We will have to wait and see, frankly we were lucky not to go down last season based on our scoring ability alone, only Norwich were worse than us on that score. Parish was responsible for extending contracts of players who were not performing or who were permanently injured and for the unrealistic wages being paid out. We have an aged squad, investors who want out, little money to invest in team succession planning, a stadia that is in urgent need of expensive refurbishment. Parish also wants to be in control and this alone is a barrier to other investors coming in, sorry, I hope I'm wrong but current trends will tend to suggest our luck is running out and this could be the season when it happens and then once we are relegated how far will we fall!

The Parish wants to be in control line, is all just social media gossip. He built up and ran his own business TAG, which he sold, proving if the money is right he will sell his business. He has stated he would sell, if the right person offered to buy at the valuation and had Palaces interest at heart. He and all of us have seen some unknown foreigner buy a club, then just disappear and show no interest leaving them in a mess ie Charlton and Orient recently

It maybe hard for some to swallow, but he is a fan, who has the best interests of the club at heart.

You don’t ‘luckily’ stay in the premier league for 8 years. Also how were we lucky to stay up. We got to 40 points with 8-9 games to spare.

Steve Parish is the most successful chairman we have ever had. I think you need to lower your expectations and look at the bigger picture. We just invested 20m in a Cat 1 training complex.

I agree we do need investment, but right investment.

Does Steve P make mistakes, hell yes he does. But deep deep down, would you rather him or roll the dice on another overseas owner with no affiliation to the club.

For every Leicester, there’s five or six
Blackburn
Charlton
Sheffield Wednesday
Watford
Sunderland
Portsmouth

The internet is usually reliable on such matters.

Hello Jose.

Red and Blue Army!

Agreed. How people get it in their heads that SP is doing a bad job, that he's preventing the club moving forward, is not splashing out just because he's tight, or various other drivel spouted on here is beyond me.

I just cannot understand how people don't see it. Lower mid-table in the top flight every year for eight years is bordering on miraculous given our history, budget, facilities, fairly recent scrapes with administration, maximum wage bill allowed under FFP, and all the other things that actually exist in the real world, but get overlooked (or just aren't understood) by critics of Parish.

The current stick being used to beat him with is that he backs Roy who plays awful football. Well, last Saturday was certainly dire, and it wasn't the first time that's happened, but leaving aside whether Roy is right to play as he does, it's wrong to say that Parish doesn't care how we play. He just weighs that up against whether we get relegated which, and I can't believe this is even something people debate, would be a bad thing.

When appointing De Boer Parish talked frankly about how the team needed to develop from being a very defensive counter attacking side to one who would use the ball better and score more goals, especially at home where our record (at that time) was bottom three material. As we know, he got his fingers burnt, and reverted to the safe pair of hands of a defensive coach.

I'm sure he finds days like Saturday as tedious to watch as we do. The difference is he sees the ugly reality of it - playing like that is, overall, the most likely way that a small-to-medium sized club like ours will stay up, and it's only by staying up that he can make us a medium-to-big club through long term planning and development of the academy and stadium. Which he has explained. Openly. Again and again.

Edited by TheBigToePunt (23 Oct 2020 3.36pm)