I get we're all frustrated, god knows I am after watching the football we played last season versus this one, but without a backer to plough tens if not hundreds of millions into the club, what do people realistically expect Parish to do?

I know a lot of people say we should all "stop going on about the past" but the fact of the matter is that 13 odd years ago we were a gnats wing away from going out of existence. We somehow managed to stay in the Championship and then against the odds made it into the Prem where we've enjoyed 10 years (and hopefully 11!) of residency. That doesn't happen with a sh!te chairman, you can't have that much luck.

Granted the lack of not having a decent striker or retaining Gallagher (or a clone) is something that questions need asking on, but I would wager that the answer would be simply that we don't have the funds for anyone who could hit the ground running in the Prem. There's always people with potential, but we've tried that and ended up with Mateta and Édouard, to guarantee a proven striker in the prem costs silly money. We've not been taken over or backed by a bored billionaire, where does everyone think the money is coming from? Parish has brough in these investors, have they injected billions? No, but he has brought them in in an attempt to get more money into the club and they've bank rolled the Academy and Vieira's spending spree last season. Parish doesn't have the money to bank roll a prem club (ala Tony Bloom) and we all saw what happened with Goldberg and Jordan when you plough your entire fortune into a football club.

I don't buy the argument that we shouldn't invest funds into the ground either, the main stand is probably close to falling down given the age of it and we hardly market ourselves as a top notch prem team when we try and get players in and they see the ground. Don't even start on the bogs and food and drink for the fans (I'm in the Arthur ) it all needs a desperate upgrade and that costs money.

I'm genuinely interested to know what people think Parish should do differently and I mean realistically not this b0llocks of "Parish has to go and sell to a billionaire" which seems to be the main thrust of people's suggestions. I'm sure if an unknown Palace fan with deep pockets suddenly wanted to buy the club that Parish would step aside from ownership, but I don't see one, do you?

And with the Vieira/Hodgson stuff, personally I'm not excited to see Roy back, but I'll support him nonetheless. Again though, if Parish had backed Vieira and we'd got relegated then everyone would of said he should of sacked him and he's an idiot for not doing that and the response will likely be the same if Roy doesn't keep us up and everyone says we should of stayed with Vieira. No win situation (and I'm not talking about the results for the rest of the season..).

Rant over.

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Doesn't matter who the manager is next season, not enough money put in to buying players next season, no new stadium if we go down back to square one, no stadium that is never going to happen, the club needs a change off direction, Parish is past his sell buy date

I don't buy the argument that we shouldn't invest funds into the ground either, the main stand is probably close to falling down given the age of it and we hardly market ourselves as a top notch prem team when we try and get players in and they see the ground. Don't even start on the bogs and food and drink for the fans (I'm in the Arthur ) it all needs a desperate upgrade and that costs money.

I don't think there is any chance of a new stand going up until an investor turns up with some very deep pockets. To try doing it on debt etc would, in my opinion, be disastrous

Tony Bloom is a one off and will become better and better known as brighton continue their extraordinary march. It's not just where they are now, but how they have got there that is staggering. Bloom is way ahead of most other football club owners. He has positioned himself in such a strong position and now holds over 98% of Brighton FC, while his pockets continue to deepen on the back of Star Lizard.

Contrarily, we are in an unenviable position of no one holding the reins, and it would appear our various shareholders not sharing much if any mutual common ground.

To stay on track with where football is heading is not going to be easy for us, and unless Harris and or Blitzer grab a hold of Palace which seems very unlikely, our only real hope to get out of what is looking like treacle would be to hope and pray a guardian angel turns up.

I also enjoy a seat in the Arfur cattle shed and even enjoy the feeling of going back in time at every home game.
The least they could do in the meantime would be either to let me bring in the grilled chicken from the end of the road, or provide something that has some form of nutritious value. Man City game I bought a chicken Balti pie with no chicken in it. Virtually needed a mortgage to buy it.

Unless you wear black and bang a drum

The press seem to be releasing more and more shambolic and depressing stories. Sounds farcical. I guess what do you expect when your Director of Football and Chairman are as inexperienced as ours. A good, solid DoF wouldn't go astray for us.

Edited by ASCPFC (22 Mar 2023 2.27pm)

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