Parish.

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They both kept us up so there's probably little mileage in analysing 'oo did what to 'oo. We needed to address the LB position, and had done for some while, and that was sorted. It wasn't cheap, but it never is in January, especially when the selling clubs can smell your desperation, and most of us were happy with that at the time. We also got a decent DM and Sakho on loan. I doubt Pulis would have done much different, or better.

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

There is no sentiment in football and if Parish were a player he would have been got rid of ages ago but because he is a significant shareholder he is allowed to retain his privileged position despite all his costly errors as chairman.

Someone posted earlier that FDB wasn't a nice bloke but conversely Steve Parish may well be a nice bloke but is that relevant in either case.

My own opinion (that I haven't expressed before) is that SP should have told FDB early on that he has to revert to a style of playing that the players were happy with and if a few of those that FDB didn't think were up to it went running to teacher to complain then he should have backed his manager not the whingers.

He also appointed Pardew, which was an excellent appointment, and a great coup at the time to prise him from a bigger club, whatever you think about what happened in the following seasons

Pullis didn't want to be at a London club. It's not him. Simple as that.

"We love you Palace, we f@cking hate Man U, We love you Palace, we hate the brighton too, We love you Palace we play in red 'n' blue, so f@ck you, and you ...

No point in hiring a manager if you do that , may as well do a Ron Noades .
SP already gets loads of stick for allegedly interfering too much.
How do you know he didn't and carried on regardless?
If Frank could not figure out for himself how best to use the players he has he should not be a football manager.

As I said on another thread if Frank did lie at the interview about changing things gradually and then went on 3-4-3 possession football revolution not much Parish could do about that.
If he did lie then Frank was found out like most B@lls@tters are , on the job , and was shown the door like most of us in real life would expect to be. Difference is he probably was not on a probation period like the rest of us and probably got paid massive compensation for it.

Probably correct about the whingers if they did go running to teacher , but the evidence against Frank was so strong that it would be hard to ignore and you can make things worse by burying your head in the sand and sticking with someone just because you hired him and you want to prove you were right to do so.