he was a good manager for us, sadly the idiots hounded him out.

oh well im sure woy will see us alright

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

Going by the 1st half I think you're right but it's time and/or luck that Parish is takin liberties with again and that'll do us.

COYP

Relying on luck amazing isn't it? You'd have thought he'd have worked out by now that with Palace if something can go wrong it will go wrong.

Bangell - If Camus wrote The Myth of Sisyphus today, it would be about Jason Puncheon eternally trying and failing to pass with his right foot.

Yeah maybe that was a bit hyperbolic, but he's got to do something soon otherwise Parish will fire him and we'll probably end up with Pardew again /shudder

(Joke btw, well hopefully)

Edited by boo909 (23 Sep 2017 10.31pm)

Bangell - If Camus wrote The Myth of Sisyphus today, it would be about Jason Puncheon eternally trying and failing to pass with his right foot.

We would have been relegated under Pardew last season. The game against Swansea was absolute proof of that. Look how long it took the players to start performing after Allardyce came in, there was a rot in the club.What needed to happen was for Big Sam to stay and for there to be a serious injection of funds into the squad, moving out players who were not good enough or had been underperforming. When he left the club made a bold and what seemed to be a progressive appointment, but failed to be bold and progressive in the transfer market. The idea that a team who stayed up by the skin of their teeth playing fairly direct football could evolve into a possession based team playing 3 at the back smacked of as much arrogance as FDB showed playing 2 kids on their debuts in defence against Huddersfield. We all knew that money needed to be spent and despite good loan signings and Jairo, who I think may turn good, players like Puncheon, Hennessey, Ward, Sako and Ladapo had to be upgraded. This is not a business where you can paper over the cracks because it catches up with you eventually. Look what happened at Sunderland, they kept bodging it and eventually the whole thing collapsed. With the American investment and the continued revenue from the Premier League there is absolutely no excuse for the club not to have spent big this summer to back the new manager. It happened last year when despite bringing in Andros, Tomkins and Benteke we were still thin in areas and we had to invest in January. Lessons have not been learnt, it is far better and cheaper to build the squad over the summer period than in January when prices are inflated (£13m for Schlupp) and frankly we may be so far adrift by then that players will not come here anyway.

I'm absolutely gutted by what is happening, I'm not expecting us to be a top 8 team but after 5 years in the league we should have developed far more than we have and that has to be put down to the management at the club. We have little identity on the pitch and 6 games in have 32 more games of a relegation battle nailed on, our 5th relegation battle in 5 years and one that is looking very difficult to get out of. I don't think Parish should go but I think there are serious questions to be asked and I think he needs to answer them.

"Brighton are talking about how they're coming for us. And it's like, we've been waiting in the Premier League for you for ages." Wilfried Zaha, 2017.

He was.