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Agreed. Roy now has 16 days to work with the squad and maybe some will be back by then.

One more point

Today we lost because we had nine players out injured, including possibly our two best players. Everton had about £75-100m worth of players on their bench (Tosun, Williams, Bolasie, etc.) and had only lost to Man Utd in their last eight home games.

People saying the players don't care must be watching a different Palace, because I see 11 men trying to make the most out of a difficult situation. I've seen plenty of Palace teams who have almost given up or lacking in direction, like under Peter Taylor, Trevor Francis, Olly and Warnock in the PL, and the early games under de Boer. Under Hodgson we've looked organised and there's nearly always been someone available for the player on the ball to pass to. No one looks like they're hiding.

Personally I'm most fed up with the endlessly negative posts of some people who even when we are winning are talking about when the next defeat will come. If we can stay up then we have the new GK coming and I imagine Amadou may well sign at that point too. Another striker and a creative midfielder and if Roy will stick with it I think we'll be a lot more comfortable next season.

COYP

He was absent for about ten days but I hope everyone realises he was lurking throughout.

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Our upcoming games do look tough but what are the others around us up to at the same time?

Palace
Spurs - H
Man U - H
Chelsea - A
Huddersfield - A
Liverpool - H

Newcastle
Bournemouth - A
Liverpool - A
Southampton - H
Spurs - A
Huddersfield - H

Stoke
Leicester - A
Southampton - A
Man City - H
Everton - H
Arsenal - A

Southampton
Burnley - A
Stoke - H
Newcastle - A
Swansea - A
W. Ham - A

West Brom
Huddersfield - H
Watford - A
Leicester - H
Bournemouth - A
Burnley - H

Swansea
Brighton - A
W. Ham - H
Huddersfield - A
Southampton - H
Man U - A

Brighton
Swansea - H
Arsenal - H
Everton - A
Man City - A
Leicester - H

Huddersfield
West Brom - A
Spurs - A
Swansea - H
Palace - H
Newcastle - A

Brighton, Stoke and Newcastle also have some tough games in that set. Swansea and Southampton both have a real chance to put some points on the board but in doing so will take points of those around us. W.Brom could pick up points but will need to start playing a lot better to do so. Huddersfield could also pick up points but again would then take them off our rivals and of course we could take points off them.
Even given the toughness of our next five games it will still be very close after that period.

Why did you promise to go away in the new year if it wasn’t to simply make yourself the centre of attention...again

I think it will come down to the last two games, Stoke away and West Brom at home. I’ve got a feeling we will need a win and a draw from these two games to survive but I hope I’m wrong.