Tiotes Witch Doctor

100% horrific tackle and a deserved red but unsure on the feigned injury, his ankle clearly twists because he puts that much force into the stamp

Chanting Wijnaldums name when he was taken off FUCKING HELL MAN

Fuck off Wijnaldum.

100000% dive.

Will be getting sent off every week in the champ if he stays, thought he was over this kind of shite.

Not that it matters really, but we'll lose this now, Shelvey is dreadful and Tiote bosses the midfield for the most part.

Surely not Janmaat leaving his entire right side completely open again is it? Useless piece of f***ing s****. Cant wait to see him fuck off.

If anything it further shows the effect that Rafa has had, this will be 6 games unbeaten if they dont score 3 goals (still more than possible mind) It only further hammers home the fact hes the man we need, if Charnley and Ashley fail to meet his demands we all might as well just give up completely.

Only reason he will be trying today is to get a decent move away, hes a bottle job, no coincidence that he NOW finally scores.

Taylor is fucking horrendous.

Can't see him staying personally, most of the comments I've seen from him so far just look like him being polite to me while he goes through the motions. There's not a chance Ashley/Charnley will give him the assurances he needs to be able to do the job to his requirements, I thought the opposite yesterday but for some reason the more comments I see the less optimistic I am. The Warnock rumour is probably closer to what will happen IMO.

Not even kidding here in the slightest if we make no attempt to keep Rafa, or even if we do and fail and bring in someone like Gary Megson I hope we continue to sink like a fucking stone.

Aye, make absolutely no mistake about it even 3-4 matches earlier and we would probably be sitting where Palace are now. But once again if any protests or demonstrations take place against Ashley the general consensus from the idiot pundits like Merson, Ian Wright etc... will be that Ashley spent millions and brought in a world class manager to keep us up, WHAT MORE COULD WE WANT.

Mistake by Rafa in allowing him to stay on the pitch after the break IMO, shouldn't have even started come to think of it.

Do Villa players actually care enough to put in a shift though? Think the Watford loss has probably knocked the stuffing out of them considering they were on for the win. Theres been a huge shift in mentality since the Southampton loss by all accounts and it appears the Rafa effect has been in full swing since then, there's a good chance that should equate into beating the worst team in the league even if it is away from home.

But Rafa...

0-3. Hugely confident.

"I was a yes until today. But having seen that, no. Would everyone be so comfortable with him if we started the season with one win and a handful of draws from 19 matches, mixed in with some of the puniest, most abject, feeble capitulations we have seen from Palace teams? Our league showing since Christmas has been an absolute disgrace and I still can't work out what our tactics are supposed to be. What he said after the semi-final was quite telling I thought. "That's what we're like with our first XI". Yes but as soon as one man is nissing it all turns to sh!te. Whose fault is that? Today we had no Zaha. That's no excuse for the XI who are selected failing to turn up. It's not sh!te every match but it's sh!te far too often and when it's sh!te it can be truly, truly sh!te. I don't want to be sitting bottom no New Year's Day with 10 points from 20 matches. So I for one am now sick of this toilet." :lol: Sounds like it could have been written by us last season.

Big big goal!

What a fucking strike

After tonight I would be fairly optimistic about this but then I remember our away form

Man of the match for me.

They haven't, particularly Cisse who's held it up well. Perez has troubled them with albeit a dodgy pass thrown in. Perez has bottled everything and has been just as ineffective as Wiji has been. Cisse has done nothing but slip on his arse.

Perez and Cisse have been abysmal, but apart from that every one has done very well.