Crystal Palace (A) | PL | Post Match Thread

[mancity111]

1 win from our last 9 games including 6 defeats , 1 draw and 5 losses from our last 6 away games.

Hard to swallow this falling off a cliff and top four seems well out of reach unless changes are made or players out of form grow a spine along with a much better run of injuries from now on

Injuries haven't helped of course and we are running on empty with a number of starters but it was bound to happen with the lack of appropriate recruitment in the past three / four windows.

The club has rewarded loyalty and banked on players going around one more time and it will cost us this season big time , they know it Pep knows it , it will turn out to be his worst season as manager by a long way but we will fix it.

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Somebody check Walker’s SkyBet account. Criminally shit. Costs us every game.

Can’t do one thing well anymore - 2 types of goals he cost us today.

Poor and needs fucking off.

Not even attempting to jump up for that goal was beyond anything I've seen this season. Totally unacceptable!

 

[Streetsweeper]

Collectively and individually, the lack of fitness and sharpness is absolutely fucking wild. They look like the fitness regime is one sit up, a Christmas toblerone and a full pouch of Drum.

AKA the Streetsweeper workout.

Some of these players have had 3 years of constant football with virtually no break to speak of. It was always going to catch up with them eventually and for some nearing the end of their careers I’m surprised this hasn’t come sooner. Klipperty saw this coming with Liverpool’s geriatric midfield and replaced it wholesale before he fucked off. We’re going to need surgery on a similar scale.

 

[Inca Roads Bert]

Hughes is a snivelling drama queen cheating ****.
Helped by a red cartel ref of the same qualities.

 

[M43 blue]

Well we've got rid of numerous players deemed not good enough who are now playing in the PL, La Liga and the Bundesliga. So the ones in our current squad should be good enough to play.

You would think so mate seems we just sticking with the same and watching the same thing happen every game

 

[skillman]

Not even attempting to jump up for that goal was beyond anything I've seen this season. Totally unacceptable!

He’s always the same on corners. Never tracks his man or attempts to jump

 

[herrock]

Bollocks - keeping repeating shite won't make it right.

Wtf you been drinking or swallowing ?

There is none so blind as those that will not see.

 

[Blue tiger]

he isnt good enough for where we want to be...he is average defender and a below average midfielder...

does he get in Arsenals back four or the scousers back 4 - no
does he get in liverpools midfield or back 4. - no.
does he get in villas - no
fuck - i doubt he would get in the rags team in either area

I agreed with you he doesn't get in the team when everyone is fit. That said I'm not about to slaughter a kid who has done very little wrong in the previous 2 seasons, now he's hit a bad patch.

 

[bigA]

It's definitely rebuild time for Pep and the team and we have to recruit a hell of a lot better than the past couple of seasons. And in all departments as well. This team has run it's cycle and it's been an exhilarating ride for sure but it's time to move some of the players on and replace them with quality players or maybe give the likes of McAtee, O'Reilly, Wright and other youngsters more game time.

But with the PSR, APT, FFP restrictions put in place by the PL (or the red cartel to be honest) it's going to be a big ask to recruit quality players as quickly as it is needed.

But they cannot take away the fact we've done a domestic grand slam, the daddy treble, 4 in a row title wins, World Club champions, Super Cup winners. Yet all these numpties from Dipperpool, Tarquinville, Trafford Swamplands and others keep slagging Pep off with "Fraudiola, he can only manage clubs with massive backing behind him, yada, yada, yada". But if they had the chance of taking Pep as their manager, they would have took it like a shot. Anyone who says they wouldn't are lying through their teeth.

 

[shemnel]

I didn't think the result was too bad? I mean, have we all forgotten our form of the last two months?

This isn't just a few injuries putting us under par, there are some real issues with certain players, simple errors that aren't going away etc. No it's not nice to see the general sluggishness going forward but that point isn't bad.