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The good feeling started to crumble pretty quickly when we failed to win any of the Summer games v PSG, Celtic, Barca, made a clots of transfer signings and then got beat in the opening game against newly promoted Hull who had a couple of parking attendants on their subs bench ?

we’ve been flying a kite with no replacement right back for 3 seasons now. eventually Simpson was going to get injured or lose form at some stage; the club is to blame for the mess that most forum members have highlighted for ages. Knock on effect is we’ve lost one of our few hardworking players for season now.

Sunderland is a poisoned chalice why would he go there ? there’s a chance he could take over as interim manager here when we lose Saturday’s match v West Ham and he sees us to our inaugural win v Arsenal in the Prem. ?. just like Alan Evans v Arsenal in 94-95 season before he joined Brian Little at Villa. Think stick Ormondroyd scores that night.

Let’s start making plans for Nigel. third time lucky eh!

It's been on the slide since the Watford win 2-0 at home. We got done by Everton and then we have progressively got worse and now - as can bee seen on Saturday v Palace the players collectively don't believe in him or the method. That was embarrassing. I think the Vichai and co. see this and will be preparing a change in the next couple of days.

I feel for Puel and ideally he would be in for the length of his contract given premiership survival ; however the owners have bigger ambitions. Winning the league has raised their and our expectations, and the pathetic attempt to achieve 7th and FA Cup ambitions has left a bad taste. but worse is the current disarray and relegation form performances. not since Swansea have we led in a home league match. I believe the barrels are loaded and a managerial change will happen this week.

Although I agree with your sentiments right now this isn’t going to happen. Why would Benitez come here? A mass clear out in a short summer window would leave us threadbare or at least with a bunch of new boys looking around for leadership that we don’t currently have. Wr need fairly minor surgery and two or three very influential players ideally with Prem experience e.g Rondon, Shaqiri and the 17yo Sessignon junior from Fulham if we can! I think the latter could cut it given a chance.

You are correct it is a vital month. looking at the last fixtures all our opponents have something to play for. West Ham are not yet safe, Arsenal playing for sixth and Spurs for the Champions League. The team is in danger of losing all these matches and if that happens and we finish 12th or so Puel will be gone. You cant rebuild in the middle of a season. Taking that liberty has cost us massively.

Last night my mate who’s a Palace fan said despite our fans who he felt for! we were the worst team they’d seen in 4 seasons and that includes their Pardew days and a couple of lower league teams in the Cup. They thought we would be solid relegation candidates next season. says it all really ☹️

coco the clown or mi’ gran in her pinnie; either could do a better job then Puel

interesting that Shakespeare’s points record is now better than Puels! and he had that tough fixture list at the start. not saying Craig was the long term choice but it kind of says we haven’t moved forward results wise. players do not appear to believe in the plan either. well it’s either that or they’re not understanding it. football isn’t rocket science so the players are partly to blame here. Drago is the one I feel sorry for.

I thought playing with no pressure is supposed to allow them to play their game with freedom intensitee and qualitiee . We’re playing like prisoned souls, lackadaisicalee and inferioritee. Time for the taxiee in dans matinee.

Kante aside the team is more or less the same as the Premier winning team if he were to play fuchs and co. it’s togetherness that’s missing and at the moment we’re not believing and we’re not together.

Surprised the fans didn’t stay behind and sing “We’re going down the league, we’re going down the league....”

it’s not as if we were playing Man City and if we were there are questions to answer. palace are a bang average prem team. reminded me of jimmy bloomfields last days and a 5-0 hammering by west brom

Claude Pierre Taylor-Puel

Got to feel for our great fans who travelled. Sorry for this everyone.

Van the man - we're going down the toilet here. That's my 3-0 Palace score up in smoke

Oh dear, even Sakho gets in the act.

I can hear it now, "Mmmm, I zink we played well, in zee last 10 minutes, we played with qualiteee, with honesteeee and with Jamieeee and we deserv-ed more I zink from ziss game....." No we effin didn't mate!

no subs left - Albrighton straight red - we need some phoenix from the flames moment. This is ............

Drago on so 3-4-3 then ?

I said that a few weeks ago there are a lot of similarities when we lost to Wycombe we were "safe" and ended up getting there points form the last 36. Needless to say Taylor was gone three or four games into the following season.

When was the last time we actually led in a game? We're in danger of sliding into the bottom half. I don't think the owners will be happy with this. I believe he may have the summer but what the hell is Appleton doing there? If Puel can't get over the message then get Appleton to explain it though not so politely as Monsieur Claude.

Can we end this season now please. It's a shambles of a heartless team