I agree with a lot of what you say and don’t think everything Roy does is right. As other have alluded to I’d like to see more aggression when the opposition take liberties and perhaps see a bit more use made of Meyer although he’s had plenty of chances.

I really disagree about the strength of the squad, particularly the lack of any quick, skilful ball carriers in midfield and our aerial weakness. That aside,Take Wilf and Sakho from the the team and we’re absolutely knackered.

Edited by Rachid Rachid Rachid (18 Mar 2019 11.18pm)

yup, that's why we are trailing behind... the whole set up isn't good enough or as expected for 7 years in prem.

This was once a quality forum....

The last 2 results have made a mediocre season feel even worse. Personally, I'm looking forward to the end of the season.

Had our away results and performances been at Selhurst then I wonder whether our collective mood would be so downbeat ?

As for losing our best players in the summer, I'm not so sure. It is starting to become a ' now or never ' for Zaha, but unless Spurs come in for him, it's difficult to see where he would go. Wan Bissaka could do with at least another year at Palace in my opinion, but a silly money offer would fund overall squad strengthening.

Which brings us to how that money would be spent. I do question how much influence Hodgson has on that and as you point out, he's only contracted for another year, so short term.

One person that will be having a busy summer is Steve Parish, because I think there are a number of important issues to be resolved.

Old, Ungifted and White

Wake up call....Meyer no good enough. I look at the impact he has had compared to Jeffrey Schlupp and he just isn’t good enough. That’s despite schlupp being asked to play in 5-6 positions.

Watford have signed 60 odd players from over seas since they got promoted and two of them have been good. Arguably, Foster is equally a good signing. How many youth players have they promoted through their academy.

Every bit of success the club gets, its looked upon like lucky. Roy gave AWB his chance and he has done unbelievable well. SP has signed Zaha long term deal. (Two brilliant players we get to watch every week) We on target for biggest points total in 30 years.

I want to win things aswell, but I don’t think we are a million miles off for doing something special.

As some of you have said - with our squad we should be doing better than we are.
No centre forward for months has not helped but we did have Benteke for many games and we still couldn't score.
Are Roy's hands tied on that one - probably?
We can all be armchair fans and feel we can see what the Manager can't but pretty much all of us agree that
1. We have no plan B
2. Roy doesn't use his subs wisely
3. We are unable to and have yet to find a way to break down packed defences at home and we should have worked it out by now.
A real shame as many of our players would get in to most Premier League teams and some into all.
Potential is great but it has to be fulfilled - use it or lose it!
On players going in the Summer
- Wilf - he must surely go at the right price - I so hope he doesn't but this season will likely have persuaded him that his future lies elsewhere.
- Wan B - Manchester United need a new right back asap and he would get good money and top football every week sadly!
Sakho - meant to be leaving apparently although his injury may prevent that which would be good news for us.

Last season at this stage (30 games) we had only won 2 of our previous PL 10 games.
At the present time we have won 4 of our previous 10 PL games.