Not an unexpected response

Top 10 and a good cup run I will bite your hand off.

Arsenal, City, Newcastle, Spurs, Man Utd, Chelsea and Liverpool will all be higher than us.

Leaving 3 places for top 10. Brighton will probably get top 10. Leaving two places between teams like Palace. Aston Villa, Leicester City.

I think Vila and Leicester will do better. Fulham could continue to do well. Leeds you never know. West Ham will come back with the money they spend.

So top 10 is very hard even but if Palace get that what a season!

Using those criteria, we can add Stoke + Wolves and Everton + Arsenal from last season.

I would put £1,000 on, if I was you with your blind optimism.

Leicester winning the league has screwed football odds …..16/1 is ludicrous considering the size of the teams above.

I could never back against Palace but would lay those odds all day.

Incidentally, I would rarely back Palace because of crippling superstition!

What's the common denominator between the 3 away games at Leicester, Everton & Forest ( other than the fact that they were away fixtures) is it us, the players we selected, our game plan, luck of the bounce, or what the opposition are doing / their game plan ? & if its the opposition, why couldn't Wet Spam sort themselves out ?

For me the one thing that I find disappointing & it was prevalent in all of the 3 games that I mentioned above is when it seems as though we aren't even trying -surely effort is one of those things that as a professional player is a non negotiable -

I really hope that our backroom guys & PV work out what needs to change so that we can at least get our share of the points from games like that -