This.

Pardew has been mentioned more than once. Steve Coppell too.

Might as well go and see if Arthur Rowe can be persuaded out retirement, once we find what plot he was buried in.

I am not afraid to change the manager but fans such as yourself lack perspective. You want to see a change no matter what, when Roy is keeping us safely in the league while the board are selling players for £50m and not reinvesting the money in the squad. How is Roy responsible for such lack of ambition at board level?

I want there to be a clear idea and philosophy from board level downwards. Some punt on an ex player or some foreign coach while the fundamentals at board level are missing is a recipe for relegation.

I do hope you will be there back in the champo if you get your way. Somehow I doubt it.

We are now basically safe and Roy has said there will be no contract discussions till he has kept his end of the bargain and kept us safe. So with that in mind, it looks like Roy will be staying on a little longer.

It makes perfect sense in my book. Lots of fans won't be happy but the future of the club is at stake and Roy is the perfect manager to keep things steady.

Man City
Man Utd
Leicester
Chelsea
West Ham
Liverpool
Everton
Tottenham
Aston Villa
Arsenal
Crystal Palace

11th in the premier league is probably the highest position realistically that we could have achieved.

At the start of the season would you have said we would have finished above any of the teams currently above us, probably not apart from West Ham and Villa who are having great seasons but have also spent money.

I think that Roy has done the job he was bought in to do which was to stabilise and retain our premier league status.

Unless we are bought by an Arab Sheik or Russian oligarch we are where we are with the recourses at our disposal.

This has been mentioned before but Charlton fans got bored of finishing mid table under Alan Curbishley and look where they ended up.

I'm so Palace I don't even know it

I think we are getting a little carried away here....this is not the final league table ! We have just come off a run of arguably more winnable games, let’s look at it again when the season is complete and then judge how we have performed.

Although some people will probably want Roy to manage for ever he is fast approaching the end of his management career due to his age. To make a comparison with Alan Curbishley is not sensible.

Edited by BelfastEagle (19 Mar 2021 7.34am)

The table highlights the status quo. It’s not a managerial thing in total by any means. It is in fact in most cases a matter of financial means.
Roy has done the job he was hired to do. The table shows that.
The only reason to change the manager is to hope to change the style of play, probably on the same budget . In other words an entertainment issue in the main.
For some it goes beyond that. They seem to suggest we could be a top half side , merely by sacking Roy.
The Curbishley, Charlton, story is ,whether it’s liked or not , a prime example of clubs hitting the buffers, approximately where we are now. Another recent example is Stoke.
If you add to these a succession of clubs that have flirted with the Premier league changing management regularly making little or no improvement to that clubs prospects. Then any reason to want Roy gone, are limited
unless the club has a genuine well financed plan to take the club to another level. Even the age argument , is not completely sound, because the record shows Roy, does the job. Any manager has to be followed one day, but it’s usually best when the occupant is no longer performing on the budget , or not thought to be able to handle a better financed situation. In this case he does well on the budget , and a better financed situation has a huge question mark over it.