And who picks them?

Bring back Brolin

the general criticism of Hodgson is unfair - we lack creativity in midfield and readjusting to the loss of cabaye and rlc took time - I'm no schlupp fan but playing him as inside left with one of jimmymac, meyer or kouyate on the right was the key tactical switch which got us a great run of form and a comfy mid table position - the manager has to make the team close knit and hard to beat, we play some nice possession football at times but we don't have the overall quality to dominate possession regularly in the prem, despite talk of our 'good' players we are where we should be, Roy has NOT caused us to underachieve - to be fair to the more negative of you looking at where Watford are shows we can raise our expectations, I think selling Wilf and getting a grealish type link man and youngsters like che adam and lookman in could lead to us integrating creativity into the set-up rather than relying on Wilf, and I'd be confident Roy would set them up in a very effective way.

I am worried about AWB going. As we have expected Zaha to go for a while his leaving would be somewhat expected. As such, if we got a good fee I think the club would cope.

If we lost AWB I think that would send a really bad message to potential recruits about our longer terms plans. Especially as we need to bring the age of the squad down too.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

This depends on how we approach to the situation. Overall, Palace did a good job this year considering the facts that there was no significant addition in summer and until January, there was not striker.

Away performance is brilliant (6th in the league) and team (even there is a horrible home performance) always play structured. Both at home and away team know what they are doing at defense, the issue is that there is nothing offered offense at home I have been to 17 home games this year, only first half against West Ham and 20 minutes against Man UTD, team lost the control of the game. (Not been to Watford game)

Better performance at away can be justified with the fact that there is a potential in the team for counter attack. However, you need more creativity and set plans at home where teams seems to have issues.

However, i don`t think this is directly related with team quality. Only 5 points are gained against top 10 at home. 5 out of 30. If you are not a team who seems to be weakest link at the league (like Huddersfield), there can be no explanation on this. Weird thing is that excluding 2 goals against City & Liverpool which was conceded at last minute while attacking for draw, only UTD game is over 1 margin. However, other pattern is that;

- We do not press. Never, only when we have momentum after scoring (which happens rare) This leaves opponent to settle and control the game and worst thing is this dramatically reduce our change to grab the ball and go ahead like we do at away games which we good at.

Summary of this 10 game is showing too much respect to opponent. Should we be more aggressive, we would probably face 3-4 games where we may lose by 3-4 margin maybe, i don`t know. But i have doubts we would stuck at 5 points. Unfortunately this dull play-style was standard as well against bottom 10 excluding Burnley & Cardiff games.

RH may be thinking that he need more qualified team to release the strings. If that is the case, RH may stay as long as summer goes well. However, if this is RH`s mindset and he thinks this is how it works, then there won`t be any dramatic change in home performance and again relegation danger will depend on away performance.

Edited by blackheatheagle (28 Apr 2019 11.12pm)

Who knows how they're going to perform on the day because too many of them are hugely inconsistent throughout the 90 mins, Evertons team was mainly very consistent wasn't it ..I know they made some sloppy passes too but they were clever enough to organise themselves to get it back without us being able to get at them, if Roy had more consistency with PVA for example he would be able to move forward more often and cause Evertons back four some worrying glances but PVA had a not very consistent game and a lot of our build up play was too soon destroyed, he wasn't alone our midfield apart from Milivojevic was not clever ..McArthur wasn't any where near as bad as Meyer, Kouyate and PVA but lets just say he would never get into the Everton side today.

I know you're suggesting Hodgson could play with other players but because at times the players I've mentioned have been able to be more consistent he doesn't really have a leg to stand on when he looks at the bench and he can only change three, most games he needs at least five solid replacements to make any difference.

Wingers are what we need to feed Benteke, or good attacking backs who can cross as well as Souare could, PVA likes the one two more then crossing but AWB is just good at everything and will get better at another club, Ward is an excellent replacement for him.

We need someone who can get the bloody ball across the box for Benteke to head because for all Zaha's trickery he is s*** with doing that simple thing ..come to think of it what does Zaha actually do for the majority of games?