Me?

If you want to live in a world full of kindness, respect and love, try to show these qualities.

What an absolute load of tosh. Why not being clear on where in your opinion the "progress" is ? Possesion football right? Get away from the long ball? Can't you see we are making up the numbers in the entertainment industry of the PL? You honestly believe careful management from the top takes care of a club our size to sort things out?

And the amount of money is relative. the whole of the PL has the ridiclous amount of tv money coming in.
How do you create a base where you can safely say you are likely to bounce back once you go down?
Where we fail as a club, and I seem to be one of a few on here in thinking that, is youth development and bringing our own players through to the first team. Unfortunately modern football seems not mainly, but pretty much only about transfers, transfers transfers. SP main fault may be to not have the right football people on youth development and scouting jobs but to blame him for all football/transfer decisions going wrong seems rather unfair to me. We seem to lack the decent back up stuff in terms of scouting lower leagues and internationally.

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People who keep banging in about this being our longest spell in the top flight in our history miss the point of threads like this completely. It’s been nothing but scraping survival at all costs. Now, I completely understand that approach in the first few years, but the reason so many of us harp on about progression isn’t because we’re getting too big for our boots, it’s because if we go down we will literally have nothing to show for the 5 years we’ve been here. We’ve come nowhere as a club.

The problem with parish is every decision he makes is based on appeasing people short term & hoping he can get a tv appearance portrayed as a footballing guru, but he’s not even very good at achieving that. He normally gets about 3 weeks work a season because the rest of the time he’s back to desperately pulling off some great escape again.

Our priorities are completely wrong, and it’s utterly pointless not to target progression with the amount of money you take in as a premier league club. Unless something changes, we’re goinf down anyway. Going down isn’t the worrying part, what worries me more is going down, having not progressed the footballing culture at the club at all meaning that coming back up quickly will be extremely difficult.

Being in the premier league for 5 years is great, but we will hugely regret being so short sighted & failing to capitalise on what is a once in a history opportunity.

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Insignificant? Totally disagree.

Letting us have only 1 fit striker in the premier league was completely reckless and ridiculous to boot. Lo and behold Benteke got injured not long after that p&ss poor decision was made to not sign Niasse/A. N. other.

Not replacing Mandanda is such a glaring mistake that it is literally costing us points per season, which we cannot afford.

Listening to Hodgson harp on about the pressing need to sign a goalie, messing around with Guaita, and not signing a keeper in the last window is also reckless and once again Parish is playing a foolish and senseless game with squad depth. He is also annoying the manager into the bargain, who clearly isnt happy with our 2 keepers, and the fact that we only have 2 in the first place.

Parish doesnt exactly have a strong history of keeping managers overly happy. Somehow Allardyce "retired from football" on his watch.

Lo and behold Jules immediately gets injured and now we have 1 fit keeper.

Whats your point about our signings not being good enough? That is once again Parish' fault as he has the ultimate say on who we buy, so you are making my point for me there mate.

Holloway had to beg to get fired/be ALLOWED to walk which was a nonsense.

As for Parish's attempts to move us forward and play on the front foot more, notice a pattern there? We tried it with Pardew to our ruination, and then Parish goes and makes the same mistake again with FDB, but on a spectacularly stupid scale, I must admit.

The pattern is Parish making the same bonehead mistakes year after year after year.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

It is quite astounding the amount of yes-men proclaiming Parish's innocence in this season's debacle. If we get relegated, although part of the blame will fall on the players and management staff, the brunt of it will fall on SP's shoulders. Prior to the start of the season many neutral would have tipped us for 9th-13th placed finish. Instead what has followed is poor Summer recruitment, an embarrassing January transfer window, and to not to forget a lack of addressing academy issues whilst using the 'new stadium' as a smokescreen.

Dont let Cabaye go

same things being repeated over and over again, not one person who complains about parish has come up with a alternative or put there millions into the club to buy him out.
Parish is no different to any other chairman balancing the books is a must, we are starting work hopefully on new stand that is a must, and tidying up other parts of the ground and training ground.
Parish is not a footballer we can sell on and replace, he would cost alot more to replace,so unless you can think of someone to take over, stop complaining about him, because if the yanks didnt rate him he would have been gone by now

Many haven't been supporters long enough