Despite the club's current plight we need to keep our eyes on the horizon. Are we really to expect Palace will go on, season after season, scrambling for whatever points they can manage, paying huge amounts on gambles and seeing the manager turnstile as the most active?
Mr Parish has decided enough is enough and is putting his money where his mouth is. To take that next step from yoyoing nearlies to standard EPL membership with chances of Europe, needs that vision. Dropping a division though painful in the short term is preferable to forever pretending to be big whilst staying little.