Simple question, why?

Roy is a defensive coach and defence hasn’t been our issue. So how do you think he is going to magic wins out of the hat? Genuine question.

He’s 2 years older, couldn’t reverse the slide at Watford and I suspect will come back here and won’t be able to save us. He makes a team well drilled and defensively solid, that isn’t our problem. Our problems seem to be an imbalanced squad (which wasn’t addressed in January, and was our last chance to do so) and seemingly fitness which will take several weeks to get right.

The other problem is the recruitment team will spend half the summer on a interview process and we’ll be leaving it until the last minute to sign players again. We can’t afford to do that whatever division we are in.

My take is that the poor options in the squad will still be the same and there is nothing that can be done about that. We have a turd of a squad and no point trying to polish it.
We need to get a new manager in who can assess us, so his best and be ready to go next season, whatever division we are in.

I hope Parish has learned from his past mistakes. Stop gap managers just kick the can down the road. The manager needs to be given maximum time and appointed with enough time to gel a team together. The manager should be actively involved in recruitment. Players need to be bought in as early as possible not a bargain dash on deadline day. The squad needs to play preseason together, not half of them in one place and half in another.

Piss poor planning makes miss poor performance. Last summer was piss poor planning and we made minimum effort to rectify it in January.

For me the problems do not lie with the manager, I don’t think there is any manager who can suddenly turn the past mistakes around. What we need to do is make sure we don’t make them again, and that rests with the Board.

We have to hope that what we have is enough to get us over the line, because there are 3 worse teams. There may be. But what we shouldn’t do is appoint a stop gap as it will once again delay our entire summer.

I'm definitely not saying he should be given the full time job right now but I am looking forward to seeing if he can make a difference given how he has the U21's playing and if he can get our lazy forwards playing like them then who knows.
If I was the owner and we did actually beat Arsenal or at least made a really good game of it then I think I would give Paddy a bit longer especially when there's an international break for him to have a good couple of weeks training with the players. Or bring a manager in who doesn't know the players and is thrown straight into a relegation battle not knowing anything about the club. Unless it is Hodgson God forbid.
Forget Hodgson, like I said in a previous post he's one for tightening up a defence for a team who are getting caned every week, not getting a team scoring again which is our problem. He is literally the worst man for the job.
At this stage of the season Im not sure if there is a safer bet than for Paddy to be given until the end of the season and if we survive comfortably and we're scoring goals again then why wouldn't he be given it full time?

Firstly I don't trust for a minute that it would just be until the end of the season. Can easily see a situation where he keeps us up so they stick him on a year's rolling contract.

Secondly I am baffled by the notion of him being the perfect stopgap when our defence is well organised and we're lacking in goals. He's the absolute opposite of what we need at this point, I'd honestly rather appoint Pardew for 10 games.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

Ray Lewington as advisor would make more sense although Paddy has worked with all these guys for years and has a lot of experience himself. If he has fresh ideas then maybe they shouldn’t be squashed by being exposed to old ones?