Anyone on here, or any journo suggesting that FDB is "clinging" to his job is in cloud cuckoo land. Dont we learn? Have we not seen Parish operate for years already, a leopard doesn't change its spots. How long did it take him to fire Pardew? Holloway had to beg to be fired. Parish has a love affair with Southampton, he keeps going on about Southampton doing this or that, transfers, adaptation to premier league etc. So when SA left he dithered around for way too long and hired a guy who would probably do pretty well at Southampton. Here is the problem, we are absolutely nothing like Southampton in terms of the players we have and the way they have played for most of their entire careers at Palace. If you actually think about what Parish has done here, in hiring FDB, its completely bizarre. De Boer played a patient passing game and possession based football at Ajax, with a team of fantastically gifted technical footballers. Need I say more? Why on earth was he hired? Dont tell me other people rejected the offers, then find someone else who is suitable. Parish's luck has finally run out with this appointment, it is a total clanger. The only way he could make this work is giving the guy about 80 million quid to totally revamp the squad. This will go one of two ways, FDB will somehow sort this out, with 3 new players coming in tomorrow being instrumental, or this will be a disaster and Parish will dither around, trying to save face, and then the Americans will finally force him to fire FDB around January - just too late for a new manager to come in and have a good January transfer window.

He does suit Southampton currently much much more than us, that is true.

But in this industry we have to do a few things before sacking someone we've hired, unless Frank decides to walk:

1. Sign a few quality players.

2. Give him some more time with a few games.

3. See if he adapts away from 3 at the back, back to 4-3-3 he and we have always worked with and implement things more gradually as was agreed.

We stick to 1 and 2, Frank sticks to 3. If he doesn't and results continue he'll go.

Anyone on here, or any journo suggesting that FDB is "clinging" to his job is in cloud cuckoo land. Dont we learn? Have we not seen Parish operate for years already, a leopard doesn't change its spots. How long did it take him to fire Pardew? Holloway had to beg to be fired. Parish has a love affair with Southampton, he keeps going on about Southampton doing this or that, transfers, adaptation to premier league etc. So when SA left he dithered around for way too long and hired a guy who would probably do pretty well at Southampton. Here is the problem, we are absolutely nothing like Southampton in terms of the players we have and the way they have played for most of their entire careers at Palace. If you actually think about what Parish has done here, in hiring FDB, its completely bizarre. De Boer played a patient passing game and possession based football at Ajax, with a team of fantastically gifted technical footballers. Need I say more? Why on earth was he hired? Dont tell me other people rejected the offers, then find someone else who is suitable. Parish's luck has finally run out with this appointment, it is a total clanger. The only way he could make this work is giving the guy about 80 million quid to totally revamp the squad. This will go one of two ways, FDB will somehow sort this out, with 3 new players coming in tomorrow being instrumental, or this will be a disaster and Parish will dither around, trying to save face, and then the Americans will finally force him to fire FDB around January - just too late for a new manager to come in and have a good January transfer window.

I understand the frustration of this post but I don't think FdB is working under the same circumstances as Pardew.

I was a real Pardew outer as I have been with FdB but as mentioned before Pardew had a close relationship with SP which FdB does not. Pardew also guided us to our highest finish in modern times and a FA cup final which probably bought him more time, even for myself as I said I was strongly in favour of sacking Pardew but weirdly actually wanted Pardew to succeed.

I think it certainly hope SP will face a real backlash from the fans if he does not sign anyone. However, if he does and things do not change i.e. We don't pick up any points or at least a win from Burnley and Southampton I certainly feel SP will pull the plug on Frank.

Just my opinion here however!