You assume that we would need a goalkeeper. Do you not know how good Eze is? A keeper would not be necessary. In case of a penalty Eze would obviously save it.

Another daft thread, I think your a bit of a wind up merchant. Perhaps you could start a new career writing click bait headers ? Heres some ideas for your next new threads
1) Lets train a seagull to be the Kayla replacement
2) Lets rename Speronis Restaurant Hennessys
3) I miss Royball

"Royball" kept us in the PL for 4 seasons and in Hodgson's first season we had 0 pts after 7 games and had not scored a single goal.
He never had the luxury of a £76 Mill spend and despite this expenditure there is a danger we could attain less points this season than was ever attained by Hodgson's CPFC in each of his seasons.

Edited by Willo (17 Feb 2022 8.35am)

Thank you very much

Yes.

Since Roy's departure, there seems to be a trend of denigrating his abilities.

Yes, he had no budget, worked with the (slim) resources available and kept us up consistently.

Both Pullis and Allardyce were told that if they signed contracts for Palace, there would next to no money to spend. They both walked.

Roy was the only one who was brave enough to take the job under those conditions.

Now some of our fans are comparing Mr Hodgson with PV when it's completely unfair. PV was given money, Roy wasn't.

Mr Hodgson will go down for me as probably the best manager we've had. Okay, 'Royball', as those people call it, makes it sound like it was the only brand of football that he could manage and fail to see that he cut his cloth to fit; we played that way because it was the only way to keep us going, which he did. Consistently

I think that's a fair post.

I agree with most of what you say and certainly that Roy did the job he was employed to do and that is the best we could have hoped for.

I would hardly consider his reign at the helm 'dark days' for Palace, however things were not 'exciting' one might say but I also think it folly to express that sentiment based purely on the footballing style employed and not take in to consideration the size and financial power of our club relative to others in one of the best leagues in the world.

Hodgson was employed with aspirations of maintenance (PL status) in mind (and delivered) however Vieira has been identified as the man to take the club forward. As unfair and unjust as it is to consider Roy Hodgson as some sort of drain on the club I think it equally so to laud Vieira as some sort of saviour and expect him to deliver upon this.

The whole situation does seem a bit brighter now than seasons past but again I think there are many more factors at play than purely the man at the helm.

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