Whilst i'd like to see youth given a chance, it's much more beneficial for them at this stage of their career to be playing week in, week out. If they stayed, and we just gave them a run out in Capital One cup, they'd play around 2/3 games a season. I much prefer this approach of letting them go out on loan and gradually loan them up the leagues.

If they can do the business in the Championship, then they may have a good chance of doing it in the premiership. At the moement, the only one that seems likely to be able to make the leap, is Kaikai.

I totally get what people are saying and I understand that the club are trying to improve the squad etc.

But lets be fair all we have done is the following:

Mccarthy - Relaced with Mandanda

Mariappa, Hangeland - Replaced with Tomkins so one down already in defence

Jedinak, Bolasie - Replaced with Flamini & Townsend

Gayle, Adebyor, Chamakh - Replaced with Benteke & Remy so 1 down here

So basically yes we have improved in terms of quality but in regards to the depth we have actually decreased this by 2 players.

AP himself said that this season we need to improve the depth so that when we get injuries it does not effect us like last season well this clearly has not been done just look at the defence currently.

I understand about loaning young players out but come on seriously am I the only one who thinks integrating Kalikai & Boetang into the senior squad would be worse than persavering with the likes of Sako, Chungy or Mutch.

I am not moaning about the club just making some suggestions and trying to undersatnd why certain players continue to stay around the first team squad when they have shown they are not good enough and instead we could be bedding in a couple of younger players.

Edited by dazza (22 Sep 2016 11.14am)

Palace’s fringe players not being as good as Southampton’s fringe players is ‘a disgrace’

Similar views to mine dazza.

Surely it's better to try and develop KaiKai and Boateng and give us fans something to look forward rather than subjecting us to watching players struggle to make the grade?

Money is not an issue surely?

I agree with you on the deadweight players which is why I don't include them in posts. We need some mugs to come in for them but fryers? Could we not have loaned him out for part of his wages and got a decent defender in?

The mistake we've made is releasing 2 CBs and bringing in 1 whilst relying on midfielders to cover full back when that was a thin area before. So we have 6 defenders for 4 positions and 5 midfielders for 3 positions. Of course there could come a time when were stretched.

Let's hope the weakest it'll be is punch and another in midfield with Chungy at 10 and covers at full back.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (22 Sep 2016 11.56am)

Edited by Rudi Hedman (22 Sep 2016 12.17pm)

COYP

Clearly Pardew belives that these so called "Struggling journeymen" have more to offer than our so called "Developing talent" at this present time and as such would rather the young talent get regular football than be called upon for cameo appearances.All down to matter of opinion about the strength and weaknesses of players and perhaps looking at the "Bigger picture".