That was the sort of game I enjoy in retrospect - I was able to sit back on the train journey home, in soaking wet trousers, with the warm glow of another 3 points in the bag. At the time, though, it was often painful to watch.

Yes, how did we win that? We certainly seemed to do our best to throw it away in the first part of the second half as we ran around like headless chickens. It does worry me that if we keep losing composure like that we will eventually be punished.

Still there were positives. Puncheon is becoming a goal scoring machine! Delaney again put in a great shift and I thought Jerome played one of his best games for us. And it almost goes without saying Ward turned in another quality performance.

Have to disagree on Joel Ward's performance as I thought he had a poor game by his standards.

As for Jedi, could it be that he is slightly inhibited by the return of Paddy?

Its just a thought on the possibility that part of his confidence comes from being the recognised leader.

A good summary Finchers, the only thing I would disagree with is that Hull aren't sh!t, if Jelavic gets up to speed quickly, he will get them goals, Long on the other hand is pony and at £6m to buy out the remaining 6 months of his contract looks like desperation on fat noses part. I reckon they'll stay up as we will

Edited by Plane (29 Jan 2014 10.04am)

Just before the sub they were bombarding our goal time after time. As soon as Paddy came on, the ship was steadied. Looked a strange substitution at the time, but for me it worked a treat and like someone else pointed out he then changed it later on by replacing Gabbidon once we were settled again. The wrong sub at that point (or no sub) we would have surely conceded the way it was going. Superb tactics for me

before i get shot down in flames it was great to get three points and i suppose its all about staying up this season and securing a footing in the premiership.But surely next season we will have to perform in a more attacking manner as i am sure that back to the wall negative tactics against mediocre sides aka Hull wont be pretty week in week out for the selhurst faithful..Maybe it was pullis getting some park the bus practice for the emirates on sunday.Holloways tactics certainly not successful but maybe theres a middle ground that could be successful next year.
Also dont know if its only me but is anyone else finding it strange that Jules has taken to punching crosses away that he previously caught.More Pullis tactics.

Lets hope so because we are going to need him. I just felt he looked tired all match, apart from the final ten minutes or so where he seemed to get a second win and won a few crucial midfield battles. I'm sure its just a one off like you say and he will be back to his best soon.

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