This chaotic approach to how we appoint managers and sign players reminds me of the story when Dan Gosling was expected to sign for us from Newcastle in 2013. Apparently, he completed the medical, but was left waiting in a darkened room at Beckenham until 9pm, several hours and nobody from the club called him, so he left with his agent and decided he was not wanted. Ian Holloway even said he was upset about it as he clearly wanted Gosling. But even now with managers, it seems we identify the likes of Howe, Cooper, and Lampard, but then all of a sudden Nuno becomes available and we chuck our eggs in one basket, but then go back to our old list when the eggs end up all over our face! It reeks of a lack of class and also proper planning. We have had months to identify two main targets, but we end up waving our scattergun around as usual!!!

you and I know nothing about the process and how smooth it is. All we get is bones from journalists, people claiming to be ITK who were told something from someone connected with Palace, and we then try to connect it all together which is of course going to look disjointed as we have only a fraction of the details, usually nothing more than a name.

If we were in discussions with Nuno for several days and decided he wasn't right, then that's due process and diligence in my book.

All the names we've been associated with are all the candidates that any Joe Bloggs could scribble down on a fag packet.

All we can be sure of is that you and I know very little about how the process and who is really in the mix quite rightly it's being kept behind closed doors. Being transparent about how the hiring is going would make it an absolute circus and put any manager off of talking to us if they know the details of conversations with the board are going to be made public.

Parish may not have spoken to the media on the record directly but he does have a habit of drip feeding the chosen few who talk on his behalf.

Yes, such is the way of the world.

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