Most of the clubs you list have stable squad management and/or are good candidates for promotion if they do get relegated. We aren’t. If we get relegated it’ll be a complete mystery how we deal with it squad wise, because I bet Parish doesn’t have a clue, and that cluelessness deepens the longer we’re here, although we could fill our squad up with Jach type signings that aren’t even good enough for the championship.

You make a strong and a bit of a rude response about the Americans being rich and experienced in ‘running sports enterprises.’ How have they shown this experience? Show me any instance where we’ve benefited from their input. Name one! For a start, relegation is new to them, and apparently they pushed Parish to sign Benteke and Sakho. And what’s happening with the new stand? Their investment is ringfenced for the new stand and yet nothing is happening, maybe no surprise when we start abysmally every season, and yet we hear rumours it’s years and years away. So many years that you or many others may not be spectators any longer.

Please tell me in what way we’re currently being run well or the Americans have been so good for us or we’re in good hands with them.

There are worse owners out there and there are better owners out there, and there are football people who know what they’re doing or are around to ask what the fvck are we doing when our signings don’t fit, we’re signing expensive players, we’re p1ss poor at scouting, we don’t do what we should in August and do it more expensively in January, and the whole time none of it has any joined up thinking. There’s a reason there’s a January panic every year. It’s because it’s managed so badly and Parish surrounds himself with yes men ex players and they won’t challenge Parish because they’re protecting their employment. The last time Freedman challenged Parish was as manager when Freedman’s stock was rising. He doesn’t now. There’s your clue. Pulis and Allardyce challenged Parish, Parish cannot handle that so we end up making error after error.

I suggest we get someone into the club who knows what they’re doing before we sell Zaha by the summer at the latest in whichever division we’re in or we’ll make an even bigger fvck up.

COYP

I liked him when he was here, but how could you trust him not to cut and run when the going got tough or there was more money elsewhere.

Lot's of criticism coming Parish's way on here, which is understandable. I think at the moment a lot of us have Defeat Fatigue. I'm really struggling to enjoy going to Selhurst Park at the moment.

One of the observations made about him is his lack of football knowledge. Well he's not unique in that respect. How much do the owners of Utd, City, Chelsea actually know ? He actually probably knows a lot more. But there are two big differences...they have far more money and that means they can hire the best people to run their clubs.

Parish leans heavily on Bright and Freedman. They are probably cheap and I think there's some kind of desire to work with Parish's Palace heroes. Now Dougie is one of my favourite ever players, but in a results driven business , his recruitment efforts have been largely players that Roy has ignored altogether or have been square pegs in round holes.

I've lost sight with what the Americans bring to the party. Their original investment was ring fenced for stadium improvements. Given the time it has taken to even get to this stage, you have to wonder if relocation was a better option - although I am glad we are staying at Selhurst. So have they put any additional funds into the club that can be used for other things ??

Looking at the managers Parish has employed, I can forgive him Burley as the Board were new to the game. But he lost Freedman while we were top of the Championship and I still think we got promoted despite Holloway not because of him. Warnock was a reasonably safe pair of hands at that time but then we come to Pulis. It took a long time to get him to come and then of course he walks on the eve of the new season. Allardyce ' retires ' - and said on TV this week he left for '' personal reasons between him and Steve Parish ''. I think we are entitled to have our suspicions over those events. Pardew, somewhat bizarrely, was retained for too long. FDB ? - What was he thinking ?? And now we have a good manager that is doing his job with one hand tied behind his back figuratively speaking.

I don't see Parish getting out anytime soon, but a review of how effective our recruitment and scouting is needs to be conducted, because even if we had a huge influx of transfer funds, I wouldn't trust them to be spent wisely.

Old, Ungifted and White

The owners of Utd, City and Chelsea don't interfere in the running of the club and they also don't take every opportunity to appear in the media like our Mr P does. In fact many people would be hard put to name the owners of the two Manchester Clubs as well as other successful clubs like Arsenal as if there are statements to be made it's the manager that makes them and not the chairman

And how many of our managers have stuck around? Roy? We need to stay up and we need to find a manager for the medium term. You cannot usually do that in November in and around the bottom 3.

We also probably need someone to play a formation that suits the players we have in a limited squad and this season that isn’t Roy. It was last season but I’m extremely concerned this season. We should be playing 4-2-3-1 but we play 4-4-2 without a clue attacking wise.

COYP

All the criticisms go along the lines of...

"He may have saved the club 9 years ago, but we've got nothing to show after 6 years in the premier"

Except for a club and 6 seasons in the premiership.