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.

you started your post with 'Palace entertain me' - not sure how i've taken that out of context.

Your Brentford comment is pointless - they finished well above us last season and are also above us now, despite a limited budget and the loss of their best 2 players.

This season we probably have the best GK, CB and CM 5 we have ever had (all internationals and proven PL performers) so i don't think it's too much to expect them to try and play some football and not time waste from minute 1. This season with the 3 coming up being so weak relegation is less of a concern. Surely now is the time to play 'progressive' football - it worked quite well the last 10 games of last season.

If we set up against Everton for 0.0 (as we've done v Forest and Fulham) and lose 1.0 to a deflected goal or similar, i suspect you will be the first to moan.

We win 2-0 away but '' it's hardly the way forward '' ?! What is that then exactly ??

I read it as a critisism of Roy, and then you list the points that SNH chooses to ignore....

The out of context was the actual line you highlighted. You quote, “Palace entertain me,” you didn’t indicate that interested you. And that in its self is also out of context, because I clearly tell. In the rest of the sentence why they entertain me.
I would suggest your Brentford comments are pointless , As of yet they don’t beat us in what ,five games, if they are better than us it’s marginal. We to have limited budget, and have been without a number of our best players all season.
I don’t say the team hasn’t any quality ,it has when everyone is fit. But that hasn’t been the case , and when it’s not the case putting an emphasis on attacking football is just not the way to get points in this league.
We played more on the front foot at the end of last season, because we had Olise, Saha, and Eze, With no Zaha, or Olize, the balance alters quiet a bit, Eze, has been and is our only real outlet, and he has been missing since the United win, it is what it is ,when you know how it is, why commit suicide by trying things you know you can’t do, when you do have the ability to win in other ways?
As Dyche is as artful as our Roy, he will probably want us to go for his throat. losing 1-0 to Everton is never out of the question, and I would be as pissed off as anyone else. But you miss the whole purpose of my posts on this . After watching Palace all my life from almost rock bottom to where we are now through thick and thin, the the sheer pleasure of seeing us entertaining some of the very best talent in world football, with some of the best players in our history is entertainment enough, if I want a constant flow of purest football I don’t expect Palace to supply it on their budget. And most of all football good on the eye of punters is not good in reality, if it does not bring success. The only good football is winning football, and I have told you who to ask if you don’t believe it ,most are not now Premiership teams.

Edited by Putitout (07 Nov 2023 12.57pm)

The out of context was the actual line you highlighted. You quote, “Palace entertain me,” you didn’t indicate that interested you. And that in its self is also out of context, because I clearly tell. In the rest of the sentence why they entertain me.
I would suggest your Brentford comments are pointless , As of yet they don’t beat us in what ,five games, if they are better than us it’s marginal. We to have limited budget, and have been without a number of our best players all season.
I don’t say the team hasn’t any quality ,it has when everyone is fit. But that hasn’t been the case , and when it’s not the case putting an emphasis on attacking football is just not the way to get points in this league.
We played more on the front foot at the end of last season, because we had Olise, Saha, and Eze, With no Zaha, or Olize, the balance alters quiet a bit, Eze, has been and is our only real outlet, and he has been missing since the United win, it is what it is ,when you know how it is, why commit suicide by trying things you know you can’t do, when you do have the ability to win in other ways?
As Dyche is as artful as our Roy, he will probably want us to go for his throat. losing 1-0 to Everton is never out of the question, and I would be as pissed off as anyone else. But you miss the whole purpose of my posts on this . After watching Palace all my life from almost rock bottom to where we are now through thick and thin, the the sheer pleasure of seeing us entertaining some of the very best talent in world football, with some of the best players in our history is entertainment enough, if I want a constant flow of purest football I don’t expect Palace to supply it on their budget. And most of all football good on the eye of punters is not good in reality, if it does not bring success. The only good football is winning football, and I have told you who to ask if you don’t believe it ,most are not now Premiership teams.

Edited by Putitout (07 Nov 2023 12.57pm)

Really? I think he’s pretty much spot on, apart from the Luton part, but in our current situation injury wise and after a couple of defeats I don’t see it as a criticism of Roy, it’s what he does best and why SP brought him back, gaining plenty of points against teams around or below us in the league.

Edited by monkey (07 Nov 2023 11.37am)