Hear hear. He manned up realised that he had made a horrible mistake and acted swiftly to correct. There was much derision from the pundits about knee jerk reactions. At the time I said if the relationship between Parish and FDB had broken down it was the right thing to do. I bet some of our relegation rivals are regretting their actions or inaction's.

As for the stadium revamp I had hoped that Parish was quietly winning over the council (unlike Noades) and the speed with which is was approved showed he was.

I just hope that Parish now gives Roy the authority to buy the players he needs. Mid table mediocrity would be nice for a couple of season.

Well done Steve if there was a chairman of the season you get my vote.

One more point

I agree with the praise here regarding the stadium and sacking Frank and Parish could become a better chairman with the window closing the Thursday before the prem season starts. Just stepping back from transfers could do that but this new rule might improve his running of the club anyway.

A lot rests on Roy staying. Roy stays, we’re in a great place. He goes, gulp.

COYP

Spot on. Pundits thought it was ludicrous to sack a manager after just 4 games.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

The reports of clubs saying we made our approach too late for them to find replacements and players walking out of negotiations and gutted because the window has slammed shut are undeniable issues that have hampered our starts. No doubt Parish has the right intentions but you cannot be the ultimate winner on every deal.

Hopefully this new rule will sort him out and we don’t start the season with one midfielder or something crazy again. I am hopeful it will but you never can be that sure with Parish on these sort of things. Or you can if you know what I mean.

COYP

Totally agree with all the comments above. Parish has taken the tough decisions when needed, and more times than not, has got them right.

With PL status retained for another year, now is time to start planning for next season. Three things need to happen here:

Roy: Has done a fantastic job, many here were not happy when he was appointed, but he is a quietly efficient manager I have always respected, going back to the days he was managing Switzerland and other 'journeyman' jobs. However he is not getting any younger. I hope he sees out his contract; even a year extension would be welcome. But it is time to turn to succession planning; bring in 1 or 2 young promising assistants, give them space to be nurtured in the back room, and breed them in CPFC for a couple of years before Roy puts his feet up. Last thing I want to see is a string of random second rate managers from the Spanish 2nd division.

Transfer window: the last 3 or 4 have been a complete shambles. Or at least what we have seen (and the results) of them. Maybe there are the deals that got away which remain private, but I doubt there are really that many that were close. We need to have our list of targets drawn up now, and get them early. Early bird gets the worm and all that. A good world cup, and those obscure guys that we could have picked up for a decent fee could turn into a fortune. We need to solve the Benteke problem; stick with him, or let him go. Our club is not one that can afford to keep such a guy warming the bench on big money. Lets see if confidence comes back from the WC... otherwise I would suggest we cut our losses...

Wilf: needs to stay. That is all.

We do the above, and we start to turn into a reliable mid-table club. Can take nothing for granted, but every year more in the top flight brings a bigger expectation...

Edited by lagoseagle (29 Apr 2018 9.09pm)

If he had hung onto de Boer for even just a couple more weeks I think we would now be getting relegated. Especially if that meant that Hodgson became unavailable and we had to go with somebody s***e.

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