I also think Parish is in the weird position of he has probably taken us as far as he can and thats not a bad thing, its a way of life - he hasnt got the money and relies on the americans or other investors.

A positive of Parish in his tenure was he usually knew when to pull the trigger and bring in a firefighter (Pulis, Allardyce, Hodgson)

The negative is when he choses someone to play 'better football' it always comes crashing down (De Boer, Viera (may not been his fault), Pardew (should of been sacked way earlier than he was though)

Sort of in some weird time loop paradox that I think will always be the case for a club of our size.

Parish has done an excellent job, in the past, but now has made a complete pigs ear of the boardroom set up, alienated our only two major financers, and a people say, he is not a stupid man, but, has he managed the voting set up so nobody makes a decision, and has he an "i must be in charge" mentality that doesn't benefit the club.

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

They cannot be happy, they don't put their money into the club although they are worth over 10 billion USD, the last i heard they wanted in at Chelsea and Man Utd, i would like to ask why they don't put more money into the club, do they think its a white elephant or are they disillusioned at the club , they cant be happy with the current position on and off the pitch

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

A lot is being said about the voting setup that's (presumably?) in place with disproportionate voting rights not following shareholding being a Parish scheme. It just don't ring true to me though, as this seems to follow the assumption that somehow the other board members were hoodwinked into it or cowered when introduced to Parish and just signed over their money going "of course sir, whatever you say sir, Mr. Parish sir".

Obviously, neither is true, so the only conclusion is that they were fully aware of the setup and said "yeah that's ok" before signing on the dotted line. We're talking about two billionaires with a history in sports investment and Textor who already is aware of how a football club is run as he had three before Palace.

I just don't buy this line of it being Parish's hubris or ego that forced this voting rights situation. They obviously had to agree to it, didn't have a problem with it (as they don't seem to override his decisions), and have let it continue without challenge. If they wanted Parish out I'm sure it would happen, I can't imagine anyone putting millions of pounds into the club without some fairly hefty reassurances that they could take control as a majority if they wanted to.

The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots

Achieving only £5m (Benteke) in transfer income in the past 3 years has to be high up the list.

That's symptomatic of:

a) Owning a load of crap no-one else wants
b) No succession planning - reliance on individuals we're terrified to sell
c) Both

Last summer was a travesty. Franca and Henderson is not the way to spend £40m when Olise had a torn hamstring. It was blindingly obvious we needed a left winger to go straight into the team. How we didn't get Harrison, Sinisterra, Smith-Rowe, McNeil, even Iwobi...

Instead we were sodding around with Hall to play as a central midfielder apparently. We let the Guaita nonsense go on far too long and seemingly didn't know what to do with Johnstone so panicked into getting Henderson.

Other clubs know what they're doing 2 years out and we didn't know what was happening in the next 5 minutes.

26th January 2010 - Enter Administration
2nd May 2010 - D-Day 1 - Survival at Hillsborough
1st June 2010 - D-Day 2 - Survival at Lloyds
7th June 2010 - CPFC2010 exchange contracts.

But the set up has changed when Textor signed up, it was completely different when Harris and Blitzer signed up, Parish had 40%, so he bought 30% of Parish, and some from the other three original buyers, maybe, H and B didn't like that, just conjecture, but it would answer a few questions, Parish didn't want anyone to have a majority holding, and H&B wouldn't touch the virtually bankrupt Texter with a barge pole

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn