I think Brighton is a telling game - we have to be in the game against our rivals. Tame display, no shots, abject defeat = gone in my opinion. A manager has to be able to demonstrably motivate a side.

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I disagree with your sentiments however I think this is a well written post despite our subjective, emotional and contextual feelings differing, with mine being geared more towards panic. You could well prove to be right and for all my inclination to despair, my wanting the best for palace of course hopes you are right Brinscall.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

If there was someone with the necessary experience available now I would agree to dispense with Vieira BUT the only candidates who have the experience won't risk their reputations to come in as a firefighter.

So we must carry on and decide at the end of the season.

In the meantime, the manager must now prove his worth and cease fannying about. Stop the idiocy of playing Luka who was awful (can't believe that Hughes/Richards & McArthur were all ill)

The defence is reasonably stable and will improve with the return of Doucoure (providing he doesn't do a Casimiro repeat) but what is lacking is 1. a goal scorer and 2. a provider.

Based on Ahamada's cameo against City I would delegate him as the provider and dispense with Schlupp and Ayew. Play Edouard as and out and out No.9 and command Wilf and Olise to get crosses in with Eze supporting. It goes without saying that our abysmal work-rate must be improved rapidly.

Another match with NIL SHOTS ON TARGET will make us the laughing stock of the PL, if we are not already.

If we go out with a whimper on Wednesday against Brighton I suspect that PV’s number will be up. There can’t be much worse than humiliation against the club’s biggest rivals. It’s embarrassing for the fans as well as the board.
As for lack of support by the board, they did some great business in the 2021 summer transfer window, bringing in Andersen, Guehi, Olise, Edouard and Hughes. The 3 windows since have been a disappointment.
I don’t know if I’m imagining this, but the board always seem to splash the cash at the start of a new manager’s reign. Pulis, Pardew, Allardyce, and Vieira all spring to mind. It was a case of having to with PV as so many players were out of contract, but the team has looked lightweight, unfit, unincentivised and lacking any leadership this season.
I do appreciate the board have certain financial constraints but the unwillingness to recruit an experienced midfield general and a forward who knows where the back of the net is will, by the looks of things, be a false economy. I dread to think how much the club will lose by being relegated.
Short of having the sort of billions possessed by the likes of Citeh and Newcastle, I don’t see us ever being anything other than a club where PL survival is success. I really don’t think it matters who is manager given the lack of squad and cash.

Look up the transfer fees and wages of Benteke and Edouard.

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Since we beat West Ham we have failed to beat Villa, Brentford, Brighton, Fulham. We have not exactly played City every week. I wouldn’t have us as favourites to beat a single team in this division at the moment. We are in serious trouble.