We’re going through a rough patch, but looking at the bigger picture, we continue to punch above our weight. The frustration is the boredom of midtable and some fans rightly or wrongly expect more.

Todays performance was poor, but again, like most of the season, we were without our two key attacking players. That’s no one fault, just bad luck.

The only question marks for me are the signings of Henderson and Franca. The intention was there but neither signing has worked out yet.

I just hope Parish doesn’t think these confusingly worded banners represent the views of all Palace fans.

What have the board done wrong? Crikey could be here all night.
Decided to invest in a strategy of youth when most of the time players are not ready yet. Decided we could go 3 seasons with two ageing right backs and one left back. Decided that for a season and a half we could cope with two bang average forwards and not get in a replacement for Benteke. Let our hugely influential left winger leave for nothing and not replace him for a season and expect what should be a squad player in Schlupp become his replacement.

Spunk £15 million on a 19 year old kid with about 20 appearances in the Brazilian league. Buy cheap deals in Plange and Ebiowei who are probably league 1 standard at best.

Buying youngsters is fine. But we also needed players for now. Under Roy last time we had a ageing team. We decided to invest in the future but in the mean time we needed some players for now. The Board failed and have been in a malaise thinking two injury prone mercurial talents would be enough.

Has Roy made mistakes. Absolutely, but Christ he’s been given a s*** hand and even worse luck with injuries. He shouldn’t have been reappointed, but was by a lacklustre and incompetent board, who deserve relegation for their failure.

The board hired the manager who they knew too well. It's not just the keeper but franca as well.

COYP

So.. in my opinion, they bought the club to save its be local heroes... sell it on to make a little profit.

Palace went up earlier than planned and Parish fell in love with being a prem chairman, the gulf is huge.... the others knew it was out of their depth and sold up.

Parish stayed, and got investors to keep the club in the prem and his own ego alive.

Show me a prem chairman with no money running a club spending others money???

This was once a quality forum....

My issue with franca is the signing happening with Roy in charge. Or Roy in charge of Franca. We have a strategy that doesn't fit with the manager, and at £18mil we can't afford to waste with other holes in the squad.

COYP

There isn’t a straightforward answer to this.

There is a lot on and off the field that doesn’t feel right.

But really that’s all we have - perception. We don’t know the detail of what really goes on within the ownership.

We have two passive investors that seem content to have Parish run the club. The other investor appears to be at loggerheads with the others and who himself doesn’t inspire confidence when you look at the other clubs he’s involved with.

So you could lay all responsibility at Steve Parish’s door as being the one that ultimately calls the shots.

Where I think he has it wrong is that he has left the club in a limbo state when re-appointing Hodgson for another season. How was that a forward move ?

For a club with little money , the club found around £60m in the last two transfer windows. But we fall between two possible strategies ; building a team around our major playing assets or sell one to improve the strength and depth of the squad.

I think we are heading towards the latter, but for the moment we aren’t doing either.

I commend Steve Parish for what he has achieved since 2010. But I think he’s going through a period where his decision making is questionable. I think he’s hanging around to oversee the new stand completed and his 60th birthday before he looks for the exit.

For now though he’s taken a gamble on just getting through this season. That may come back to bite him

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