The sad fact is that this is probably the only option that we have until Jan at the moment. The club have carried one striker through a very long period of injury, one is now injured and the other is a loan. Even if you say it is "hard" to get the quality in front of goal, for a club supposedly being in the top bracket of wage payers that is still poor. Has Tekkers totally sucked the striker budget dry ?

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

So many Palace fans are; ignorant of how a club is run. deluded as to what a chairman of a club does (c) naive as to what money can achieve (unless you're talking billions - look at Fulham) (d) Total f***ing muppets

people are being far too negative - we'll be fine, disappointing start, but the replacements for RLC and Cabaye can't be faulted unless you're another Professor Hindsight, other clubs appear to have superior 'models' but these set ups are usually temporary and come under pressure when the quality of recruitment dips, as it inevitably does, Watford and Bournemouth look very solid now, but so did Swansea, Stoke and West Brom not very long ago, and Southampton's selling status is finally catching up with them, Parrish got benteke and Wickham in not on a whim, but bcos of Pardew, and we were all delighted when he turned up and most were surprised he stooped to our level - Parrish has no doubt got up most of our managers' noses, he is not quite perfect, the new stand delay is frustrating, but I'd have him over Jordan or Noades any day, and we've had Bloye and Goldberg so careful casually knocking SP - we haven't got the money to do a Wolves, we're in a run against the top sides, we will rally and finish lower mid table again - we may be the new Coventry City - but some of us remember watching with Mullery and 4000 fans at home v Shrewsbury or Barnsley. Poor results lately, form picking up, January to come, England managers with Palace links all over the place, cheer up chaps.

I can and do blame Roy for Sorloth. You can't judge a player who doesn't get to play. A sporadic 10 minutes when the game has already gone, is not going to do anything to help settle a player into a system.

Roy keeps saying he's good enough, then play the lad.

He's had one start and what happened... Oh, He scored.

We have had a problem scoring for a couple of seasons, your right there but could anyone say after Benteke scores 17 goals, that the next season he would only score 2 in an injury ravaged side? I think not.

Look at Everton, they signed Rooney and then he couldn't get in the team, a team that was struggling for goals. Then they got Tosun? Scored a couple, now can't get in the team. He slated us in the press, now there's rumours that Everton want rid and guess who to.

We are competing with at least 8 other Premiership sides for goal scorers. They all have the same money we do and the same problem, but the club are expected to easily identify one, spent a sh!t load of money and quality for Europe.

Our problem wasn't that we didn't sign a forward, it's that we let one go in Murray and Parish has stated that his biggest regret was being talked into letting him go but again, if you have two managers in a row that wouldn't play him, were we really going to offer him a new contract.

It's down to the manager to motivate and get the best out of the players and build a team. Our manager is Roy Hodgson.

Roy will do OK for us (Hopefully) but it's going to be ugly.

"You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead"

Stan Laurel

Telling me no one could foresee that we would miss RLC or Cabaye? That Roy stating 6 months earlier in jan that we were already 7 players light on what he felt was a reasonable squad?? so to lose those lads, we are now 9 players short. Plus to lose and replace squad players.. we are weaker this season than last and last season we were screaming out for reinforcements.

A proven striker should have been the key target, not 'Oh CW is back soon, he'll be like a new signing' or 'It's ok we'll just stick a winger up front'

This was once a quality forum....

Same old story every season with a patchwork squad which some how we manage to escape the trapdoor with. Along with American billionaire owners, you would have thought we would have pressed on by now.

Why did they take Palace on if they’re not fully committed, what is their reason, can someone explain...