Why change it at all! We were not behind but level. No need to tinker just leave the team to get on with it and try and get to the end with hopefully a draw.

If we were behind then gamble in the hope you can get a goal (like at Hull) last night there was no need. AP just can't leave things be at times!

Unfortunately Tomkins out til Jan with injury.

hindsight? As soon as I saw him call Campbell over from warming up, I thought who is he going to sub him for? I could only think benteke, & was telling my brother this was extremely risky and weren't too happy about it. Then he goes and pulls McArthur off !! I was mortified, & said so at time, I mean surely if McArthur had to be subbed Townshend would have been better swap. A minute or so later they score & i was telling me bruv told you so. Majority of ground had foresight to see that!

catford kid, caught up supporting "team of the 80s" in the 70s..
1st actual Match - PALACE 1-1 LEEDS (Sat 13 Nov 1982)

I don't think hindsight was that important.

The situation vs Hull was different. We were actively chasing the game after having gone 3-2 down.

Against Man United we had something to hold on to.

Even if the substitution itself didn't affect the goal/game, what it does show is the mentality Pardew was giving to the players - that settling for a point at that stage wasn't right. And that's plain stupidity. It encourages a recklessness that you'd thought would have been beaten out of them with a very hard and big stick after Burnley, Swansea, Hull, and several other games.

And we look *so* susceptible after scoring. It's like the team is literally incapable of holding together when we score.

"It's almost like a moral decision. Except not really cos noone is going to find out," Jez, Peep Show

Hindsight is the very thing Pardew has but has not acted upon. Losing in the last few minutes is a pattern going way back to the FA Cup. Yes, hindsight is a wonderful thing, for people with brains.

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