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Edited by HKOwen (03 Dec 2020 10.48pm)

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.

Win a couple of games in a row, and '' the way things are going '' change again.

The Burnley and Newcastle results were very disappointing. I thought beforehand that 4 points were achievable. To come away with no points or goals isn't good enough.

Looking beyond the results and focussing on performance, I think it was the perennial finishing problem that made the difference. And 2 decent performances from opposition goalkeepers.

It's a fact of life that we are over reliant on Wilf. If he returns at West Brom I'm hoping that will give everyone a lift.

Old, Ungifted and White

Absolutely spot-on, but I would add also abject defensive lapses.

In terms of goalkeepers, Nick Pope is renowned for his terrific shot-stopping ability, and I understand that in training he is hard to beat in small-sided games and in shooting sessions after training.
Karl Darlow is another excellent shot stopper but in the past has been criticised for not being so good dominating his box when the ball is in the air and he has to come and collect under pressure.

This is the Premiership, one would expect the opposition to have a decent keeper. More to the point is why, when in a good position, our forwards prefer to shoot straight at the keeper rather than the space to either side, or dink it over him? I politely suggest extra training, whereby our miscreant forward line have to practice repeatedly chipping a cardboard cut-out until they get a perfect 10/10 score.

I agree with most of your comments but have to ask you did you actually watch the game against Brighton?.. we didn't have a single shot, on or off target, in the whole game.. and we only scored from a dubious penalty.. the tactics were awful, we were awful and hardly ventured in the Brighton half, probably one of the worst performances I've seen from a Palace team and I've been following them home and away since the late 60's.. I hate to say it but the weed deserved to beat us that night and if they were a half decent side they would've beaten us by a few too.. we are too inconsistent, one week we can play attractive entertaining football, even score goals, the next week we look like strangers, a side that's just been picked at random from the streets of SE25.. why?..

Agree with most apart from moving Bats on .Although he is not actually our player at moment. Would wait to see how bats performed from now on in .Definitely think he is an improvement on Ayew ,and personally think he has a bit more about him but time will tell .