It has been a busy first season in football for Steve Parish and the rest of CPFC2010.

Since rescuing the club from the clutches of closure last June, the consortium have had to boost a squad that started with just 10 players, replace the manager half way through, watch from the sidelines as the Eagles survived a second-successive relegation scrap and even unveiled plans for a brand new stadium.

It has been a baptism of fire but one co-chairman Steve Parish believes will stand them in good stead for the future now they have an entire summer in which to plan.

"We have got more time to look at things this year and a bit more experience," said Parish.

"Looking back at it we didn't realise how difficult it was going to be here.

"We didn't make the right appointment at the beginning but we have got the right manager now and we need to back him and work with him in the summer to get bodies in.

"We want to try and give people something to be positive about, we don't want to be celebrating surviving relegation again.

"The budget is not going to be massive but everyone realises we are not competing with the people that are throwing big money at it and those with parachute payments.

"But in Swansea and Norwich you have teams that have been shrewd about it and that's what we have to do.

"There will be some money available and we have already had that discussion with Dougie Freedman.

"We are giving him backing in terms of trusting him and on the financial side but it is not going to be millions and millions."

Freedman took over the reigns at Palace in January with the club second bottom in the league but led them six points clear of the drop zone by the end of the season and Parish was full of praise for the job the 36-year-old Scot has done.

"Dougie has been brilliant, absolutely fantastic," he said.

"We have a good working relationship and it has been really good.

"He does all the things you want a manager to do, he works hard, is disciplined in his approach and the players respect him.

"He has done a good job in keeping us up but now we have to try and play a different type of football and try and hurt teams more than we have been.

"The next stage of his management careers starts now and we really believe in him and hope he can be with us for the long term."