....that the team could benefit more from Cabaye playing a little more advanced?
His best years were at Newcastle when he often found himself in a position to finish. He was like a box-to-box player in a 4-3-3 system, with a good finishing touch.
Playing him so much behind, a central defensive midfielder, you kind of take away from his offensive abilities.
Maybe, I don't know....

I am not at all worried and remain confident that we will beat the drop.

Why.....

1. Given that we are not playing with a centre forward, we are playing well as today showed.Defensively we are looking tight and disciplined which, we weren't at the beginning of the season and a few games into Roy's reign. A lot of work has obviously been done on the training pitch and more to come no doubt.
2. We are also starting to score goals (although not today) and with hopefully a fired up Benteke (is there such a thing??) to return shortly.
3. We are still not cut adrift and two wins will get us into the mix with still 27 games to go. Will those be Everton and Brighton?
4. The fans at SP (not bad a Wembley today) give the team a huge lift and this IMO will be crucial to being a PL club next season.

It is not a good situation but there is reason for more than hope. Keep the faith and COYP!

Bring back Brolin

Good performance again today. Everything seems to be coming together apart from the most important part. The ridiculous transfer window is what will send us down.

I think we're turning the corner. Cannot knock the performance today whatsoever. Deserved a point at the very least. Nobody had a bad game and I personally believe that was one of the best performances Cabaye has had for us. So so gutted about the result but feeling confident for the future, if we can play like that in our next few games against the 'lesser' clubs then we'll get a few more points on the board

"It's ok postman , he'll lick you to death" "That isn't really that comforting , I still end up dead !!"

I WILL keep the faith (I promise) but as a 'seasoned campaigner', to me this season bears all the hallmarks of one of those typical years when nothing will go right, and my fear is that this will continue. Yet another annoying and unjust 1-0 defeat against the spuds would be a bit more bearable, if only we took 'justified' points elsewhere (4 or 6 against Newcastle and WHU, for example). But in a 'typical year' such as this, we are then never quite up to the mark when we play such teams, or we'll get an outrageous bit of bad luck or a dodgy decision etc etc.

Sorry, I guess I'm just feeling a bit gloomy after yet another day of 'what might have been'. There can only be so many of those left. As others have said - yes, maybe we'll take 6 points from the next couple of games and all will be well.

Palace since 19 August 1972. Palace 1 (Tony Taylor) Liverpool 1 (Emlyn Hughes)

Thought we played well but yet again no goal's. You cannot win matches if you don't score simple.
Unless this addressed quickly we are down.

GT

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