His business model hasn’t been too bad since, he formed CPFC2010. Presiding over our most successful period in the Premier, against all the odds of mega rich competition.

He is a Palace fan and a very astute businessman, there is nothing wrong with that.

Most 'successful' doesn't always translate to most enjoyable.

This was once a quality forum....

Turgid Royball kept us in the PL. To his credit Parish wanted to develop a more attacking game, which was great last year, with the brilliantly successful Gallagher loan and a fit McArther. Without either this year has been much harder and we do need Lokonga and Ahamada to hit the ground running. Because of the brilliant Academy structure Parish has developed, in two or three seasons we'll have home grown talent to do this. But the next three seasons are quite precarious. As another thread discusses, the summer window is critical.

Our last period in the second-tier I remember the club pumping singing through the Tannoy system to try and create an atmosphere and hoping Alan Lee would punch someone just to add some excitement. Some of the football during the wilderness years under the likes of Taylor and Burley was awful.

I have periods where I hate what the modern PL stands for with billionaires treating clubs as toys or just as investments, entitled players and this idea that anyone who isn't the big 6 are somehow disposable. I watched the Wrexham v Sheffield United FA Cup first game and it was everything football should be: passion, excitement, blood and guts football. But, I don't think us returning to the Championship would improve things. I do however think that the investment in the academy might mean we might be better insulated against collapse if we did go down, as players like Rak-Sakyi, Phillips, O'Brien, Balmer and Ozoh might thrive at that level.

Indeed we did, especially in the 2018/19 season, although, unfortunately, virtually all of it was excellent counter-attacking away from home producing 9 wins out of our 13 total and 32 goals out 51. I got to see 2 of those, the 0-2 win at Wolves and 1-4 at Leicester.

Although we have attempted to play more passing and progressive football under Vieira , we have yet to demonstrate that it is truly effective at scoring goals and winning matches on a consistent basis.
We have to increase our efficiency and ability to penetrate opposition defences whether through improvement of the implementation of our existing approach or the employment of an alternative approach which gives us a higher chance of scoring goals and winning matches.
We have some shortcomings in the squad but have enough good players to be performing better than we have in the last couple of months.