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dazza Flag Wallington 17 Jul 20 2.41pm

Originally posted by Jackeagle

The twitter bandwagon of teenagers screaming for Roy out has now truly got under my skin. Yes, through a combination of poor performances and bad luck we have now lost 6 in a row, but our position far from the relegation zone and not far from top 10 goes to show how well he has done prior to lockdown. The man has worked miracles despite hardly ever being backed in the market. To be honest, bar Benteke and Mama (who I believe have been very poor value for money), none of our squad were particularly expensive signings. I’m not saying Roy is flawless (lack of subs particularly frustrates me), but his astute defensive and tactical knowledge i imagine is far superior to any new manager we could attract. Ok, we don’t score enough goals, but we really do not have the firepower to enable us to do so, as teams often double up on Wilf, with Ayew being the only other genuine threat. If Roy stays, we stay up. If he goes, there’s a risk that if it goes wrong we could be in trouble.

Well I am 43 & to be quite honest I am fed up with the utter dross & rubbish football being served up.

7 wins since October
14 goals scored at home in 18 games
28 goals scored in 36 games

This is all down to the tactics & regimented style.

We need a change, the squad needs refreshing with younger talent & this needs to be done a manager that will be with us longer than a year we need to start planning for the future not just the next 12 months.

 

dazza Flag Wallington 17 Jul 20 2.48pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

I don’t think it’s disingenuous, but I think the vast majority of those defending Roy massively misunderstand the expectations and wants of those criticising him - I haven’t seen anyone posting on here who’s expectation is hundreds of millions of investment and a team challenging for Europe - most people just want to enjoy watching their football club again.

This might be the ‘peak of our mountain’ in terms of league position, but it’s certainly not in terms of performances, and to make out better performances are unattainable or unrealistic is not accurate. We’ve done it numerous times over the last 7 years.

No real complaints from me about Roy yesterday, and it did give me some hope that he might be able to get us going again. He changed the shape for the first time in in months, pushed Zaha and Ayew into a front 2 and pulled Macca as a narrow left midfielder. We clearly identified AWB isn’t too much of a threat going forward and having Wilf waste his night chasing him up and down wasn’t a great plan. This also meant Wilf could pick up the ball in different positions making it much harder to double or triple up on him, and why he was able to get turned and running at the centre backs numerous times.

(This type of change also puts to bed the utter nonsense that has been flying round that it was our squad which meant Roy had to approach every single game exactly the same - there are tons of tactical changes you can make within the same 11.)


There are small bits I would’ve liked to see changed yesterday, but overall we had a go and showed some tactical fluidity to adjust our approach to our opponent. Last night, along with the Chelsea performance, was encouraging.

Overall the gulf in quality told, and combined with some questionable decisions, meant we got nothing out of the game - I have no problem with that.


Edited by EverybodyDannsNow (17 Jul 2020 2.12pm)


I could not agree more it’s not about spending millions it’s about being entertained & last night & Chelsea was excellent despite losing.

My concern is Roy can’t seem to do this against the so called lesser teams.

People say you can’t make changes we’ll look at what Southampton have achieved cause they a manager that accepted his tactics were wrong do changed his team & shape that is what makes a good manager when they find solutions.

I run a business & if sat here & said I don’t have the money compete or have no solutions my business would go under so you have to be willing to be flexible, try new ideas & solutions to improve.

 

Jackeagle Flag London 17 Jul 20 2.53pm

For those who are bored of his defensive/boring style of play. Would you rather better football and fewer points?! (See Norwich). Unless you have aspirations of being like Leicester/Wolves... which I just think is wildly unrealistic. I know our league position has slipped and we have had a couple of dreadful games, albeit in a tough run of fixtures. I understand some may have higher aspirations, but In terms of league position I think our finishes under Roy will not be bettered by any other manager we could attract.... after all league finishes and results are so clearly more important than style of play, and I am baffled by anyone who might disagree with that!

