He's Palace just like us all, and lucky enough to be in a position not to just support the club by buying a season ticket and shirt but putting his money where his mouth is. Equally, it is blindingly obvious that this summer and the Pardew period recruitment have been woefully inadequate. That doesn't make him a villain and if we get through to January and we can rectify this. There's no doubt that Parish can see we are lacking but you can't go out and buy 11 new PL quality players in one window - that's not a defence and yes you could fill some glaring gaps but from this start we have been a combination of bad and unlucky, but we are not so awful that we cannot compete.

I am not sure that getting rid of the chairman is the solution here. Even with the "Americans" it is important to my mind to have a true fan on the board because you know when you're hurting as a fan they are too, and they'll do everything they can to fix it. Right now we have to pull together until the next window, which is the next opportunity for the club to look outside to try to find some solutions. Until then it's all about us doing it ourselves so COYP.

So premiership footballs not good enough for palace? i get it we should be buying Messi and Ronaldo and competing in the champions league all makes sense now. Like someone once said they could buy Ronaldinho but some sad t*** will still be complaining about the burgers.

That is the whole point, SP has had five years to establish CP as an average mid table PL club, but because of his inability to have a settled management and team we are in the position that we are in now, no one has said anything about buying the players you mention this more about getting good average PL players in a stable and consistent team that wins more times at home than they lose, this is the only way we are going to hold our own in PL, what don't you understand about that its common sense!

This "vision" Parish insinuated in the summer was a load of nonsense if you ask me. The real problem was any experienced, no nonsense English manager (big Sam) takes one look at this squad and makes it emphatically clear that proper investment is needed or we're in for a season of pretty much the same. Frank spoke about integrating youth, coaching players to become better footballers etc. and Parish thought it was the perfect opportunity to chance his hand, promote the champagne dream on a white ace budget, whilst then using FdB as a scapegoat if it goes tits up. Having said that, he didn't seem to think that last part out too well as the majority of Palace fans and footballing world weren't as stupid to not see straight through it when he only gave him 4 matches in charge. Should've probably worked on his poker face and strategy of deceiving the fans a bit more, but maybe thought he could save himself when he came to Twitter the night before the sacking to call out any Palace fans that dare speak a negative word in his name whilst the "we lost to scunthorpe 4-0 6 years ago" brigade rushed to sing his praises and tickle his ego a little more with countless likes and retweets.

I hear plenty of people speaking about the yanks role in all of this. Well any shrink of an "identity" seems to of been obliterated since their involvement. Perhaps Parish would've progressed this club more organically without them and I'd still view him as a hero. But at the end of the day, Parish let them into the club and if he wants to be the face of "success" during rosier times, he must also bare the burden when it seems like a circus is unfolding.

There is no club without the fans. Not even at City. The last time I checked, season ticket prices have significantly increased since administration days and Parishes initial investment has soared. He should rightly be held to account for the failings at the club, especially if fans feel the club is being run in a farcical manor. He has deservedly been afforded the benefit of the doubt on many occasions but sadly I can't personally defend his actions anymore.

You can perhaps say he has been a victim of his own success. I applaud him for the "5 year plan" and essentially I think the fast tracking of this probably caught even the most optimistic by surprise. The problem that has lead to, in my opinion, is a lack of ideas. He has rightly done all he can to preserve our PL status up until now but whilst we have no right to nailed on safety, there comes a point where we have to start looking beyond splashing the budget in desperation for survival in January, just for the sake of scraping our way to survival. As I've said many times before, eventually your luck runs out as we've seen many times recently in the PL with Newcastle, Sunderland & Villa - 3 teams who by all accounts are more established with a better infrastructure than us.

The problem for me is that I find it extremely difficult to feel any sympathy for any chairman who sacks a manager charged with (rightly in my opinion) changing the style of play and then sacking him after 4 games, regardless of the speculation of excuses or "other factors". It's about time the club start taking responsibility because it's seems to be a reoccurring theme and it appears the mistakes we make every year are not being learnt from. It's all well and good telling the fans to blindly worship the hierarchy, but I think the few years premier league survival, whilst being fantastic, has given us a false sense of security and has lead many to believe we've progressed far greater as a club than we actually have in reality.

We're the Arthur over ere!

Well written mate.

Another Damien Diagonal - Total Football

The arrogance of the man shown right here. Slurp slurp Stevie, let's not question you eh