BUT we won't do due diligence. Parish will now wait until August to start looking. 3 first choices will be touted, will all decline when they see the budget and Roy will stay until he's 90.

Shambles. 🙄

You fed me, you bred me, I'll remember your name.

Absolutely dreadful decision, although totally predictable. We're not creating or scoring enough goals, and are not fit enough so how does Roy Hodgson's appointment improve that ?

Ten games of Luka and Jairo in midfield, with Roy sat in the dugout, legs crossed, staring into space.

If PV needed to be dismissed then fine, but replace him with somebody that's going to have an impact. The odd draw isn't going to be enough.

I know the government have been encouraging people not to retire too early but this is ridiculous

The seeds were sown in the summer and winter transfer windows, any manager is only going to get so much of a tune out of this squad.

A few highly talented footballers, a few premier league squad players and too many either constantly injured or no longer Premier League level.

I admire Roy, but we are every bit a basket case as Watford at the moment. He is a safe pair of hands, its whether the squad is enough and the Board gambled on that in January.

I hope you can do it Roy, for the fans sake. But stuff the Board.

I am appalled.
I would rather go down with Paddy playing a team of kids for the future than Roy playing a sick version of footballing Dad's Army with Ward, Luka, Tomkins, Ayew and Edouard and his "park the bus and hope" tactics.
How can you sack a manager with no plan B??

Following Palace since 25 Feb 1978

Success in any business, especially football, doesn't happen over night. It is a process and transition, something that Owners and Chairmen should well know. However, the financial impacts of failure are so extreme that it can lead to panic in the boardroom, which clearly is the case at Selhurst Park.

Investing in a new style/young manager is equally a risk but, as we all saw last season and in part, the first half of this, progress was being made and with the remaining games being as they are v teams below us that is where we should have been and will be judged - not the past two months worth.

If we stay up, which I believe we will (and would have done under PV), we effectively will have wasted the investment of the past 18 months and set us back or indeed past where we were before Roy took over first time round.

Huge respect for Roy and like it or not we must support him for the remaining games. My hope is that SP and co are not just going to sit on their duffs until season-end before starting the process of finding a decent replacement for PV. With a guarantee of investment in the squad, AND TIME, it should still be attractive proposition for a new manager to take on !!

COYP