 

jeeagles Flag 17 Jul 20 3.01pm

Originally posted by SwordFish

Jee, no one is saying there opinions don’t matter but what I’m saying is they base most of their opinions on FIFA , think it’s easy to buy a whole new team , play players out of positions because they do well on FIFA I mean I play FIFA and I have Schlupp and van annholt up front coz of pace !!! That doesn’t mean I’m going mad saying Roy should be doing this .....

People who support Roy are constantly saying that we need to buy a whole new team. It's much cheaper to get rid of the manager.

 

PatrickA Flag London 17 Jul 20 3.04pm

I don’t think people are disagreeing with it in terms of necessarily achieving a higher league positions.
The view expressed relates to being able to achieve a similar position in the league while playing more attacking football on occasions.
Not like Norwich which would clearly be ludicrous, but there is a happy balance that can be achieved.
We have enough good defenders and solid midfielders to enable us play like we did last night more frequently.


 

SwordFish Flag Peasmarsh,East Sussex 17 Jul 20 3.18pm

Originally posted by PatrickA

I don’t think people are disagreeing with it in terms of necessarily achieving a higher league positions.
The view expressed relates to being able to achieve a similar position in the league while playing more attacking football on occasions.
Not like Norwich which would clearly be ludicrous, but there is a happy balance that can be achieved.
We have enough good defenders and solid midfielders to enable us play like we did last night more frequently.


I get what your saying but this is the whole problem! If you play more expansively without quality players and huge investment you get torn to pieces, pardew tried it and we were losing games 3-2 5-4 etc I guarantee you the people wanting him out are the same people wanting Roy out. People will never be happy, get someone in who plays attacking football we will be relegated by Christmas with our squad , bUt iT wIll bE enTeRTaINInG or we keep Roy until we have finances to invest and then look to replace with a longer term manager . At this moment , for our sustained period in the premier league, Roy and his football are our only option and I would take prem survival over exciting football any day of the week, I’m sure Stoke, charlton , West Brom , Sunderland fans would agree with me and wish they could turn the clock back

 


“This is a crisis, a large crisis.... in fact if you have a moment, it’s a 12 storey crisis, magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24 hour portage , and an enormous sign on the roof saying “This , is a large crisis” - Edmund Blackadder

redshift Flag Toronto 17 Jul 20 3.21pm

Originally posted by SwordFish

I think what jack (the OP) is saying regards to teenagers is the continuous , slating of Roy and the team from people who would hardly remember our promotion year due to their age. They also think it’s easy to sack a manager and get a better one in or play max Meyer (because he’s rated 80 on FIFA so he must be good .
It’s a very dangerous time, the fan base is turning on each other I have de activated my twitter account for precisely this reason hour kids and morons slagging the club off .
At some point , Roy will have to be replaced due to his age, if he was to go now, leaving this squad, we would be relegated without a doubt next season. And do a charlton (they wished for better got rid of curbishley and bosh )

Anyway I’m going to be posting a lot more on here now again , you don’t get the amount of idiots on here as you do Twitter

You're giving us way too much credit.

 


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Putitout Flag Oxford 17 Jul 20 3.37pm

Originally posted by Jackeagle

For those who are bored of his defensive/boring style of play. Would you rather better football and fewer points?! (See Norwich). Unless you have aspirations of being like Leicester/Wolves... which I just think is wildly unrealistic. I know our league position has slipped and we have had a couple of dreadful games, albeit in a tough run of fixtures. I understand some may have higher aspirations, but In terms of league position I think our finishes under Roy will not be bettered by any other manager we could attract.... after all league finishes and results are so clearly more important than style of play, and I am baffled by anyone who might disagree with that!


