I am reading through everything, we have threads, Roy out, benteke, parish , ffs even throw ons ? Blaming roy for everything , “ruined benteke”
“Can’t utilise throw ins”

I mean , this is our second best start to a premier league season
Ok, so we have had 2 bad results in a row, however , tonight’s result you lot surely arnt going to ping on Roy are you? He did what everyone wants? Make subs early etc ! 3 mins before their first goal we had 2 massive opportunities to score

My earliest palace memory was when my dad took me to a game when I was 5 in 1993 against Oxford ! We won 2-1 Chris Armstrong scored twice .
That season we were promoted and and 6 years old I couldn’t contain my excitement to play Liverpool first game of season! My optimism was very quickly destroyed as I saw us get heavily beat 6-1 at home first game of season. From then on I learnt never to expect too much. We are the underdog, always will be , don’t forget our team that was promoted in 2013 was favourite to be relegated to league 1 and first season in Orem after 4 games we were 1-16 to be relegated !
Have a little faith people

Up the palace

“This is a crisis, a large crisis.... in fact if you have a moment, it’s a 12 storey crisis, magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24 hour portage , and an enormous sign on the roof saying “This , is a large crisis” - Edmund Blackadder

The difference is, this is the most expensive and strongest squad we have ever assembled. We will more than likely win next week which will further paper over the cracks, hodgsons terrible one dimensional, plan a, dire to watch tactics.

Will we go down ? no, because our squad is better than atleast 3 others in this league, nothing to do with hodgsons management at all, his tactics 100% make us less effective and less competitive. The players must hate playing under him, im sick of watching us play under him.

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From 30 seconds onwards could be talking about tonight

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

Im vindicated. for recognizing this old slog for what he really is. A chancer. Almost ran liverpool to the ground. pissful performance at the helm of england with so much talent at his beck and call. now has one of the strongest palace clubs and has results that are bang well average what the squad can produce? and its ok? how ambitions of a 73 year old manager coincicde with that of mid twenties go getters? so our club's master plan is having a neanderthal manager get bailed by Zaha to keep us in the league? And we wont Zaha leave? s*** all lives matter. Hodgeson out! CP will be the better for it!

You need to take points off clubs in a similar position, so it’s really galling to lose 6 points to Burnley and Newcastle in a matter of days.
It could be argued we had misfortune and found the opposing goalkeepers in form, but we definitely contributed to our own downfall.
I was a strong critic of Roy last season, but feel it would be harsh to be too critical over the last couple of games.
Players have made pretty basic errors e.g in failing to roll simple crosses across the 6 yard box to be finished .
One concern is we haven’t looked as tight defensively in the last two games.
Although the goals came late yesterday we gave up quite a few opportunities beforehand to both Joelinton and Wilson.
As others have pointed out age may be catching up with some of our players which is not a surprise.
On the plus side we potentially have Zaha, Tomkins and Mcarthy to come back in to offer more energy and bite.
The real problem is the absence of a goalscorer who can turn defeats into draws and draws into wins.

We are like a jigsaw - we go to pieces in the box.

Against Burnley we fluffed 1v1 chances with the goalkeeper.Furthermore there was that that incident whereby McCarthy put too much pace on the cross and Batshuayi just failed to connect at the far post.

Against Newcastle we had our chances with Schlupp drawing a save from Darlow, the Benteke header which was saved, The PVA effort across the box which was too far ahead of Batshuayi and the effort which was blocked by Fernandez throwing himself in the way of the ball.
Sadly we lost that game due to Dann who does not have the pace required, and some would assert that they have seen milk turn quicker.Perhaps at his age, 2 days in 5 days took their toll.

Edited by Willo (28 Nov 2020 9.11am)