I'm not a believer that the club is well run. Anyone who endures the matchday or ticketing experience knows that isn't the case. Or know, as I do, the haphazard approach to engaging with potential business opportunities. However, on this Do me a Favre (had to be done)...sorry but he's a wrong un.

I believe the accounts that he approached us, after all he isn't employed had we spotted him (right) then he'd have been tapped up as soon as Roy left.

He's clearly had second thoughts and fair enough. If he turns up elsewhere in the next month I will be buying a voodoo doll.

As things have panned out, Allardyce, wouldn’t be the worst option by far. The problem being there is every reason to believe that his real reason for walking away previously was the very reason we can’t attract a decent manager now.. it looks more and more as if it’s a case of people not fancying the base set up at the club, and with the present state of play regarding contracts , ownership issues, and the lack of player investment over a period. Who could blame them?
Dougie, hovers.

As others have said, its certainly a huge disappointment but better that the concerns come out now rather than a few weeks into the job. My personal instincts would now be to go the internal route with Freedman, Derry and McCarthy with perhaps Mark Bright becoming the Sporting Director. They all know the club/players extremely well, can clearly work well together/with Parish and understand the depth of the task.
The other alternatives don't look so attractive and have already been considered/rejected. The only wild card could be Silva and there are definite pluses with him although he never seems to last anywhere very long and seems loyal only to himself. If I recall, Palace were potentially interested in him before he went to Watford so there is some history there. Either way, the need to make an appointment is clearly now very urgent.

If he doesn't want to be our manager 5hen that's the end of it. At the end of the day if we get relegated Parish and the Yanks are going to take the financial hit. We'll get someone in, they may not be very inspiring, there was a collective groan when Roy walked through doors. But what I want more than ever is for someone to give that odious muck spreader Dazza a RED CARD.

We now appear to be in the situation of the bloke in a nightclub, who has gone along in a group with a couple of girls who are reasonable (Howe, Lampard) and he probably stands a decent chance with. However, he goes off in pursuit of the stunning girls (Nuno, Favre) and spends the night buying them drinks in the hope he can pull them.

They have listened to him and realised that whilst he was never that attractive, he's not rich either. They can wait for another night. A bloke with a Mercedes rather than one with a Ford will come along tomorrow night or the one after.

It's approaching the end of the night and we are becoming desperate. We are now faced with going back to the girls we came along with who know they ain't even first or second choice and will probably tell us to do one (unless they are equally desperate).

However, over in the corner is our ex (Freedman). We went out with her for quite awhile, most of the time she was fat, frumpy and boring. Towards the end of the relationship she lost weight and become sexy but within weeks of this she dumped us for a better offer.
She's not single, fat and frumpy again.

Really should have gone for one of the reasonable girls we came long with. They may not be perfect, but we are certainly not either.

Dare I say it, championship here we come