Agree with all of that apart from FDB. He was an irresponsible car crash.

Your defence of Reideweld is misplaced. He is a professional footballer and very well paid, the least Palace are entitled to expect is that he is fit and at playing weight recommended. He may of had one good game, but is obviously not consistent, like say McArthur.

Coming from Ajax doesn't automatically mean your good, Dutch football has been on the decline for years.

Not all players can step up to a higher level and in a foreign country. This is the case with Sorloth, there have been many players come from aboard and sink without a trace as they cant produce. We know about Sorloth as he is here, I expect every club has their own version, but we don't hear about them.

Relative to the club's history our last few years have been a massive success, not got many complaints but this squad should be comfortably mid table with an outside chance of 7th. That should be our expectations this season and hodgson is failing.

Jairo looked in shape to my eyes as I watched the match today and looked good on the ball.

You cannot claim Jairo Riedewald is not consistent, that is totally unfair. He has not been given a run of games. Comparing him to McArthur is the classic apples to oranges. He was brought in and saw his manager fired within a month and hasn’t been given a real chance in the first team.

If you believe Puncheon should be on our bench ahead of him, I say good luck to you matey

Coming from Ajax generally means you can play a bit, despite the decline of Dutch football, Painter.

Speaking of Dutch football where Riedewald and Sanchez formed one of the most highly touted pairings in European football, Sorloth failed in that league.

You don’t know if Riedewald can or cannot be successful at this club as any player in the world needs a run of games, especially in a new country and especially if the guy who signed you gets immediately fired.

the bigger picture is that we are failing and it looks to only be a matter of time until the inevitable happens if things don't change.

Sure, 6 years in the prem looks good, but the content is that the club has struggled to keep its place, spending over the odds to retain it's position, losing money that would instead go into the clubs infrastructure - the youth set up, training ground, scouting.

Being in the premiership, regardless of who we play against, the rewards for that league allows you to build the club and you become part of that league and you progress with it.

Anyone can see that we have taken the money, tried to save it, invested it in the wrong players, back tracked and spent it all and looked around us wondering where it's all gone.

It's like the kid who got 5k for xmas, he spent his money on tarting up an old bmw, it then needs servicing and more money and he's then skint and taking out loans and one day he will have no car or money - when instead he was advised to get a basic ford fiesta and save the rest.

I dunno, how else are some deluded fans going to realise the way we are going is down.

He isn't overweight. H doesn't like the tight fitting shirts that everyone else wears so he wears a baggy shirt that makes him look fatter than he really is.

This was all discussed at length last year