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It is too simplistic to say we'd have got points against Wolves, Villa and Palace. It is a one-sided view and it omits the fact that those sides also missed chances against us. This can't all be lumped at Adams' door because a lot of it is down to the way we are set up to play back and square with zero pace and very little creativity. All sides miss chances so we can't only count the ones we miss and ignore those of our opponents. A new striker will not change much.

Palace also missed chances and probably should have had the game won in the first half. Adams is not the only striker in the league who misses chances - our problem is that we don't create enough opportunities so it highlights the few misses. Adams nor anyone else will score many goals for this team the way Ralph sets us up.

Agree Ings was very good for us but even he missed chances. I'm just trying to highlight the fact that a new striker probably won't cure all our woes unless he manages to convert nearly every chance he's presented with.

Those blaming Adams for most of our woes and dropped points and hoping a new striker will make everything right could be in for a rude awakening because whoever it is will miss chances. Every striker misses chances. Haaland, Kane, Ings, Toney all miss chances when they should score. Mitrovitch has scored goals for Fulham yet last night he couldn't hit a cow's ass with a banjo despite getting numerous chances. All these strikers will get far more chances over a season than Adams or any other player in our team so their misses are not polarised the way Che's are. We are such a desperate, poorly coached team with little creativity and our odd chances mainly fall to Adams so we are ultra critical every time he misses. So we expect him to score every single time he has a chance and I do agree he should get a few more goals. But we're in danger of putting the cart before the horse - no striker would score many goals for this team because we just don't create anything like enough chances. That is down to the tactical ineptitude of Ralph and it is his lack of moral fibre that allows him to throw Adams under the bus rather than admitting he himself is getting it very wrong. If people think a new striker is going to cure our woes they are looking in the wrong place and I believe they will be saying the same things but just about a different player.

What if Ankerson evaluates the team performance and makes an assessment of expected position and decides we are worse than the league table shows? I believe we are if I'm honest. Ralph is done here.

But we were set up wrong for the entire first half and the manager did nothing about it. Strikers will miss chances and the ones Che misses are highlighted because we create very little. However, Ralph has to explain the limp first half showing considering that he picked the starting line-up and didn't think it worth making a change until half time. It's not good enough for him just to blame missed chances, he has to take some responsibility for his own failings.

A lot of this rings true.

Semmens would be no loss.

Nothing about your team's totally abject display for the whole of the first half then Ralph? I'd already predicted he'd hide behind missed chances. Typical coward.

Not suggesting Diallo should have been hooked after one minute but he was poor enough to warrant having been taken off after 20 minutes.

If Dragan is anything of a businessman, and he must be to have earned billions, he will surely insist that the manager is sacked and nothing Semmens can say will change his mind. Maybe Semmens should go with Ralph.

Why didn't we change the formation 20 minutes into the first half when it clearly wasn't working?

Fulham won't be in the mix - very good side this season.

Plus a manager.

You seriously think we'll beat either Newcastle or Liverpool?

But Diallo clearly wasn't on it from the first minute. When a manager sees that he should be bold enough to take the player off straight away.

It's his job to get it right from the start but, to give him some slack, if things go wrong which they clearly did today it is then his job to make early changes to get us into the game. He didn't do it and the second half proved that we should have changed things a lot sooner.

You're missing the elephant in the room. How can a bloke on 6.5 million preside over that shit in the first half and not make early changes to try to put it right. Second half was better so it's not as though Palace are a team we should be scared of.

Who picked Diallo and then allowed him to play the whole first 45 minutes?

Ralph is about the only one who could explain that performance. His playbook is starting to look short of a number of crucial chapters.

Explain why Ralph presided over that shitshow of a first half without doing a thing to change it.

Correct. Let's hear the manager admit he got it wrong.

Ralph needs to stand up and take his massive share of the blame. The first half was totally inexcusable.

Nothing will change under oh clueless one.

Spot on.