My 10p worth.

10 years and we’ve just not progressed at all. It looked like Roy had stabilised us and last season PV would be moving us on.
But we really seem to have gone backwards and by what appears to be a massive amount.
None of us know what’s really going on behind the scenes but honestly on game day it just looks awful. I can handle losing if we put up a fight and I’m not expecting us to compete with the big guns. But where is the fight and passion. Those golden moments when we did the impossible and played amazing and for brief moment we all dreamed of European nights.
I’ve been watching and following Palace since 79 and seen some bad bad football and felt crap (none more than getting a ticket for cup final off a mate only to find it was deep in with the mancs).
All those days and nights and I just can’t remember us being this lazy, slow, passionless, clueless and just plain bad.

We have some good players, some bad but how they are being set up and sent out is a mystery. There is no way a Pulis or big Sam gets this bad with those players.

I don’t want to jump on the PV out boat but it is a worry. We won’t always have worse teams saving us.

I keep telling myself we so nearly went out of existence but how long do we stay thankful for just being here and in the Premier league. Look at Brighton, Brentford, Fulham… all looking so much better and more of a fit for league than us and I hate that.

Well, I'm chuffed to bits! We got a valuable point against an in-form and very good team. A little jammy, maybe, but so pleased for Steve Tomkins who was in the right place at the right time.

Not a pretty performance but we were without Anderson, Zaha, Richards, Wardy, and gave a run out to our two new midfielders. Great to see McArthur on the bench too.

And despite this we didn't lose to Brighton - what a great result - I'm celebrating!

As for relegation, definitely not this year. There are more than three teams who have bigger problems than we do.

With our limited budget we are performing a flipping miracle!

After 55 years of supporting this club I know that this is the longest period of success we've had, and Palace continue to exceed my expectations.

Patrick Vieira is still a novice in PL tearms but I'm enjoying the football so much more than the Roy Hodgson years.

are you taking the p**s

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

The game played out as expected with Brighton largely dominant.
I thought we competed reasonably well, but we really lack threat in the forward areas and the only way we were going to score was a Brighton mistake which fortunately happened.
We have to hope that Zaha returns in some sort of form and that we manage to keep a few clean sbeets.
A few of our players just aren't of sufficient quality.

There are times when your criticism could be a little more nuanced.

You've decided you don't like him, and so you blame everything on him.

Personally, I don't think the squad is good enough. But I agree, the quality that is present does not appear to be in an environment that allows individuals or a team to flourish.

I would love to hear Vieira's genuine, honest assessment of where he's trying to get to, and what he believes the reasons are for the current failure. But that's never going to happen.

If anyone needs cheering up, Southampton's result is quite funny.