We should be blowing the bottom half teams out of the water with the quality of player we have available, but we don't, we have approached most games at home like we are playing Man city every week.

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I think 'blowing teams out of the water' seriously under-estimates how competitive the PL is. Unless you are Man City not Many teams regularly blow the opposition away.

At home we beat teams who finished 20th (2-0), 19th (2-0), 15th (2-0), 14th (5-3), and 9th (1-0). I agree that none of those counts as blowing them away but my recollection is that in all of these games we created a lot of good chances which we failed to take (apart from Bournemouth where we did better at converting chances), sometimes in the most inept fashion. If we'd taken half of our guilt edged chances in the 2nd half against Cardiff for instance then we really would have blown them away instead of drawing 0-0.

The disappointments were: Southampton, Wolves, Watford and, obviously, Brighton, and two of those are decent teams who finished above us.

Of course I'd like to see us do better at home but the assumption that teams will come to Selhurst Park and simply fold is unrealistic.

Hodgson would often rather not lose, than go for a win.

Not sure what he would do if he was managing Barcelona but with this group and at this level his track record is pretty well established.

In almost all home games and some away games he is conservative, traditional, fairly negative and fairly defeatist. He wants to stay in games, and nick a late goal basically. That is manager talk for being very defensive and not committing bodies forward until very late on.

Look at England now, versus under Hodgson. Its night and day. Players are going out there now with no fear and expressing themselves freely.

We did that a bit in the Bournemouth game but that is the exception not the norm. The rare exception. Against Bournemouth you saw players flooding forward. When PVA scores a goal you know we weren't ultra defensive.

Keep in mind, that approach has:

Rendered our form at Selhurst basically a joke
Given us our record points total in the premier league

Edited by Maine Eagle (14 May 2019 5.10pm)

Trump lost. Badly. Hahahahahahaha.

Now then, your going too far now

Compared to 7 wins at home last season and 6 each in the previous 3 years prior. A dramatic decline in home form is startling then.

Wake up a smell the coffee, we haven't been great at home for years.

You don’t have to tell something I don’t already know, but 5 wins at home all season, we won’t get away with it every season and having to do the business on our travels all the time will come to an end.

The season has finished and I look back on some of those home games and wonder what on earth we were doing. Some of the finishing, have another look at one of the Jimmy Mac chances, it beggars belief.