They are "fwightened" remember? It may be a good idea to encourage them to bring their families along to games. Can they actually perform to make them proud? Also, I read somewhere that BS could have the team training at Selhurst so they feel more comfortable playing on the pitch. Anything is worth a try but at the end of the day it's all down to 13 x 95 minute sessions from the players.

PS ... this is where I read about training at Selhurst [Link]

Edited by Henry of Peckham (14 Feb 2017 6.29am)

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

Personally think it was not bringing in better defenders sooner. We have been short on cover at the back for a few seasons. Delaney,Kelly whilst try their best are not god enough. Both Ward and Dann have struggled and our keeper has been really poor. They are on edge, they make a mistake in the Prem and nine times out of ten you will concede. With the defence onedge it rubs off. We were scoring lots of goals but conceding more, The forwards must have got demoralised that they were doing their job but were beng let down by the defence. Now the whole team lack confidence ands lack goes against you when things are like that.

It all started to go wrong in Dec 2015. We had just beaten Southampton with a Cabaye good and Pardew was on TV waxing lyrical about his secret love child and he said. "The reason the players dont earn what he does is because they are not as good as he is". We then got a very lucky win at Stoke with Chungys screamer and then the rot set in