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IMHO Roy is most certainly starting to get parished-off.
He subtly mentions previous agreements in this article and in fact the article is his unloading about being parished.

Parish is doing what he does best (IMHO). He's screwing another manager...

"Hodgson remains more concerned with recruitment matters as he looks to bolster his Palace squad.
"There's still only [Christian] Benteke as a centre-forward," he said of his back-up options afterwards. "Sako is doing a good job up there but he wasn't bought as a centre-forward he was bought as a left winger, apart from that we've got Connor Wickham who arguably won't play this season and a young lad from Margate; Freddie Ladapo. That is not a Premier League bench.
"I'm looking at other teams in the Premier League with four or five who are experienced players on the bench with only one playing and four hoping to get a chance. So to say that there's no problem, you can just carry on with you've got, I think that would be ludicrous."
He added: "I would say if anything the fact that we've done well enough to at least pull ourselves up by our boot straps and away from the execution zone will make the owners even more aware that if we are going to stay there we need the help we've talked about right from the very offset. This isn't something we've just started talking about a week ago, this is something we've been planning since September.
"The owners have been on board from the very first day when I came in and had a chance to analyse the squad and they agreed right from the very beginning that for our squad to be one that we need to survive in the Premier League you can't have two goalkeepers, you need three. You can't have one out-and-out centre-forward, you need four really, you certainly need two. And now of course we've had all the injuries which we weren't counting on."

Edited by Headbert (15 Jan 2018 11.36am)

there's no excuse for another last chance saloon transfer window. We know without question that it does not work for us. We know our budget and we know what we need so if we screw this up again it raises serious questions about our club leadership to keep making the same awful mistakes over and over again.

I'm sure there's a lot going on behind the scenes that we don't know about, or I sincerely hope there is anyway.

It's inconceivable that we haven't got a shortlist for one incoming striker and it's equally inconceivable that Parish will gamble everything on us being able to make it to safety at the end of the season without getting one of them into the club.

Still, it was inconceivable that we'd leave the August transfer window with only one fit striker.....

Well I think Simon's head is large; always involved in espionage. (Name that tune)

I hope not, loving Roy!
Not sure where this myth comes from that we don’t spend money and Parish is tight! Over the last 5 seasons we are the fifth highest spenders in the premier league [Link]

He took the role to end his career on a high. His chances if achieving his mission are dramatically improved with better players so he's putting pressure on. It's fine and to be expected from any professional, intelligent manager. It also helps his reputation to highlight this if we do fail after no signings.

If you want to live in a world full of kindness, respect and love, try to show these qualities.

Literally word for word exactly what I thought. Well said.