attractive but meant we could punch above our weight and remain in the Prem, we had a string of managers that were good a getting the best out of average players. I could laugh at the weed supporters with their grand ideas and plans as they struggled to go up or stay up and wasted money.
Hodgson retiring has been discussed since last summer and we have been safe since February, why are we in the situation we are in now? Who is to blame for it? The one question I would like answered is why didn’t we act in March/April to get a smooth transition that could have seen us build a squad for next 3-5 years. Was it just a punt that someone would be better in the summer ?