If Curbishley came back, he would still have a huge task on his hands, but then whoever comes in has a job to get us back up the table. I really like the idea of Billy Davies coming in.
He knows the league and has great managerial skills, and I was impressed with what he did at Preston. He turned us down in fact when Curbishley left in 2006, but I am hoping that it could be a different story this time around. Other names are being put forward such as Gus Poyet and Sam Allardyce—I wish people would wake up to reality, we don't want them let alone afford them!
My ideal partnership is Curbishley having Mark Kinsella, our current reserve-team coach and Charlton legend, alongside him. Otherwise I would pull out all the stops to bring Billy Davies to the club, because there are not that many good managers suited to us available.
I just hope the board makes the right decision this time. They made a hasty decision last time with Dowie, and despite everyone wanting the new man to come in as soon as possible, I would rather the board took their time and looked at everyone's CV (even mine, haha).
The new manager needs to know what he is dealing with straight away, a club that was once a well respected Premier League side, with a fantastic fan base with excellent family and community values, but to get the players playing as a hard-working unit again. That is what I want, to see players proud to wear the shirt of a well-respected club, and to get us back to the Premier League.
That may not happen this season, well it won't, or next season, or the season after, but one day we will be back in the Premier League, because after all of the effort and hard-work during the late 90's and the early new century, no one deserves it better than the people that work and have worked at the club since the Curbishley era.
It is a sad and pressing time for everyone connected to the club, but these things happen in football and we just have to deal with it to the best of our ability. I urge all the supporters to stick together, go to as many games as possible and not to argue on chat forums or in person.
We all want the best for the club, so for now we just need to back Phil Parkinson and the current squad by going to QPR tonight and getting a good result before playing Southampton on Saturday.
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