I've been a critic of Wayne on here I'll freely admit, i'm also glad to say he currently seems to be in the form of his life and long may that continue.

I think some of the original problem lies not with Wayne but with how Julian was treated when Wayne wasn't performing so well.

To go back, Julian had arguably just had his best ever season with Palace when he dislocated a finger and had to be replaced with WH, Wayne had a bad run and was replaced by McCarthy who screwed up against Liverpool gifting them a goal, then Wayne got straight back in and JS never got a chance. Wayne then had some more average games (including dropping one through his legs at Villa?) still JS never got a chance. Criminal.

With the above stated ... more and more my ire is towards Pardew and his arrogance and lack of man management skills.

That all said I do think Wayne is currently No.1 on credit as he has upped his game and looks far more commanding. Hopefully Dean Kiely can keep him firing.

Edited by si_1967 (16 Jan 2018 10.41am)

Edited by si_1967 (16 Jan 2018 10.41am)

... what

Have criticised the big man in the past and when I read "I'm not a fans favourite" at Palace I welled up Please forgive me Wayne....another double bartender!!

If I agreed with you we'd both be wrong

I’m happy to maintain the status quo as is.

Edited by Brentmiester_General (16 Jan 2018 5.05pm)

"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'm not his biggest fan but I agree he had a very good game and claimed a lot of high balls into the box.

His performances (except for Brighton in the cup) have definitely improved. This could be due to having a manager willing to drop him in favour of Speroni and now he knows he has serious competition.

I have prepared one of my own time capsules. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

This would be a great thing.
Maybe it is part of it , maybe it's because the cheerleaders in the Hennessey is to blame for everything crowd have got bored and the sheep have no one to follow and are seeing he is not so bad after all.
Maybe it's because there is another target to slag in the Benteke thread and he is getting a bit of respite.
Be nice if everyone got behind the players we have available that are doing so well after the start we had to the season because there is still a way to go.
Anyhow , as said it would be great if it is the coaching , a bit more he could end up world class , how good would that be for Palace.