Loving your positivity.

Arthur Wait was before my time. SP is by far the best chairman we have had since I started watching in the 70s but the rest were very poor.

In my opinion, Ray Bloye was way, way worse than Ron Noades.

Bloye was a chancer who had his eye on a fast buck. It was he who sold much of the land around Selhurst.
Noades had no love for Palace whatsoever and bought the club because he'd had a modicum of success as owner of Wimbledon. He also sold off land around Selhurst but also did the unforgiveable by seperating the club from its ground and charging one rent to use the other, practically bankrupting the club and cutting Mark Golberg's legs off when it came to him trying to make a go of it. But Goldberg was naive and was never going to get anywhere with Palace in the long run. Too many people in the back ground were waiting in the wings to take his money.
Jordan? Well, I didn't like the bloke but he had a lot go against him. Some poor decisions, some just bad luck. He wanted Palace to be a successful club but he rubbed too many people up the wrong way. In the end he had made too many enemies to ever have any hope of being successful. Parish I would say is the opposite of Jordan. Where he had bad luck Parish was fortunate. Jordan tried to get the ground for a fair price to free us of the shackles of crippling rents whereas Parish was fortunate to be able to negotiate with Lloyds Bank who, lets be honest were glad to have found someone that wanted to buy it. Jordan threw a lot of money at trying to get promotion, it took 5 years and he was immediately relegated. Parish was very lucky to clinch promotion within 3 years and has been in the top division ever since. So while I agree Parish has been successful I'd have to add he has been extremely fortunate on more than one occassion.
Arthur Waite was als before my time too but from what I have hear/read about him he was in my opinion the best Chairman Palace ever had. A man of the people, a successful local business man and plowed pretty much all he had into making the club the best it could be. For the community to love and be proud of.
When the Arthur Waite stand was built Arthur Waite himself personally laboured, grafted, long hours alongside builders, chippies, vollunteers from the area to get it built. Different time I know but I could never envision any of the other ex/current chairman mentioned doing that.

Bloye was a chancer who had his eye on a fast buck. It was he who sold much of the land around Selhurst.
Noades had no love for Palace whatsoever and bought the club because he'd had a modicum of success as owner of Wimbledon. He also sold off land around Selhurst but also did the unforgiveable by seperating the club from its ground and charging one rent to use the other, practically bankrupting the club and cutting Mark Golberg's legs off when it came to him trying to make a go of it. But Goldberg was naive and was never going to get anywhere with Palace in the long run. Too many people in the back ground were waiting in the wings to take his money.
Jordan? Well, I didn't like the bloke but he had a lot go against him. Some poor decisions, some just bad luck. He wanted Palace to be a successful club but he rubbed too many people up the wrong way. In the end he had made too many enemies to ever have any hope of being successful. Parish I would say is the opposite of Jordan. Where he had bad luck Parish was fortunate. Jordan tried to get the ground for a fair price to free us of the shackles of crippling rents whereas Parish was fortunate to be able to negotiate with Lloyds Bank who, lets be honest were glad to have found someone that wanted to buy it. Jordan threw a lot of money at trying to get promotion, it took 5 years and he was immediately relegated. Parish was very lucky to clinch promotion within 3 years and has been in the top division ever since. So while I agree Parish has been successful I'd have to add he has been extremely fortunate on more than one occassion.
Arthur Waite was als before my time too but from what I have hear/read about him he was in my opinion the best Chairman Palace ever had. A man of the people, a successful local business man and plowed pretty much all he had into making the club the best it could be. For the community to love and be proud of.
When the Arthur Waite stand was built Arthur Waite himself personally laboured, grafted, long hours alongside builders, chippies, vollunteers from the area to get it built. Different time I know but I could never envision any of the other ex/current chairman mentioned doing that.

we shall have to wait see but i am still minded to respect what CP2010 did and believe under their guidance we won't be selling our souls to chase short term glorries