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Agreed, it's mentally much more difficult to score that one opportunity you get a game, after being starved of service for 89 minutes. No player is able to maintain full concentration for 90 minutes. When a team has rhythm and a structured attack strikers know when to focus and when to prepare for the next attack. Our chances come in odd places after producing nothing. Very harsh on Mitro to criticise him for missing the singular chance he gets.

Agreed, why not make use of the best coaching/development programs? As a young player, if you find yourself not being able to break through at a club like Chelsea or Man Utd, you can always get a loan out to a smaller club and make your breakthrough there, setting up a transfer for yourself. If you were in their shoes and you had an offer from the Chelsea Academy, you wouldn't reject them.

How is Hiddink a fraud? A Fraud is harsh but he's clearly nowhere the coach he was years ago, shown by the fact Pardew outcoached him Aye but it's ridiculous calling him a fraud. Won the Champions League with PSV, did well with South Korea, Russia, was a pretty poor refereeing display and a moment of magic from Iniesta away from getting to a Champions League final with Chelsea. Not the CV of a fraud Not sure he won the Champions League with PSV 1988

That's true, all he did were basic actions, but seeing how Krul has been playing before he got injured, pretty sure we wouldn't have won today if Krul had played. You do have to praise a player for performing every basic action correctly for 96 minutes of absolute pressure.

Eh? Colo and Elliot both had very good games. and Mbemba. but aye. Flo provided an outlet Yerr obviously those three too. I meant more in terms of providing an outlet, he was the only player.

He was the only player today that relieved a bit of pressure from the defence. Only decent player in a shit performance.

He's right like. Playing like we have been this season, plenty of possession miles away from the final third is both shit and pointless Not completely pointless though. Last year we were hoofing the ball to our forwards (who don't challenge for long balls, and couldn't win them anyway) and giving possession straight back to the other team. The sooner you turnover the ball, and the longer the ball is in the possession of the opponent, the more they attack and are likely to score a goal. So I agree that we haven't been able to effectively use possession football to win games, but to say that the changes we've made are pointless is incorrect.

Papisse needs to come off.

Yup our defence sucks.

How is Mike Dean still in a job? How many years of incompetence do you have to display until you get sacked?

We just have no system, no structure whatsoever. We run back and hope they don't score, then we run forward straight into their defence. Repeat, repeat, repeat.

Going to be one of those crappy games where the second worst team wins.

Yup that's my point. Initially we were being exposed out the flanks. We also lacked the hard runners to get the ball out of our half and to our attackers during counter-attacks. Having Gouffran and to some extent Sissoko on the wing solved these problems, they provided the hard running. It gave us some results. Pardew failed to realise that this 'solution', solved our problems, but there were much better ways to use Sissoko and Gouffran. Once Sissoko and Gouffran started hitting brick walls, he didn't know what to do. He's an auditor not a mastermind. A coach knows how to solve a problem, a tactician has the higher-level view on how to create a system. Pardew possesses the former capability and not the latter. You just watch, he'll do well at Palace this season, after that they're pretty screwed.

Pardew is a good coach, but a poor tactician. I can imagine Palace doing quite well until the rest of the season. To explain, Pardew being a good coach is good at picking out what the team has been doing wrong, and improving them. In that interview he mentions that they're not opening up the pitch enough, and they're not getting the ball into dangerous areas often enough. He'll improve that, and Palace will benefit. It's after the current team's problems are ironed out that Palace will struggle. Once Pardew's 'fault-fixing' exercise finishes, he'll have no idea on how to progress the team forward from there onwards. He's a good auditor, a bad mastermind. Thus once he's at this point, he'll experiment with the team or rely on gut-feeling, rely on hard graft from his players, eventually falling to an extended form slump. Once his team performs badly enough, he'll restart his fault-finding expedition, sparking a short winning spree. So the cycle will continue. Expect Palace to do well until the end of this season, brace yourselves to be criticised by the media for not backing him. In the long run, we'll be proved right.

He is quite dense but there he's justified in looking forward to the De Jong and Perez partnership. Both bring intelligent running, Perez the pace with De Jong the positioning you need (not just hard running) to stretch defences and open space for other players. I can see De Jong playing deeper and distributing the ball, sometimes making a small run wide/or into the box, opening space up for Perez in the middle/other side.

Since everyone is predicting a heavy defeat, Pardew will probably pull out a draw or a 1-0 win, just to disappoint everyone.

Pretty sure we'll beat Chelsea to keep Pardew in the job, then lose our remaining games until the new year.

Bingo. We have a wiiineeeeeeerrr!!!!

Good Cisse.

Fuck Shelvey is shit.

Fuck off Cisse...

HOW much time does Ki have just to spray the ball around he's casually walking around, passing where he wants, when he wants.

Interesting that it would probably the other way around if every player would have stayed at the club he's played for in 2010. Profound.

YES ROUTLEDGE YOU NOT GOOD ENOUGH GUY!

So hopefully Swansea have finished with their warm-up now.