Does Jairo have any ambition? Come August he will have been with us for 6 years. He has rarely started games for us and for periods hasn't even made the bench.

I would have thought, as the years quickly pass by, that he would want to be playing football, even if it is not at the top level.

It is Parishes mixture of business, and football knowledge that has kept Palace in this league, yes we could always do with more investment but only if it goes hand in glove with real down to earth football know how, because without that we could so easily still come unstuck.
Take Everton, since they allowed the investor to disrupt the on field operation? Take Southampton , how their investment has pulled the wrong strings. Leeds, well financed , but bye bye..
As far as any criticism of the handling of ground expansion is concerned, what’s new?
It’s never been any different,. No matter who has owned the club , no matter how progressive they wanted to be with regard to growing the club so as to take full advantage of its well recognised catchment, and natural support area they have always been blocked in any number of ways. It doesn’t seem to happen to so many other clubs, so why ever since the war does it always happen to Palace.? If Parish can beat this sad fact into the ground , he would be a legend.
Few others would be able to keep us in this league let alone with a better ground so careful what you wish for ,to those that think it’s needed.

Edited by Putitout (18 Jun 2023 1.53pm)

IMO quite the opposite. To stand still in the Prem you have to improve. If you don't improve, you go down (see Southampton, Leicester, Leeds) or risk going down (see Everton, Wet Spam).

Compare the quality of our current squad to the newly promoted one of 10 years ago and it's way better, with the same result: finishing in the 3rd quarter of the Prem, some seasons flirting with relegation, others flirting with Europe.

As others in this thread have said, without huge external investment, that's our lot. I'm more than happy with it. I think some forget this is the best we have EVER been.

Agreed, Phillips is a real hope, Imray could be ready for RB 24/25, and Mooney is a very exciting prospect

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Well the sun is over the yardarm so medicate away

Ian Hutchinson used to get all the headlines but Bobby Woodruff was just as effective. Taking offside out of the picture is a useful weapon as Rory Delap showed for years.