You know this for an undeniable fact? Examples, sources please.

Not sure it matters to the Roy out let's get someone foreign in Brigade.
Would have been a big risk to change formation so radically for a game like this. I don't think we've got the personnel or frankly the ability to successfully switch systems. Even FDB realised that a Kelly/Dann/Tomkins combination would not work as these players would really struggle to get out wide when required and struggle to bring the ball out of defence.

I think we pressed forward fairly well in the game. Our passing was poor and we didn't get he ball forward quickly enough, not the formation that was wrong. Looked like 6 in midfield most of the game. We could have gone all out and started with two strikers but given our finishing ability, I suspect Brighton would have outscored us.

So for me at home, our problems for me are:
Lack of quality shooting from outside the box.
Poor short and long passing.
Not enough movement from the forwards.
Midfield not getting ahead of the striker.
Slow passing
Free kicks and corners.

With packed defences, free kicks and corners are the commonest route to goal and we have had none of this (apart from Pens). I think the team need to do more prep/practice, vary the taker and get more variations into our set-plays.

I really wish we could take a decent corner. We get so excited and applaud when we win a corner, really? I moan coz I wonder if we can hit it past the first defender. The low fizzing corners invariably get headed like a bullet away out of the danger zone and then the opposition push out and opportunity lost. Loft one up with a bit of height and less speed and the ball might even stay in the box for at least the chance of a 2nd effort?

Palace were always dangerous at corners, now we cannot make a decent contest. Rant over

True Blue Red 'n' Blue !!!

So just about every aspect of our forward play then. Makes you wonder what they do in training every day.
Oh wait, it must be practicing passing sideways and backwards very slowly...and practice makes perfect..

My point is that simply changing formation is not the answer. We seem to buy a lot one-dimensional players, perhaps that is all we can attract or afford, I don't know. All I do know is, switch formation and we lose, that's our experience over the 6 years in the prem. Agree with all we've got to try something different.

Newcastle got their result by switching to long ball after half time. Perhaps we need to go more direct at home, at times, with a 4-4-2 (not a million miles from the usual formation but a small adjustment to the personnel) and accept it wont be pretty. That would mean Benteke and Bats up front which would give us a whole new set of problems.

3-5-2 Is not an attacking shift at all