I do wonder about our fans at times; yes it was Grimsby, but as soon as they went down to 10 men it was always going to be hard to break down a team that is hell bent on sitting deep and closing teh space down...we did it to the best team in teh country not more than 3 weeks ago!

Also, as a result i dont think Sorloth played that badly, he brought players into play far more than we've seen recently and actually ran about!

I was however dissappointed with Meyer, Wilf (both of whom should've shown far much more nouse and quality given the amount of posession they had) and Suoare! I think for the latter that'll be the last we see of him in a Palace shirt...apart from 2 of the best corners we've put in all season he was ...well WOEFULL. 3 times he let their right winger in behind him in the first 20mins...he was all over the place.

Dann was a sight for sore eyes though, again, it was against a team 3divs lower but his passing and threat at set pieces gives us much needed cover in that area..I also thought Reidewald played intelligentlly (esp in the period of 5mins that we were down to 10men as well).

We, as a team simply struggle to break teams down...Cardiff was a prime example of that with our full strength 11 and that simply comes down to us slowing the ball down in teh final third when instead thats when a team should in fact pick the pace up (just look at City, arsenal and liverpool when they get in to the final third).

So lets get some persepective shall we, we won, thankfully had no injuries and some players on the fringes got some much needed game time.

19,900 and something. Way more than I was expecting.

Might be really unfair but I get the impression he’s a little arrogant and confused as to why he’s not starting every week. There seemed to be widespread confusion as to why we paid what we paid for him in Scandinavia. Hope he gains confidence, picks up and proves his doubters wrong but he has work to do...

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And what have you based this statement on?

Grimsby had packed the box and crowded Zaha every time he had the ball as they did with Townsend, his game is coming in from the wing and having one two's not doing the stuff he tried today, Townsend had a good game today and is improving I feel all the time, very impressed with him.