Significant funds will only be available when new owners take over and that will only ever happen when Mr Parish is willing to relinquish his shareholding and management control and he has shown no signs of wanting to do that despite promising ten years ago that he was only here for the short term

Arguably another manager could do better than Roy with this squad. The real issue is everything has gone stale over time, same manager, same players for too long.
Roy has done a great job with lack of investment in the squad compared to teams we are competing against, but we have reached end of the road.
Franck is the best option, bit of a gamble, but something new is needed. Howe had much more money invested in his team at Bournemouth, but still got them relegated.

Had a bad dream last night that we had lost our next six games and Roy was still not sacked as we moved into the bottom three without hope.

What is it with this sacking our manager, what exactly is going to change??

Managers going stale isn't a unique problem. Only 4 premiership managers have been in the job longer than Roy. They are Wilder, Dyche, Pep, and Klopp. All for have delivered a significant amount of success to their clubs since they started.

Under Roy, we are stagnet, our league position and cup performance have declined. He's been lucky to have had the job for so long, had the board been a tad more ambitious he'd be gone by now. However, had the board been too ambitious we might have been in a situation like Watford so their is a balance.

It does seem there is a split in Roy's supporters, between the more sensible ones realising he is a short term stop gap, to the more idiotic romantic ones gushing of Mr Cwoydon Hodgson believing that some how the geriatric owl is the man to create a dynasty.

I'm quite sceptical of the run coming up, I think we've left it far too late and given him far too many chances. We'll play 4-4-2 against Wolves today for the 3rd time in a few months and lose again. Our only hope is to sucker punch them with an early goal or we are screwed.

We all want investment, but it has to be careful and sustainable given our relative income. A 73 year old isn't the leader a business will invest in, especially given his poor recent performance in the league and on transfers. That's just the way investment works.

But I've gone off on a rant again... all I meant to say that 3 and a half years is a very good innings for a premier league manager that hasn't had any major achievement.