I am with you we looked more composed. Bournemouth game was very poor quality.

Its not how many chances Boro missed nor how many pens we should have had but our general performance .

Did we play well enough to take the points ?

Yes against Boro I would say 9 times out of ten we take the three points

Bournemouth maybe 50/50

Then again Chelsea and Man U at home were 50/50 games and Swansea I would say we take the points 7 times out of ten .
Its all about maximising your chances and seeing the game out to its deserved conclusion ,something Pardew couldn't do and what SA is working on .

And we still need a striker

Pleased to see tyou are all optimistic and happy to slaughter my opinion
I guess you were the very same that were wetting themselves after the Bournemouth result
Now please remind me how that worked out for us 4 days later

If the ref hadn't been so terrible we'd have had 2 pens...

if we had put the ball in the net another 3 times we would have won 4-0!

I hope our team are saving themselves - will happily take twelve 2-0 wins - 4-0 alerts teams to be careful when playing Palace, lots of gentle wins are better.

COYP

We have managed to make numerous teams who have previously been struggling look like Barca this season and to be fair a lot of last season too, so Boro was a massive improvement. The 2nd half did remind me however of why we made the other teams look good and it was primarily because we sat back and allowed them to come onto us.

Whilst I don't agree with the Pardew all out attack policy, I do think we are a much better team playing on the front foot, so IMO a 0-0 philosophy going into the match with the Baggies would not be a good approach. Scoring first is vital to us as a team at present.