I think Parish has done really well.

He's not a billionaire, his pocket is deep but not top 4 deep.

The plans for Selhurst are superb.

He freely admits he is still learning.

He is bringing community people into the club, don't forget how good Palace for Life has become.

Be careful what you wish for.

Mr Cadbury's Parrot says "Hello"

In terms of Infrastructure ...Stadium, training facilities, academy, scouting team, ...Stoke/Southampton are now very big clubs.

And we are above them, even after a dreadful start.

in Parish we trust.

Eze Peasy at Anfield....

I think the issues we've had progressing from perennial relegation strugglers have stemmed from arguably getting promoted too early.

If you look at when we got promoted, it was largely down to an overachieving run in the autumn, and I would say the only really prem standard players were Zaha, Bolasie, Jedinak, Speroni and Murray (honorable mention to Delaney who worked hard enough to not look out of place in the prem - but equally didn't exactly shine in the champ). When you consider that Zaha and Murray weren't available for the first 6/12 months we have had to buy, not only almost a new first XI, but also replace those that were prem standard and left.

I have seen recently that Palace have assembled something like the 15th most expensive squad in Europe, and with Bolasie and Zaha the only major player sales in that time, that has largely been funded by the owners and our first 2 overachieving seasons. I think there needs to be great caution in attempting to run before you can walk when it comes to running a football club because we can oh so easily end up in a right mess.

I'd also point out that progressing from relegation strugglers to midtable mainstays sustain-ably for any club outside the top 7 (and previously clubs like villa) is extremely difficult. Even clubs such as Southampton and Swansea whose management have previously been highly praised - got promoted more gradually, had a certain identity, had real top quality players - have still ended up down near the bottom after a couple of years of "mid-table mediocrity".

The way I see it is everyone outside the top 7 has a premier league lifespan of maximum 8-10 years and the length of this lifespan seems to be determined by how many good/bad decisions you make in a row which, incidentally, there doesn't seem to be much reason or pattern behind why they are good/bad. Parish seems to make a habit of alternating from good to bad and I don't think there are many others out there who could drastically improve on that (except of course for the hordes of captain hindsights who would have made every single correct decision ever).

Messi, you're good, but you can't hit a ball like ambrose

on balance i'm more positive towards SP than negative and will always be grateful for CPFC2010 buying the club (when no one else wanted to) but an additional negative has to be our wage bill.

For a club of our size it has gone through the roof in the last few years.

We now have at least 3 players on more than £100k a week - Benteke, Sakho and Wilf yet even Leicester have a max of £100k a week (Vardy and Mahrez) and teams like Burnley probably don't have anyone on more than say £50k.

We now have an imbalance in the squad with people on big wages just not pulling their weight - Cabaye, Tekkers and Townsend spring immediately to mind.

I blame him for this and less for transfers, as the transfer policy has to be mainly the manager's responsibility

oooh you snob!

They're justified, and they're ancient
And they drive an ice cream van

This is our longest ever run in the top flight.

Do try and pull yourself together.