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What subs did mr de Boer have at his disposal then?

If you mr parish back him in the market. He backed other managers who had a vast amount of experience in big Sam and Pardew. How is 8m plus 2 loans enough to implement a new style. Your obviously like other fans that think parish is immune from criticism.

Edited by Dan89 (12 Aug 2017 10.08pm)

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Blimey you're mental. What next after we sack FDB after one game??

"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 ...

Transfer window's not closed.

How do you know theres not transfers being worked on? I don't think its as straight forward as football manager to get all these players in.
I don't understand what your getting at about Jedinak and Bolasie either?

The problem with this wonderful counter-attacking game that apparently we're so brilliant at is that it relies on the other team pushing up and our defence being quick enough when the game goes back the other way. You don't generally have control of the game and when teams sit deep we haven't had the players who were able to break teams down. Before we get all dewy eyed about the end of last season remember we lost four out of the last five games including 2-0 at home to Burnley and a 5-0 thrashing by Man City.

Don't get me wrong, Big Sam did a great job in keeping us up and I would have liked to have seen what he could have done this year. He identified our two big weaknesses that being a lack of fitness and the defence being disorganised and he motivated the players and helped them get on a run which ensured our safety. In reality he wasn't here long enough to truly judge him. If Pardew had left at the end of his first (half) season and the first half of the following then I imagine our views on him would be very different too.

For me I want to see two things: progression in our play and signs that FdB has the tactical nous to adjust things according to what is happening in a game. The first point would be ridiculous to judge for at least half a dozen games, and the second part was seen today when he shifted things around and we looked a better (if not great) team.

If we're still playing as badly as we did today after half-a-dozen games with no improvement then I'll start to worry, but personally I think we'll see a big improvement next week even if we lose.