Sunderland, Hull and Middlesbrough/Leicester

Yannick Bolasie - Glenn Murray - Wilfried Zaha

Most exciting attacking trio at Selhurst Park in years.

Them others. Let's face it though we have a habit of making poor teams look good. We are better off playing half decent teams and playing them away from home. So a win at Stoke it is then.

I have not got a negative mindset. The opposite in fact. I am very positive we will go down and have been since Arsenal away.

And do you want the really bad news? I always get it right re:play-off finals and relegation over the last 28 years.

Edited by Kermit8 (04 Feb 2017 7.03pm)

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Sounds like an ugly day all round, on and off the pitch. As you say we can still pull out of this and wouldn't be the most spectacular event in recent PL history just yet, Leicester might well have all 3 of those. The mistake might of been playing the same formation, something Sunderland knew would happen, rather than throwing Remy into the mix and a pity the new Serbian couldn't sort out his paperwork. It looked from the off that we were trying to steal a result at home. These and Sakho must figure now as it is clear a number of the team who have featured all this season aren't mentally up to it.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

Haha.

Yannick Bolasie - Glenn Murray - Wilfried Zaha

Most exciting attacking trio at Selhurst Park in years.

Just back and still truly baffled by our approach today. This is not hindsight, I said it when I saw the team. Yes, I know the old don't change a winning team adage, but surely you don't set up at home to bottom team Sunderland as you do away to Bournemouth?
It started OK, but you cannot have a keeper that gifts the opposition goals, especially if you are a team with fragile confidence at home and hope to get away with it.
The loss of Cabaye really hurt us, because although many like to complain about him, he's a busy urgent type of player who always looks forward first before he inevitably has to pass back or sideways because of a lack of movement in front of him. He also leads the team in interceptions BTW. When he went off the obvious move to me was Townsend and push Macca into the middle, as he's also a busy forward thinking player. Townsend would of also stretched the field a bit making life easier for Wilf and taken us back to our double wing threat days. Townsend proved in the second half how poor that decision was as he beat the right back time and again. Ledley has served us well, but he's not up to it in the prem anymore and with Punch our midfield became too slow and laboured. Punch is so low on confidence right now that he just keeps turning in circles and holding the ball too long.
We set up too conservatively and once Hennessey and Ledley gave away the first two goals we were done. Really cannot understand Sam's approach in the game that I really believed was gonna kick start our season. Also can't believe Sam didn't believe we desperatley needed a new keeper in the window?
Was truly soul destroying today, but I expected no points at Bournemouth and a win today, so I got the 3pts I expected, just the wrong way round.
Personally think we are going down, but I've been wrong before and there are plenty of points to play for, it's really now down to how mentally scarred we are after today.

That's Life
And as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin' on a Dream.
KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!