I think that may have been Simon Jordan (assuming no-one else has spotted it)

Enjoying getting up later and not having someone who knows better than me (apart from the missus of course).

We talking 8 time FA cup winning, 2 time champions league winning and 5 time prem winning Chelsea? Nah, they tin pot mate... palace should have done them over in the first half...

This was once a quality forum....

Reading between the lines Parish's comments about not buying anyone but merely taking a couple of loans means that the club is skint.

It doesn't matter if we do have a couple of billionaire investors if they are unwilling to put their hands in their pockets again or is Parish the problem with his relatively limited funds as if we need £50m he will be expected to provide £9m of that and he may not have it

Textor publicly called out Alan Nixon as not knowing what he was talking about after the journalist said we weren't going to spend any money. Parish on the other hand has publicly said we're going to look at loans, not purchases. Mixed messages coming out of our ownership.

Nearly every team has a bad patch every season. The owners have to decide whether this one is terminal or just part of the natural ebb and flow of the PL. Sometimes you just need a bit of good fortune to turn things around, like Saints had when they played us. Last season we played some of the best football I've seen in my 30 years of watching Palace. This season we've only seen that in patches, but our squad is undoubtedly weaker. Textor needs to be as good as his word and spend some money on us and not just on collecting football clubs.

On a side note, I do find it baffling that people have dragged up Pulis' ghost. Crouch has talked about how his tactics involved working on defence all week and just leaving the forwards to work it out for themselves with no coaching from him. Also he's a d*ck. A great firefighting job for us but his career since shows how limited he is. I have all the time in the world for Roy, but not his brand of football. We owe him huge gratitude for keeping us stable, but at times I found myself reaching for Dignitas' phone number during that final 18 months or so.

The point about Pulis was not to acclaim him as a great manager or nice person.
It was to illustrate his (I think) valid point about what individuals bring to the team and this being a key factor in whether they were included in his selection.
If players were inconsistent or didn’t follow team instructions they didn’t play.
Even the best teams play with discipline to allow the off the cuff moments which get fans off their seats and can win games.
In my view we play too much off the cuff and with not enough discipline.
This is partly attributable to playing square pegs in round holes and also having too many players who do not contribute to the team on a consistent enough basis.
I would doubt Pulis would have made these errors which impact on our chances to achieve results .

My thoughts on things was that these investors usually see a club like ours as just a business through which to generate some extra dosh and/or a 'hobby'. It's not even a lone venture as they have other clubs too. That would roughly translate as keeping us afloat in PL however any intentions to really build the club/team may not quite align to any grand aspirations of us as fans (fantastic team, new signings, silverware & stadium).

Parish originally bought Palace as part of a consortium himself and whilst maintaining his position as the figurehead, and a Palace fan, he's hardly Moneybags Q. Rockefeller.

All very sceptical and uninformed assumptions from me however would be interested to be educated on how far off the mark I am?

Edited by Nicholas91 (16 Jan 2023 9.46am)

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!