I used to see a guy who complained about the team every week. He called them bloody rubbish. Often, I agreed. It didn't mean he needed to support Man City. He was voicing an opinion, as a fan would.

Red and Blue Army!

Read your post with interest until the last paragraph. What do you think gives you the right to tell other fans who they should support and how they should feel about the way it’s run. You are most definitely not a superior supporter, you are just the same as everyone else.

i think i suggested they might be happier supporting another club. I have the right to say it the same as they have the right to say the things they say.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

Of course, we're so hard done by, there's a media conspiracy against us, we're on MOTD last every week, no other clubs will understand the issues we have, every other club has it easier than us, Croydon Council hate us, we should be grateful when the whole world is out against us.

Watch the interview that Parish gave recently about what he wanted for Palace.
He refers to watching Arsenal at the old Highbury and Palace at Selhurst Park.
He noted how Arsenal had moved to the new 60,000 stadium while Palace remained in a (relatively) dilapidated stadium with significant underinvestment.
He thought why can’t Palace progress in stadium terms?
He had this as an ultimate objective after taking over, noting that increased capacity and more corporate revenue will enable Palace to compete more successfully.
I suppose he will be partly judged by how successful he is in this objective.
Of course it’s not solely down to him as there are other parties to satisfy including the council, Sainsbury’s and affected residents and there’s no little matter of the funding too.
Could anybody could have got us there quicker?
It’s one of those questions that’s impossible to answer.
Perhaps more wealthy owners could have offered ‘incentives’ to affected parties to oil the process and quicken the development.
There seems little point in speculating.
It’s reasonable to point out though that other clubs have managed the various necessary hurdles in relation to their stadiums.
Parish himself acknowledges that he doesn’t get everything right but overall he’s doing a very good job in my view.

He is Pat, it’s just that it’s football and therefore emotions run high.

If anyone had said in the weeks before that fateful Sheffield Wednesday game ‘we have a buyer’ we’d all of rejoiced of course. If they’d also said they’ll oversee us getting promoted and staying in the PL for at least the next decade to become a well established mid table side, throw an FA Cup final in, we’d of booked them a cab to the Maudsley.

Problem being that Parish isn’t as ludicrously rich as some in football and therefore any progress we make will be painfully slow and seemingly unable to secure solutions that seem so simple and obvious to the average fan.

We all know what we want for the stadium, we all know the players/managers we need and want, therefore when the likes of a transfer window rolls round and we fall quite short of most people’s desires, the floodgates for criticism and complaint open. That’s not a dig at anyone, it’s only natural. I would suggest however that the lack of a winger, fullback(s) and possibly striker coming in shouldn’t snowball into a mass discussion on whether we have the greatest or worst, most dastardly owner in the history of Christendom.

I’m any instance, we’re far better off than I’d imagined we would be and whilst natural to commentate and desire, shouldn’t spin all out of control. Wolves tomorrow, COYP!!!

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!