SP is at a crucial time regarding the manager. We need to keep progressing . There lies the problem Roy is not going to be managing in the long term and we have to invest . Do we trust Roy or get a new manager to rebuild for the long term especially if we lose Wilf .

It is the players who have not performed consistently enough to take many games by the scruff at home ..coupled by poor finishing due to lack of fit/competent strikers and unfortunate luck, just be pleased that Benteke scored a beauty and that his confidence will have had a boost for next season because Palace missing a competent striker you will find is one of the maine reasons for our poor home form.

Nothing to do with any manager let alone Hodgson.

I totally disagree.

It is the negative and frankly gutless tactics at home which have cost us too many times.

If its only down to the players how can you possibly account for the massive difference in home and away results?

Bad luck all season long? Nonsense.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

But, it's smart to have a plan and an idea of where we are headed and how we want to play, giving Roy the baton and asking him to invest and lead the way for a year, help recruit a replacement that is a good motivator, manager and can beleive in what we are doing to then carry us forward.

The problem is, parish needs to keep the core of palace the same, a certain style, with plan b....then keep building that.

That's never going to happen with holloway (attacking), then to pulis(conservative), then to warnock (sweat and tears), then pardew (attack, attack), then fat sam (conservative), then fdb(headless chickens), then hodgson (conservative then on the break), it's almost like chalk and cheese. It's about identity.

This was once a quality forum....

Perhaps I should have explained better what I meant.

Firstly I meant that Holloway should have been relieved of his duties sooner.

Secondly it did indeed look like a "mutual agreement" as you say, and it takes 2 to tango. However with the run we were on it should have been "you are fired, mate" a fair bit sooner. Ergo Parish should have acted more decisively, as per the Pardew case, where he was about 6 months late.

Therefore I stand by my claim that if things go tits up next year, Parish wont sack off RH until its too late.

Lets hope that is academic though eh.

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

The bad home record has been with us for several seasons now and not just under Roy. The problem we have is we just cannot score for some reason when playing at home. This is in part due to the fact we have not had a decent striker goal poacher and that has been the situation for sometime now and then the tactics do also play apart, away we defend and use breakaways to score which has worked well, whereas at home teams are defending and yes we are not good at playing that style of attacking football probably because we lack decent strikers (we have had plenty of opportunities to score when playing at home we just do not seem to be able to take them!). I think the squad quality is the problem, yes we have a few decent players but the rest are out of their depth is this league and therefore when key players are injured we always seem to struggle!