Can we play our usual strategy of initially soaking up pressure and later in the game coming on strong in the break against Lpool,Man City and Everton?. As I am certainly not an expert when it comes to football strategy I'm a bit reluctant to suggest that we might have to think at least twice about our established strategy simply because they might not be as woeful up front as our recent opposition has been. My doubt relates to the possibility of these three teams having enough firepower and creation to penetrate our soaking up process and we end up two or three goals down by half time. While I'm sure there are several ways in which to skin a cat and Pulis certainly knows better than I,I would suggest that we might be well advised to consider our smothering the midfield so as to break up their attacks early and gain some control over this very important area of play. Against West Spam, I believe our prime objective has to be on playing Noble out of the game as he is the engine room of the Hammers attack. Perhaps a man to man marking might be considered. I think we have to go for at least a point from each of the four games so change in strategy probably has to be carefully evaluated . I wonder if we have any dossiers on these teams, how they start , how they develop their tactics and what happens if they go a goal down. All very interesting and I 'm sure Pulis, based on his wide experience, will consider all the possibilities of an alternative strategy and come up with something effective.

our last two games we have not played soaking up all game in fact the team seem to have had a conference boost and are forcing ourselves a lot more a wing backs are overlapping and pushing up the pitch not sitting back okay villa and Cardiff are not man city or Liverpool.

i think we have turned the corner as in i think we now know when to sit back and when to attack we look solid there

is a chance of us getting something out of both games

More importantly, do the likes of Everton and Manchtitty have dossiers on Palace. They'd better have, as the likes of Punchy and Chamakh and Bolly and the rest need to be watched carefully. It's about time Palace supporters stopped thinking of themselves and the club as some kind of runers-up club. Faith