Still trying to find a hairdressers that specialises in Mens perms I reckon...... A very difficult thing to find in the 21st century!!

I think we are waiting to do all of our deals on the last day and hopefully break our own record of 11 in one day.

Absolutely correct. I'm sure that our current owners are astute businessmen in so far as you don't achieve success or amass a fortune (either/or) as they have without a degree of astuteness, but they haven't particularly shown it, or needed to show it, at Palace.

On the playing side, hiring a manager with a reputation for enjoying a heavy night out wasn't particularly astute. Replacing him with a home grown novice was either astute or lucky or a bit of both. Losing that novice when he turned out to be highly capable certainly wasn't astute, and getting promoted given our form after he'd left was far more luck than judgment. Losing the replacement manager in less than a year was many things and astute wasn't one of them. Taking four weeks to replace him was a mixed bag; the final choice of replacement was astute; had we persuaded him to come four weeks earlier, we might be in the top 10 by now.

On the playing side, the Zaha sale was luck more than judgment (the current owners merely cashed in on him; they didn't develop him) though you could argue they were astute to sell when his value was high. In terms of incoming players they've brought in a mixed bag. Not much astute business there, though.

On the non-playing side they've done what's required to bring the ground up to Premiership requirements; they had no choice but to do that so it's not astute. I believe some improvements have been made to facilities generally and if so, that would be a sensible step. But it's not astute as it so obviously needed doing that only a fool would not have done so.

All in all, our owners have done a good, professional, competent job off the pitch. Astuteness not really required; an idiot can tell most of our facilities are paleolithic and that negatively impacts prospective revenue. They've actually done an average to poor job with managers but they've had real rub of the green and the team has punched above its weight, good fortune they've benefitted from too.

We have decent owners who support the club, work hard, and have their hearts in the right place. They're far more good than bad and many clubs have a lot worse, But heroes, Gods, perfect, or deserving of unquestioned praise? Not for me.

Absolutely correct. I'm sure that our current owners are astute businessmen in so far as you don't achieve success or amass a fortune (either/or) as they have without a degree of astuteness, but they haven't particularly shown it, or needed to show it, at Palace.

On the playing side, hiring a manager with a reputation for enjoying a heavy night out wasn't particularly astute. Replacing him with a home grown novice was either astute or lucky or a bit of both. Losing that novice when he turned out to be highly capable certainly wasn't astute, and getting promoted given our form after he'd left was far more luck than judgment. Losing the replacement manager in less than a year was many things and astute wasn't one of them. Taking four weeks to replace him was a mixed bag; the final choice of replacement was astute; had we persuaded him to come four weeks earlier, we might be in the top 10 by now.

On the playing side, the Zaha sale was luck more than judgment (the current owners merely cashed in on him; they didn't develop him) though you could argue they were astute to sell when his value was high. In terms of incoming players they've brought in a mixed bag. Not much astute business there, though.

On the non-playing side they've done what's required to bring the ground up to Premiership requirements; they had no choice but to do that so it's not astute. I believe some improvements have been made to facilities generally and if so, that would be a sensible step. But it's not astute as it so obviously needed doing that only a fool would not have done so.

All in all, our owners have done a good, professional, competent job off the pitch. Astuteness not really required; an idiot can tell most of our facilities are paleolithic and that negatively impacts prospective revenue. They've actually done an average to poor job with managers but they've had real rub of the green and the team has punched above its weight, good fortune they've benefitted from too.

We have decent owners who support the club, work hard, and have their hearts in the right place. They're far more good than bad and many clubs have a lot worse, But heroes, Gods, perfect, or deserving of unquestioned praise? Not for me.

Haha, like it!

The injury problems reinforce the insanity of his demands in my view.

Having said that, if we want real quality there will probably be a degree of "damage" to come with them for them to see us as viable at this stage. Trying to avoid players who only see us as a chance to earn big money for a brief period is another aspect to a difficult window.