This is crazy how much stick Zaha gets. I used to moan a lot and it’s because most of the time a moan is because of something that should have happened to help us win a game..

Poor passes to him that break the momentum. Opportunities to get him in dangerous situations with a risky pass not completed. Fouls, endless fouls on him all game that don’t produce the punishments deserved. Attacks stopped with fouls on him. Strikers not doing their job after he dies his.

Don’t think we’ve had too many players to consistently help keep us in a league season after season for heavens sake!

Eze is class but the only one near being able to tear apart an opposition is injured. Mili not scoring either now. Strikers scoring 1 in 3...Between them!!

Schlupp was no where near as dangerous as Zaha yesterday. Zaha created two clear easy goal chances that should have been banged in. Gallagher hit post, and a cross that Benteke didn’t get across the front post for.

I’m sure Wilf will do his thing again no doubt his talent is one of the best I’ve ever seen in red and blue.

Completely agree. We have a lot of fans who seem waiting to stick the knife in. One of our greatest ever players. Without him we wouldn't be a premiership team.

Marked out of the game yesterday.

People seem to expect he should be working miracles every time he gets the ball.

Edited by jeeagles (22 Aug 2021 7.28pm)

Perhaps there’s a dawning of a realisation for Wilf that this is as good as it gets - a lower to mid Premier League team when he has had aspirations to play Champions League football.
He’s appointed two high profile agents to engineer a move through their supposed ‘contacts’ and it still hasn’t happened for him.
It’s possible that part of him resents Palace for holding him back, when in reality it seems to me that no top club has seriously wanted him.
The highest profile clubs in for him seems to be Arsenal under Emre and Everton under Silva.
Hardly top clubs.
In my view he’s one of the best and certainly the most exciting player to wear the shirt in my 50 years of following the club, but unfortunately he now seems on a downward trend.
In a way it’s a shame he didn’t get a move a couple of years ago to e.g Man City.
I know we’d have been deprived of seeing him, but in the words of Marlon Brando from ‘On the Waterfront ‘ I’m sure he’d have been a contender at a Man C or Liverpool.

I don't expect that of Wilf.
- I recognize that he's not the player he was.
- I recognize that he can still pull the occasional rabbit out of the hat
- I agree that he can be our best source of goals and goal chances
BUT
- I want to see him get on with the game instead of what he did a lot of yesterday which was whining and moaning at the referee and his own teammates when things didn't go his way. He did a fair amount of it in the second half of last season as well.

Edited by doombear (22 Aug 2021 9.14pm)

Given the new directive to refs to let the game flow it occurred to me that this will have a negative Palace more than most. Wilf will not be awarded the niggly fouls which will get his back up and Ayew will also not be awarded those soft fouls which he has been excellent in winning to get us up the pitch.

Hate to say it but Wilf's departure seems inevitable now.

After Saturday's performance, where he was closely marked but not badly treated, he couldn't find a moment of magic against a solid Brentford. As the game wore on he became more and more frustrated and again allowed a few challenges to upset his rhythm.

His constant moaning to the ref has now spread to moaning at his team mates and although I rate him very highly he has to be sold.

Only snag is nobody seems to want him at our price level.

Only Arsenal seem interested but haven't they already spent most of their cash?