Hunt although a well rated defender is all of 5'9", we needed a decent cb.
Phillips although a class act was never going to get as much out of pl defences as he did in the championship.
Marange signed and the IH decided he was too slow, this worried me at the time but now with other stories/rumours surfacing one wonders more.
Gayle is one for the future but is doing adecent enough job as an impact sub.
Dobbie yet another (pl) squad player rather than a first teamer.
Campana looks very good but at the same time as signing him we also signed Guediora and Bannan while already having Garvan
Jerome does a decent enough job tiring out the defences but using the usually accepted definitions is not really a striker.
So a generous 1.5 out of seven rather than the 0.

Enjoying getting up later and not having someone who knows better than me (apart from the missus of course).

tbh I am no big fan of SP but the summer transfer window is between the last game of one season and the first of the next, so when exactly would he/they go on their hols?

Enjoying getting up later and not having someone who knows better than me (apart from the missus of course).

Quite likely scenarios. On the ground. The main stand was built in 1924 and is 90 years old. I don't know when people would prefer it done, but it needs doing, and it costs money.

COYP

True, but actually signing players might gain our rivals extra points that they wouldn't have otherwise got.

I don't know where I stand on this - we need some extra quality - especially up front, central defence and possibly left-back - but the former depends on the likelihood of Murray getting fit. I agree with SP that we should be getting in younger players from the lower leagues who would have a resale value (eg Rhodes, Ince) rather than PL journeymen at the tail-end of their careers who will mess up our wage structure (eg Crouch). However, if those journeymen could make the difference between us staying up and going down then it would be worth it. Tricky.

He's done no more and no less than at least half a dozen others. Ron Noades. Jim Cannon. Steve Coppell...shall I go on?

These days, it's fashionable for people to pretend that Parish is the second coming and Simon Jordan is evil incarnate, even though I suspect that 12 months into his tenure, the Jordan loyalists then are mainly the same people who are the Parish loyalists now. Those types of people inclined to ask no questions rarely change; the owner may be new but the sheep remain the same.

I see surprisingly little difference between Jordan and Parish with the main exception being their attitudes towards money (which, admittedly, is a big thing). Jordan spent wildly, Parish spends reluctantly but other than that? Both of them have huge egos. Both of them are ostentatious. Both of them think they know how to run a business they clearly don't know how to run. Both of them think they know more than the football people they've hired. Both of them can't get out of their own way or the manager's way when it comes to renouncing a degree of control. And both of them will sink the Premiership ship before not getting their own way. Both have a bad case of "my way or the highway". Jordan lost a vastly experienced football expert in Coppell...now Parish is trying hard to emulate him in his deteriorating relationship with TP.

New year. Different kind of idiot at the helm. Same old Palace. If we go down, it will be the usual case of squandering an opportunity by shooting ourselves in the foot. The fact that the best the pro-Parish brigade seem to be able to do in defending him is to call their opponents names and otherwise insulting them speaks volumes about the lack of quality of their arguments.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

How would they even know this?! Pulis is never going to tell anybody especially a journalist about this. I doubt even SLP would know until the very last minute. No manager would tell a newspaper like Daily Mirror about something as confidential as this.