Going to get loads of abuse for this but I don't believe AP should be held fully responsible for this latest miserable run, and the players need to take a look at themselves.

I cannot remember when a team last scored a good goal against us. The management can only do so much in training and plan for matches. In my view some of the players have been a f***ing liability...

Mandanda - has let in several poor efforts since the start of the season, especially at Burnley where he was awful.

Ward - one of the only players who always puts his body on the line and gives 100 %, unable to get forward as much as usual.

Dann - it is like his s*** twin brother has turned up since being made captain, his marking and organisation has been nothing short of pathetic.

Tomkins - looks good in the opposition box but absolutely horrendous in ours and doesn't seem to know the basics of marking.

Kelly - has cost us numerous goals, inexplicably passing to De Bruyne and gifting City their goal last week.

Cabaye - I thought he had been decent of late, but that failure to clear the ball yesterday was unreal, 80k a week to have a touch like a rapist and costs us a goal.

Mcarthur - always gives 100% like Wardy but his passing has been terrible of late.

Zaha - cannot fault Wilf as he is always a threat and finally delivering an end product.

Puncheon - has returned to his anonymous self and looked like a right ponce backing out that header yesterday causing a free kick which they scored from.

Townsend - looked like a right bargain a few months ago but has severely dropped in form, sulking and moaning because he can't play on the right. Gives away a lot of free kicks in dangerous areas which lead to goals.

Benteke- scored a few goals but not enough for 32m. His defending yesterday was an embarrassment costing us a few goals. Granted he's a striker but a Sunday league striker could defend better.

Wickham - such a shame he got injured as he has looked good and a constant threat.

Hennessey - sufferring twin brother syndrome like Scott Dann.

Sako - looks like he's swallowed a fridge, slow and laboured.

Overall I accept AP has made errors like keeping Kelly left back, however he can't be blamed for some of the mistakes that keep happening. The one from Cabaye yesterday sums this shower of s*** up.

He should be given 2 games to save his job.

Thick and thin. PTID!!!

Does anyone agree with me whilst on the subject of players that zaha and co looked very foolish celebrating the first goal in such theatrical fashion when it was by no means job done game over. Maybe it's because I watched it later knowing the outcome but it made me bloody angry

When I was a young girl my Mother said to me.. You listen here kid you're CPFC

If none of it is his fault why should he only be given 2 more games to save his job? That's not being PTID through "thick and thin"!

Personally I think he should've gone last season. Getting to the cup final was the worst thing that could've happened because it kept him in the job.

Get rid now. Before it's too late.

"You can feel the stadium jumping. The stadium is actually physically moving up and down"
FA Cup MOTD 24/4/16

I think this run of games has been very strange, and probably unique in all my very long Palace experience. We obviously have lost the capacity to defend set pieces and see out games we are leading in. Despite that we have often been within a whisker of getting much more from each game. Luck has played a big part in our decline and you cannot control your luck. For most of the game yesterday it seemed we might have sorted out the defence, but then the headless chicken syndrome struck again. We have lost the determination of Delaney, and too many others have lost form and confidence at the same time. They haven't though all become bad players overnight and piling pressure on them isn't going to help. They will be as aware of their failures as everyone else. Pardew has clearly been expecting the players to do their jobs and has been giving them enough time to find their form, knowing what else he has available. He sees them in training and knows their moods and what else is affecting their lives. None of us knows this and every player has outside influences, just as we all do. They aren't machines. They are emotional human beings. I think though he now realises that something has to be changed, if for no other reason than to build some confidence in those that don't get dropped.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

I get your sentiment and player form is very worrying. However we know these players can do better...and there is no option to change all the players so that's usually why the manager has to go to bring around change.

I accept that the manager can't take all lhe blame for individual errors or players having an off day. Everyone needs to take some responsibility themselves for their own performances.

But it can't just be a coincidence that virtually the whole team has been underperforming to the extent that they have. We've gone from looking like Europa League contenders in 2015 to relegation candidates in 2016, and for that the buck has to stop with Pardew.