I recently got Palace promoted on Football Manager, am I on the shortlist?

And then take him off again.

Steve:

1. There have been a lot of rumours -- and I realise that you're not going to speak directly to rumours for legal reasons -- about certain aspects of George Burley's behaviour and general personal conduct both in recent months and before he came to Palace. Without, as I said, directly addressing the rumours, do you feel you did adequate due diligence on Burley prior to hiring him last summer? Results aside, do you feel personally let down by where things have ended up. Yes or no answer will do.

2. It's often said, and I'm sure you agree it's true, that a well run organisation rehearses various scenarios and thus has solutions to problems at hand as soon as those problems become real. Without implying that you'd interview candidates for the manager's position while you had a manager in place, would it be fair to say that you've given some thought to what you'd do in the situation in which you now find yourself and, as a result, you're already hitting the ground running in the search for a permanent manager?

3. To what extent did George acknowledge to you that it hadn't worked out? Did he give any indication that things had plummeted to a lower point than he'd anticipated and, if yes, did he give any reason why he thought we'd reached this point in terms of our performances on the pitch? I'm sure he believes he could have turned things round, given time, but was he shocked just how poorly things had become? Did he acknowledge that, for want of a better expression, we really are in a pretty desperate place?

4. Given that, short of a very quick hire, we now enter the transfer window with significant change needed and no manager in place, who's going to drive personnel decisions from here on?