How about honorary president or similar?

Roy must go at the end of the season with a pat on the back, hopefully, before he, inevitably, bores us all to death again.

This post has been merged from a topic called 'Roy for Permanent Palace Gig' by becky

Judging by comments on the 'Next Manager' thread, you are clearly not alone in this view.

However:
1. I'm not convinced Roy would agree to return full time for another year and I can't imagine Sheila being over-impressed with the idea.
2. Whilst our performances in the last 3 games have been enjoyable, we have to remember that we've only beaten the bottom two teams and a 16th place Leeds team who should have been out of sight at half time. As I've said elsewhere, those three teams are where they are for a reason - they aren't very good.
3. Just like with Zaha, we have to move on to new things sooner or later and this summer would seem (to me at least) an apt time to do so.

In the unlikely event Hodgson did want to stay and the club appointed him, I wouldn't be disappointed.

I'm not someone who sees Hodgson as a purely defence-minded manager. He is essentially a pragmatist who recognizes that if you can't defend you are unlikely to win many matches and when you do have good attacking talent you need to use them. He sets his teams up according to the strengths and weaknesses of the players available and in his last two years with us he had a bunch of ageing players who were mainly past their sell-by date and needed to work within a very tight defensive system if we were to survive. It wasn't pretty watching but it got the job done.

I am pleased that he has now had the chance to show that with the right blend of players he is quite willing to encourage a more attacking mentality. I'd love him, though, to get some more good results this season and then ride out into the sunset so-to-speak leaving us fans with a positive memory of his time with us.

Edited by doombear (17 Apr 2023 6.49pm)

When we lost 7 out of 8 with 1 draw at the end of the 19/20 season and then 6 out the last 8 with 2 wins the following season we had Townsend, Zaha, Benteke up front or Ayew in one of those 3 spots (Mateta as well in the latter season), which is not a lot different to what we have now. We had a more attacking full back in PVA playing and a younger Ward, Milivojevic and McArthur at a much higher level than they are now. All in all it wasn’t that bad a side and certainly not as limited as you are making out.

Given that centre half’s don’t have a great influence on our attacking (although I accept that Andersen has helped with some of his cross field passing) the only difference between the teams is Olise for Townsend and Eze who has only recently returned to fitness.

I’m not entirely disagreeing but I thought it should be mentioned as we were awful to watch at that time.

Might be appropriate to name the main stand after Roy, born in 1924, and Roy popped up shortly thereafter.

What's tinpot about honouring a manager who, in terms of keeping Palace in the PL, has made a greater contribution than anyone?