So are Palace your "second" team ?

Exactly that. The reason that football is so exciting is because it is completely unfair. Today was the perfect example of that.

"We love you Palace, we f@cking hate Man U, We love you Palace, we hate the brighton too, We love you Palace we play in red 'n' blue, so f@ck you, and you ...

Have to hand it to you Willo, I never thought I'd be more pessimistic than you this season, right I'm going to pull my socks up, dust off my optimists hat and we'll start again next week.

Bangell - If Camus wrote The Myth of Sisyphus today, it would be about Jason Puncheon eternally trying and failing to pass with his right foot.

Same here. I've given up any real hope and found myself trying to enjoy last week but being honest I didn't really. It just felt like 3 points we should've had 2 months ago on the long road to 40 we won't make. All down to a bit of:

Feeling it won't last;

So much more to be done;

So long since any joy that small doses of excitement do very little.

If you've played football without a striker you know how much of a losing and often demoralising battle it is, despite how up for it you might get as a player. What the players must think after they've gone would be interesting, although they haven't covered themselves in glory with a striker either.

COYP

I was there today and we looked pretty good, composed and in control most of the game. We should have done better in a few attacking situations but were solid in defence. That is until the last 10 minutes or so when they made a couple of subs and we didn’t... they started to look stronger and we were a bit slow with our subs - I would have brought on Fosu-mensah and Loftus-Cheek - as last week. Zaha should have been left on (unless injured) as he always worries the defenders and keeps them pinned back.
In the end we were a bit unlucky and that’s football - Newcastle are a good side but most of the match we were the better team - you just have to take something when you’re in the ascendancy or you can come a cropper. Play like that every week and we’ll pick up points - not going to worry about relegation - it could happen but there’s enough time and matches for the averages to even out in our favour.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller

Having just seen the goal for the first time, I’m fairly sure Hennessey would have saved it? Not having a dig at Speroni but most of us including me wanted us to keep the same 11 this week after the Chelsea result. So, who plays in goal next week - perhaps Hennessey gets his chance midweek to prove he should be number 1 verses Westham?