Did Allardyce lie about why he wanted to leave or not, it’s quite simple without made up theories.

Unlike Sam, not all managers pack their bags and scuttle off in a huff because of the inability of the board to spend money. Benitez and Ashley spring immediately to mind.

Allardyce is greedy, pure and simple. He just bounces around from team to team, uses ‘brand Allardyce style football’ which lasts about 18 months before being found out and then moves on to save another team for another big payday.

He is ambitious but ultimately I don’t believe he is that talented. Roy has done as good a job with less resources and as a result we have found some stability albeit at the expense of some dire play at times. Would we have done better with Sam still at the club? No I don’t think so, we would still finish exactly where we deserve to be which is mid table. Sam was found out as soon as he went to a club that demands better than average results ie: Everton.

Spending money has got nothing to do with the relationship between manager and chairman, it is to do with the accounts. Clearly ours aren’t great at the moment which is why SP needed a manager who could manage without spending a bundle (enter Roy). Where we have gone wrong however is wasting money on players like Mutch Jach, Erdal and Sorloth and quite a few others I have thankfully forgotten about.

So, in a nutshell it’s how we spend our limited resources that needs improvement at our club and now we just need to know whether that is Dougie, Roy or SP’s responsibility so we can direct our angst accordingly!

2 places higher, 40m poorer.

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

The Arsenal game was a massive highlight but there were a couple of months of utter sh1t - home defeats against Swansea, Sunderland and Burnley.

Watford and Middlesbrough at home we won but were truly shocking games where we barely managed a shot. Chelsea and Liverpool were backs against the wall and came at a point where we looking down the barrel at relegation.

I thought Allardyce initally understimated the job and the extent that the rot had set in under Pardew

Anyone comparing that season to this one is having a laugh.

Yes Rudi, agreed, hence my last paragraph. We quite clearly have limited resources, spending them wisely is of paramount importance but that is what we probably do worst as a club.

I struggle to see what’s so wrong with it anyway. A club can’t plan, scout and spend effectively so tempt someone in who can save their & rses who they’re aware knows what it takes financially to cement your place in the division for definite, but the club looking at the spreadsheets in private know they’re not going to be able to give him anywhere near what he knows is required in 5-9 months time.

What is he meant to do? Turn the offer down? It’s when serious and respected people bang on Parish’s door that he knows he must spend the money. It’s when we spend excessively on areas we haven’t planned for in the 2-3 years we knew it was coming, and that’s happened a lot in 6-7 years.

I’m sorry but the running of the club has been like a condensed version of over and underspending in U.K. government, only at Palace we’re not changing power.

We’re lucky and Parish is lucky the one person in this country at this level is willing to take it on at 71 because it’s a fairytale end to his career at his local club he supported growing up. Otherwise you can make no mistake that we’d be screwed or be selling Zaha under more unfavourable circumstances. AWB who can tell because we may have been relegated before he made his debut.

It’s just unfortunate the football is so boring and cautious all of the time, and at 1-0 down until 89 minutes gone. Some of the time it’s necessary but not all of the time. I like the football under Roy when there’s something to watch. The football under sam was pretty good. It had excitement on the attack and had people competing in their own battles to a high level.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (12 Jun 2019 9.22am)

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