Having followed the club for the best part of 50 years, every time that relegation from the top flight has happened in all that time (probably barring 1992-93), it has carried a certain inevitability.
There is a lot to be pleased about from the Parish years. Salvation, the longest top-flight stay, significant strides last season taken by the academy, though a successful academy is more of an asset outside the Premiership.
However, the finger of blame for the current squad situation and the seemingly unending and embarassing manager searches etc stands firmly at Mr P's door. Whether it came as a surprise that Roy was leaving at the end of the season or not (and great job that he did on keeping the club up with limited resources, he was not the future), clearly no succession planning was done.
Then there is the ludicrous situation that there are so many players out of contract at the end of this month - I mean, who knew ???
Further, apparently the players concerned were told that they'd have to wait till a new manager is appointed before anything gets resolved. Now clearly, Palace won't want to keep them all but it surely unnecessarily encourages other clubs and certainly diminishes any remaining likelihood of Wilf being persuaded to stay.
In these years in the Premiership this club has made more money than EVER before, yet do any of the fans really feel that at the start of the season we are any more established ?? (and I do accept that we have no divine right to stay up) or does it feel that we are still little more than a newly-promoted club with a number of games written off ??
Apparently 1 reason why Nuno & Favre said no was the likely size of the 'war chest' for the new season - perhaps there would be more if Mr Parish had not spent shedloads on professional crocks Sakho, Wickham and Fergusson etc. The Wan-Bissaka money went towards to balancing the books.
It is not his fault, but why do we seem to get so many more injuries than other top-flight clubs each season ?
I do not yearn for movement to the mythical 'next level', but it would be good if it felt that the club was progressing in a calm, businesslike way and even had a cup run again next season, instead of playing out as being a media soap opera.
The quality in the Premiership reduces every year so there is a chance, even starting from this point of unattractiveness to a prospective new manager, that things might not be as bad as many fear next season, but Mr Parish needs to sort it out very quickly or it will be pre-season training with Messrs Derry, Mccarthy and Kiely and extremely frantic attempts in the transfer market.

we are going through the process of change. I'd have thought your 50-years of supporting Palace (and life in general) you'd recognise this. I don't think it's fair to judge half way through a process, when clearly there are big changes happening and many moving parts, which means things like contracts and management is up in the air. There will be a plan, let's see how we're doing a quarter of the way into the season. Parish and co are behaving calm and businesslike - it's only fans and media who are acting all silly about it.