The majority of us on here are genuine fans, so what has gone wrong? For me, it all started before the cup final. Somebody had this wonderful idea to change our style and since then everything has gone south big time. SP told us all to change our mentality and look on Palace as a forward-thinking upward bound club, yeah right!! I honestly believe we have good enough players to be mid-table but we look simply lost with no direction. Why really did Pulis leave? Has to be SP and his transfer policy I believe? Big mistake IMO. I just hope we by some miracle can turn this around, but I doubt it.

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Nothing intriguing about it
He's trying to save his job and in the process trying to praise his sad mate that got us in this mess FDB

For me it's mainly down to Parish and his sentimental decision making. He likes to surround himself with people that have some sort of identity or affinity with the club or area. I'm talking about people like Puncheon, he's one of our own, Bright a legend, Freedman another legend and now Roy, a nice old gentleman from Croydon. In Freedman's case, I mean, why would you appoint someone who has very little job or PL experience as a sporting director? Ok, there is real talent in some of these decisions like Zaha, and he could be the difference in us staying up, but generally sentimental decision making will fail us.

Don't get me wrong, it's a nice feeling to have people involved in our club where we feel their hearts are in the job, Parish included, but the Premier League is a ruthless multi-billion £ business and for me there's no room for sentimentality to really be successful. That stuff should be left to us fans.

It has to be said that the club and particularly Parrish have made more good decisions than bad ones. Since taking over he has been nothing but good news for this club, finding ourselves in the fifth
Year in the PL and spending big on some players has been unheard of in our history.
However over the past year big mistakes have been made. Pardew stayed to long and the FA cup final masked that. Crucially also during his reign he was asked to change the style of play - not Pardew fault but this was a disaster and nearly cost us relegation. Mistake three was not keeping Sam. I don't buy the whole retirement story. I suspect once he heard there was little money available that was it, he was gone. Next mistake was FDB. No one apart from SP asked to radically change our style but we went with it but crucially he did not back the manager in transfer market. Like when Pardew was asked to play it differently he had a whole bunch of players who could not easily adapt. Bizarelly just as it started to look better, at Burnley, he was sacked. The final or latest error was not getting at least 2 strikers in. You need depth across all 11 spots and 1 striker only is not how to run a club - it was so predictable.there would be some kind of injury to CB.
So what has gone wrong is not one thing but a catalogue of errors that have left us where we are. Not sure where the Yanks facctor in all this but we are left with a poor squad overall, a club that doesn't seem to have any clear direction whatsoever, save the obvious one that we are already looking at relegation. Don't have fhe answers but the club need to come up with some quickly and start making some better decisions,

Big Sam appears to avoid any criticism, his walk out has contributed to this mess. Bought players to get us over the line, not players to take us forward.