I'm sorry to point out that you cant just multiply what you get in the first quarter of a season and then times it by 4 to end up with a final tally. weve got tough games ahead and weve only scored a handful of goals and one of those was an OG.

Just a reality check thats all, as our striker/goal scorer situ is a worry.

COYP

I don't care if who is the mnaager you would have thought that any PL footballer would know that with a minute to go and your team 1-0 up you would keep the ball and take it to the corner and see the game out.

Roy was badly let down on Sunday and no blame attached to him for the result, oh and neither does he expect highly paid players to miss absolute sitters.

Conjunctivitis.com - A site for sore eyes.

Quite right!
We still have to play City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea twice plus Spurs and United once - 10 games.
Not saying that we won't get a result or two from those games but if you discount them then the remainder of the season (excluding those games) is 22 games and the maths based on current form says 37 points.
Add in a few that we will pick up from those ten games and we will be okay but unlikely to set the world alight!

You say 'we've done well tbf'
Well not considering it's a gentle start to the season for us. We got lucky against the Manc's to get the points.
Sheffield Utd, Spurs, Villa and Wolves have all exposed our various weaknesses and Villa & Wolves were down to 10 men and we still couldn't finish them off!
Defensive frailties at full back, playing a non-match fit centre back, not being able to score goals again this season as well as not seeing games out professionally for 90 plus minutes (ref debatably saving us against Villa).

As for the squad can you honestly tell me that you would sit in our boardroom and argue in August for additional midfielders and a third goalkeeper over signing an additional full back and paying even £10-15m for another striker to join us if we are that cash strapped either by FPP/having to repay the current investors who want out or utilising the money towards future development?
Currently I do not see that we are getting better Townsend needs to be on the same diet as Ayew, Benteke is shot to pieces on confidence, Cahill now organises the team well certainly defensively, Luka is already on 4 yellow cards!
How do we keep a clean sheet and who is going to score our goals other than Ayew?
If either Ayew or Wilf has an injury before January What?

The loss of 2 points to Wolves didn't bother me that much, because I felt like we really didn't play well enough to deserve the 3 points. Wolves outplayed us much of the game, and could have been ahead 2-0 without some miracles by Guaita. Giving up the tying goal was unprofessional that we gave a side with 10 men so many chances at the end.

We also got extremely lucky to get 3 points versus Villa, so I feel like 4 points from Villa-Wolves is a gift.

But...Even with our decent point total so far, I'm more skeptical than ever that we will avoid relegation this year.

First, we've not played well in any game so far, except the ManU game. It's the same old issue as the past 2-3 years. No one can pass the ball, no one can create offense. It's painful football to watch. No one except Zaha, and he'll likely be gone. People have been saying this for years, but the fact that we still have no striker is mind boggling, gross mismanagement, and likely it will be our ticket to the championship.

We played our best football at the end of last season, when we had both Zaha and Batshuyahi playing all the time. Bats is gone, Zaha will be gone in January. What then? We fight off relegation with only Ayew and Benteke? It's laughable to imagine, but that appears to be the plan.

Second, there are no terrible teams this year. Villa, Norwich, and Sheffield are better than the dross at the bottom of the table last year. I don't see any team being out of it before April like last year.

Third, the lack of spending after the AWB windfall is a red flag to me that our finances are more dire than we think. We got a massive pile of cash for losing our second best player, then we signed...basically no one...to replace him or to get a striker or to get a creative midfielder.

Presumably, we'll make some signing after cashing out on Zaha, but I don't have much confidence we'll find a hidden gem in the January window who can single-handedly keep us up, like Zaha has basically done in recent years.

Sorry to be a downer, I just feel like everything is trending toward a really difficult year for us. I hope I'm wrong.

2017 Feb. (Van Aanholt) Palace 1 - 0 Middlesboro
2018 Jan. (Sako) Palace 1 - 0 Burnley
2019 May (Batshuayi, Batshuayi, OG, Van Aanholt, Townsend) Palace 5 - 3 Bournemouth
2020 Feb. (Van Aanholt) Palace 1 - 0 Newcastle

I couldn't agree more. A win tomorrow 11 from 7 would be a tidy return.