Still carrying on with your one-man vitriol at WH. He kept a clean sheet - what more do you want? OK, he didn't get anywhere near any of the pens but none of our keepers ever do. Certainly VG went the wrong way on Saturday too. Perhaps at the next shoot-out the keeper should go the same way every kick - statistically he must get it right once.

Anyway RH is to blame for this farce. He picks the team, decides the tactics and subs etc. OK he didn't get the players he wanted in the summer, but he got McCarthy who he'd been after for years. That team last night should have won comfortably, but Roy's stifling tactics blew any chance of that. What's wrong with moving the ball forward quickly?

Whenever I see WH on the team sheet I despair as I know what the result will be. WHY RH picks him still none of us can understand as well as is his choice in Benny as he could not score in open play if he tried. He is always complaining that his team mates do not feed him the ball....What a load of cr@p he has got to the stage when we should farm him out the Chinese as they seem to want him and for what reason I just cannot see why.
I agree with you that RH does not pick a team to suit the purpose only his favourites. He complains that he does not get the players he wants in the windows but that applies to other managers as well but you do not see them complaining all the time like Roy does. I am afraid Roy is past his sell by date and we need a younger manager who can read the modern game and make the necessary adjustments when required we might then see a change in our home match results. When you see Roy on TV or Internet he is scratching his head wondering what the f@ck to do even though he has subs sat behind him that could turn a match around IF he had the balls to do it. Think about it WHY did Roy get the elbow as the England manager????? I rest my case.

Supported Palace for over 69 years since the age of 7 and have seen all the ups and downs and will probably see many more ups and downs before I go up to the big football club in the sky.

He did actually, just got a hand to their 3rd one pushing on to the inside of the post and it squeezed in

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Sky sport highlight with Palace having a dangerous free kick which was just over floated by Camarasa to nobody in the box. Why not have another player with him and touch it off, roll it forward, even a winger to run down the flank or a dangerous low ball into the box ? No imagination whatsoever in the front third of the pitch. Turgid.

Edited by Booted Eagle (28 Aug 2019 5.58pm)

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That intentional?

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

These sort of results happen every year, it’s not unusual . Norwich, actually got done in ninety minutes so it happens, the only explanation is these Premier league second strings are not really teams, they don’t work as a team regularly ,so it sometimes doesn’t happen for them, against elevens that work together most weeks.
It’s still bloody disappointing when a collection like the one Palace put out last night can’t even rustle up a goal in ninety minutes against a moderate 4th division outfit. That side of it must be alarming, as the fact is the forward line last night will be expected to keep us in the Premier.