It seems to me that there are a decent number of fans who are just rubbed the wrong way by Steve Parish generally. I would hazard a guess that for some of them it's because he's a successful Palace fan who has got things that they will never have (money, success, power and is a relatively young man who owns the club he supports) and that they will never be satisfied until he is gone and they can feel a bit better about their own lives again by comparison.

There also seems to be a touch of forgetting where we came from and in my opinion we deserve to go down because of what our fanbase has become now (fanbase, not supporters). I saw a stat that our promotion-winning side five years ago cost something like 3 million, yet now we go toe to toe with top sides, regularly spend over 20 million on a single player and are offering 100k+ on wages to top players (and getting them). Still, it's never enough and that is today's breed of football fan.

If you hate Parish then everything he's done has been terrible (including Holloway walking away and us getting Benteke and Sakho because they didn't come early enough in the window). If you love him then everything is forgivable, including us now having only one recognised striker in the 24 man squad. I would argue that maybe the true picture lies somewhere in the middle. I live with an Arsenal fan who is in disbelief at the farce their club is becoming and who looks at a club like Palace, which manages to stay true to it's roots and still progresses, with envious eyes.

There were always negative threads about Parish long before this transfer window and there always will be, regardless of what he does. Personally I think we have one of the only chairmen in the league who has the best interests of the club they own at heart and who has continually advanced us with to-be-expected bumps in the road. He will make mistakes, as does everyone, and there are things that people moan about that we're not entirely privy to. He deserves a lot better than some of the cr@p he gets on here though, shame on a lot of you.

I tend to agree with you, especially the opening paragraph.

Edited by Kodg (02 Sep 2017 7.48am)

It seems to me that there are a decent number of fans who are just rubbed the wrong way by Steve Parish generally. I would hazard a guess that for some of them it's because he's a successful Palace fan who has got things that they will never have (money, success, power and is a relatively young man who owns the club he supports) and that they will never be satisfied until he is gone and they can feel a bit better about their own lives again by comparison.

There also seems to be a touch of forgetting where we came from and in my opinion we deserve to go down because of what our fanbase has become now (fanbase, not supporters). I saw a stat that our promotion-winning side five years ago cost something like 3 million, yet now we go toe to toe with top sides, regularly spend over 20 million on a single player and are offering 100k+ on wages to top players (and getting them). Still, it's never enough and that is today's breed of football fan.

If you hate Parish then everything he's done has been terrible (including Holloway walking away and us getting Benteke and Sakho because they didn't come early enough in the window). If you love him then everything is forgivable, including us now having only one recognised striker in the 24 man squad. I would argue that maybe the true picture lies somewhere in the middle. I live with an Arsenal fan who is in disbelief at the farce their club is becoming and who looks at a club like Palace, which manages to stay true to it's roots and still progresses, with envious eyes.

There were always negative threads about Parish long before this transfer window and there always will be, regardless of what he does. Personally I think we have one of the only chairmen in the league who has the best interests of the club they own at heart and who has continually advanced us with to-be-expected bumps in the road. He will make mistakes, as does everyone, and there are things that people moan about that we're not entirely privy to. He deserves a lot better than some of the cr@p he gets on here though, shame on a lot of you.

I tend to agree with you, especially the opening paragraph.

Edited by Kodg (02 Sep 2017 7.48am)