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I think the team are clearly a bit stuck, because they have no one up top who will hold the ball up, and so they have to play it about. That's alright if we were, say, 10th, because we do actually have two ball playing CBs, but we're bottom, so everyone's on edge and mistakes are so costly.

With Sakho, we're talking about a real top quality defender. His pass completion rate, and the type of pass he makes, is outstanding, but he's a type of defender we aren't really used to. Yes, it's risky, and he makes the odd mistake, but what he brings to the side is amazing, his positioning, awareness, leadership, are incredible, and if the cost of that is that he likes to show off his footballing skills in risky areas, I think fair enough.

We'll get a win soon if we keep playing as we are, particularly with a big man up top. We're gonna be ok.

Edited by serial thriller (19 Nov 2017 12.08pm)

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4

Well remember that you are looking at a Niasse who:

- has not been exposed to the toxicity of de Boer
- has not had to change systems three times since August
- plays for a team that refs support and therefore gets away with the sort of s*** he dished out yesterday - a Palace player could not
- needed to show Koeman that he deserved his own locker and
- gets some service.

Personally I wouldn't want a player who dived and cheated like that, firstly because we are better sportsmen that that and secondly because if you do it in a Palace shirt you get sent off. I wondered about Benteke coming to us after his notorious dive but he hasn't done that since he came. I would not want Snodgrass here for the same reasons.

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Don’t talk cojones George mate. Have a look at our points tally the last 13 games Wayne has played. His career with us is over. You guys need to get your heads around it and move on. We’re
Picking up points again thankfully. Onwards and updwards.

"We love you Palace, we f@cking hate Man U, We love you Palace, we hate the brighton too, We love you Palace we play in red 'n' blue, so f@ck you, and you ...

He’s not but don’t for a second think that he didn’t play a major part. We’re picking up points and in our situation that is better than we were doing before we changed goalie. It would now
Be complete insanity to change back to something that was reaping up zero points. Whether Henessey had anything to do with it or not. It’s not worth the risk is it.

"We love you Palace, we f@cking hate Man U, We love you Palace, we hate the brighton too, We love you Palace we play in red 'n' blue, so f@ck you, and you ...

This post has been merged from a topic called 'poncing around today ??' by Midlands Eagle

I actually don't think we need a big man up top, at least not another one. What we're crying out for is a poacher. A finisher who can put these chances and half chances away.

Creating so much and literally just need a 'fox in the box'.

I would have preferred Tomkins to Dann in the first place, but Dann has been OK lately apart from that incident, the last couple of games he has been more than decent. Dunno what Tomkins looks like in training ATM.

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