That’s about it Jack. Villa, Norwich, Bournemouth, all try to play the right way we are told. Without a miracle all will play lovely to watch football the right way in the Championship. Next season. It only goes to prove you can imitate good to watch football. Doesn’t mean your any good . Certainly not enough to win anything. And if you don’t win anything, then get ready to play lovely football at a lower level, and hope it works this time ., because every team you meet will knock the lovely to watch football out of you. if that’s all you think it takes to actually win anything.

 

PatrickA Flag London 17 Jul 20 3.45pm

I don’t think you do get torn to pieces if you play more expansively.
I’m not advocating the lack of defensive discipline displayed under Pardew on occasions.
Our back four is strong and organised and we could still play 2 holding midfielders as well to act as foundation for more attacking play from the rest of the team when appropriate.
Sheffield U has demonstrated that you can defend and attack as a team in this league without having to be overly defensive.
Burnley manage to play 2 up front nearly every game and create opportunities for Barnes, Wood and Rodriguez and still manage to have a solid defence.
We should be able to at least aspire to be as attacking as such teams.
If we were getting amazing results and scoring goals I could perhaps understand the clamour for the rigid defensive football but we’re not even attaining the results.

 

EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 17 Jul 20 3.48pm

Originally posted by SwordFish

I get what your saying but this is the whole problem! If you play more expansively without quality players and huge investment you get torn to pieces, pardew tried it and we were losing games 3-2 5-4 etc I guarantee you the people wanting him out are the same people wanting Roy out. People will never be happy, get someone in who plays attacking football we will be relegated by Christmas with our squad , bUt iT wIll bE enTeRTaINInG or we keep Roy until we have finances to invest and then look to replace with a longer term manager . At this moment , for our sustained period in the premier league, Roy and his football are our only option and I would take prem survival over exciting football any day of the week, I’m sure Stoke, charlton , West Brom , Sunderland fans would agree with me and wish they could turn the clock back

Just nonsense.

We are the least expansive team in the league - no one is saying go completely gun ho, but the idea we can’t do anything but this is so stupid it’s untrue. We’ve played more expansively than this plenty of times ourselves in recent years and not done any worst. We will be the lowest scoring team to survive in the premier league (bar Huddersfield) in the last 7 years, so by very definition there are 5 comparable teams a year who play more expansively than we do now and have stayed up.

As I said above, the Chelsea and united games are clear as day proof that we could approach games differently, with the same squad, if we wanted to.

Yes we lost heavily under Pardew at times, but we also won heavily and often scored more than 2 a game(!!!!!), and reached a bloody cup final - it’s funny when fans try and use that as the yardstick for a bad season.. I’d take that any day over the utter s***e we’ve watched this year.

Accusing everyone who disagrees with you of acting like a teenager whilst writing in alternate capital letters is also quite amusing.

 

SwordFish Flag Peasmarsh,East Sussex 17 Jul 20 4.09pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

Just nonsense.

We are the least expansive team in the league - no one is saying go completely gun ho, but the idea we can’t do anything but this is so stupid it’s untrue. We’ve played more expansively than this plenty of times ourselves in recent years and not done any worst. We will be the lowest scoring team to survive in the premier league (bar Huddersfield) in the last 7 years, so by very definition there are 5 comparable teams a year who play more expansively than we do now and have stayed up.

As I said above, the Chelsea and united games are clear as day proof that we could approach games differently, with the same squad, if we wanted to.

Yes we lost heavily under Pardew at times, but we also won heavily and often scored more than 2 a game(!!!!!), and reached a bloody cup final - it’s funny when fans try and use that as the yardstick for a bad season.. I’d take that any day over the utter s***e we’ve watched this year.

Accusing everyone who disagrees with you of acting like a teenager whilst writing in alternate capital letters is also quite amusing.

I’m simply voicing my opinion , also you stated we can play expansively as the Chelsea and Utd games suggest? Yes we can and we lost both

 


“This is a crisis, a large crisis.... in fact if you have a moment, it’s a 12 storey crisis, magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24 hour portage , and an enormous sign on the roof saying “This , is a large crisis” - Edmund Blackadder

SwordFish Flag Peasmarsh,East Sussex 17 Jul 20 4.11pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

Just nonsense.

