It's a good point, tough match

Up the palace

Agreed. Fully expect palace to do nothing else this window. Cheap as usual. If that is the case, personally I want to see Ayew up front. When everyone’s fit, Franca, ayew and Olise front three. Eze playing behind.

The second half was excellent as far as effort and heart, Ayew is player of the season so far, we are missing Olise, i am supposing Franca is decent, an attacking player and a keeper is all we need.

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn

Ward is a Palace hero. It’s not his fault. But why oh why does his position get ignored so often by management? And made captain? Like Milovoyevich it’s a badge of weakness. Why do we wait three weeks into the season to buy our players? Who else does that? Are Brentford or Brighton in better financial positions than us? 11 years in the prem and we still can’t secure a squad before the season starts. A joke. And this is what happens: The players lose confidence, more work is demanded by other players to cover weak players and they get injured, better players from other clubs avoid us because we’re a cheap joke with no ambition or likelihood to go to Europe, and the cycle of poverty keeps rolling. EZE needs help so watch him pull a hamstring trying to do it all while Parish sits on his wallet. BS. But it’s my club. Not so much a disappointing performance from the boys as a disappointing performance from management not supporting the boys. Ward in particular, a Palace legend, but his position is on the bench. RB has been a gaping hole for ages now but someone’s either too stupid or too cheap to fix it. If an AWB was in that position today would have been different. We would have won by at least a goal. We really should stop blaming the boys or Roy. Under the circumstances our management forces them to play they should all be applauded, Ward included.

Edited by Oddball2021 (26 Aug 2023 5.37pm)

The owners have a lot of money invested in the club, they employ professional football management. They will be well aware of positions needed, but finding them that are better than we have at the price we can afford, isnt so easy.

I don't think Wardy did a lot wrong - if Olise or Eze had done that - I don't think anyone here would be saying - "well their right back f***** up there didn't he"