...as funny as the Palace situation is, lets pause for a minute to praise the professionals who are running Our club. When we get promoted we won't be in the same mess:
"After years toiling in the second tier they boasted no real scouting network to pinpoint upgrades for the players they possessed, leaving manager and co-chairmen poring over videos until the small hours of potential recruits they had never previously heard of. Normally they would have shopped from the free transfer list or bought youthful promise from the lower leagues. Now they were operating in a very different market. Parish described the summer as "ridiculous". "Three years ago we didn't own our football ground, we were bankrupt, we didn't own our training ground, and we had five first-team players on our books," he said. "If we'd had a better infrastructure in place we'd have been able to do more for him and wouldn't have been up watching players until 4am every night." "
"After years toiling in the second tier they boasted no real scouting network to pinpoint upgrades for the players they possessed, leaving manager and co-chairmen poring over videos until the small hours of potential recruits they had never previously heard of. Normally they would have shopped from the free transfer list or bought youthful promise from the lower leagues. Now they were operating in a very different market. Parish described the summer as "ridiculous". "Three years ago we didn't own our football ground, we were bankrupt, we didn't own our training ground, and we had five first-team players on our books," he said. "If we'd had a better infrastructure in place we'd have been able to do more for him and wouldn't have been up watching players until 4am every night." "