We are the least expansive team in the league - no one is saying go completely gun ho, but the idea we can’t do anything but this is so stupid it’s untrue. We’ve played more expansively than this plenty of times ourselves in recent years and not done any worst. We will be the lowest scoring team to survive in the premier league (bar Huddersfield) in the last 7 years, so by very definition there are 5 comparable teams a year who play more expansively than we do now and have stayed up.

As I said above, the Chelsea and united games are clear as day proof that we could approach games differently, with the same squad, if we wanted to.

Yes we lost heavily under Pardew at times, but we also won heavily and often scored more than 2 a game(!!!!!), and reached a bloody cup final - it’s funny when fans try and use that as the yardstick for a bad season.. I’d take that any day over the utter s***e we’ve watched this year.

Accusing everyone who disagrees with you of acting like a teenager whilst writing in alternate capital letters is also quite amusing.

Also you would take pardews reign over this?? That’s complete nonsense , yes the first half of the season and the end of the previous, but after that, we were shipping goals left right and centre , losing games in injury time when we were winning in the 90th minute , also that cup final, we should have won and it was pardews lack of defensive spark that cost us , everyone wanted Pardew gone, with him in charge playing that way we would have been destroyed and relegated if he wasn’t sacked and should have been sacked a lot sooner

 


“This is a crisis, a large crisis.... in fact if you have a moment, it’s a 12 storey crisis, magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24 hour portage , and an enormous sign on the roof saying “This , is a large crisis” - Edmund Blackadder

Putitout Flag Oxford 17 Jul 20 4.23pm

Palace could have been in the top ten now ,with Roy, in charge. If the board had been prepared to bring him just two or three top quality players ,over the last two seasons . The influence that loans such as Loftus C, and Batsi, had on the side showed what was needed to be more expansive on a regular basis. It hasn’t been followed up. If it’s to go forward only that kind of quality investment will do , we simply do not possess enough quality and it has to be solid additions three or four regulars . Things did look better against Chelsea, and Man. u.
What was missing was those two or three quality players to put the shine on the effort on display.

 

EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 17 Jul 20 4.50pm

Originally posted by SwordFish

I’m simply voicing my opinion , also you stated we can play expansively as the Chelsea and Utd games suggest? Yes we can and we lost both

Try and do it without patronising/insulting people.

I think it’s fairly logical to assume performances of that quality would yield results against worst teams.

 

EverybodyDannsNow Flag SE19 17 Jul 20 4.57pm

Originally posted by SwordFish

Also you would take pardews reign over this?? That’s complete nonsense , yes the first half of the season and the end of the previous, but after that, we were shipping goals left right and centre , losing games in injury time when we were winning in the 90th minute , also that cup final, we should have won and it was pardews lack of defensive spark that cost us , everyone wanted Pardew gone, with him in charge playing that way we would have been destroyed and relegated if he wasn’t sacked and should have been sacked a lot sooner

Don’t get me wrong, when Pardew went it was the right time, but it doesn’t make his whole reign a bad one - it was good in parts but it reached a point where he didn’t know how to get us out of the rut we were in; I view the situation with Roy the same.

Why is it you can recognise that Pardew was going to take us down and should have been sacked, yet now, with a considerably worst run of form, you go on as if it’s idiocy to want the same for Roy?

15/16 we finished 15th with 42 points, scored 39 goals in the league and reached a cup final with a squad that was no better (arguably worst) than the current one. Absolutely I would swap that for this.


