PJH, if you want to bitch, whine, rant or dance naked in your living room while singing along to Cliff Richard, you do just that.
You're entitled to your opinion and the right to express it, just don't stew on it for a weekend, your head might explode.
Before the old interweb thingy started my missus had to just sit there nodding while I had a rant, moan or enthuse about CPFC. If you now can't come on here and do it, then what exactly is the point of this medium?

That's Life
And as funny as it may seem
Some people get their kicks stompin' on a Dream.
KEEP THE FAITH!!!!!

Normally id be moaning about the performance but I recall we went 9.games without a win last season!

I know that was a different team and all that but we're Palace and thats what we've come to expect
I was more than happy to take a point
V Sunderland, remember if we had one more
point in 04 we'd have stayed up!
Only Manure have beaten us latley so am remaining chilled
& praying it doesn't come down to the Cottage! ! 10 years on from one of the worst days of my life at the Valley! !

Ps that's 2 away points & no Chamy in the team.
We've missed him badly imho

Edited by Barcelona Based Fan (18 Mar 2014 3.42am)

TaxiMark
Sheffield Wednesday Fan
Posted 23 February 2013 - 07:49 PM
I don't mind palace to be fair. Much better club than tinpot Charlton and Brighton

Chamakh is PROVEN quality you don't play for Arsenal for that long if your a mug. In fact it was only the emergence of Van glass ankles that got him dropped in the midst of a very rich vain of form for Le canonniers.

It is no coincidence that since his enforced absence we have been woeful up front and lacked any creativity what so bleedin ever. He holds up the ball brilliantly allowing our deep set midfield time to get around the ball and support, and his work rate is top notch closing down from the front whenever possible.

I would very much like to see Gayle up top with Chamakh as the furthest forward in a midfield of Five:

Bolaisie Right
Ince Left
Jedinak Central
Ledley Central
Chamakh Attacking Central.

Back four picks itself as does Jules the legend.

If your going to play the way I have suggested then Pace up front is key, Murray has none. So it would have to be Gayle, I would use Murray if we went behind with say 25 to go, as the above system can easily be changed back to 442 with Murray and Chamakh up front Ledley Supporting the front two Jedi Holding.

Having said all that more than happy with where we are so far this season, we are hard to beat as Arsenal and Man United found out, and we are well in with a chance of staying up, ( I fancy Naaarich to drop into Sunderlands spot, and us to stay 4th from bottom) and that in itself would be fcuking massive achievement for a club like ours.

So for now, its a case of support shout sing your hearts out for the lads, cross your fingers and toes, pray to the lord god Hommer Simpson that we stay up.

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

PJH - I share your concern as do most Palace supporters but just imagine if we still had Holloway as manager - we would be relegated already !!!!! Pullis is playing a system to best suit the squad and the situation and nobody can doubt it's success. We have to plug away with this system because our home games are against the most dangerous counter attacking teams and our away games are against our relegation rivals who we cannot allow to beat us. So we defend deep and hope to nick a goal - Saturday would've worked a treat if KG wasn't wearing banana boots!! Keep the faith and even if we do go down it'll be a good season to look forward to in the Championship .

Oh and will those idiots who keep shouting " Get Out" whenever we clear the ball please realise that we don't do that under the Pullis system - we defend deep! It drives me mad every game !!!

Good points well made ! I can understand defending deep but think we just need to offer something (anything !!) to relieve the constant pressure our back four seem to be under, especially against teams that we have the players to cause problems against. And It's certainly not a dig at TP at all (well, except for not wanting to play Bannan !!) We'd be down already without him at the helm.

Yep, fair comment, TP has set his stall out as to how he wants to play. It does still beg the question about where the points for survival are going to come from though.I don;t understand why so many people are so thrilled about a point at Sunderland nearing in mind where we are. If we only get over the halfway line a few times a game we aren't going to score, and we're not going to get 9 draws with the three big guns coming to Selhurst (heart says we can but let's be serious !).Everyone seems to think Villa and Fulham are a guaranteed 6 points and we'll get something at Cardiff and West Ham and everything will be alright. I hope so too..but not convinced it'll happen. Sorry, negative I know but I think it's more realistic that if we play like we have in the last three games we'll be lucky to get another 4 points.And the mustard that will not cut.