Nigel's Knee, a concern

[fleckneymike]

Samson had his hair and Nige had his knee.

I'm concerned that having had his knee sorted Nige has become all cheerful and pleasant. I was horrified to see him laughing and joking with Mark Bright, he was civil with Stringer even in the face of banal questions and he was very complementary in defeat today.

This, in my opinion, could be our undoing. Someone needs to take Nige out at the knee and get our season back on track.

[Vlad the Fox]

Brilliant.

[Fox92]

We need him back on the touchline...

[Mark_w]

Get Mills back, I'm sure we'll be getting rumours of Pearson hitting him with his crutches instantly.

[21st Century Fox]

Wait till the morphine runs out then we'll see how cheery he is.

[Corky]

I was horrified to see him laughing and joking with Mark Bright,

That is very worrying.

[Harry - LCFC]

"Contempt for his fellow man"

...or...

"Get into 'em, fvck 'em up!"

[kingfox]

Very concerned.

Might have to sack him and bring in Dan Petrescu.

[Zingari]

Maybe we can fix him up on a date with Tonya Harding .

[1884Fox]

Haha

[JadeFalcon]

maybe an arrow would sort out the problem ?

[kingfox]

maybe an arrow would sort out the problem ?

Is the arrowhead found in King Richard's spine still lying about after the discovery?

[Col city fan]

On a serious note, I'm not sure Nige did his homework yesterday, whereas Lennie Lawrence got his tactics spot on.

The game changed somewhat when we brought on young James. They suddenly stopped being able to control the midfield.

Maybe we should have flooded the middle of the park? IMO that's where the game was won and lost.

[Basildon Fox]

On a serious note, I'm not sure Nige did his homework yesterday, whereas Lennie Lawrence got his tactics spot on.

The game changed somewhat when we brought on young James. They suddenly stopped being able to control the midfield.

Maybe we should have flooded the middle of the park? IMO that's where the game was won and lost.

I could have sworn that it was our inability to defend set pieces once again that lost us the game. That and the twat of a ref who missed the most blatant of penalties.

[Col city fan]

I could have sworn that it was our inability to defend set pieces once again that lost us the game. That and the twat of a ref who missed the most blatant of penalties.

I'm not arguing with you mate... Of course we didn't defend the set pieces well.

But look at the bigger picture. Exactly the same as against Wolves we conceded too many set pieces due to being overrun from the centre of the park. I can't stress enough how important this is.

When we started to win the midfield battle, WE got more set pieces. The difference is we failed to capitalise on them so well.

It's law of averages.. You get overrun, you concede in dangerous parts of the pitch, you get hurt sometimes by so doing. Especially against a side like Palace who had some big units. Again, very much like Wolves had.