It was a tricky cup tie and Donny are pretty good team at home. We deserved it and if the ref had done his job in the first half we would have been leading by 3 or 4 goals.

It's gotten really wild. Moaning about hanging out in Port Vale in winter? OK. Moaning about the state of affairs in 2019? Get over it! Be excited!

Batshuayi is not a conventional target man, he favours the ball to feet or into the channels.He is happy getting the ball to feet with his back to goal but is not one to win an aerial battle with a big defender behind him.Balls were played up to him aerially and he was totally ineffective as that is not his strength.

Never thought that Ayew had that poor a game.

Edited by Willo (17 Feb 2019 10.31pm)

This post has been merged from a topic called 'Parish half time interview on BBC' by bexleydave

Just replaying the game and I'm slightly puzzled by Steve Parish's comment in his half time interview with Eilidh Barbour, he said "... its an enticing draw from our fans point of view, with Brighton & Millwall both in OUR side of the draw..."
Presumably he just misspoke (distracted by Eilidh's charms no doubt) but I always like to hear a good conspiracy theory if anyone has any? Weighted balls anyone? LOL

One of the biggest mysteries in life is that loud stupid people normally don't have even the slightest inclination that they are stupid.

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Agreed.
Wardy had a poor first 15, then good.
Dann was a monster today, won every header,
Kelly solid,
Luka great play,
ayew ran around and harassed them all game, made a few mistakes, but I thought did well,
baty looks like he needs a bit more playing time,
Meyer really does well with the ball, occasionally makes a bad pass or runs into 4 players, but generally is good. Reminds me of cabaye, can control the ball and see passes before I see them on tv.
Hennessy looked like the pitch didn’t help him, but no major f ups
Pva silent
Schlupp, I’m not the biggest fan, as he tends to have periods of turning the ball over, but played well
Townsend solid.

Subs - koyate did very well, jimmy Mac solid, benteke looked awful, didn’t even win headers

Edited by Daddyorc (18 Feb 2019 12.05am)

This post has been merged from a topic called 'The only negative ' by Midlands Eagle

When they came out to vancouver, the practise session then did like a meet and great, but when they played the match, whistle blew and they were off... no shirts thrown into the crowd, no applause to the fans who travelled to the game from all over - parish and co never showed up at the palace supporters bar like they did in the states, oh well.

I do think though that the players totally respect and appreciate the support - i do feel our club has such a good following that on away games esp, the players should at least aknowledge the away fans, simply because it's such a nice gesture..

This was once a quality forum....