I'm not sure why he has to explain anything? Nobody in this club stands to lose as much, personally, as SP if we go down, and, more importantly, nobody knows exactly what goes on behind the scenes - who did we go in for? Why didn't we get them? What were the plans?

Those are all business sensitive details - we may be back in for some of our targets, we don't want anyone else knowing our red lines or they can use them against as (bidding £1 a week above our salary ceiling, for instance).

I'm glad I don't have the responsibility (and skin in the game in terms of cash), and I'm disappointed with transfer activity and injuries, but happy to let the people whose job it is to worry about it worry about it!

That's all well and good, but do you not think we've underperformed consistently ever since Dec 2015, with the bounce then flounce from Sam apart?

Given the squad we have it seems clear that the mistakes that have been made by the ownership have continually held us back. Not sacking Pardew earlier very nearly took us down, also backing him to rebuild and 'evolve the playing side' or whatever bollocks catchprase they used was a massive waste of an opportunity, as it nearly dismantled what got us up here in the first place. Then the failure to keep on to Sam (and IMHO it's clear as day he thought we weren't a good long term proposition and was always coming back to the game), the disaster of the summer with De Boer, then failing to back him in the window, the massive, ridiculous gamble with having one striker on the books, the sun coming up, two keepers at the club over two conseqtive T/windows, no cover for the wingers...

I appreciate under Parish we got promotion, and have stayed there, but it's been far more down to luck than judgement in recent years, and that cannot last. He keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over, yet seems to get more arrogant and flippant about the potentialities of them going tits up.

I fully expect Roy to walk this summer, giving Parish his hat trick of capable managers that walk out on him after one season.

"How can I remember to keep it all together when half the moon is taken away?"

Stan, you keep posting the same thing, why do you think Roy will walk? He may leave because he is in his 70's and he's had enough, but walk because of Parish, no, I think Roy is more of a pragmatist than that and he knows that Palace can't afford to buy a team into the top 6.

You seem to have a conveniently short memory. How does the following stack up -
1. Led/put together the consortium that saved Palace from going out of business and put the club back with the ground
2. Saw the talents of DF who then assembled a promotion winning squad with many players who have performed well in the Premier
3. Obtained much needed new investment into the club through restructuring the ownership
4. Has driven through excellent plans for redeveloping the ground up to modern standards
5. Has ensured Palace have a first team that can compete with most in the PL
6. Treats people with dignity/respect and has generated a very positive culture associated with CPFC - really important in today's business world

Sure there have been some mistakes/frustrations along the way but actually not that many in my book. Remember also that this is a club functioning on gates of 25,000 max - not big by PL standards. My instincts are to get behind him - endless criticism tends to ultimately drive someone away. Who is it you want to take over?

Lets assume that we stay up finishing around 15th. What's in it for Roy, having saved his reputation, if he believes (as i suspect he does) that Parish is unreliable, deceptive and ultimately will let him down in the transfer market. He will have performed superbly in keeping us up, and will have one more year on his current deal. Why risk that rep that he's just saved, by another relegation struggle under a chairman who is failing to back him in the market? If he gets a bit more bad luck, he either has a relegation on his final year in the game, or maybe if things go really badly, gets sacked.

If, as i suspect, he doesnt rate parish or trust him to competently do his job, then why gamble another year under him, rather get out on a high.

"How can I remember to keep it all together when half the moon is taken away?"

Roy is a company man, but if he is anything other than livid with the window behind the scenes, then he's being made a mug of IMHO.

"How can I remember to keep it all together when half the moon is taken away?"