Cool down everyone Chelsea are only three points ahead of us having changed their manager and spent millions on new players. Just accept we are a middish table team and just staying in the division is our objective. There will be unexpected loses and unexpected wins. From the season so far there is nothing out of the ordinary to suggest
that we are in dire trouble. Keep the faith fans.COYP

I was beginning to despair until I read this. A few poor results and most people want to take panic action and oust the manager.

I expect us to have a tough ride for the next month or so, given the fixture list, but I do expect us to get enough points to keep our PL status. The last thing I want to see is the club panic-buying and overpaying. We don't have the resources to compete with the big boys or even the fallen clubs which are bigger than us. We have to use any transfer kitty wisely.

Option 2 for me!!!

In fairness, this run of form...

Lose 1-0 at Forest, no shots on target.
Lose 3-0 at home to Fulham, 9 men, no shots on target.
Win 2-0 at Bournemouth, on paper the worst team in the league but an improvement.
Lose 4-0 at home to Spurs, who had shipped 2 goals in their previous 7 league games.
Lose 2-1 at home to Southampton, bottom of the league, 6 defeats in a row, both goals diabolical.

... is a really bad spell. Amplified by Palace being almost unique in the league in having a month to train together prior to it.

It's probably the worst run since the end of the 19/20 season (the Covid restart) when we were safe very early.

It could just be a blip, but it's the performances as well as the results that need to improve. I can't see a game until April that we'd go in as favourites on paper. To go from consistently losing games where we're favourite to winning them when we're not is going to take a lot to change.

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Everyone seems to like Vieira! But is he too nice? Trying to have us play like Arsenal in their heydays. Only difference, they had the crew to play that way. Some workhorses - Winterburn, Adams, Dixon and Parlour. And some megastars - Bergkamp, Henry, Pires, Overmars, Ljungberg, Petit and yes, Vieira.
Had some goalscoring bloke from Palace too..forgot his name!
With Eze and Schlupp to complete a midfield with Doucoure, we are bound to be overrun.
Ayew on top - three goals or something like that in last 57 games.
Ward on left/right back.
Manager without av plan B.
Add that, our team covers the least km in the league.
It looks bad at the moment. Not that we are losing, but the way we are playing and losing.

Edited by thai-eagle (08 Jan 2023 6.27am)

It's not about a couple of games but the whole season and yes we have had some awful performances plus results but look at the table.

5 teams below us before you hit the bottom 3 so yes already many teams who are more s**t.

Everton who is the team top of those 3 have 15 points and played 18 games - Palace have 22 points and only played 17 games meaning 7 points gap.

About to hit half way of the season lots of games left but it really would take a lot of those other teams all getting good results and Palace getting none.

Look at Last 6 league games of the teams below us pay no attention to Southampton game.

Edited by grumpymort (08 Jan 2023 10.04am)

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