Yes and so there's f*** all excuse for not using Sørloth like that. He may not be Harry Kane but he is at least a proper unit, and it's better than playing five men in the wrong positions, pissing off the players who should be getting a proper chance, and pardewing everyone all over again.

Edited by chateauferret (11 Dec 2018 10.15pm)

That’s Roy’s doing. We knew Roy liked functional midfield players from his Fulham day’s. Danny Murphy couldn’t say it any more times.

The biggest mistake this season was letting Bakary Sako go.

Honestly it is both.

You have to ask yourself, after 6 seasons of this, do you really believe we can suddenly and utterly change the narrative of Crystal Palace FC, without making a cultural change to the very fabric of how the club is run?

Every year it is basically the same story, and what was it Einstein said about doing the same thing over and over?

If we fire RH, and get a new manager in, it will be a stop gap type appointment I would imagine. It could last a year or 2, then it will probably turn sour, and we repeat the cycle again.

We need someone to come in and build something at this club, RH may not be the one simply down to how old he was when we signed him. If he is going to be fired anyway then Parish and the Yanks must be decisive and take action before the January transfer window, and back the new manager. If we need to sell to do that, then we need to sell, as we are drifting out of the league at the moment.

I hear people saying that recruitment isn't the issue, and that Roy needs to work his squad more and manage better, and so on. Some others say our recruitment, specifically of attacking talent, has been abysmal for most of the cpfc2010 tenure, and Roy isn't to blame. There is truth in all of that.

Parish has come a long way since that first Prem transfer window under Holloway but in many ways he still is, and perhaps will always be out of his depth as a Premier League chairman.

After last season it was plain to see we had 3 major areas of concern re the playing staff. We were losing RLC/Cabaye, we needed a keeper (long overdue), and we needed a striker (long overdue) after Benteke's fall from grace and Wickham questionnable to return to former levels.

We really only addressed 1 of those 3 areas, and we are now paying the price. Roy for his part is at fault for seeming to think we can play the same way with half our midfield missing.

We needed to properly replace Cabaye and RLC, and sign a striker, and we did neither.

If we are constrained so much by FFP that we cannot do better than a net spend under 10 mil last summer then this is a total failure of Parish and the board for sanctioning the Sakho signing. Sakho should have never been signed if it meant we could not bring in adequate replacements for RLC/Cabaye and also sign a striker which would add value.

Instead we bring in Sorloth and Ayew to solve the striker problem, and get in Max Meyer (good signing) and Kouyate (good signing) but in neither one do we have an RLC type player.

Edited by Maine Eagle (11 Dec 2018 8.16pm)

That doesn't really make sense as Roy didn't sign most of the players in our first XI. We tried to find him a new club because I imagine it was a position we felt we had adequate cover for.