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View alaneagle1's Profile alaneagle1 Flag Dunstable,Bedfordshire.England 01 Oct 17 11.56am Send a Private Message to alaneagle1 Add alaneagle1 as a friend

Originally posted by Osvaldo

The answer is simple. We screwed up big time during the transfer window. Going into a new season with one striker was beyond imagination. Now we are after a 35 year old free agent striker who has failed to score for a few years. We are reaping what we've sown and how anyone can say that we will get out of this mess, is beyond me. If there were a ray of light at the end of the tunnel I could be a little less negative. But to sum up our football at this time the words, dreadful, diabolical, disaster........ come to mind!!!
It is embarrassing to say you are a Palace supporter, even those who know little about football know that Palace are setting all time records! Will we get into the Guinness Book of them?!!!
I really do feel that we (the faithful supporters) have been let down big time. We have somehow managed to stay up over the last few seasons with a couple of defensive managers, so why didn't we batten down the hatches for this season with a few quality players to save us going through the same agonies again?
I am lost for words! I have supported the Glaziers/Eagles for 60 years and feel somewhat bitter about our present predicament.


Cheer up our best player will be back soon.

 


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View Rudi Hedman's Profile Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 01 Oct 17 12.16pm Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

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.

Well I agree with this but then you say I'm making it up that Frank lied in interview by saying 'gradual', but you then say Parish should've stepped in after interview and starting the job that Frank should keep it to what the squad is comfortable with or can deliver, which is in fact, gradual.

Do you actually think Parish agreed that Frank would completely change the set-up after he said we'd sign 2 or 3 players when he thought Sam was staying and about £40 mil net to spend?

Those 'gradual' and 'results over style' comments were made within 48 hours of him joining on the field of the training ground with the club interviewer.

So you either think Frank agreed gradual, sensible, possible changes in interview or in all that time wasting it was never discussed and Parish just left him to it.

 


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View Rudi Hedman's Profile Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 01 Oct 17 12.25pm Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

There's loads of reasons on a BBS thread, Where did it all go wrong'?

My main 2 are:

1. Extending and not sacking Pardew soon enough. Extending beggars belief and highlights Parish's recent ineptitude or negligence. A lot of little issues derived from Pardew, his ineptitude and P and P's pally relationship which isn't healthy, and so it proved, which is why they say what they do about family being in business together.

2. As soon as Frank decided 3-4-3, which was probably last season before he knew we had a vacancy whilst he was watching Chelsea on tv. He said something about it just happening to be us this season. If he decided after arriving he's either a fool or just reckless without an ounce of care of the repercussions from his actions.

 


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View Rudi Hedman's Profile Rudi Hedman Flag Caterham 01 Oct 17 12.39pm Send a Private Message to Rudi Hedman Add Rudi Hedman as a friend

Originally posted by Midlands Eagle

This rather daft rumour seems to have been started by one forum member who is hoping that if he repeats it enough times (which he has) that it will become the truth.

Ask yourself, why would a potential manager deliberately lie at an interview about the style of play that he would adopt as it doesn't make sense

Er, because Frank may have gauged that either it needed something steady, going by last season, or that is how it may have developed in conversation. If you haven't noticed, Frank wasn't working and there were only 2 clubs looking for managers and Pellegrino was the man of the moment, and he had just played a successful season with careful, containing football. If you need a job, sometimes people adjust to, or mirror the interviewer and company.

The mistake Frank made was not taking his time and doing it once much of the dross had gone after he got a few performances when needed out of them.

The mistake Parish made was being on holiday so much when he should've been around more. And this laughable cr&p about in today's world that Skype would suffice. When a region or branch or company or a country HQ of a multinational has issues, they send a big rep in to get a response. They don't use Skype when it's looking dodgy, or tweet videos of rapping karaoke or water boarding.

That's why I'm going to be silent very soon at games as opposed to Parish's favourite HF who show unconditional support because they're putting up with his ineptitude or negligence. But even they won't if it there's more.

 


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View davehuggins's Profile davehuggins Flag 01 Oct 17 12.53pm Send a Private Message to davehuggins Add davehuggins as a friend

Looks to me we all pretty much agree upper management have to take the majority of the blame for this mess. So, at this time of the season what in our opinion can be done to rescue the situation and repair this embarrassment.
For me.
1. Draft in our younger better players immediately especially upfront.
2. Start a major search for a new chief exec (nothing to do with Palace in any shape or form)
3. Start a major search for a younger manager or go and get a top man and pay the price.

