I try to swerve the blame-game when we lose.
Palace were generally poor, but there were glimmers of optimism in a sea of pl55-poor mediocrity.

That kind of game knocks your enthusiasm for going to matches.
Still, we have a few days to get over it, and no doubt Roy will be busy, swinging his boot at a few @r5e5.
"There you go Cwistian. That's how you hit the target!"

You are right ...... and there is a long way to go .... but why Pardew thought it would be a good idea to ditch Murray ........ and we ended up with Benteke! We could have paid for Murray’s tax bill and still bought a couple of others!

Edited by Forest Hillbilly (01 Sep 2018 5.12pm)

I think the team after the break should be:

Hennessey

AWB, Tomkins, Sakho, PVA

McArthur Kouyate Milivojevic Meyer

Zaha and either Ayew or Townsend

I liked the way we played at the end of last season when we were forced too play without a centre forward

Speak for yourself, chum.

And I sympathise if your weekend is spoiled by a football match. Rank as the result may be, our start to this season is still better than last.

Norway Eagle is a weed fan trolling this site. He was red carded last year under another name, its obvious its the same person as only posts during games and is the same general bo--ocks.

I couldn’t give a nob of goat s*** about holding Benteke’s hand anymore. Wanted to give him a chance but he’s been given too many now. The teams confidence in him is worth more than his own confidence. Created plenty of chances today just need at least an average striker on the end of them. Patience has run out in this blind faith that he will somehow return to his form at Villa. On the positive side Kouyate and Meyer looked good and would like to see start and anyone but Benteke. Hopefully Wilf and Tomkins or Dann back after international break.