History cannot be changed, it's in past, the future is what matters now and right now or very soon, SP will almost certainly be responsible for our likely relegation and the biggest loss in revenue in the clubs history, how is that saving the club?

Undoubtedly other parties would have stepped in if SP consortium had not.
SP, however, did a brilliant job ( not without huge amounts of luck) in getting us to the premier and keeping us their albeit hanging on by our bootlaces.
Over the past two seasons he has made some very big expensive mistakes. FdB, Benteke, Sakho, Wickham etc etc.
In this period his luck seems to have run out and his decision making has been awful as has his inability to complete deals in a tight time frame.
OK, Roy Hodgson has proven himself, but the choice of players we have brought in have proven to be physically weak hence so many injuries.
I feel he has an increasingly tough position. The more mistakes he makes the harder it gets. This last transfer window was a very poor outcome.
I am not convinced about the magnificent proposed stand that if ever built will make the Arthur look like something from yester year. For sure we will have an imbalanced stadium a bit like the imbalances SP seems to be struggling with constantly now.
In business it is hard to continually succeed these days. Everything is short term with no long term planning anymore. There are so many unknowns ahead. It is nearly impossible to plan. Luck plays a big part. Personally I feel like it looks as though SP has had a huge amount of luck early days which currently appears to have evaporated.
I really hope I am wrong.
Going down and the consequences would not be pretty.

Edited by dreamwaverider (27 Feb 2018 7.55am)

It doesn't matter how big your squad is, if you lose defenders like Dann, Sakho, Kelly & Tomkins to injury, your sixth choice is going to be a step down.

SP is far from perfect, but I'm not sure he can be blamed for issues in the defense, where we do actually have cover, it's just that the cover has also got injured.

Employee of the month is a good example of how someone can be both a winner and a loser at the same time.

Perhaps it’s just coincidence but things seem to have been going wrong since the American investors came in.
There was the terrible winless run and poor home form under Pardew, Allardyce surprisingly leaving,the fiasco over FDB and the confused transfer policy.
Parish is the only original member of the consortium actively involved with the club, and it is evident that the Americans have the right of veto on key decisions e.g major transfers,managerial decisions.
This may partly explain the slowness of the decision making process, lack of evident strategy around transfers and why Parish gives these interviews to American media outlets.

I don’t disagree. As I said further down, luck plays a huge part and with so many players currently injured SP’s luck has run out through injury.
So yes, it is a very harsh view, especially when bad luck plays such a big part. If good luck had not deserted him, we would have no injuries and be mid table. But it is what it is and in hindsight he should have secured more established players in the last window.

Really?

No other Chairman has taken us from Administration to 5 years in the Premiership or been anywhere near that record. Some of us have been supporters for years and are used to failure of a false dawn and appreciate where we are now.