Sorry to quote you twice, but that is the actual point and I missed it.

I'd like to see what Ferguson can do. Unfortunately for us and him, he is off for a long-term. Which at his age does not bode well.

The team still needs to figure out how to survive without Zaha. He is likely to leave in the summer and the question is do we trust Roy to fix it, or do we gamble on a new guy.

But the main point is that there is no big problem. There is concerns, but no.

If we are going to lose Zaha, who better to trust than our most successful premier league manager after 26 games.

For those old enough to recall Greece won the Euros many years ago employing similar tactics to Hodgson (only they were much better on set pieces).
That Greek team was made up of journeymen football players and in many ways it was a notable achievement to win a prestigious tournament.
But it had the effect of switching off a generation of fans such was the negativity of the approach.
And I could not name you one of their players today.
But I could easily name every player in the losing international tournament teams of Brazil and Holland in previous years such was the pleasure they brought to the eye.
They didn’t seek to kill off the opposition through boredom.
And so to Palace.

At present Zaha is our only injured forward if Schlupp is seen as a midfield player.
Today we played with Benteke, Ayew , Townsend and Eze and had Mateta and Batshuayi on the bench.
Not top quality perhaps, but surely good enough to take the game to the opposition at least at some stage during the game . To try to score a goal.To look like we had a smidgeon of attacking intent.
It’s surely not too much to ask.

The spot light needs to be shone at Parish and the board for this mess. 8 seasons and £1bn of payments and all we can muster at home to third from bottom side is one freaking corner. Absolute dogs breakfast.

I’m not going to defend Roy tactics over the last 2 games but at the end of the day they stopped us getting dragged into a relegation scrap so I don’t really care how we played as long as we got points.

For most of this season Roy has persisted with that awful 4-4-2 formation that did not suit us and in my book that was worse than the way we have been set up the past 2 games.

People just need to realise that Roy has been given 1 task and that is to keep us in the league and by hook or by crook he will do that. He won’t care who he upsets along the way. The club have a plan for the future and it all revolves around staying in this division and progressing the squad, academy and stadium. If we go down we can certainly wave any hope of progress goodbye. The sooner some of our fans realise this, the better they will sleep at night.

Roy does not care how we play and Steve Parrish does not care how we play. All they want to do is stay in this division. Getting relegated this season will be a death sentence for 3 clubs so be thankful that you are us and not Sheffield United.

And brace yourselves for the fact that Roy will more than likely be in charge next season , because believe it or not he is actually doing the job he is asked to do by his boss and they are happy because ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS STAY IN THE LEAGUE.

Likis? Dowie signed him for our season in the prem under him.

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Simple defensive football along with well planned set plays are a good way of approaching international tournaments where players have matches every 3 or 4 days in hot conditions.

Brazil won in 1994 when they adopted a much more conservative approach.

Although it didn't work for Roy. Who managed 1 win in 2014 and 2016 combined.

It was a pretty lucky win at that.

I'd ask the people who rekindled their love for international tournament in 2018 where they lost interest.