We are not a 'Big' sought after club with significant resources.We have only just attained 'Category One' academy status. Our stadium is in dire need of an upgrade.

To be in the PL for successive seasons is an achievement in itself after the 'Off-field' problems which we encountered not once but twice in fairly recent times.

We have an ageing squad which needs replacing with little or no resale value and at the present time we will not have the transfer funds for a significant outlay for replacements.

Certainly in terms of a sale,the club is worth far more in the PL than it would be in the Championship! Hodgson is seen as the man to secure our PL survival.

Sole objective according to who? Has anyone from the board ever said that?

2nd fewest goals scored in the division (behind Norwich) and comfortably the fewest scored at home.

In the last 7 seasons, only one team has survived scoring 30 goals or less in a season which was Huddersfield in 17/18. Every other time the team has gone down. Only a handful of teams have survived scoring 33/34 - we’ll be lucky to hit that.

Whether you think it’s a fluke or not is irrelevant, it is completely unsustainable the way we approach games - I’ve said it so many times, but any basic level of analysis will prove that.

A season such as the one we’ve played results in a relegation 8 or 9 times out of 10.

Steve Parish said that being in the Premier League was '' ground zero '' for Palace.

That was 18 months ago, I doubt it's changed

Old, Ungifted and White

Cash strapped by Sakho, Benteke and Zaha’s wages some say. Well, we could have sold Wilf last year, didn’t. We could have got rid of Benteke, offered him a new contract instead. We could have sold Sakho after Cahill was bought in but didn’t.

If we are so cash strapped why didn’t we do any of the above? Instead we loan two of our centre forwards out, one of them on a stupid loan deal.

We buy a couple of youngsters and we say we also have a couple of decent other youngsters, but we don’t play them. We know we only have one choice at right back and left back but do nothing about it. We have elderly players that break down regularly throughout the season. I think we might have got one full season combined out of Tomkins, Schlupp, Kelly and Sakho.

Why has all this happened or not happened? Because Roy is the manager and he likes old school players who play exactly to his play book. If you don’t confirm you will not get on the pitch. As the Borg would say, “resistance is futile”. Well I for one think we need a few kids out there willing to run their buns off and show a bit of flair before we are buried by our turgid defensive nonsense that is now being found out.

Thanks Roy for keeping us up. Time to move on. Parish, sell Wilf and find another £50m and give all the money to the new manager. This current team is not good enough to stay in the Premier League.

Out of curiosity why a special mention for Chris Powell?

I cannot see anything in his managerial career that puts him as a candidate for other than an assistant manager role perhaps being mentored to take over from someone.

Edited by HKOwen (13 Jul 2020 3.50pm)

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

If Norwich had of attempted to play like us then they may have stayed up. That manager should have been sacked 6 months ago while they were still in with a chance. Madness that he just kept sending him out to be battered week in and out. I couldn't understand it.