Edited by EverybodyDannsNow (17 Jul 2020 5.00pm)

 

Eaglecoops Flag CR3 17 Jul 20 5.00pm

Originally posted by SwordFish

I’m simply voicing my opinion , also you stated we can play expansively as the Chelsea and Utd games suggest? Yes we can and we lost both

So had we played our normal boring tosh, do you think we would have got something out of either game? Was the attacking intent we showed our downfall? I really want to know what you think because I thought our movement and passing totally eclipsed that of the Burnley and Villa matches and we could have only bettered that performance with better finishing.

I have no problem whatsoever about the result given how we played in both the Chelsea and Man Utd matches. They were both entertaining and we should perhaps have got something out of both. However, the problem is we have probably only put in 7 or 8 performances like that all year and the rest of the time we have looked almost disinterested on the pitch.

I also really do not get this notion that we have to play in Roy's normal defensive style otherwise we go down. If we played like we did last night we would IMO finish in a top 10 position. If as we expect, Bournemouth, Norwich and Villa all go down it will be because they are overall the three worst teams in the league, not because they occasionally play some attractive football.

Roy would be backed to the hilt by all Palace fans if he showed a bit of flexibility and guile rather than just doing the same thing and picking the same players week in, week out and then when we are losing, not changing either the manpower on the pitch early enough or the tactics. It is not a weakness as a manger to spot when tactics are not working and immediately implementing an alternative strategy. I would argue the ability to do that is what differentiates the top managers from the average ones.

 

SwordFish Flag Peasmarsh,East Sussex 17 Jul 20 5.12pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

Don’t get me wrong, when Pardew went it was the right time, but it doesn’t make his whole reign a bad one - it was good in parts but it reached a point where he didn’t know how to get us out of the rut we were in; I view the situation with Roy the same.

Why is it you can recognise that Pardew was going to take us down and should have been sacked, yet now, with a considerably worst run of form, you go on as if it’s idiocy to want the same for Roy?

15/16 we finished 15th with 42 points, scored 39 goals in the league and reached a cup final with a squad that was no better (arguably worst) than the current one. Absolutely I would swap that for this.


Edited by EverybodyDannsNow (17 Jul 2020 5.00pm)

Because I don’t think Roy will take us down if we needed a result he would get it, we are already safe , our squad depth is as shallow puddle. We have had no investment and Roy will keep us up. I’m not patronising I’m not insulting , maybe i come across that way because I have done nothing but defend my club to so called fans “none on here” I mean on Twitter which is why I’ve come off the stupid thing , who know absolutely nothing about football, palace our history or anything , all they care about is results and you can’t win them all

I understand your point totally , in my opinion , changing manager now would be suicidal, the famous saying is , better the devil you know” and Roy has done a brilliant job , and without him we would be nowhere near where we are now

 


“This is a crisis, a large crisis.... in fact if you have a moment, it’s a 12 storey crisis, magnificent entrance hall, carpeting throughout, 24 hour portage , and an enormous sign on the roof saying “This , is a large crisis” - Edmund Blackadder

jeeagles Flag 17 Jul 20 5.21pm

Originally posted by EverybodyDannsNow

Don’t get me wrong, when Pardew went it was the right time, but it doesn’t make his whole reign a bad one - it was good in parts but it reached a point where he didn’t know how to get us out of the rut we were in; I view the situation with Roy the same.

15/16 we finished 15th with 42 points, scored 39 goals in the league and reached a cup final with a squad that was no better (arguably worst) than the current one. Absolutely I would swap that for this.

Pardew pretty much had no defence by the time he left.

We've got a net transfere spend of about £110,00m since promotion.

In the two windows before Roy arrived we signed Luka (£12m), Schlupp (£15m), PVA (£15m) plus Sakhho on loan and Later for (£26m). In the season he "saved us" he also had Reidewald for £8m plus RLC and TFM on loan and the emerging AWB. That's £78m in transfer fees alone added to the value of the squad in 6 months.

Since then the only big departures have been Cabaye and AWB. Cabaye was aging anyway.

