2 words, Rakip, and Jach.

Or Jach, and Rakip, if you prefer.

We have had about 2 good transfer windows since we came up.

Hennessey has turned things around and looks good value to keep Guaita at bay but how on earth is he still at the club? He has to count his lucky stars. He was awful in the post Mandanda era but we messed around (see Ronnow, Frederic) and didnt address the issue. Ironically we finally sort it out, sign one of La Liga's best keepers and the bloke cant get a game as Wayne is playing out of his skin lately. Comedy, but not for Guaita who was playing first team against Spain's best not long ago.

When Pap Souare went down we had no left backs at the club. When Benteke went down a while back we had no fit senior strikers at the club. Murray, Glenn springs to mind. Too many poor decisions, too many mistakes. Too many times listening to a dumb manager, then blocking a good one.

The amount of times we played games and messed around on transfers, leaving things to the last minute, then got burned is unbelievable.

Think about Pardew, how on God's green earth was he not fired sooner. Remember Swansea 5-4?

But the most heinous and calamitous act that our chairman has ever committed - De Boer, Frank. Hiring a master of possession based football, with a questionable management style, after a 4 week long search, into our club which is built on counter attacking football and good team spirit. You couldn't make this stuff up. How can such a clanger be made, such a massive error of this nature? How can that happen? Then he tweets about togetherness then fires the guy after we actually should have easily beaten Burnley but Scott Dann missed an open goal, to name but one glaring miss.

I started a thread some months back called "Parish unable to progress us" and there was much chatter therein about the man running the show.

The latest handling of this HF topic - stand firm, then cave in, is classic Parish. This could have been sorted out 6 months ago with a strong leader taking control of the situation, being open and public about what was going on. Instead its rumors and theories about what is going on, followed by a show of force then a total 180.

My view is we are limited, held back, and not progressing as a club because of Steve Parish in many ways, plain and simple. Could someone else have done better? Yes. Could someone else have done worse, and rebranded us as the "Crystal Palace Eagles" and changed the colours - also yes. Both statements can be true, but the answer to the question is also still the same - we are not making progress because of the captain of the ship taking too many wrong turns.

This is all ironic though as for the first time in the premier league we started this season settled, with a half decent transfer window, and seemingly on the cusp of mid table mediocrity.

Alas not so far into the season and we have Jordan Ayew (a winger) or Alex Sorloth (million miles from Premier League starter) to choose from up top, next to Zaha.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

The two yanks are Billionaires.....

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Agree entirely with above post

I meant in the market really. AWB is an absolute gem. How many players would you say "wow, what a player for 5 million quid"?

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

Point taken. I didn’t mean to be obtuse. I am just on my soapbox that we have to be able to grow our own that are better than some of the people we are buying.

I mean, we are buying strikers that we don’t expect to score, so surely we can save our money and grow our own. If they don’t score then at least we have saved our money. That said Sorloth is still young, but we must have had someone else in the academy who could have done the same job.

Edited by dp (03 Oct 2018 11.26am)

Watford and leicester come to mind they look solid dont rely on managers wasting money or chairmen buying players there is more than one way to survive its a back room problem for sure but not a manager issue any manager will only be short term that is the way of the game either let Dougie do his job which means trusting him or get someone in that you will trust.
The managers only known fact from the start is he will go one way or another he will be gone even the good ones go.
A quick rant .....
i really dont understand fans that say we need to spend big to succeed look at the the top six you could build several teams around the players they wasted money on Chelseas fixation with center forwards is horrific city no different with young players no team outside the top 6 could survive playing that game its a pundits answer to everything "you are with the big boys now" absolute Boxxoxs ....in my opinion...Rant over
Mind you what do i know i thought Frank was the answer as previously stated the Burnley game looked like a new beginning was starting.. in my defense no one mentioned his megalomaniac personality in any press conference

Edited by palacebob (03 Oct 2018 12.21pm)