How to prove you've nothing to add in a few sentences, so if you haven't, stay out.

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I've been a season ticket holder for roughly 18 years now. Across that time, I've never continuously turned up expecting us to be as frustrating to watch, clueless as to a strategy, and expecting defeat, at any point as much as I have across the last year or so.

The Francis era was pretty bad, but we had no money and had been a mess for the previous 5 years so it wasn't that surprising. To have the resources we currently do, and to be so unenjoyable, is mystifying to me.

Allardyce was an improvement, but right now I don't get it. Just take the transfers - 2 return to their club at the end of the season, 1 was apparently bought 'because the fans want him' and the other completely doesn't fit into the team (Competing with 3 left backs, 5 other CBs, and our main holding midfielder who can't get in the side).

All the meanwhile, we can't put a striker on the bench, offer no goal threat and have no idea whether we want to play more like Guardiola or Pulis.

All I want to do is enjoy watching my club play - that's been really tough, particularly at home, for quite a long time now.

26th January 2010 - Enter Administration
2nd May 2010 - D-Day 1 - Survival at Hillsborough
1st June 2010 - D-Day 2 - Survival at Lloyds
7th June 2010 - CPFC2010 exchange contracts.

Genuinely can't decipher this post

I think the difference is with this period, is the "hope" seems to of faded. As a fan of any club, you always look to see a positive sign regardless of how bad things are. A small part of you finds comfort In the potential. There is always something to be proud of, whether it's the fan base, youth set up etc.

For the first time as a Palace fan I've felt genuinely disillusioned by the things going on off the field and I personally feel the way we treated the previous manager was embarrassing and an epitome of everything that is wrong in English football today. It just feels hard to see the potential of ever progressing, given the almost unique Palace way we went about it and the reckless decision making process we appeared to employ. That's the thing most people have a problem with, it was completely amateur from start to finish.

Why would a forward thinking, long-term visioned coach who wants to progress a teams style over a period of a couple of seasons ever want to come to Palace after that fiasco? Parish provided sweet nothing as to why the managerial reign lasted such a little amount of time other than "we weren't gonna get any better and we ain't gonna go to Chelsea and pass our way to win" which to me just sounded like garbage and comes back to this image of Parish, a couple of yanks and Dougie Freedman genuinely believing they know more about the game than an ex world class and globally respected footballer.

There is almost definitely much more to it that he won't admit, because if he couldn't see that against Liverpool the game plan most certainly wasn't "pass our way through Em" and we could've easily come away with a point (or 3), he's just lying to everyone.

Edited by Mstrobez (18 Sep 2017 12.08am)

We're the Arthur over ere!

And yeh your right I don't know how to run a business or a football club whats your point Einstein?

Everyone is entitled to a view on whether mistakes have been or are being made. Most people will agree that in hindsight there are decisions which have been taken that haven't been correct. However, this isn't a badly run club as some have us believe. My mate is an Orient fan. He'll tell you what a badly run club looks like.

Also, why mention the increase in money that you spend to watch the games? If we were in the championship would you have expected the prices to have been frozen for 5 years? I would imagine that most businesses in the last 5 years have raised prices in one way or another.