I think the performance and the result at Leicester confirmed what many of us believed. That we were never as bad as the situation we found ourselves in after 7 games (mainly caused by the chaos that De Boer left Roy to sort out) and we began to slowly improve and we outplayed both West Ham and Everton, but did not get the points we deserved. Pundits like Danny Murphy and Phil Neville have been saying for quite some time that we should never have found ourselves at the bottom, too much talent etc. I do actually believe that many of us still don't actually realise how good this team is, and someone was going to cop it soon (unfortunately for Leicester it ended up being them!) maybe if we can strengthen further in January then these sort of results will become the norm, and we can achieve our rightful position in the top half of the table. To be unbeaten in the last 7 games is no fluke, especially when you are in the Premier League. That takes some doing

we are pretty good ,top ten at least until we loose one or two then we are 15th-17th ,throw in a s***e manager and you are looking at the trap door .

Well the managers sorted and as the frog says should strengthen in the next couple of windows which hopefully will see us at the right end of the table by this time next year .

But of course this is Palace , Roy will run off with the yanks wife at the Christmas party never to be seen again and we will install the retiring Kaka as manager because Parish wants us to play like Brazil .

I make you right, which is a change.
The way a lot of posters want to sell our best players, we are never going to be a good team, just struggle. Talk of selling Benteke and getting some cheap foreigners with no premier experience, just shows the ambition of some people.

The past seven games have been fantastic. I am a fairly optimistic Palace fan and struggle with the doomsday scenarios that are often pitched on this site.
I have been telling my son we will be okay for months, although this run and last week in particular has exceeded my expectations.
I think we stay up and if we can get it right from the start of the season and get decisions and have luck then this team should be finishing between 10th to 8th.

I think all of our first team undoubtedly have the quality to play in a top-half side, maybe except the goalkeepers and full-backs. If Roy was in charge for an injury-free season we could certainly hit 7th-9th.

But as others have said, our squad depth is very troubling - decent numbers in defence, but a real lack of quality back-up in midfield and up front. I hope the board aren't getting too optimistic after our recent results, and recognise that we still need a couple of offensive players in January.

They should go in for Rooney then. There aren't many more offensive players than him.

============
The Ferret
============