Well call me Mr Incredulous. Parish has decided PV must go, and before anyone can say "Royball" he's on the blower to Roy with an offer he can't refuse. Roy is happy to drop his retirement plans for another 10 game stint in survival football management. Remarkable. I guess stranger things have happened.

Edited by southnorwoodhill (21 Mar 2023 9.45pm)

Well, I suppose after Osian Roberts, it'll be nice for the players to have a coach who's in good enough shape to move nimbly around the training ground even if he is 75. All those donuts VG brings to work...pretty f***ing obvious where they've been ending up, isn't it?

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

If you think about it PV gets off being responsible for the end result and walks into the sunset with a package and all the media (and many here) saying how he was wronged, not supported by the board, and how he would have kept us up for sure (because we have a bunch of soft fixtures coming our way).

Then Roy comes in and only has his personal pride to loose, which is somewhat ameliorated by a not too shabby pay cheque for a few weeks work, notwithstanding a handsome bonus if we stay up. I actually don't begrudge him any of that, because he is a decent bloke and actually has a real connection with the club and he will work his bollocks off to get the team performing as best he can.

Then the players "arrive in style" so do they really give a sh*t, other than Wardy, Wilf and Maca, although I think Luca, Guehi Doucouré, and a couple of others really do their best.

Then Parish, preens himself in Soho, fails to do a press conference and sips macchiato with Dougie, recalling how he saved the club from extinction, while the other board members dial in to a zoom call and turn up to a match in a blue moon.

So who the f*ck is accountable? What a weird business .....

if that happens it leaves the club in a far better position to attract a more modern forward thinking manager

Although Roy appears to have combatted the stresses and strains of being a modern day football manager and looks in reasonably good shape for his age, I would be concerned how another season of Royball would affect him, the players, and the fans.
The last two seasons with us saw him staring blankly at the patch of grass in front of him, he didn't look particularly lively at Watford either. I'm concerned how Roy is going to make it through these 10 games and remain in one piece.
Perhaps Roy is just the friendly face behind the PR, and Lewington and McCarthy will be the real engine.

I agree re the parking the bus - I think we’ll go down if that’s what he does.

We haven’t got a decent forward who can play up front on his own and the only way I see us getting goals is with Zaha in a front two perhaps with Mateta who at least makes some effort to stretch our opponents (pains me to say it).

We played some decent football when Roy had ball playing cente backs ty previously. All of the players have to start taking responsibility in the final third.