By highlighting. that line you take it out of context. For your own moan. The post is to do with enjoying football as played by Palace, regardless, of style , because it’s the club we have lived with and had our ups and downs with. football is not all about style anyway, it’s about winning often enough to maintain a level.
This is the finest , longest period this club has had in the highest league we have. It took us years of steady upward movement , with three or four severe set backs on the way. We were seeking re-election in the early fifties, and a forth division side in the early sixties, yet here we are. It’s taken a long time.
Any forward movement now will not happen over night unless we play winning football no matter what. If playing progressive football has a bigger risk of going backwards because , as is the case for so many in the Championship after trying it , it turns out you didn’t do it well enough.
Brentford , are a team can’t beat us so far I recall, in fact last season two absolute last minute goals gave them draws.
I agree with you recruitment in the last two years has not supported the better chances of achieving a top ten finish, and yes they do fly by the seat of their pants , with squad numbers, but the longer we don’t panic and try to make it happen ,by trying to be more stylish in our play when the squad doesn’t have the all round quality to do it, then the more chance we have got a proper platform when we finally make it happen. The price of getting it wrong is not worth the risk. of thinking we need to make entertainment top of our priorities. Ask Leicester, Southampton,, Leeds, all tried to be stylish entertainers , all where they are by not just grinding out some results when the style wasn’t actually good game practise anymore.

We currently don’t have the tools to dominate the likes of Burnley , much as emotionally we may think we should be able to do so.
A front 3 of Ayew , Edouard and Schlupp is not going to consistently threaten any team in the Premier Legue.
A pedestrian midfield of Hughes , Doucoure and Lerma is not going to weave intricate patterns or make 70 yards run to support a lone striker.
None of this is to denigrate these players, but a realistic assessment of what they can offer.
You add Zaha, Olise and Eze and we become a different proposition but we haven’t had these available to us.
Furthermore, we have to face the possibility of players breaking down again and a club of our size can’t afford to have another Eze or Olise available when players get injured.
City can afford to have Foden and Grealish on the bench and are by no means alone in this regard.
Even the likes of Forest have a deeper squad than we have.

Roy defaults to his preferred 4 defenders, 3 DM's whenever the opportunity arises. Having the most creative players out through injury or suspension gives him that opportunity.
Beating a bottom 3 side by sticking everyone behind the ball, and doing well on the break offered up 3 valuable points, but it is hardly the way forward. Luton actually look a more formidable side.
We'll be able to tell better when all the players are fit.

An early contender for the most bollix written in a single post this season.

An early contender for the most bollix written in a single post this season.