Now there's an oxymoron if ever I saw one.......

A stairway to Heaven and a Highway to Hell give some indication of expected traffic numbers

Yet to see Townsend play well against the top sides. Looked scared at Spurs, anonymous last week. Perhaps the manager thought the same and thought Chungy a more reliable option

Edited by palace-metros (30 Oct 2016 9.25am)

Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticise them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

He was dropped because Lee was a better player to break up Liverpool and I thought it worked well. Townsend came on and we lost our shape and opportunities

Edited by dannyboy1978 (30 Oct 2016 9.33am)

Lee should have started in the middle to do the Puncheon role, he is not a winger. Should have been Cabaye, McArthur, Lee C Y midfield. Ledley looked like he was playing 2 divisions above his level yesterday, offered no protection for the back line.

..we are way too slow when on and receiving the ball and when against quick organised teams it becomes very obvious, this game was quite predictable and sadly made worse by our weird defending, too many players watch the ball and not the player and too many do not help each other when in tight situations, Pardew is trying to play with a team that cannot play due to it's failure through awareness, also if you cannot provide the opposition with any attack to worry about then you are asking for all the shit to hit the fan...and it did hit us.
Pardew ferked that first half and some of the players for whatever reason obliged him the honour.

..when we did finally organise ourselves during the second half we looked dangerous and they were not coming at us at will because of it, we would have no doubt still lost this match because they have brilliant individuals but for me it was not the result but the way the result came about that annoys me and this is worrying for the rest of the season as it is taking us an entire half to get organised in every single game.