People don’t change their moral fibre, Pulis walked out on Gillingham, then did it again to us. Howe has walked on 2 clubs, do you think he won’t do it again to another club?
Bruce is another one, who likes to ditch clubs for greener pastures.

I reckon our wives would make a great team Spider.

All Managers make bad signings always assuming it was them that signed them
We have had a few who seemed great on the face of it - most recently Benteke, Sakho and Myer
Total outlay £60m to buy and an average of £300k/week between them in wages.
Eddie Howe for me.
He is young, positive and wants to move onwards and upwards.

He walked out of Bournemouth after 2 years - after rejecting a lot of other offers - and went to burnley, had a torrid time (on and off pitch) then went back To Burnley and stayed for 8 years !(thanks wiki )
If you take Burnley out of this equation, as one position in isolation shouldn't be used as 'the norm'.

So he's had one poorly informed jump ship to Burnley(in which there could have been extenuating circumstances), so I'm Prepared to ignore ...for now... and one where he 'Quit' - after 8 years ! I think to use that to describe him as a quitter is remarkable.

"It was a Team effort, I guess it took all players working together to lose this one"

At the end of the day the only question that matters is is Howe a better man for the job than Hodgson and in my opinion the answer is no. I’d rather we kept Hodgson.

I think that one has to take into account the trajectory of both of those managers, and the trajectory of the club, and what the next 3-years are going to look like. Either way Hodgson isn't going to be around for much longer and we need to be looking at his successor. If people are averse to unproven managers at Prem level then we're still going to be talking about the same potential replacements in 1-2-year's time.

The argument that we should keep Roy because there is no obvious better replacement is totally bewildering.

Fear of change.

Red and Blue Army!

When I recall some of the invective which you've hurled at the team on various match threads, I have to smile. Is "less than scintillating" the same as "garbage" (to pick up one of your favourite words)?

I just watched the Big Match from 1979 Palace 2 Man City 0.
After the game TV and MA spoke of what an exciting young team Palace were and how we played attacking football, we’re sitting 4th in the table and had only lost 5 games out of 56!
Oh those happy days when you knew what a Palace team were all about - attack minded manager who’s team played great football on the front foot and were on the cusp of a new era, just as we could be now if we appoint the right man.

I don’t think we’ll ever achieve a string of results to match that - but I’d settle for us playing some more exciting football.