This post has been merged from a topic called 'How to improve our Home Form ? ' by bexleydave

There is no doubt that we have enough talent to go to the Etihad and get a win. Fancy that ?

So what is going wrong at Selhurst ? Today we should have destroyed a team as bad as Huddersfield. And previous home games ? recently ? say no more.

Our fans are brilliant, our Stadium is a cauldron, good players, good manager.

So, what to improve ?

Personal thoughts :

- the away fans need moving back to their old position.
- the squad to do more training time at Selhurst,
3pm midweek days ?

what else ?

how do we improve our home form ?

Eze Peasy at Anfield....

This post has been merged from a topic called 'How to improve our Home Form ? ' by bexleydave

Our home form has been poor ever since we were promoted apart from a couple of brief runs under Pardew and Pulis.

Sack Roy is a stupid thing to suggest in my opinion.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

This post has been merged from a topic called 'How to improve our Home Form ? ' by bexleydave

Our biggest issue with our home form is simply that our midfielders are not good enough for the type of game you need to play at home.

We do well away as teams tend to attack us and we are great on the counter, we get the ball up the pitch to Wilf and Townsend quickly and they can hurt any team.

Luka aside, I don't think with Schlupp, McArthur and Kouyate we have players that can hold onto the ball, dictate the tempo and play a killer pass. We simply haven't seen enough of Meyer yet to know if he can control a game or impact it over 90 minutes.

We desperately miss the likes of Cabaye and RLC who were comfortable on the ball, had composure and could move the ball forward, linking play.

I think Roy had the right idea yesterday by playing Meyer at home as he is naturally the right kind of player for a game where we have to take it to the opposition. He just has to prove himself now. I also think that Luka a lot better going forward than he is given credit for and at home it would be worth having Kouyate as the holding player and allow Luka to drift slightly further forward than he currently does.

Roy takes the view, perhaps with some validity, that the first goal is key in the eventual result of games.
Therefore he sets up at home with a defensive mindset and does not commit players forward.
When teams sit back we don’t have the guile to break them down.
We’re also weak at attacking set pieces which means it’s unlikely we’ll nick a goal from a corner or free kick.
None of our current strikers ( including Batshuayi) suit this way of playing so I’m not sure where the solution lays in improving our home form under Roy.

Cannot agree Luka and Kouyate are lightweight but we miss a strong ball player like RLC

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

This post has been merged from a topic called 'Wrong colour home kit' by bexleydave

Didn’t Ferguson blame the colour of the Man U away strip when they got beaten at Southampton a few years ago? He claimed they couldn’t see each other. Or something.