There is no vacancy as I type.

Oh !

Let's not turn this into yet another tedious WILLO thread !!!!

Great read and I did a similar thing looking through the old ‘new manager thread’ to all happy comments when FdB singed and how Parish was criticised for letting Pellagrino choose Southampton.

It’s a good thing Parish does not read back and go “ha ha I told you so”

I must admit, it was pretty embarrassing those first few weeks l, but talking to Southampton and stoke fans, they just wish their chairman would have acted sooner

It’s strange in football - how Roy is now seen as a saint and we all hope he can do one more year whilst we find his successor. Had he been appointed immediately after Big Sam, we would all be maonig a and be wanting a replacement sooner rather than later.

I just read this one and it made me smile.

I'll freely admit after Big Sam left I qs hoping we would get in an up and coming prospect, young with fresh ideas, forward thinking who would see Palace as a desirable chance to make a name for themselves. I felt Pelligrino and Marco Silva were real contenders and Toy felt underwhelming when his name came up in the discussion. I will put my hands up and admit I couldn't have been more wrong. I do feel a bit cheated by FdB in that he promised a gradual evolution of our playing style but this is not what he delivered.

I hope Roy stays for a few years. A radical thought would be to get a young manager, maybe from the lower leagues and offer him assistant manager role to learn from Roy, mold him into our way of doong things. Even more tadical would be to tben 'loan' him out to a lower league club as there manger. Wonder what the rules are on this sort of practice?