Yep and frankly our striking issue has been an issue ever since promotion. The best striker we had in that time was Murray who we decided was too old and flogged. He then went on to score 12 and 13 goals for Brighton in the Premier League three seasons later!

You can even argue that we historically are useless at recruiting strikers with the exception of a few very rare exceptions (Wright, AJ, Murray, Morrison, Freedman)

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

Good assessment - Thought that was for the first time in a long while a terrific 11 man performance. Zaha like Grealish gets no support from referees. It seems if you have flair we won’t bother giving a yellow to the opposing player if you are deliberately tripped or kicked or even trod on - grrr!

I think it's irrelevant whether I'd take a point prior to kick off. We should judge ourselves by our application and performance, as opposed to the opposition. I understand the need to temper expectations (I too dread a return to the Championship), but there is no need to maintain a small club mentality after eight successive seasons in the top flight.

I don't fear any club in the PL any more. I know we're capable of winning against any opposition, just as weare of losing to any. I don't judge results by the quality of opposition, I judge them by the performance. I would take much more pleasure in a hard-fought win against the league's bottom side than a fortunate draw against the league's top side.

Simply, we don't need to be apprehensive of expecting a bit more from the team - not in a deluded sense like West Ham fans - but in a constructive way that shows the team that they are capable of going further and breaking into the top 10.

Marrina, has little time for Wilf, remember Southampton . I don’t like acting in football . But if Wilf had acted spark out. VAR might have seen that knee of David’s as a red card.
Refs like Marrina, are an enormous help to tactics like Arsenals, under the pretence of letting the game flow without stoppage , any amount of light touch infringement is ignored.
palace played really well last night . Just the same old problem no goal. Benteke, had a good game in general , keeping ball and bringing others in to attacks, not a natural in the box finisher though

You think Sorloth was that good?

A very good performance from the majority of our players last night although I thought on the ball Townsend was poor but couldn’t fault his work rate in closing down space.I wish Wilf would stop complaining and get on with his job of trying to score goals.I hope all the people who keep calling Joel Ward a Championship defender change their minds as I thought he was superb last night.