Woods clattered into Henderson a few minutes earlier, flattening him. So when this cross came in, he saw Woods and hesitated for a second, allowing Woods to get his head to it unchallenged. Apart from bottling the challenge he had a reasonable game.

Playing much better, higher tempo, moving the ball quicker, pressing out of possession, decent set pieces. Glasner like a breath of fresh air after Hodgson.

Get rid of the deadwood in the summer - Reidewald, Clyne, Tomkins, Schlupp, Edouard and free up wages for some first team additions.

Henderson was good yesterday - commanded his box well, dealt with corners and crosses, punching them out wide on more than more occasion. Though at the time he was caught out for the goal, but watching in on MOTD last night, not really his fault. Mitchell played Wood onside - just needed to step up and leave Wood caught on his own.

Munoz and Wharton top buys - more please.

What exactly are you expecting 4 games in? It’s going to take time to implement a style.

The bookies odds are irrelevant - and I’d argue by avoiding defeat against Luton and Forest he did exactly what was needed at this stage. They were more important games for Luton and Forest to win.

Acid test will be a full pre-season and we seem to have a progressive manager. Combined with Freedman (both Munoz and Wharton look great signings) - we’ve every right to feel positive.

Glasner certainly isn’t Hodgson.

Here's one national newspaper journalist's view of Wharton and our DF.

"Wharton the latest Palace gem
Crystal Palace’s admired recruitment department have unearthed another gem in Adam Wharton, the 19-year-old bought for £18.5m from Blackburn in January. If Eberechi Eze was the outstanding player at the City Ground, his runs dovetailed with Wharton, whose vision and weight of left-foot passes were on point on a number of occasions. To follow Eze and Michael Olise, Wharton is the latest Palace diamond mined from the EFL, where talent abounds if you look in the right places. Daniel Muñoz, the Colombian defender also signed in January, also put in a fine performance at Forest. Little wonder Dougie Freedman, the former Palace striker and manager turned Eagles sporting director, is one of the most respected members of football’s ever-growing class of front-office execs. That Palace are renowned as a talent factory is tribute to the department Freedman heads up. Wharton, capped by England Under-21’s last week, represents the latest proof. (John Brewin The Guardian from that paper's Premier League 10 talking points from the weekend's games)

You can read the other 9 talking points here
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Respect the point. I think we are safe for another season, but I would venture that the average 12th place finish may well elude us this time round, so it remains to be seen if the board have any ambition to seriously back Glasner for next season's campaign.

Would you put circa £150mil on a horse at 25-1?, that is what is at risk if we take any advice from bookies. We still have to get the required number of points to stay up which has to be more than the team at 18th can achieve from the remaining games. Until we are mathematical safe, he is of course, quite rightly going to be cautious, his job is worth nothing if we are relegated because he has looked at the bookies odds and then decides, oh, we are safe now, because the bookies say so. As for the past games against NF, Luton and then Bournemouth tomorrow, these are really the games that we could not afford to lose under any circumstances and therefore he has to select the best he has got available to achieve this objective. This now is not the right time to try out players with no experience, not losing under any circumstances is his most important consideration!