Sadly have to agree with the OP. Tan may be a crazy owner, but he definitely had a right to question some of their buys. Medal was apparently offered for £6 million and Cardiff bought him for £11 million. His other buys seem overpriced. He was operating with a budget of a top 10 club not a Championship or newly promoted team. Time will tell, but I did not see why it was a particularly good appointment at the time and I still don't now.

Baffled as to what this guy actually does. We managed to sign 16 players in the summer, albeit over a longer time period, with no such staff. Now we have a 'specialist recruit' type guy who has so far (seemingly) done absolutely nothing!

It probably escaped your notice but this thread as well as the "Phil Alexander" one were both started a couple of hours before the kick off of the "tupenny ha'penny cup game" that we lost.

Try getting your facts right if you feel the need for a rant

Edited by Ian J (25 Jan 2014 8.10pm)

In the end, it's all a bit of a Mexican stand-off. This board (HOL) seems to be divided between those who seem not to have a lot of commercial experience and are thus simply enthralled with CPFC2010 to the point of pretty much supporting them hook, line and sinker versus those who look favourably on CPFC2010, but call a spade a spade and think saving the club from administration in the past doesn't give them carte blanche to never be asked difficult questions in the present. Jeez, there was one fella on another thread whose argument on CPFC's behalf about Sissoko ran to "what kind of job interviewee expected his prospective employer to pay for his dinner and who would want to employ someone like that who did?" About all that tells me is the writer has never been interviewed for a high-level or important job, hence (in part) my observation that those who do think 2010 can do no wrong seem extremely unaware commercially and quite naive about managing operational risk, at least to me.

All in all, there's not a lot of point debating it further. Of course, we can all say "wait until the window is closed before you judge Parish et al" but the truth is, we don't have to wait. He's already had one window in August and he's had three quarters of a window this month in which the manager expressly requested we get our business done early. So we already know the score. We got our trousers taken down in August because we left things until the last week and guess what? Here we are again...five days to go...no one signed and a failure to even get a player who is unemployed and who the manager actively wanted over the line.

But hey ho, for some of you CPFC2010 are, indeed, magic. Ask no questions, see no evil I guess. It's depressing that people think ostriches care but CPFC2010 must be absolutely thrilled to have a following that's giving them carte blanche to do whatever the hell they like. There's a very fine line between loyalty and stupidity in supporting anything (this is often said about patriotism, too.) Reading some of the comments here make it pretty clear more than a few people have crossed it. We ALL support CPFC 2010 but the blind supporters make me genuinely depressed.

Sydenham by birth. Selhurst by the Grace of God.

Rant, where.
The ranting is by the we must buy everyone and now brigade.
Sorry I didn't check when the threads started, but it makes it all the better knowing that the unjustified abuse of these two men started before we even lost a pointless cup game.

That's Life
And as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin' on a Dream.
KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!

Maybe, I'm not always right. But you know what? I seriously doubt you are very often