ok just for you Ian I will share the obvious. Murray marshalls the front line better than both Jerome and of course Gayle who runs round like a headless chicken until he has the ball at his feet then he looks dangerous. Jerome holds the ball up the best out of the 3 but not by far from Murray as he equally does a superb job here IMO. Gayle when given the opportunity can score as we have already seen this season, Jerome cant. Murray on the other hand knows how to create space for himself in tight situations something gayle will learn over time, something we haven't got at present. Overall Murray is not only technically better than both Jerome and Gayle, but he also has their best qualities rolled into one. As for his dip in scoring goals last season, I was very pleased that he managed to score 31 goals in 3/4 of a season and that for me tell me how accomplished he is at scoring. Which again is something we need right now. We have tried the other format with both jerome and gayle and its not that effective in both cases. When Murray becomes sharper and Pulis knows this he will get that extra space all be it a few feet and start to score. I thought it was a master stroke playing Murray from the outset against Manure, because it would of been a coo if we got something from the game and also give Murray a good test against vidic as to what to expect from top premier league opposition in the weeks to come. Murray will score goals you can count on that in this division, I thought he marshalled the front line well in his first start for palace and to start to knock him before he gets started was way to harsh. Maybe in the OP's defence my he maybe a newish fan by his joining date and didn't get to see how affective Murray was last season.

F-ck me...... Now its pick on Murray time and he's only been back 5 minutes.
Some people on here are absolutely cretinous

Is there some way we could cypher out cretinous waffle bol-ox before it gets posted on the HOL.
Like a HOL youth side. To work up the social media boards to get to the 1st team....
"sorry mate you just aint cutting it here, going to have to let you go back to Brighton NSC"

Jesus is it only me that thinks chamakh was shocking against Man U? He couldn't control the ball and didn't really carry a threat... He had a few glimpses of goodness but it has to be said from me that Murray carried much more of a threat up top. I would like to see chamakh rested possibly to accommodate ince into the number 10 role with bolasie out wide again... Murray is so good at flicking and laying of and then getting into good positions to score goals that it think ince and muzza could form a quality partnership

CPFC through and through since 1984, thank you very much.

If it's one thing that winds long-term fans up is the assumption we only started following the team on the day we signed-up for this forum.

For your information the internet as we know it today wasn't around in the eighties.

I think I speak for a lot of people here.

Considering it was his first game for 10 months I thought Murray was excellent, when he is fully match fit he will cause BPL defences all sorts of problems.

don't know what odds i'll get but I'm putting a tenner on Murray finishing this season with 8 goals.

In all fairness I didn't no. I got as far as dropping Murray..... was it obvious then