After four games? OK, maybe not QUITE after four games, but the assertion that Hyypia was shite and had to go appeared on NSC - in spades! - several months before he actually went. Wouldn't be too surprised to find that the first few rumblings of discontent appeared around match four.
I still don't agree, it would have been a terrible decision. Put simply, who is going to go to Palace thinking about the long term? No-one. Let's face it, Hodgson is only going there because he is in last chance solution with regard to the Premier League. Nobody else would consider him.
Decisions can only be made with the information you have at the time, so yes, I think it would have been a bad decision.
Joke summer from Parish and the board,FDB was probably the wrong choice but to only give him 4 games is a disgrace. To start the season with only 1 fit center forward but 7 centre backs at the club is moronic.
Not sure what to make of Woy.
Whichever - the important thing is that it worked out fine for us. The difference between us and Palarse, though, is that they've got form for sacking, which automatically makes them a less attractive prospect for a manager. Although tbh out of work managers have got form for grabbing any job that's going!
Hughton was unemployed and looking for work at the time.......and - somebody more ITK than me can confirm or rubbish this - hadn't Hughton applied at the same time as we appointed Hyypia?
Which is probably what Roy is thinking. He's hardly going to be there for years "building a legacy" as the cliche goes. He's 70 years old so I'm sure the prospect of a few months work for a few million quid is very attractive!
I've put my CV in.
There once was a Dutchman called Frank
Whom Brighton fans would like to thank.
He made a GREAT start.
Shame their ways had to part.
Looks like Hodgson will next walk the plank
