Having read that Roy has not been making substitutions, I have looked at the match reports for this year, and seen that in all of those matches only injury substitutions have taken place, with uninjured players lasting the full ninety minutes. I wonder if Roy has been testing the players and now knows that all starting players are capable of putting the full match shift. Perhaps he has given himself scope for double substitutions early in the second half - certainly we have two unused new players who, I hope, would like to be tested. COYP

EFA

So I manage a Workshop which provides a safe learning environment for blokes struggling with PTSD and other mental health issues. Being a Palace fan isn't listed yet.

Our problem has been evident for last two years, being that we have too many players on ridiculous wages. To keep within FFP we can't sign proven premiership players because we can't afford to pay them. A poor managerial appointment, seven straight loses no goal keeper cover. Remember we let our third choice keeper go 2nd Sept 17, and never replaced him and now we're down to one. We are sadly looking like Sunderland last season.

On the positive Wilf will back after the big 4 along with some of the other injured, Wickham I hope. We have an excellent manager and we have our support. There is also 6 teams below us who are playing badly, have injuries and are in a worse position than us. Could take a cheap pot shot at SP but why bother half who read this will claim he walks on water and the others would hope he drowns.

As has been said many times, We're Palace, it's a rollercoaster, COYP etc. Keep The Faith.

Sacarsm is the lowest form of wit. I think it’s reasonable to suggest we might pick up some points against the big boys seeing as we are playing 3 of them at home, have only lost 3 in 16 games and for the reasons I mentioned re possible squad rotation/fixture pile up.

The squad is threadbare, we can’t do anything about that now unfortunately. Yes, we messed up in the transfer window. A bit of perspective would go a miss considering where we were after 7 games and our current run. We are looking far stronger than all the teams currently below us.

We are a one man team and we are in very deep doo doo!