Sage SACKED, according to reports

[doombear]

Season Tickets will be cheaper next year, and there are more games in the Championship season. Not so many games moved, due to TV coverage. Cheaper away games. 👍

Only if our fate has been decided before Easter. Whilst there is hope of saving ourselves the club will be looking to put the earliest deadline for ST renewals they feel they can get away with and do so at no lower than current prices. It's happened before when we were in danger of relegation.

 

[Jacey]

Cannot imagine that our American Investors are particularly happy at the turmoil at the Club and the inability to make clear decisions in the way ,for example Forest do ??

 

[palace_in_frogland]

Fiasco.

Who does he play for?

 

[JHB]

Cannot imagine that our American Investors are particularly happy at the turmoil at the Club and the inability to make clear decisions in the way ,for example Forest do ??

Have you seen Woody Johnson’s New York Jets. One of the most ineptly managed franchises in American Sports.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

Get real Mate - our transfer dealings in the last 2 windows have led to this.

That’s all on Parish - don’t believe this cobblers that he’s stepped aside to let others deal with it.

I’ve said many times - yes he’s our greatest Chairman and he rightfully deserves credit for that.

But he’s just managed to throw all the progression we’ve made down the drain.

Now he’s procrastinating again over replacing a Manager that clearly isn’t right for us given the squad Parish presented him with.

Just don’t give me all that “what he’s done right nonsense” that was then this is now..!!

You are confusing the lack of public pronouncements with procrastination.

I don’t think for one moment that nothing is happening. Delaying the announcements until all the ducks are in a row is how we do things. Steve doesn’t react to media speculation or pressure.

 

[Vaibow]

I've been thinking for a while now that Parish has taken us as far as he can.. he can't keep controlling the club and investors money... that's not sustainable..

Don't get me wrong, at times he's got a lot of things right... but he has also made mistakes.. and ofcourse it's better the devil you know, but look where we are headed and to assume no one out there can do better is naive.

He should have sold us last summer, an fa cup winning, europa cup winning - in Europa league team... what a legacy.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

I've been thinking for a while now that Parish has taken us as far as he can.. he can't keep controlling the club and investors money... that's not sustainable..

Don't get me wrong, at times he's got a lot of things right... but he has also made mistakes.. and ofcourse it's better the devil you know, but look where we are headed and to assume no one out there can do better is naive.

He should have sold us last summer, an fa cup winning, europa cup winning - in Europa league team... what a legacy.

Is it better to have a Chairman who's a fan of the club or someone who's probably more subjective?

 

[elgin eeagle]

£7m for a totally ineffective addition is already £28m better than Johnson and yet some people say we aren’t progressing in our business.

Palace is reverting back to the crazy club it always was. Theres something comforting in that. Freedman was a bit like Desmond in Lost, continuously pressing those buttons for years to stop us from imploding horribly. Then along came Hobbs Locke and now chaos reigns again. Only Palace could go from being Champions of Europe to the laughing stock of Europe in 6 months.

 

[mtp1958]

It's essentially about having one's cake and eating it. Sage may get a nice termination pay-off from Palace then walk straight into the Lens job on a nice little earner. If we put a clause in the termination notice that he can't get a new job till the Summer then if Lens wants him and he wants to go they'll both need to do a deal with Parish to reduce Sage's pay-off etc.

Think there is a time line on it . It's a stand termination clause put in by clubs . You hear it all the time , its like a sell on clause but shorten life span

 

[mtp1958]

Palace is reverting back to the crazy club it always was. Theres something comforting in that. Freedman was a bit like Desmond in Lost, continuously pressing those buttons for years to stop us from imploding horribly. Then along came Hobbs Locke and now chaos reigns again. Only Palace could go from being Champions of Europe to the laughing stock of Europe in 6 months.

So there's no other club out there thats in the same position or been in the same position. mmmmmm I dont think so . Its your feelings not other fans views of us . True football fans dont like seeing small clubs being pulled apart by big clubs and thats what happened . You cant stop it . We feel it because its our club . truth of the matter is rest of Europe couldn't give a flying f*** about our issues . And would say 90% of the of other clubs fans to in this country . They have there own issues keeping above water and worry they could be next

 

[elgin eeagle]

So there's no other club out there thats in the same position or been in the same position. mmmmmm I dont think so . Its your feelings not other fans views of us . True football fans dont like seeing small clubs being pulled apart by big clubs and thats what happened . You cant stop it . We feel it because its our club . truth of the matter is rest of Europe couldn't give a flying f*** about our issues . And would say 90% of the of other clubs fans to in this country . They have there own issues keeping above water and worry they could be next

Yeah sorry i was being fasciet i was just trying to inject some humour into the situations we find the club in. Building a hugely expensive corporate stand for the championship with a hospitality building outside in the car park with no toilets. And lets not even discuss the various on pitch shenanigans or morale.

 

[mtp1958]

Yeah sorry i was being fasciet i was just trying to inject some humour into the situations we find the club in. Building a hugely expensive corporate stand for the championship with a hospitality building outside in the car park with no toilets. And lets not even discuss the various on pitch shenanigans or morale.

