Sums up the arrogance of a lot of their fan base. If we were/are s*** why did they not beat us? Why do we consistantly finish above them?
Perhaps contact the club with your heriocs and they may buy the flowers for you

Against Bournemouth we had Sakho back, Townsend and Wilf were on the wings and PvA was in good attacking form. For 20 minutes we took the game to them and we seemed to be carrying on from where we left off against Burnley with a more attacking approach. Since Sakho was sent off we have literally seen the team slowly picked off one by one and without adequate replacements in the squad we have had to dig in for results and our performances have become hard to watch.

With a fully fit team our game is about containing the opposition and then breaking quickly down the wings. Without PvA, Schlupp or Townsend that removes a huge part of our attacking threat with it nearly all focused on Wilf producing something. We should never have gone into this season without additional wide players as back up (either full backs, wingers, or ideally both) and everyone from the manager to the fans could see that.

I have seen some of our worst performances in the PL this season from an entertainment perspective, but due to Hodgson and Lewington's methodical preparation we have frustrated many teams and remarkably are still on course for our highest ever points tally. Imagine if Roy had been given players he needed? For all Brighton's nice football, we carried more goal threat in the last 20 minutes than they did in the preceding 70 minutes (goal aside) and this is the Roy way this season: make it into a 20 minute game with Zaha seemingly reserving his energy for the end of games (how often does he get his goals in the final quarter? It seems a lot to me).

A fully-fit Palace team would definitely have provided more of a game against Brighton. Let's sign some bloody players and turn them over at the Amex.

As someone else said - 8 points from the last 12 - 1 goal conceded and all the time players dropping like nine pins - pretty bloody excellent in my opinion!
Brighton may have been the better side but they were not the winners on the night so stuff 'em!

It was one game where they probably played at their peak and we with all our injuries did not.

We got a lucky point but football is often like that.

Remember the play-off. We were extremely lucky to get a 0-0 at home with Zaha in Wayne Bridge’s pocket. Then the second game...........!!

We have picked up a very useful two points in the last two.

That said, we still need more than just Wilf.

Classic Willo, quite wonderful.

It was a brilliant defensive display hence Brighton only had three reasonable opportunities from their seventy min performance, the build up to their goal had to be brilliant to get us (quite similar to Man.C and others) football is also about defending we would be where Watford are if we didn't have Hodgson ..he as we realise and understand our problems up top and Mr Hodgson has taken the necessary precautions and actions to see we stay tight and organised, we are very light all over at the moment especially moving forward towards and through the midfield so thank the lord Mayer woke up and actually showed what he could do when he came on, we need to look at the positives.

Edited by Tickled pink (21 Dec 2019 11.46am)