The Leeds team we played last night is 50% made up of average Championship players, but they all work hard and they are all fit and capable of sprinting around the park for 90 minutes. They have added to their ranks some real talent too and you get the feeling it is a club that knows where it is going.

We should be so much better. There are 2 transfer windows each season so Roy has had 8 windows to improve the side. If he was banging down the door of the owners as he should be and brought in one experienced player and one decent youngster (so just two players per window), then we would not be in the position we are now.

Instead of investing in the likes of younger players like Eze, we bring in Cahill, Clyne, McCarthy and waste money on players like Jach, Rakip and Sorloth.

Unfortunately, it appears Roy is a yes man and has no ambition or desire to stand up to a board and demand changes such that we are now in a situation where we are faced with a squad that is age wise falling off the edge of a cliff.

He is in many ways the worst possible manager for us because his system suits, in fact relies upon, old experienced players rather than young dynamic players, therefore unless there is a regular turnover of replacements there is only one direction the club can go in until it becomes unviable. I along with many other Palace fans reckon we have hit that point in time.

He has to go and we need to replace probably at least 6 players.

The Leeds team we played last night is 50% made up of average Championship players, but they all work hard and they are all fit and capable of sprinting around the park for 90 minutes. They have added to their ranks some real talent too and you get the feeling it is a club that knows where it is going.

We should be so much better. There are 2 transfer windows each season so Roy has had 8 windows to improve the side. If he was banging down the door of the owners as he should be and brought in one experienced player and one decent youngster (so just two players per window), then we would not be in the position we are now.

Instead of investing in the likes of younger players like Eze, we bring in Cahill, Clyne, McCarthy and waste money on players like Jach, Rakip and Sorloth.

Unfortunately, it appears Roy is a yes man and has no ambition or desire to stand up to a board and demand changes such that we are now in a situation where we are faced with a squad that is age wise falling off the edge of a cliff.

He is in many ways the worst possible manager for us because his system suits, in fact relies upon, old experienced players rather than young dynamic players, therefore unless there is a regular turnover of replacements there is only one direction the club can go in until it becomes unviable. I along with many other Palace fans reckon we have hit that point in time.

He has to go and we need to replace probably at least 6 players.

He should go end of season Gary, but they need to have a decent plan in place and be ready to implement it.

Confronting your employees usually ends one way. You would view it as being a '' yes man '' but equally you could argue that Hodgson is working within the constraints of the financial situation at the club.

Here's a quote from November last year ;

Hodgson said: “This squad of players has aged together. They have played together, aged together and done a fantastic job. But one has to be realistic and accept that one day that’s going to catch up with us and, maybe, the fresh blood needs to be made available.

“It’s something that the chairman and the owners are very aware of, and something that Doug Freedman and I are aware of, too.

No you weren't just saying that. You were blaming Hodgson for the club's performance in the last 8 transfer windows.

For all his faults, where Palace find themselves now ,with a squad of aging and out of contract players, is not down to Hodgson.

Parish has painted himself into a corner with the way the club is being run. Ultimately he carries the can.