while i would agree with most of your sentiments, personally i would choose a different metaphor.

The premier league clubs travel like the EuroStar......and we are like Borat sitting in the backseat of a car.......horse-drawn.

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Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

I don’t want to sound ageist….

You see younger managers shouting out instructions from the side of the pitch, motivating players, organising etc…

Then you see Roy, stands for 10 mins, sits for 10 mins - hands in his pockets!

I know Ray Lewington is the shouter - but come on Roy, lead the team by example, motivate…etc…

Got to go ….before it really is too late

This set of players aren't as bad as Hodgson has made them. It was the same with the national side, the cream of the crop, good players for their respective clubs, reduced to clueless numpties by Hodgson and Lewington's predictable negative tactics.
Where does this leave us? Well it puts the onus fully on Parish to do something about it, because as it is nothing has changed or will change, the players look disorganised and lost, just like the England side back then. It's all relative in scale, the common denominator is Hodgson and Lewington, two dinosaurs of a bygone era.
I'm not sure Parish has anyone pencilled in his little notebook, and therein lies the problem, because the change needs to be made now. Relegation is very much a possibility.

In a nutshell this!

If Parish had any balls he would have sacked Roy by now. But after todays thrashing by Brighton he MUST sack Roy asap. Not only does there appear to be a lack of game plan (and no Plan B when things go wrong) but Team selection was yet again a disaster, ie Henderson rather than Johnstone. Why oh why did we waste £20 million on a goal keeper not nearly as good as Johnstone, especially with more urgent positions to fill? Why potentially upset a current England keeper by paying £100,000 per week to an inferior and possibly injury prone keeper? Yet again Henderson could be blamed for some of today's goals. But the crowning moment today which showed that Roy has lost it, was bringing on Olise when the game was already lost at 3-0. Our best player, but potentially already unfit/injured lasted just 10 minutes before going off injured. He needed to fully recover for the 6 pointers against Everton, Luton, & Burnley. My vote is for POTTER as our new manager.

I'll just add this quote from Roy I've pulled form the BBC:

"Fans will have come here with high hopes. Unfortunately at the moment, especially given the situation we find ourselves in, not even being able to field a team a bit more capable of doing that, you have to accept it isn't always going to work out that way."

Firstly, what does he mean 'high hopes'? Did we expect Palace to romp to victory away at BHA? No. That our established PL team with multiple internationals etc might compete against our biggest rivals? Yes. And of course we didn't see that.

Secondly, get to f**k Roy. You can't keep coming out and saying 'we're sh!t and the fans are unhappy because they delusionally expect us to win every game'. It's f**king insulting to us and the players. Absolute mug.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!