The reason we won yesterdays game was , Olize, and Eze, finally not just back but up to speed at last . That’s not to denigrate the supporting cast they to were at it to.
But without those two it would have been grind it out as all season.
To get anywhere near comfort zone we have to keep those two fit and playing,
Any manager on the planet would struggle to get a really good tune out the squad, we have without having those boys, and Hodgson has only now got them back in full fitness mode.
Strange no end of people have had us not as good as Brentford, or Fulham, take that result and glance at the table, we are not world beaters by some way , but neither are are any side in the bottom ten. Sail on Roy, keep them all fit and no problem.

Edited by Putitout (31 Dec 2023 12.18pm)

Really and of course we have had zero injurys and let face it we have only played liverpool who the ref helped , thought back against man city , drew with the scum and lost to a late pen at chelsea but there not good teams , or did you want us to go all out attack against them and get thrashed , look at the bigger picture not try and keep up with the big spenders , or cant you see that

So what makes you say that Southgate has an enormous ego. He's never struck me as being that kind of person. That's not to say I want him to come to Palace BTW.

You can wrap our performances in cotton wool all you like, you can berate referees, you can call it bad luck, but at the end of the day statistics don’t lie and our return up until yesterday of 1 home win and 2 wins in 15 matches speaks volumes and was simply not good enough.

Yes, we have looked better in the last few games surprisingly against some of the stronger teams but where was that level of effort against Everton, Bournemouth, Luton, Fulham.

I’m happy we got a win yesterday because it was badly needed, however we were playing a team which has far more first 11 players missing than us so we should not get carried away with the performance. As someone has already said, we will have a better idea of how our team (with Eze and Olise back), are really playing after our games against Arsenal, Sheffield, Brighton and Chelsea. I predict 4 points from that run of 4 games, but any less than that and I reckon we are right back in it.

Its not wrapping results in cotton wool its giving credit were credits due , the Everton and luton games we didnt play that bad we didnt take our chances in them games , Bournemouth game was awful all round even i could have done better at 65 lol , but injurys has played a big part this season to our main players and all teams are hurting some more than others , watch what happens to forest during afcon ,

we have a chance to see our kids against everton if they do well then Roy will use them better , if he doesnt then i will agree with you but until then i beg to differ COYP

And where do you get this from ?

I first met Gareth when he was in the youth team at Palace. And last time was a few years ago where he lives in Harrogate. He's actually a very humble, down to earth guy and certainly no Big Time Charlie.

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