I do beg your pudding lol we still got to build it . No toilets you have been in the AW that would be called a improvement . And to change the spec now would mean going through it all again . Anyway having city and spammers and maybe utd in the championship we cant let standards drop . There's reputations at stake 👍🏻

 

[Canterbury Palace]

Palace is reverting back to the crazy club it always was. Theres something comforting in that. Freedman was a bit like Desmond in Lost, continuously pressing those buttons for years to stop us from imploding horribly. Then along came Hobbs Locke and now chaos reigns again. Only Palace could go from being Champions of Europe to the laughing stock of Europe in 6 months.

I wasn't expecting a Lost analogy but I like it. Presumably in the scenario Marinakis would be Hurley.

 

[Rogers 11]

It wouldn't be Palace without all this dithering about. I have respect for Parish for saving the club, but that wascs few years ago now. He will be judged on his decision making now. It was a big mistake letting Dougie go. Matt Hibbs us clearly not up to the job. I feel sorry for Sage - he was on a hiding to nothing with the top players we lost. He doesn't appear to have any charisma, but his results in France prove that he can get teams to compete at the highest level. People forget how poor Glasner was in the league. Only four home wins as far as I recall. Whoever the new manager is will struggle if we don't buy a couple of top class defenders in January. The system also needs to change to a 4-4-2 or 4-3-1-2. It would certainly help Nketiah to score more goals, especially with Osorio in the hole.

 

[PatrickA]

Must be the longest sacking in history.

 

[Spindle]

The timing of this, the fact that we expected Sage to go before, and the sudden sacking of the Lens manager just makes it seem very planned in cooperation with Lens

 

[Canterbury Palace]

If it's actually true that we're delaying this to try and get out of a bit of compensation, it would be comfortingly Palace. Premier League survival on the line and we're treating it like the transfer window to try and nick some last minute value.

 

[park the bus]

Really? He’s failed!! every man and his dog can see how wide open and disjointed we’ve been. Now I know he’s not had a great squad to work with after selling our Crown Jewels and it’s not all his fault, but his reputation is hardly intact, I doubt we’ll see him in the premier league again that’s for sure

Let's just say that when Sage was first identified by Parish and Co as a potential successor to Glasner one can assume when they got together for a formal chit chat they gave Sage the opportunity to relate his methodology and football philosophy. And by and large he has stuck to it. This is what they wanted and this is what they got. Obviously results attest that it hasn't been appropriate given the fine details, squad, level of competition etc, but hey ho! Add in that Sage had identified a few players he wished to bring to the club, but in true Parish fashion none of them crossed the line. Now where have I heard that before?
Of course results have been so bad and Sage has to go, this is the normal procedure, but Sage will be fine and actually didn't do anything other than being Pierre Sage.

 

[JHB]

Let's just say that when Sage was first identified by Parish and Co as a potential successor to Glasner one can assume when they got together for a formal chit chat they gave Sage the opportunity to relate his methodology and football philosophy. And by and large he has stuck to it. This is what they wanted and this is what they got. Obviously results attest that it hasn't been appropriate given the fine details, squad, level of competition etc, but hey ho! Add in that Sage had identified a few players he wished to bring to the club, but in true Parish fashion none of them crossed the line. Now where have I heard that before?
Of course results have been so bad and Sage has to go, this is the normal procedure, but Sage will be fine and actually didn't do anything other than being Pierre Sage.

I sort of get this argument but regardless of footballing philosophy we just don’t look like a very well coached team. Being on the front foot and aiming to win the ball back high up can’t be an excuse to have a defensive shape that leaves you exposed. It also can’t be a reason to not work on defending set plays (if stories are to be believed). That is just bad management.

Also the job of a manager is to get results. That doesn’t necessarily mean abandoning your whole approach but there has to be a dose of pragmatism in there.

Where you are spot on is it is not like this was a surprise when we appointed Sage. That’s what led a lot of fans and pundits to raise their eyebrows at the appointment. It looked like the wrong one for where we were and has proven to be a disaster. That is on the club.

 

[Painter]

Let's just say that when Sage was first identified by Parish and Co as a potential successor to Glasner one can assume when they got together for a formal chit chat they gave Sage the opportunity to relate his methodology and football philosophy. And by and large he has stuck to it. This is what they wanted and this is what they got. Obviously results attest that it hasn't been appropriate given the fine details, squad, level of competition etc, but hey ho! Add in that Sage had identified a few players he wished to bring to the club, but in true Parish fashion none of them crossed the line. Now where have I heard that before?
Of course results have been so bad and Sage has to go, this is the normal procedure, but Sage will be fine and actually didn't do anything other than being Pierre Sage.

Sage thought he could adopt his methods, that he used in France. Reports have been coming out, that he doesn't place any emphasis on defending and it is not practiced in training. He just presses from the front line, which we have all seen, that it leaves us exposed at the back, resulting in normally 2 or 3 goals against.
It wouldn't matter, which players Sage wanted to bring in, his system doesn't work in the Premier where the level of opposition is higher. We were always regarded as difficult to play against under Glasner and Hodgson, now its open season to increase the oppositions goal difference.