It's a big old nudge nudge to the board that we dont have the required players right now.

Mentioned this in the "back from the game" thread. We didn't have much quality on the bench to replace tired legs, that's for sure. And almost everyone was playing well (even Benteke, apart from scoring) But I was really surprised Cabaye didn't come on but later I read Roy say he's suffering from muscle fatigue. I still cant understand why he played him vs the Weed. But in Roy we trust.

It depends how the team is coping tactically with the opposition, if doing well why change it just for the sake of it.

Remember Pardew against Man U took off Jimmy Mac and United went straight down the channel where Macca would have been and scored the winner.

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Two pretty good teams there, a very good back four for Palace

You must be, so much in fact you comment!

It makes me a little sad to look back at that lineup and then look at Wayne Routledge's career up to and including this season. He was misled and/or stupid to leave when he did, and I wonder how he would have turned out if he'd actually been able to play instead of playing 3 games in 3 seasons at Spurs while he could have been coming into his own. Maybe.

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