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In his post match comments he stated that Palace fans have been spoilt in the past ! The only thing that has been spoilt for me is the enjoyment of watching Palace under his management. Also one of our own fans threw a bottle at him when walking off at full time . whilst i can understand the frustration i cant condone the action , we are better than throwing bottles at a 76 year old man . Disgraceful

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Has to go.
Tonight was again muddled,embarassing and clueless. Taking Lerma off at 0-1 after he had been the only one to have a shot in the 2nd half was a joke.
Chasing the game in the second half, wouldn't Franca have been a better bet than Hughes or Ahamada ??
Shame cos he is a decent guy but who has been hamstrung by Parish's complacency and rubbish recruitment (There are plenty in the fanbase who need to get their heads out of the sand where he is concerned).
We have a bit of slack to the bottom teams, but after December's games ??

I have always been Roy in....after today I'm finding it very hard....

However...The fans were on the players backs from the get go...booing every mistake early on. It was such a wierd game the fans the players the music everything was so disjointed.

It was the first game I was ever seriously considering leaving early. And I've flown over from Dublin for the week for these 3 games booked a hotel and all.

The s*** summer transfer window coming home to roost. The squad just isn’t good enough. Roy will get the blame and the sack, while Teflon Steve and the board escape criticism.
Whoever we bring in, won’t do any better with the unbalanced squad we have.
I suspect Paddy will get the job, as it will once again be the cheap option. We’ll bomb and possibly go down.
Can’t help have one sympathy for Roy, he was stitched up. Though felt he should have retired.
Hang you head in shame Steve Parish , you’ve let down a decent man and the fans. Time to try and sell the club and relinquish control. You can no longer help us compete in this league.

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Heard this before asking who else can we get and I don't buy it. There are plenty of managers out there - domestic and abroad - who could bring some inspiration, confidence and tactical changes to our club. Also, it's part of the scouting teams responsibilities to identify this person.

In reality they've had more than a significant amount of time since Viera left to identify someone to take the reigns for the long-term and the recruitment team haven't.

Brighton found De Zerbi, Spurs found Ange, Bournemouth have Iraola. We should be scouting someone like these too to take us forward

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Roy’s one dimensional, immovable approach is to keep things tight and hope to edge each game. That was useful when the squad almost dictated its necessity however I’d argue it has a different look today. The match against Bournemouth highlighted the following for me, none of which is new or unexpected:

- The players don’t seem to be ‘playing for Roy’
- A lot of the players looked stifled and almost confused as to why this method is being employed
- We cannot defend set pieces
- The plan for actually mounting attacks and getting the ball forward is nonexistent
- Our only identifiable tactic is to have the centre halves pass it between themselves, occasionally inviting danger, and coupled with the above led to both Marc and Joachim actually running the ball forward themselves in lieu of any other tactic or option
- A lack of urgency, commitment, desire, any other descriptor of a similar nature in our play
- The usage of players who seem more malleable to archaic instruction over any flair, youth or inspiration providers
- No on-field leadership
- No real plan for attacking set pieces

Football has changed even over the past few years and Roy is old, very old. He looks far more a dinosaur now than ever. We look like a team that has had any ‘fun’ or unity sapped out of it, a shell of a team trying to follow unfit and outdated instructions. This is where the aversion to youth comes in alongside the lack of flair. Despite quite obviously not having any attacking knowledge Roy prefers players more likely to follow orders than, God Forbid, do anything themselves. This privilege is reserved for few, Wilf before and Eze/Olise now, however can be extremely ineffective and detrimental to both mentality and performance.

Our keeping Roy on was a real cheap move to try and save on the hiring of a manager worthy of expenditure and transfer fees (bizarrely buying players who don’t… play for us) and just keep us going another season. This has backfired badly. We’re as predictable as night following day, we are as boring as the drying paint and we are now losing game after game against weaker opposition.

There’s no sense in keeping Roy, none at all. Him decrying fans for having expectations of winning football matches is the final straw for me, he comes across as a bitter old man with the mental maturity of a teenage girl. He offers no answers or hope and tries to deflect any criticism or acknowledgment of his failings whatsoever, and he is failing badly.

He has to go, I’ll drive him myself, he’s fit to manage nothing here beyond a slide into the championship. Parish et al need to spend on players and they need to replace him. An age old and very generic solution but a necessary one for where we find ourselves currently. We’re getting nothing from this run of fixtures, 2 points would be a shock, and we’ll be in the relegation zone come January. I see that as almost guaranteed. If we see no movement whatsoever on the manager front and in the window, you can consider that a throwing in of the towel.

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!