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Parish's legacy will be the ground redevelopments. Spending loads of money on first 11 players because there's been little time and investment in scouting will not be. We all know the limitations that has caused, either all over the needed positions, or enough for him to not get the ones we really need and can afford.

The first 5 years have been excellent for us and what we're used to, with a sprinkling of luck having Zaha and perfect fitting managers available and ready to sign (he still had to sign them mind), but the neglect of actually building the foundations that make someone in charge truly successful is there for all to see.

The next 2 years has seen the consequences of this excessive spending through lack of scouting, going without positions, only to pay more for them 6 months later and one day bringing down all of what has been achieved, which to date is loads of overpriced first 11 players, a fanzone, only 18% ownership and Americans combined having more and all of them combined, a majority.

This is treading water and hoping it doesn't sink. On the football side it's almost Jordan in reverse. Spending too much on each player to stay up rather than get back up. At least there's resale value in them I'm sure Parish has planned, but that restricts ever getting back up too.

Parish has been really great for 5 years, but it's been falling apart since, with actual football people coming in to correct it at great expense afterwards. For him to be 'the best chairman in history' he'll have to cement certain things that maintain the club's chances to compete and not be that team that used to be in the premier league. You can see he's beginning to do that now, and hope it works and continues even if it immediately doesn't, because without any scouting, an academy that befits how great we think we are or our chairman is and a stand or redevelopment that's been broadcasted for 7 years, it'll all have been with us ending up with nothing but memories of players on £100k a week only performing when it mattered at the last minute.

There was the cup final but I think that decision to go for it that year has had knock on effects like other things have. No I'm not saying don't go for it, just that it did begin the troubles.

COYP

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Are we definitely staying at Selhurat park? I know there was talk about building a new sports areana at Crystal palace with a football ground next to it.

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CRYSTAL PALACE are set to announce plans to re-develop Selhurst Park to a 40,000-capacity ground.

The Premier League club have seen themselves left behind their rivals having been restricted in their matchday revenue potential by their current 26,000 stadium.

Crystal Palace are looking to redevelop their Selhurst Park stadium

Palace have even looked at the possibility of building a new stadium elsewhere in the area - but now seem close to deciding staying at their home of 93 years is the right decision.

The club and Croydon Council have been locked in discussions over the past year over the feasibility of expanding Selhurst Park.

And now they are one the verge of lodging a formal planning application early next year with the view to bringing their old ground up to modern standards.

Palace chairman Steve Parish said: “This side of Christmas there will be a major announcement.

“We have been working very hard for a long time to try and get the right idea and we think we have now got it.

"When I came into this thing, the aim was to bring something for all of us to be proud of on the pitch and very importantly off the pitch.

“We want to give everybody in Croydon and South London a stadium that we can all be proud of and not lose our atmosphere and uniqueness.
(The Sun 23 Nov 2017)

Plans have to be issued before anyone can comment on them. The ball is firmly in CPFC's court

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (23 Nov 2017 10.01am)

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

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Let's hope this all happens. It just looks a bit unusual to make things public when there's nothing moving to make public, but then there was the 'slither of car park' comment. I think Parish is possibly going about this by publicly exposing who is the issue at each stage to get where he wants to be. Who knows if that's wise or not. Could be done in private and then release all, but what do we know, apart from the land experts on here? Or he just wanted to say something good during the consistently poor relegation form after nearly 1/3 of the season and didn't think it over first.

COYP

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Stirring it up a bit perhaps.

COYP

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As I understand it pre Hillsborough 40 odd years ago, we could get crowds of up to 50,000. If, and yes that is a big if, we stay in the league long enough I reckon we could get back up to 40k, especially in an area with this population density.

However it does seem to me that 40k had been plucked out of thin air by the paper. I think we'll get something closer to your 30k seats

Edited by FairweatherEagle (23 Nov 2017 12.28pm)