Give what a rest exactly?

I was just stating my amusement

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

Reading the match report on sky sports this is what Hodgson said
"I don't think we worked hard enough up front, were good enough technically or played good enough football to get back into the game after the goal - and that's born out by the fact we hardly had a shot in the second half.

"That's inadmissible, but why? I don't really know. The quality we have is far better than we showed in the second half. We showed some quality before half-time but in the second half we couldn't get back on level terms."

I really don’t know what planet he is on. My reading of that game was that was a horrendous performance from a team of professional footballers who have been in the top league for 7 years. The fans pay bloody good money to travel the length and breadth of this country following their team for a crap performance like that.

If you state that we have quality in our team and that quality is not performing then there is something wrong with the manager’s tactics. Training methods etc. its all very well saying that we didn’t work hard enough up front. For players to work up front they need service and they didn’t get that, in fact the whole team didn’t work hard enough for the strikers to work up front . Roy needs to open his eyes this is not a one off bad performance its week in week out. The fans deserve better.

South London & Proud
Sometimes I really wonder if family are really worth it.
Because it doesn’t matter how time and affection you give
It’s never enough

While the ownership issues may be part of the problem, the investment for Americans will be worth a hell of a lot less if we’re relegated.
You would think it would be in their interests to ensure that Palace are as well positioned as possible to avoid yet another struggle.

Certainly some scenario is sucking the money out of the club as we weren't willing/could not spend out £15-20 million a player for a striker/right back, which was the norm in the transfer window. Unfortunately this is the market and cannot see it changing for quite some time. We should of had a decent starting 11 with all the deficiencies/loss of players filled in an attempt to rectify them. Instead the deficiencies remain and we look weaker in certain areas than last season.

Edited by Booted Eagle (18 Aug 2019 6.22pm)

“ [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

This post has been merged from a topic called 'Worrying times......' by Midlands Eagle

Much as I love Uncle Roy and he’s been hampered by our poor window, we all know there’s losing and there’s losing, and today was about as bad as it gets without getting a good hiding, totally clueless and lacklustre, players looking uninterested and looking like they’d rather be somewhere else. I’ve got a feeling SP won’t let it go on too long.

Edited by monkey (18 Aug 2019 6.39pm)

Again! ..mess what mess? we were out fought that was all, our game is to wear teams down and hit them on the break, they just defended as a team brilliantly against us all game.

Everyone needs to calm down.