Paul Salvage
Member
- Location
- Bromley
- Country
England
Should Parish resign?
Be very careful what you wish for!
There seems to be two camps at loggerheads regarding SP stewardship of our great club. Those that seem to think he can do no wrong simply because he and others saved Palace from the administrators, and there are others that seem to think he is the devil incarnate and is a complete fool!
My personal opinion is that he is probably doing the very best he can for Palace, but like all of us he is prone to making mistakes. There is not one of us (as far as I know) that has ever run a multi million pound football club with all the complexities involved. I have owned and run a medium sized business for a number of years and I can assure you it is bloody stressful, tiring and at times soul destroying, and at other times it is rewarding and joyful to not to have to answer to anyone else. For these reasons I do have a lot of respect for the job that he does.
For me the most important point to remember is that SP is running the club in a way that he believes is sustainable and secure well beyond his tenure (however long that may be)
We must also take into account that he cannot control everything going on around him. He had no control over John Textor selling his shares. This would have massively impacted our transfer market strategy. He would not have been able to commit funds until the new director was in place. He also couldn’t control if and when the Arse and Bin dippers would submit bids for Eze/Mark.
In business you have your best laid plans set out in front of you, but often you have to pivot and go with other options and best case scenario. Which is what I believe happened with Mark last night. I am sure that SP and OG would have had targets that were agreed on. There is also no doubt it was agreed that Mark would not go if those replacements were not in place, and clearly those replacements fell through and SP took the option to cancel the deal for the greater good of the club.
Does this make us look silly, well probably it does but who cares what others think? Personally I think it is a show of strength that we will not be bullied by these supposed big clubs.
The final point of my ramblings is that I do believe we have to be very careful what we wish for. You only have to look at our past two periods of administration. You can also look at mismanagement at the likes of Sheffield Wednesday, Charlton, Portsmouth. The list of clubs not being run sustainably is long and other fan bases would love to be in our position. So as much as I would love Palace to be big spenders and flout the rules all in all I am happy with our lot under SP stewardship.
Be very careful what you wish for!
There seems to be two camps at loggerheads regarding SP stewardship of our great club. Those that seem to think he can do no wrong simply because he and others saved Palace from the administrators, and there are others that seem to think he is the devil incarnate and is a complete fool!
My personal opinion is that he is probably doing the very best he can for Palace, but like all of us he is prone to making mistakes. There is not one of us (as far as I know) that has ever run a multi million pound football club with all the complexities involved. I have owned and run a medium sized business for a number of years and I can assure you it is bloody stressful, tiring and at times soul destroying, and at other times it is rewarding and joyful to not to have to answer to anyone else. For these reasons I do have a lot of respect for the job that he does.
For me the most important point to remember is that SP is running the club in a way that he believes is sustainable and secure well beyond his tenure (however long that may be)
We must also take into account that he cannot control everything going on around him. He had no control over John Textor selling his shares. This would have massively impacted our transfer market strategy. He would not have been able to commit funds until the new director was in place. He also couldn’t control if and when the Arse and Bin dippers would submit bids for Eze/Mark.
In business you have your best laid plans set out in front of you, but often you have to pivot and go with other options and best case scenario. Which is what I believe happened with Mark last night. I am sure that SP and OG would have had targets that were agreed on. There is also no doubt it was agreed that Mark would not go if those replacements were not in place, and clearly those replacements fell through and SP took the option to cancel the deal for the greater good of the club.
Does this make us look silly, well probably it does but who cares what others think? Personally I think it is a show of strength that we will not be bullied by these supposed big clubs.
The final point of my ramblings is that I do believe we have to be very careful what we wish for. You only have to look at our past two periods of administration. You can also look at mismanagement at the likes of Sheffield Wednesday, Charlton, Portsmouth. The list of clubs not being run sustainably is long and other fan bases would love to be in our position. So as much as I would love Palace to be big spenders and flout the rules all in all I am happy with our lot under SP stewardship.
