There’s no indication Roy will not be here next season. If there were I think fans would take a different perspective. Personally I think Roy will keep us up and it will be a case of same again next season. I’d put my money on another years extension if I was a betting man.

Correct but equally a lot of teams have come up and struggled to remain in the league. In fact as mentioned in another thread it is only these teams that is keeping Roy in a job. Pards had awful form across two seasons but eventually got the chop. He had won 6 matches of 36 games in 2016 and only a great Cup run covered over the cracks. Funnily enough it was his gung ho approach in games which caused his downfall. Remember Swansea 5-4? Even Tekkers scored that day !! Palace chairman Steve Parish said Pardew's "expansive style of football hasn't worked", and, "Now we're going to wind the dial back the other way." Perhaps the dial has been dialled back too much and maybe we are looking for a Goldilocks type of manager compared to these 2 ?

Edited by Booted Eagle (29 Nov 2020 7.18pm)

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I think this would have to be Roy's last season. We will probably appreciate him more when he's gone. The only way we'll get rid is relegation threat. We've always acted in those circumstances.

Red and Blue Army!

Yes with 10 to play but also took the one player that crosses a ball of the pitch so removed the supply chain for Benteke.

The thing is your all missing my point, I agree Roy will keep Palace up.

But 4 wins in the last 18 matches 2 of which are against teams that came up is not good reading however you want to paint it up.

The fact we are leaking more goals than we are scoring is also a major problem.

I am just fed up watching my team play & the predictable tactics & subs.

I also fed up with people saying that we don’t have the players or other teams (Leeds) have a better set of players than us.

People are basing all there statements on teams that have a manager that is happy to trust his players & play expansive football whilst accepting they will lose a lot of games but will also win a few games.

Also people are basing Palace on a manager that since has been here has been so negative.

Southampton fans & Leicester fans said the same about Puel & now look at how they are playing entertaining attractive football.

Palace have failed to score in 45 PL games since the start of 2017-18 Season funny how this coincides with when Roy joined the Club.

The only way we will ever know if these players are good enough still is if a new man comes in & changes the system yes it’s a risk but do is keeping Roy in the job under the current stats in 2020.

I would like roy to start games as we finished against Newcastle.
Go for it for 60 mins. Maybe score a couple then change to a defensive set up. 3 changes on friday completely altered our style. It can work the other way round! We may concede early but at least have the personel on the pitch to get back into it.
There is nothing to lose in this approach.

I think if we'd had Zaha for the last two matches we'd have earned 2 or 4 points, which would have placed us at 10th or 6th – and we'd all be feeling fine. But we didn't and we aren't: 15th is dismal.

Roy's job is to keep us up. We need to return to earning clean sheets and hope we can find the occasional goal or two when the opposition become frustrated. We have the quality, but the PL is not a league for old men.