Wait a minute everyone. Those players people think should be up front getting all our goals, well they're not. The only bright spot is Bolly's dribbling. The counter attack is not functioning since nobody is getting the ball and holding it. Only Bolly, picking up the ball quite deep, has the ball for any time, and the opposition are backing off. With him higher up the pitch and doing the same thing and then the other players rushing to take up scoring positions, well it may work. Palace need to try something and everyone, Thomo excepted, is offering the same old failed system. Not half as mad as we think it is. Skewed thinking that may skew the other side.

I found his end product to be quite good in the first of these two goals.

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At times he was our best player last season. Maybe give him a break!?

It was only when Thomas came on that I realised quite how poor our crossing had been up to that point on Saturday. We need to find a way to get a delivery from Bolasie so he can do his mazy runs then give the ball to a scorer.

The obvious one would be Murray, it's what he does best.

I noticed Bolasie doing a pretty good job of tackling back on Saturday. Maybe against the likes of Sunderland he should be excused that duty for a more attacking approach. But someone will need to get very close to him up-front to take delivery of the ball. Could even be a job for Gayle.

Bolasie's play is so unpredictable that his team-mates often don't know what he's going to do next. He does an excellent job of confusing the opposition with his constant running about, but he has no composure which is why his shooting accuracy is so low.

Who we have up front is not the problem (apart from Jerome's header at Arsenal), it's getting the ball there to start with.

But this what Bolasie already does? Generally he receives the ball in the opposition half and either takes on his full back or cuts inside and takes on the centre back/centre mids. If he beats them 90% of the time he hasn't got the ability/sense/wherewithal/quality to do the right thing. Or he gets cynically fouled.

He'd be marked out the game if he played up top waiting for the ball.

For me Jedi and Ledley hold, Ince and Bolasie on the wings, Chamakh in the hole and Murray up top. Thomas, Gayle, Puncheon, Bannan as impact subs. I like the fact we can use Ledley at LB should we really need to chase.

f*** it! Why not just put Bannan at centre back!?

You never know until you try!