Definitely, especially when considering the players he has had to work with this season ..some of whom would struggle within Ipswich's squad.

This season should have been about improving our position of the last - 11th. We have under achieved and as has been said previously by many on here it’s not the loss so much to City today that’s the issue but losing at HOME to the Southampton, Watford, Brighton etc. Watching us against the weed was akin to witnessing England in the dying throes of Hodgson’s reign.

I am fed up with reading about this being the most successful period of Palace’s history but simply ensuring that we avoid relegation is not ambition and we constantly look down rather than up. Unless we change our outlook we will not attract the calibre of player we need to get we should be.... secondly, retain the key players that are again needed and thirdly see a decline in home support to the totally negative and tepid football served up.

I think back to us playing City about 3 (maybe more) years ago when we put in incredible effort and came out winning with that superb free kick by Puncheon. Then the 3-3 with Liverpool, coming back from the dead. This inspired fans and proved that irrespective of what money had been spent by the opposition you can get near to a level playing field by a positive game plan and a collective belief in a will to win not just keep the score down.

Bring back Brolin

It’s interesting how much blame or credit the manager gets for success or failure - how much responsibility should the coaching staff bear?

Responsibility comes down to individual players not doing the things the manager and coach wants them to do mainly because the individual players are not as competent on and with the ball as the players they are facing, which usually happens when one team has better resources.

Edited by Tickled pink (14 Apr 2019 11.09pm)

The internet is a fantastic invention but it’s obviously given rise to a great number of critical people who probably if they were actually to meet up with the person in the public eye, would I am guessing be rather more polite with their greeting. So it’s a phenomenon that is now very common and the more moderate amongst us have to live with, and I am fairly sure the likes of Roy and SP will know it comes with the territory and they can handle most of it all in a days work.
In my moderate view Roy has steadied a rocking ship and the premier is probably the toughest league in the world and a big leap higher than the championship. So where we have come from and what we have available to where we are today we don’t pull the plug as we don’t really know what might go down the hole.

You have real trouble levying any blame on the manager....... the problem is that the players ARE carrying out what the manager wants that is why we are being served up such negative rubbish at home. Do you really think they enjoy playing to this rigid system evvvvvvery home game? It’s England re-visited!

Bring back Brolin