Tomorrow will be a tricky game so I don't know how I would call it...but I've been reading a lot of comments from SA today and for the first time since he joined it feels like he is settled.

Small details and they might seem daft but bringing in PVA means he has a player at the club that has played for him in the past, referring to Zaha as Mr Crystal Palace and saying he sees something special in him, even calling Joel Ward "Wardy" just shows he's becoming familiar with the group.

I'm just being super hopeful perhaps, but if he is starting to build positive relationships with the players then we might just start to see them playing for him and we will pick up some points...like I said super hopeful!

Our season turns tonight.

If you want to live in a world full of kindness, respect and love, try to show these qualities.

Come on Palace .... stick them Cherries where the sun never shines! Ever hopeful that our season kicks off tonight.

Denial is not just a river in Egypt

tough place to go to ,just hope we play like a proper team if we do there is hope that we will pull out of this mess that pardew left us in ,it took sam 9 games at sunderland to gain his first league win ,lets keep the faith

Sam will set up just to contain them so we'll sit back and punt hopeful balls to Benteke. He'll hit the bar again but otherwise have no goalscoring opportunities. The defence is incapable of a clean sheet so they'll score. Wilf will come on as sub and score a blinder to equalise. Our defence won't be able to handle the stress of a possible point and gift them a 92nd minute goal. Fans will say we should have had six penalties and Sam will congratulate PVA for nearly playing.

I think we will lose 2-1. Cherries play the ball beautifully and don't play like a bottom half side, I think they will be too organised for us at the moment.

For similar reasons I don't think this will be the deciding game for us.

I would be very happy to see the repeat of the very boring goalless draw we had up there last season on boxing day.