Shocking team performance today. Villa compete for everything, tackle and attack at pace.
Palace are so wasteful, slow and give teams far to much room to work in all over the pitch. The only thing they do at pace is slip and fall over!
Luka is a total waste on the team sheet!
We desperately need some younger players in the squad.
As for the crossing/free kicks/corners today did their goalkeeper have homing device in his gloves or something? All of them absolute crap!
Can't accurately pass the ball around and put 10 men to the sword in 55 minutes of play to win a game or a least get a draw is nothing short of dreadful!

Agree with every word. Something clearly is wrong and regretfully we are going to have to get back to basics and as boring as it was 4 in midfield, two of which must be Ridewald and Mcarthy. Got to stop conceding and dig in. As Alardyce used to say ‘respect the point!’
This is not the time to sack the manager but come together.

Bring back Brolin

Hodgson had the chance today after the Liverpool debacle to strengthen the midfield even if it meant dropping Eze. However he stuck with the two in midfield who were over run last week and they were again today. Our old and weak back four needed protection. It was bleeding obvious, but no the same tactics were used again and we was stuffed by 10 men. If Zaha and Eze are going to be selected then those alongside them have to be younger and a better quality. Hodgson had a boring but winnable formation up to COVID times last March. Since then he has changed it around and we have crashed with the odd game or two where we have looked okay. He had to change it back today but he screwed up. He needs to walk now and let a caretaker manager take us through the next few matches awaiting a new manager to come in. Not sure who, but there must be someone out there? Even if it means building a side to get us out of the championship next season back to the prem?

He is a git ... but his sending off presented us with a great opportunity to get back into the game. We just looked slow and disorganised. So much more could have been done to put their goal under pressure. Poor team work today.

Edited by Henry of Peckham (26 Dec 2020 6.04pm)

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

We just spent 25M on Eze. We can't afford to do that every window, especially in the middle of a pandemic when there is no money coming in.

Our current roster is more than good enough to comfortably stay up. If Roy can't even manage that, it's time for him to move on.

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

The problem is that a number of players need to be replaced but there is hardly any re-sale value in our 'Dad's Army' and I suspect little prospect of an injection of sufficient funds to bring in a few younger,more vibrant players.