Hard to argue with much of that.

If he does go, the only hope can be that this hasn't all of a sudden come into the considerations of Parish et al and some research has been done in terms or suitability and availability. Very slim hope mind you.

With regards to board and therefore PV, you'd hope lessons would be learnt but hypothetically, if we do get someone new in, stay up and invest I would expect the same to play out. I think the intention is to find a manager who will do what Hodgson did, keep us up working with naff all but again in a PV mould, creating the illusion we have some sort of clever strategy for competing at the top without buying superstars and playing anachronistic football.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

I had hoped that we had finally turned a corner and were going to try and play possession based football rather and this would run all the way through the academy to the full team, so that young players could move effortlessly along the system. However, to do that you need an initial faith and an investment. It seems the board wants us to play better football whilst still thinking you can do it on a shoestring budget.

Both Allardyce and Roy got relegated with their last teams. I think that style of football has been found out and who wants to watch it anyway.

Kompany is more likely to get Premier League football by staying at Burnley. Carrick has done well in his short time at Middlesborough. He stands a decent chance of getting them promoted and I'm not sure a rookie manager is the person for a relegation dogfight. Long term managers they could be exceptional options.

But who is available now that is likely to make a difference this season? And that's the problem we face.

So Parish is 'unimpressed with recent form' is he ?
Steve, can you look yourself in the mirror and be honest that you have given him enough tools to improve the team this year ??
That's a toughie !!

All does have a 'May I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window?' feel to it.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

To be fair to SP, he has through a matter of good judgement and luck done well to keep us up this long.

However, as you have stated, we should after 10 years be in a much better situation than we are. Roy was left with a squad of ageing players that needed 75% replacing over the next couple of years. Unfortunately we had one good window and as you state left with players who should have been let go or are third choice because they can play in several positions in a worst case scenario.

I still believe that there must be some kind of impasse at Board
level to allow the squad to have so many holes in it.

As much as SP deserves so much credit for getting us promoted and staying there for so long, he and the rest of the board will deserve the criticism if we go down this season