 

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View Croydonlad's Profile Croydonlad Flag sydenham 01 Oct 17 4.54pm Send a Private Message to Croydonlad Add Croydonlad as a friend

Originally posted by Vaibow

FDB did nothing wrong, he was hired but not left to do his job, he had targets, they were not met. He wasn't a likeable figure, fair enough - but why didn't they realise this in the hire process.

Ofcourse, in hindsight, he was the wrong choice - but he should't have been sacked after Burnley - that wasn't a sackable offence. He should have been given until xmas, but, all the turmoil in the club, would that have been worse?

Fact is, parish needs to step aside. He hires and fires way too much, he is the problem.

He did everything wrong , absolutely everything , you DO NOT get a side to play the way he wanted that are used to playing basic football .
Completely him to blame
Yes we should have more than one fit striker , thats crazy , but FDB ruined the confidence of this squad

 

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View NEILLO's Profile NEILLO Flag Shoreham-by-Sea 01 Oct 17 5.13pm Send a Private Message to NEILLO Add NEILLO as a friend

Originally posted by Croydonlad

He did everything wrong , absolutely everything , you DO NOT get a side to play the way he wanted that are used to playing basic football .
Completely him to blame
Yes we should have more than one fit striker , thats crazy , but FDB ruined the confidence of this squad

We played the ' Palace way ' at Burnley. 23 attempts on goal and missed some absolute sitters.

FDB was a bad appointment but I think the game that really may have robbed the players of confidence was Southampton.

Since then we have lost 0-5 and 0-4 under Hodgson. The Hodgson that was bemoaning the lack of strikers at the club in his post match comments.

Which brings us back to the pre season planning and activity in the transfer market....

 


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View Croydonlad's Profile Croydonlad Flag sydenham 01 Oct 17 5.38pm Send a Private Message to Croydonlad Add Croydonlad as a friend

Originally posted by oldstand

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.

Nonsense !!

Sakho was only available on loan , but was a player for the future as was Luka and VA , Schlupp agreed is borderline , but you cant blame Sam for anything !!!

 

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View Croydonlad's Profile Croydonlad Flag sydenham 01 Oct 17 5.40pm Send a Private Message to Croydonlad Add Croydonlad as a friend

Originally posted by NEILLO

We played the ' Palace way ' at Burnley. 23 attempts on goal and missed some absolute sitters.

FDB was a bad appointment but I think the game that really may have robbed the players of confidence was Southampton.

Since then we have lost 0-5 and 0-4 under Hodgson. The Hodgson that was bemoaning the lack of strikers at the club in his post match comments.

Which brings us back to the pre season planning and activity in the transfer market....

No sir
The game that robed the players of confidence was the very first game
At home , to a very very average newly promoted Huddersfield who slaughter us 3 - 0 !!!
After that it was uphill , now its a mountain !

 

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View est1905's Profile est1905 Flag 01 Oct 17 5.42pm Send a Private Message to est1905 Add est1905 as a friend

Originally posted by Croydonlad

Nonsense !!

Sakho was only available on loan , but was a player for the future as was Luka and VA , Schlupp agreed is borderline , but you cant blame Sam for anything !!!

You know zero. Liverpool only wanted to sell Sakho last January and the asking price was just 21m. We only managed to get him on loan at the time because no one wanted to pay that for a player that had been out so long. So Liverpool reluctantly agreed to loan him and hoped he would do well and boost his value for a summer sale. Which he did.

 

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View slubglurge's Profile slubglurge Flag welling 01 Oct 17 6.30pm Send a Private Message to slubglurge Add slubglurge as a friend

Every club our size who think they have established themselves are always just one nad decision away from disaster and we made that decision when we failed to appoint Dyche and now we will pay the consequences

 

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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 01 Oct 17 6.41pm Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by slubglurge

Every club our size who think they have established themselves are always just one bad decision away from disaster and we made that decision when we failed to appoint Dyche and now we will pay the consequences

Unfortunately we made considerably more than one bad decision

 

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