Your erudite summation Willo is "The Parish dilemma" - a conundrum of risk quantification that probably requires some game theory machine learning to calculate probabilities of action versus inaction. I almost bust a gut when I saw that Warnock was heading to Aberdeen to save their skins. The decision to appoint Roy in the summer has created the Parish Dilemma, which might just become a case study in how your options become very limited after making a bad decision in the first place.

Usually though, in game theory, the longer you wait, the shorter the odds you will make the right decision, because you reduce optionality. Just think, if Parish had moved on Roy during the International break. Anyways, I suspect our odds are more out of our hands and final outcomes determined by other the clubs below us, which might just encourage Parish to roll the dice and stick with Roy, probably because no-one wanted it during the summer for all the systemic reasons laid bare here on this board.

Then it makes you wonder how the likes of Nottingham Forest attracted Nuno Espirito Santo with them worse off in the league than us, unable to purchase players due to FFP, and the impending points deduction that will more than likely relegate them.

Almost all of the managers on the OP's list are all out of work due to their failure at their previous clubs, and would more than likely jump at a chance to become a 'hero' and turn around a club that's on a downward spiral.

Personally I think we should go all out for Potter before he gets snapped up elsewhere.

Nottm Forest have a large squad having made a plethora of signings this season and last, and perhaps Espirito Santo was impressed by the depth of the players that would be available to him.
Furthermore he was appointed after 17 PL games, accordingly there were 21 games still left to play.Nottm Forest were 17th after 17 games only 2 pts behind us who were in 16th position.

Apropos the points deduction, my thinking is that it was announced after he was appointed manager but of course if this is correct he might have known about the possibility beforehand.

Edited by Willo (05 Feb 2024 9.13am)

Fibber!

No inverting of the truth whatsoever.

My suggestion would be to appoint Paddy as interim manager for the rest of the season. Assisting him Darren Moore who had some success with Sheffield Wednesday, Doncaster Rovers and WBA in the EPL. This would give Moore the opportunity to get his name back in lights for another stint as a manager probably in the Championship. His Jamaican heritage and experience coaching younger players would certainly help with the palace squad.
Finally, as mentor to Paddy, Sam Allardyce. Sam does not want nor need the stresses of being a Premier League manager again. However his experience with this situation, his grasp of technology and contacts in the game would certainly be useful for the management tea watching from the stands.