One supposes that IF we are relegated there will be cries of "Because of Steve Parish".
If we survive it will be "Despite Steve Parish".

Edited by Willo (30 Oct 2017 9.57am)

yes maybe, but what progress, bottom of the league one win, GD -17, all down to SP and his lack of ability to be a success as a Chairman of a PL club and he is now about to oversee the biggest financial loss in revenue in the club history if we are relegated, some record!

I find it extraordinary how ordinary punters, which is what we are, somehow become experts in running the high finance and complex premier league football clubs with all its prima donnas and dodgy dealers .
I feel we are very lucky to have the owners we have ( not sure about the Americans) who love our club and would not deliberately cause harm but might and do make mistakes. It seems we are managed well financially, which is probably why we did not get another striker and lets face it our fortunes have been perilous in the past, I do wonder if some contributors just need to relentlessly dump all frustrations on someone and Parish will do for the moment, we are in trouble this year but we do have a very experienced management/coaching team right now and perhaps Dougie Freedman will behind the scenes continue to score for us and being Palace we might just make it out of the trouble. I thank Parish and CPFC 2010 for our continued existence and the continuation of the Crystal Palace way which is not comfortable but bloody wonderful.

What seems to escape you (and a worrying amount of other "'supporters') is that there are about 10 other teams trying to do the same as us. Stop looking at the negatives and try and understand that we have no god given right to Premier league football, we are a small club who have done brilliantly to stay there or five seasons - and personally after Saturday I feel positive. If you saw any of Parish's reactions during the game you'd appreciate he's as much a fan as the rest of us, the difference being he loses a huge sum of money if we go down whereas we save money on a cheaper season ticket.

what you do not seem to understand is that we want our team in the top flight where we belong, it hurts to see the likes of Huddersfield, Brighton, Burnley, Watford showing us how it is done. There is no logical reason why we cannot be mid table PL club with the right leadership. A small club in the FL is the likes of Exeter, Wycombe, Forest Green etc, if that is you goal fine but some of us aim a lot higher than that!

Very difficult to aim anywhere with a gun held by someone else, I find.

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