I watched Roy’s press conference and felt he was unduly harsh on the young players who came on.
The experienced players also didn’t play well after Spurs went two up and I thought the heads dropped until the brief rally at the end.
Why single out the youngsters?
At a more fundamental level it’s a failure of the club as by rights Rak Saki should be on loan at a Championship club , but our failure to recruit means he’s a bench warmer thrown on in games often when we’re behind in games and expected to be the game changer.
Ahamada is also only used when we fall behind.

What was evident to me yesterday was the lack of speed and energy in our team.
Hughes tries hard but hasn’t got the legs to play attacking midfield as he did yesterday.
I think to an extent Schlupp’s legs have gone and he seems unable to provide the thrust and make those driving runs which he did in the past.
Perhaps a case of age and injuries catching up.

With regard to Roy, he’s fine in terms of setting up a structure to contain teams , but once we fall behind he struggles.
His conservative instincts mean he worries about pushing forward and then going two goals down.
However, staying with the same pattern of play means you’ve no chance of equalising.
He doesn’t seem to have cracked this conundrum.
I’m not being too critical for him.
Without Olise, Eze and Zaha it’s necessary to have some realism about our lack of attacking threat.

Thoughtful and fair analysis Patrick.

For my part I really worry that what Roy said about the youngsters actually represents an underlying distrust of youth and also what message it sends them. If he - or the club generally - can't work out how to integrate promising but raw young talent into the squad what an earth is the point of the academy or buying in someone like Franca? They should be the future of the club and they need nurturing and support, not unconstructive criticism.

I hope Roy sits down with them on Monday and makes good any damage or otherwise we could lose them.

You can't change the way things are but you can change the way you are with the way things are.

All teams have injuries.
Roy's answer is to double down and play even more negatively. And, when the opposition take the lead, do nothing because there's no contingency plan beyond holding for a 0-0. Start every game with players past their prime, leave subs too late, and lambast the substitutions for not rescuing the game that the past it players had lost.
A true professional, and never Roy's fault. We need to move on from this. I can envisage a time soon when our most gifted players will be thinking about a career elsewhere, as there's not much to be had with mere survival tactics playing negative football. And then it's back to square one. Of course this is the conundrum Parish has to seriously think about if he wishes to fill his 34000 seater stadium.

We did our best, need Eze and Olise back. OG killed us

Big up the Palace!!!!

Lots of .Roy this, Roy that , Roy should have talk. But personally I don’t think he has any reason to feel overly excited by the young players on our bench. I get the feeling he knows this is his swan song, so why not confirm what he actually thinks.
We held Spurs very well until the own goal, only because of Roy’s tactics, with more quality we could have scored and possibly beaten them, but we don’t have that quality right now, it was there for all to see on three or four occasions. A forward line with Olise, Eze, and dare I say Wilf, could have won that game under Hodgson.
No matter how Hodgson voices it , our young substitutes are not good enough to improve us in most games. Spurs bring on the full armoury of international talent, as all the top half sides can do ,we bring on three kids trying to make their way in the game,and a has been to try and rescue a lost cause. Maybe he chose some wrong words, but he must be frustrated by the situation.
For me when it comes to wanting to compete in this league the young players are not good enough, certainly yet, and that’s what Hodgson is actually saying. Not to say they couldn’t be but more work needs doing away from the pressure of games like the last two..
In the over all losing to a good Spurs side is not the end of the world, what worries me is that without Eze, and Olise , we don’t look like we can score often enough to beat many top half sides . Outside of some clever stuff from Ayew, the rest were pedestrian , hard to know how a manager can alter that.

I agree with Roy, rak sakyi is terrible, I dont know what people see when they watch him but he's nowhere near this level, send him on loan to the championship to continue to develop.