You think this manager appointment has been well done? It's amateurish with actually no plan at all.
I don't care or know the full situations of teams below us. Frankly, there won't be more than two or three below us at the end of the season. How will Roy turn this around?

Being the only choice is desperation rather than actually being at all wanted. Any poll is not going to come out with 'Palace fans want Roy back'. Far from it.

Plus, how are the facilities? The new stand. All our money wasted on mercenaries' wages. All with no sell on value. There is no improvement at the club at all except for the Academy.
As it turns out we would have been required to have that academy within a couple of seasons anyway.
That's where it's amateurish too. As I'm trying to point out, a long term strategy is required but we look like we can't plan a week ahead - let alone a couple of seasons.
How many times did we start a season clearly deficient in one or more area? I didn't notice other sides having no left backs etc. The list goes on. But there's little point if someone's going to list some names and say Roy is the best.
He's poor at best and it lacks any coherence, planning or foresight.
There is a whole world of managers out there. Some have even saved sides, despite the fans and Parish not liking them. I'd take a bad guy to save us. I wouldn't care less who it is.
To counter it all, I don't like disrespecting Roy, he had his time with us and I'm grateful for that but anyone at all gracious would have said no to this. I have zero faith in this working.

What manager do you think would be a good idea?

From the ones touted (might've been more but I don't know.)

1. Carrick - not going to leave a Middlesborough on a role.
2. Gerrard - zero affinity with the club much less any more of a clue than Vieira and still learning.
3. Lampard as above.
4. Hassenhuttel - probably the only one I expect would've been ok but it depends if he wants a relegation scrap.
5. Favre - As above, I doubt he wants 2 weeks to work on a team he doesn't know ow and hasn't picked and would most likely be more interested in the summer for a rebuild.
6. Bielsa - Same as Favre

The board does deserve some of the blame but I'm not so sure it can be directed wholey at Parish. We have 2 parasitic american investors trying to jump ship as soon as another team goes up for sale, Textor with his Del boy dealings and a stadium that's forever in hiatus of a rebuild.

Positivity is presumably our new strategy - along with crossing fingers and praying. I presume the board are at the forefront of this but the fans can at least join in too.

Why are Harris and Blitzer deemed to be parasites as without them we would be in The Championship by now.

Why are Textor's dealings "Del Boy?" Just because he doesn't support one club like you do doesn't make him Del Boy and where do you think the money came from to buy in this young talent after Hodgson left if it wasn't from your Del Boy

Also correct. But do you see that never give up attitude in the current crop of players. I could be doing them an injustice but not sure I do.

I think a lot of people here need to divorce underlying realities from contemporary situations.

The fact is, common to all of us, we support CPFC. That support is a constant; we don't choose where and when to apply it. It's simply a fact of our lives; part of our identities.

Sometimes, our support is challenged by contemporary events as is happening now. And when that happens, the thing that we support is made to suffer for one reason and another, and it becomes less "attractive" as a result. But it doesn't change anything. If your wife becomes mortally ill, you don't leave her. She's still your wife.

It's absolutely appropriate that we discuss and excoriate the board for bringing the club we love to the situation we now find ourselves in. But we're all still Palace supporters and as such, at 3 pm on a Saturday afternoon, I expect everyone to be 100% behind the team. If you're not - if you're handing in your season tickets - then I'd question whether you're a "real" supporter.

The measure of all of us and what makes CPFC special is how we stand at times like these. Everyone's a supporter when we get to Wembley. That's easy. The real supporters are those who get behind the team at times like today.