And wake next to an old slapper....
I can’t believe some people think our future is Sam Alladyce.

Following Palace since 25 Feb 1978

Yeah but at three o'clock in the morning, with your beer goggles on and an empty bed awaiting you at home, you would, wouldn't you?

Go on, admit it.

It really is the same old story with this club, we never do anything straight forward our transfer dealings always seem to be complicated
drawn out, we always seem to encounter last that minute snag it doesn’t breed confidence or give us fans any reassurance it really does make us a laughing stock.
Steve Parish and Co have done a fantastic job for this club I am not knocking that, but this dithering that is generated out of the club over appointments be it players or managers has to stop. ( no and I’m not saying let’s just appoint anyone ) . .
Most of us wants a managerial appointment that give us confidence warrants our 9 years in the Premiership some will argue that Cooper is the man for the job others, like me I want a manager that breed confidence make a statement of intent and I thought again like most we were getting that with Nuno.
I agree Cooper name does not breed confidence and his appointment would indicate that we are scrapping the bottom of the barrel but to say he would be sacked half way through the season is hindsight, no one knows how he will cope how the team will perform for all we know he could be a huge success, but if Cooper is the man then why wasn’t he appointed straight after the play off. Nuno sacking through a spanner in the works agreed but I honestly don’t believe that the board didn’t know that Roy was going to retire.

Edited by manwitheagletattoo (13 Jun 2021 7.49am)

South London & Proud
Sometimes I really wonder if family are really worth it.
Because it doesn’t matter how time and affection you give
It’s never enough

That isn’t how it necessarily works.
It’s been known for a while that we have a managerial vacancy and usually interested parties contact the club to express an interest.
Indeed this was apparently the case with Nuno who reportedly contacted us through his agent when he hadn’t formerly been on our radar.
I’m unsure we’re that attractive a proposition to top candidates with our complicated structure .
We have established backroom team including Mcarthy, Derry, Guyet and the medical staff. We also have Freedman as DOF who seems to have a significant role on players .
We have American part owners who supposedly want out and appear to have little active interest.
We have around ten players out of contract in a couple of weeks and a long standing need to refresh the squad with more quality and youth.
For a top candidate who likes to have his choice of backroom stafff and players the job could be seen as something of a poisoned chalice.
As it stands I can only see the job being attractive to a young up and coming manager such as Cooper or Ismael who would see it as a step up, or for an experienced out of work manager who wants to get back in the game such as Mark Hughes (I’m not advocating this).
Lampard or Howe would surely have already been appointed if it was intended to give either the job.

OK one out of nowhere - Duncan Ferguson -

DF has made it known that he wants the Everton job on a full time basis, however the club dont seem to be taking his application that seriously- i.e if it was a shoe in he would already be in the job -

If NES goes into Everton with his backroom entourage DF will likely be out of a job & he will be pretty upset.

His first option will of course be to join Ancelotti at Real Madrid - However if he / his family dont want to relocate, that leaves a senior coach with a time served record from a fairly substantial club with a decision to make-

For sure , there will be plenty saying he has been a No 2 for a while, not actually a number 1 for very long, etc etc etc, but as a number of people have also said, coming to Palace aint going to be a walk in the park.

Just throwing this out there.

I am thinking it is Howe or Lampard v home team of Freedman or Derry.
I am not overjoyed with any, but the home team do not have any proper experience of PL management and I would be amazed if Parrish risks millions of pounds on them, unless it is through sheer desperation.
If I had to pick any it would be Lampard.

Following Palace since 25 Feb 1978