Well, Willo said that "Hodgson didn't want to upset the apple cart". Now unless you do the Pardew schoolboy error of making changes whilst defending a corner, the team should be able to accommodate like-for-like changes with players who know the system without any pericombobulations. Persevering with men who are too tired when the other lot are bringing on fresh men however is asking too much of the players.

Willo also said that we lost the game because Everton made changes and we did not.

So, what instructions were the players given, and of those, which were they not following?

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Same old same old from this side.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

It wasn’t working. It worked all first half where we controlled the game. But as the second half progressed it became more and more heavy Everton pressure. The only sensible conclusion is we were tiring and the manager did NOTHING to change it

Hodgson would have asked the players to give 110% and be disciplined in the tactical framework he set out.I suspect that to him they carried this out to the letter and he was happy to take the draw and of course he had to consider what he had on his bench.

At the end of the day, had we got a draw I don't think too many would have said we didn't deserve a share of the points.

Roy needs to take the blame today.

Big up the Palace!!!!

The bench wasn’t that bad. I’d have taken any of Wickham, Puncheon, Ayew or Kaikai over a knackered Jeff Schlupp with 80 mins in his legs.

Arguably I’d take most of those over a fresh Jeff Schlupp too though!

And can you honestly say that any of those subs would definitely be worse than Townsend was today? He was utter pony.