He's spend £3m on Jach, £10m on Kouyate, £8m on McCarthy, and Sorloth £10m which admittedly isn't much (31m), but none are first team regulars. Guaita, Meyer, and Cahill amust have significant wages too and been supported in the loan market with Batshuayi, Tosun, and Camarasa.

What's puzzeling is that he's spent most of the money he had on Holding midfielders when we had a Luka who could play that role and McArthur and Reidewald as competent back ups.

The only players that have got regular first team football are Cahill and Guaita.

So he's had £30m to spend. He didn't really need or use the players he brought in. He's ignored free transfers and loans that he's bought in.

Even then, whilst we were crying out for a striker, he shipped off Sorloth and Wickham on loan.

The board might look at it like giving money to a child to go shopping with. They'll only spend it on crap they'll never use, and they doesn't use the crap they have already. Why give them more?

 

Mwncisee Flag Middlesbrough 17 Jul 20 5.56pm

Originally posted by jeeagles

Pardew pretty much had no defence by the time he left.

We've got a net transfere spend of about £110,00m since promotion.

In the two windows before Roy arrived we signed Luka (£12m), Schlupp (£15m), PVA (£15m) plus Sakhho on loan and Later for (£26m). In the season he "saved us" he also had Reidewald for £8m plus RLC and TFM on loan and the emerging AWB. That's £78m in transfer fees alone added to the value of the squad in 6 months.

Since then the only big departures have been Cabaye and AWB. Cabaye was aging anyway.

He's spend £3m on Jach, £10m on Kouyate, £8m on McCarthy, and Sorloth £10m which admittedly isn't much (31m), but none are first team regulars. Guaita, Meyer, and Cahill amust have significant wages too and been supported in the loan market with Batshuayi, Tosun, and Camarasa.

What's puzzeling is that he's spent most of the money he had on Holding midfielders when we had a Luka who could play that role and McArthur and Reidewald as competent back ups.

The only players that have got regular first team football are Cahill and Guaita.

So he's had £30m to spend. He didn't really need or use the players he brought in. He's ignored free transfers and loans that he's bought in.

Even then, whilst we were crying out for a striker, he shipped off Sorloth and Wickham on loan.

The board might look at it like giving money to a child to go shopping with. They'll only spend it on crap they'll never use, and they doesn't use the crap they have already. Why give them more?

I feel a lot of people do not understand the reality of how transfers are done. It's not football manager. It's very unlikely Hodgeson made any signings. At best these days the manager provides a list of profiles of players he would like and then the club scouts and tries to sign a player who fits that profile. I'll bet any manager only gets a fraction of the players they feel they need. Likewise even once signed the player may fit the profile the manager asks for but due to finances may not be the quality he needs to fit into his team.

As for Sorloth and Wickham, I'm sorry but its a case of 20-20 hindsight. The vast majority of fans felt it was good moves for both of them. We had Tosun as cover Sorloth had just not hot going with us so needed to go somewhere to have a fresh start and Wickham was coming back from injury and needed to get some games under his belt to regain fitness.

 

Eaglecoops Flag CR3 17 Jul 20 6.42pm

Originally posted by Mwncisee

I feel a lot of people do not understand the reality of how transfers are done. It's not football manager. It's very unlikely Hodgeson made any signings. At best these days the manager provides a list of profiles of players he would like and then the club scouts and tries to sign a player who fits that profile. I'll bet any manager only gets a fraction of the players they feel they need. Likewise even once signed the player may fit the profile the manager asks for but due to finances may not be the quality he needs to fit into his team.

As for Sorloth and Wickham, I'm sorry but its a case of 20-20 hindsight. The vast majority of fans felt it was good moves for both of them. We had Tosun as cover Sorloth had just not hot going with us so needed to go somewhere to have a fresh start and Wickham was coming back from injury and needed to get some games under his belt to regain fitness.

So are you saying Mourinho, Klopp and Guardiola are not involved in club transfers. Sorry, I’m not buying into that.

 

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