We will be fine.

Team needs a couple of tweaks that’s all.

Got a feeling Meyer will click with Wilf and we will start flying.

we're not relegation material this year but Roy has a lot of work to do to turn us into a decent side. We looked out of ideas for much of yesterday and often had no options for crosses into the box. Bournemouth are a good side but I'd like to see us able to break a team down. It's not like they parked the bus but they were very organised and got people behind the ball when we had it and it completely nullified our attacking threat. I'm not sure what the answer is with our current squad. We have a decent midfield but I don't think Roy knows the best players to pick - I'm not sure I do either.

Would be tempted to drop Sakho for a match. Ill discipline should be stamped out.

If you don't score goals, you don't win games. If you can't close out games, you can't hope to snatch a point. We struggle hugely with these 2 basics and it's up to Roy & Ray Lew to at least ensure we can close out a game and grab a point.

As for trying to win a game ... don't worry as Connor 'Made of Glass' Wickham will be back soon!

Roy please source and sort out a couple of strikers to do what strikers do best Score goals! that will mean to splash the cash otherwise game after game will be decided by the poor goal stats that palace deliver season after season.

Thought Meyer was our best outfield player by far. For the first 15 minutes of the second half Bournemouth barely touched it and it felt like every second pass involved him.

Our real problems started when he ran out of steam. Hopefully he can get his fitness up and start dominating games for longer spells. Zaha needs someone else around him that can absorb two or three players to give him a bit of space. RLC did that very well last season. Hopefully Meyer can do it this season...and we get RLC back for the second half!

Edited by antipodeagle (02 Oct 2018 10.42am)

the real thing I noticed about Meyer was that his speed of thought seemed a fraction faster than many of our players.

a couple of times, he'd have the ball at his feet and you could almost see a team mate thinking "oh, I should have made run there". even Wilf, I think, relies more on his skill than his speed of thought. if some of our quicker players just start running with an assumption they'll get the ball -- ie don't wait -- then I think he'll find them. the question is, can they find that anticipation?

btw, the way his legs went made it abundantly clear why Meyer's not been starting.

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