Funny enough, in the second half I thought Benteke started to gain confidence, win the air battles and put himself about more

the frustrating thing was how poor our mifdfield was compared to theirs, how our players could not offer options for a pass, and how much sharper they were in closing us down, still roy is getting us to punch well above our weight - if it means we play safety first until injuries subside and we can add to the squad so be it - but Schlupp has started to come good over time and there are signs Benteke is finding a bit of his old spark and Meyer gave a very convincing cameo last night, you can be sure McCarthy will come good too - very committed and capable, if he gets back to his peak form, too early to say whether or not he will, but we'll have a class act committed to the club, not an easy thing to get for a club our size. just hope the hiatus with the owners doesn't screw up our transfer needs in January.

And Meyer didn’t cost £17 million

Any neutral watching on Sky expecting a decent game of football would have:
1. Been sorely disappointed
2. Admired Brighton for playing decent stuff
3. Noted that Palace had no idea and were ugly to watch.
4. We were outplayed yet our defence got lucky.
5. A point for us was daylight robbery

People will jump in and say that the result is what counts and staying up by playing ugly if necessary is all that matters. Yes, up to a point, but our sole objective is to survive and consequently our more skilful players don't get much of a look in.

Football is often called 'the Beautiful Game' - watching Palace will soon disabuse you of that feeling ....

Does anyone think the Liverpool fans are crying about how bad they played against Watford , but nicked all 3 points thanks to their keeper and their star player ?

Of course not, every team has an off day.

But with Palace our last four games were 'off days' yet we got 8 points and conceded one - very good as far as it went. We had to rely on our keeper and makeshift defence to keep it that way but 4 goals in 3 games shows why we play so defensively and daren't risk using some of our more talented players who can actually pass the ball.

It's ugly but some of us purists hope forlornly for better ....