Calm down; I was only asking a simple question of the original poster, who was celebrating our "best start for years" apparently in jocular fashion. Perhaps try to be a bit less serious. As for "all we've just been through", numerous HOL posters have in fact remained relatively positive through the close season, so I'm not sure who you mean by "we'.

Anyway, for the record, this in my opinion is a far more positive and encouraging 0-0 home draw against Everton than the one a few short months ago (which I attended), when we played pretty badly and were extremely lucky to emerge with a point.

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A good point and a good display by our defensive.

But why on earth not go for a winner in the end?

Just saw Villa go 1 - 0 up at Spurs - after two Villa players chasing the ball centrally up front. Wouldn’t have happened with us, cause Roy would never allow such “risk” - but preferred 10 players defending. A pity.

I'm just back from the game and fairly pleased. I thought we competed well and it was a pretty sound performance and, individually, an encouraging one from Ayew. I also thought, amongst others, Ward and Kelly played well. However, there is still the ongoing worry of where the goals are going to come from.

That worked out well for Villa didn’t it. Know when to defend !!

Second half we played some good stuff, against a pretty solid Everton side.
Both sides had a couple of scoring opportunities , so overall a point a piece is probably fair enough.

Totally agree, lots of positives especially as we have players to come in to the side. We looked well organised as always but boy oh boy why did we not invest in a striker who knows how to finish!

With a Pukki or Maupay in the side Palace would have picked up all three points!