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I'd of gone with KWP. Lyanco has not impressed me at all. Hopefully tonight is the night.

is that a 4-3-3? Is Stephens injured?

we sure do, and you never know, goal difference might be the difference

He's our best centre forward, offering arial ability, strength, pace and goalscoring ability. You say it yourself, he our best finisher, so why one earth have him tracking back all game. So no, it not obvious, it's actually the complete opposite. It's a very left field solution. Not one that I agree with either, but then again, what do I know. Put in on the Palace thread and see what others think.

Now, Field Marshall Hasenhuttl has formulated a brilliant new tactical plan to ensure final victory at Selhurt Park. Ah. Would his brilliant plan involve 4-2-2-2, a high press and attacking very slowly towards the opposition? How could you possibly know that, it's classified information? It's the same plan that we used last time and the 17 times before that. Exactly and that is what is so brilliant about it. It will catch the watchful Eagles totally off guard. Doing precisely what we've done 18 times before, is exactly the last thing they’d expected us to do this time. There is however, one small problem. That everyone always gets knackered in the first 20 minutes? That’s right and field Marshall Hasenhuttl is worried that this may be depressing the men a tad. So, he's looking to find a way to cheer them up. Well his resignation and suicide would seem the obvious Interesting thought, make a note of that Darling.

I'm sure people on here were saying what a nightmare situation Palace were in, with them only having about five players signed to contracts. Looks like that ability to start a fresh, all be it quite a few contracts were renewed in the end, hasn't hurt them too much. Adding a high energy player in Gallagher has really helped them. Boy, could we do with our own high energy payer (S Armstrong) back to give us some much needed pep. In the recent past we have gone to Palace and somewhat unexpectedly dominated, and I am hoping we can do that again, but confidence is going to be low after Saturday. As always, Zaha will be a major threat and I think KWP ought to get that marking job. Great to have Salisu back. Someone has to stop Benteke getting those `easy' headed goals. If we want to survive, getting some away pojnts/draws are going to be needed.

Play Broja at left midfield? Blimey. Those organisational problems are solved.

crap keeping or not, we were very lucky it wasn't five or six. Two off the post, some crucial last ditch blocks and they spurned a few extremely good chances on the break.

he changed his garb at half time. Wish our side could change for the better after the break.

massive error. Willy looks old. McCarthy makes that error, posters in here would explode with anger.

honestly, if I see us almost concede from a break from our own corner one more time...FFS ...what the hell are our coaches doing every week? Watch the tape. Identify when and why we serving up chances. Do your fucking jobs.

there was a 15 minute period in the second half where we were completely overrun. We didn't put a single pass together, never mind get out of our own half. It was desperate and brought back memories of the Old Trafford mauling. There were one or two players, Dialo was one, that just seemed to be watching the game go on around him. We didn't and/or couldn't get close to anyone. Arsenal were dominant, but were our players doing enough/working hard enough? Arsenal had numerous chances, but some players did throw themselves in front of things, so not everyone threw the towel in. But the intensity seemed to drop when Broja went off injured, and that felt like that was the final nail in the coffin. It was pretty horrible. I'd say it was less about players giving up, and more about them putting on a shit show. It was close to being a sackable performance. For me, only Tella showed anything of note going forward and he was a threat, but his shooting was always from long range.

Fonte dived in too, but developed into a top player. He had a few years in the lower leagues to learn his trade though Lynco's errors will be punished more often than Fonte's ever were. It's not as though we are blessed with talent at CB. Not sure who is right player to play alongside Silasu.

...watching every minute he's played in a Saints shirt. He ain't great it the air, he dives in leaving us massively exposed and he overplays in the wrong areas. He played well at Chelsea in the league cup, but I've not been impressed in any of the other games. The sample size is small and I could well have jumped the gun, but right now, that is the player I see.

that period after the league closedown, when stadiums were empty and our opponents had hit the beach early, seems light years ago. I am not sure how we carried that form over to the next season, but it doesn't look like, whatever it was that we had, will ever come back. The formation- tactic-player type/ability just doesn't seem to be in sync.

Lyanco is a liability IMO.

After three years, I honestly don't know what 4-2-2-2 is. It's a hipsters 4-4-2, right? I don't want to see us play 3 CBs. Our CBs are average and put them in a three they just don't know what they are doing.

out of interest, what would that set up look like?

we are like the shit Saints saints of the nineties that scraped survival. Everything is retro these days.

2.5 years left on his £xm contract.

go down and its a financial meltdown. £100+ wage bill will kill us. As was the case last time, relegation is just the start of the 1000 cuts.

Willy reminded me of the 1990 world cup version of Shilton.

thats my point, we'd been woeful, spineless and I've not seen enough effort from one or two and if that is noticed at board level the manager gets fired.

Top 10? Jesus. If don't fancy your chances against a tenth pace side you are fucked. like at Norwich?

I've bigged him massively. I think I might need to rethink. Utter shite today.