i was a longstanding defender of Roy. Not any more.

My fear is that whatever new manager we get.....we are screwed anyway. The squad is just not good enough.

I agree with all of what you say Array but would add;

1. What is going on behind the scenes with Johnson, clearly something is. Played so well last season and up to his injury this, to get into the England squad yet he falls completely out of favour, so much so that if it’s true he was close to being sold or loaned out on deadline day. We have shipped 16 goals in 3 games with Henderson in goal but still he isn’t brought in.
2. Olise and Eze …..two terrific players who when fit carry the team and here is the problem. Time is dictating that they are injury prone with hamstring being
common to both (appreciate Eze has also had an ankle problem). Is our training the problem, given also that Zaha experienced the same, bring comments from the Galatasary doctor.
3. The Sheffield Utd game papered over the cracks and todays match brutally exposed the truth that the players aren’t responding to Roy’s instructions and therefore he has lost the dressing room. We need a new man at the helm as things will get worse.
It’s a results driven business and no room for sentiment.

The debacle at the top has resulted in the coaching situation which has spelt disaster in the pitch.

I'm furious and sick of Roy's Palace/football however I do also feel a bit sorry, if not for him for the situation. Must qualify as elder abuse by this stage surely.

We've spent a load of money on a very poor keeper which is beyond bizarre but I think it speaks to a transfer policy concentrating solely on business and not football. Our transfer policy seems not to have been determined from a footballing standpoint and has not been for a while.

As for Roy, using today as an example:

- Picking an inferior GK over a superior one
- Changing formations and selecting players purely to be as negative and workmanlike as possible, resulting in no creativity, pace or intent. He hasn't the coaching expertise to improve things.
- An inability to fathom what to do at set-pieces both attacking and defensively.
- Bringing on arguably our most valuable and effective asset to get injured when his situation was precarious already and the game was lost.
- A team that looks bereft of motivation, identity and fight therefore conceding early every game and losing most of them.
- Fans fed up with the perfect storm of both utterly soul destroying and now ineffective football.
- Biting back at fans for their egregious position of being dissatisfied with the above and generally refusing to take responsibility.

He really has lost the plot, he's unfit for purpose and a detriment to us. I'll happily ignore any 'Well what else should he do/what would you do?' questions, the club can pay me half Roy's wage and I'll put some sincere effort into it if that's anybody's 'go to'. As it stands, things are broken. Don't fix them when they are not, do when they are.

The longer this goes on, the more agitated the fans get and the worse the effect on the team. There's a good chance we'll go down anyway but we almost certainly will with Roy and half the fanbase will have succumb to fatal boredom and despair in that time.

We have the third worst goal difference in the league - relegation form.
We're joint second lowest scorers - relegation form.
We've not scored from a corner since 1952 - relegation form.
Our best players are all getting injured - relegation form.
2 wins in 14 games - relegation form.

This is an absolute sh!tshow of the highest order.