Parish has to keep putting a sticking plaster over his previous errors of judgement, running round like the plate spinning circus act desperate to keep the plates aloft.
Roy held the fort, nothing more. Actually he was saved by the lockdown, the gruel he served up wouldn't have been tolerated in front of a crowd. And now Patrick Vieira is the latest victim of poor planning and what is highly frustrating is that we were very nearly there last season with a competitive team capable of trading blows with the best. At that point investment in the right areas of the pitch to cover those players that had left would have held us in good stead.
Frankly I can't see any investor or potential manager coming here while Parish is still at the helm. The sooner he sells his stake and f***s off into the sunset the better for all involved.
Only a desperado would want to manage here given Parish's previous history.

Roy would be an utterly depressing appointment who would serve absolutely no purpose as far as I'm concerned. Let's not forget that our problem is an inability to score goals, he's the manager you appoint when you can't defend. If we appoint him we should have just kept Vieira.

I’m forever grateful for what Roy Hodgson done for this club. An impeccable gentleman, nice guy and good manager for us at the time.
Do I want him to come back. No. Why?

1. For his sake I don’t want him to come back and tarnish his reputation by possibly being the manager in charge if we go down. I think he got away with Watford as they were as good as down when he took over, and it’s a basket case of a club.
2. When he was here, he had a lot of older seasoned professionals who he could respond to his form of coaching. We now have 6-7 quality players, a few who are squad players, a few who are past it from injury, age or attitude and some youngsters who aren’t deemed good enough. The right back, left back and striker options are worst then Roy was here and Zaha is no longer as effective. I’m not sure he’s the right man.
3. We need to think long term. Get in a short term appointment and the board will spend all summer on a manager recruitment, leaving it once again to the last minute to get players in. And whatever division we are in this squad needs a serious overhaul in the summer. Last thing we need is to ill prepared for the start of the season again!

Thinking about it, this squad needs such a overhaul that I think we have to consider that we may well go down because we went into this season poorly prepared and there is now nothing that can be done to stop that.

Get in a manager, who will stick around no matter what division we are in and let him have more input In recruitment and support him. Exactly what we should have done with Vieira.

No point having a putting a plaster on it attitude anymore. If the board isn’t prepared or can’t afford to invest in the squad, consider that going down, regrouping and planning coming back better prepared may be what we will have to do. We have papered over the cracks for too long.

De facto Paddy is going to be in charge until someone else comes in. The longer the board takes, the longer Paddy will have to make his case