Played well and his kicking certainly looked to be part of a plan to force an aerial battle and turn their defenders more than they’d like.

Great save second half.

FFS!

Started on the ciders too early!!!!

And nor should I be expected to. It’s about f***ing time he earnt the wages that he’s been stealing from our club for a few years. The useless t***. All you divs come on here giving it the big one when he’s had one good game. Doesn’t undo all the s***e games he’s had for us does it? So whilst I will give him credit for having a decent game today. I will not eat humble pie and pretend that he is anywhere near the level that we need all of a sudden.

"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 ...

I think your condemnation of this player is a disgrace.

Like all players he has had periods of better and of worse form. He has been our first-choice keeper for at least what, two? three? seasons and we have remained in the Premiership throughout that time, Speroni has only come back into the first team lately. Hennessey today was not "decent", he was "f***ing excellent", as was the whole defence. One of his predecessors was McCarthy who was definitely worse.

And like all players he has strengths and weaknesses. Today he was selected not because he was "better" than Speroni, or fitter, or less tired, but because his strengths were applicable to the plan for dealing with today's opponent: he was to kick long and have Benteke etc. try to win the ball upfield, rather than playing out from the back, which might have better suited Speroni. And he did it and it was effective. A clear lesson to anyone who thinks one of these two keepers should be selected at the expense of the other all the time because they think he is the "better" of the two.

Criticise with evidence if you must but have some f***ing respect.

Edited by chateauferret (31 Dec 2017 10.29pm)

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He’s not better than McCarthy. And I’ve got every right to say what I’ve said in my last post when I’ve got wallies telling me
I should eat humble pie. Load of old bollocks.
I agree that it was good tactics by Roy today and I also think it’s been smart of him to rotate between the two goalies in his time with is so far. I just can’t stand the idiots coming on here banging their drum on the odd good game that he has, trying to paint over his sketchy past with us and pretend that he’s this amazing goalkeeper that they’ve been trying to say he is all along. We need better. We’ve always needed better and we have to go out and find better. I don’t give a s*** if you think that’s disrespectful. It’s the truth. If you don’t like that and it offends you then I’m afraid you’re going to have to learn to live with being offended. That’s just life and I’m not backing down and being an apologist for what I believe in.

Edited by Brentmiester_General (31 Dec 2017 10.59pm)

"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 ...

So how do you think he played today? Do you agree he played well?

'Lies to the masses as are like fly's to mollasses...they want more and more and more'