PaddytheVillan

3 minutes ago, calcifer said:

After one game? Seriously? Our pre season was a mess with the whole Greedlish saga, games getting postponed etc. Arsenal got beat by Brentford 2-0, Leeds got thrashed 5-1, I bet their fans are not as wet as some of our 'fans' 

Leeds got thrashed by Man Utd not Watford? And Arsenal should be panicking they looked awful. 

The Grealish saga was known about behind the scenes for months, Purslow made it clear we had been planning for it. For the past 5 seasons we've struggled with answers without Jack when he's been injured, and it should have been solved by now. 

I'm sorry but there were no positives from that utter garbage. Bailey looked decent I guess when he came on. 

Everybody has been awful so far, particularly Nakamba, Targett and Young. Young is 36 and should not be starting in an advanced position. 

We haven't learnt how to attack without Jack, hopefully it will come in time...

1 minute ago, Hobbit Feet said:

Woke up with late missed most the match, gutted I didn’t miss all of it. Embarrassing result and performance from what I’ve seen. Just saw a stat that Palace have not won from losing at half time for 3 years and 36 games, sums us up beautifully.

As soon as I saw that I knew we'd lose. We are a gift to out of form strikers, teams that can't score etc  

I don't get the hype around Ramsey. I think Dean is right to give him games and get a feel for him, rather than Barkley who won't be here next season. 

But I can't tell you one clear strength or attribute Ramsey has, there must be better youth prospects that we could blood instead.  

Watkins, Ramsey and Hause all really poor today. Beaten by the better team. 

Really disappointing end to a season that's been good overall. Finishing some way off the top half is poor considering where we were around Christmas. Lots of work for Dean to do in the summer.  

Slightly better performance especially going forward, but still way off where we should be. Drawig at home to an almost relegated team is really poor, the lack of goals and the performances do not bode well going into next season. 

4 minutes ago, Robtaylor200 said:

not voted for MOTM, it could have been worse, they are one of the top teams in Europe and we dont have to play them again 

Did Leeds have that attitude? "Well we were always going to lose so it's cool".

Cash cost us another game. Then again we were absolutely shocking going forward, again. Zero threat, incredibly boring to watch. 

Cash is just not a good right backat this level.  I'm sorry, I know people like him. But every game he is a risk. I think one in every five games he's got sent off, made a horrific error or conceded a penalty. Not good enough. 

And he's cost us this game. Again. 

Liverpool were profligate today, it couldve been a lot more. I thought we were extremely poor going forward, wasting most any chances and weak in midfield. Luiz, Traore and Barkley particularly bad. Another poor performance without Grealish. Martinez excellent. 

I like Cash a lot but we seem to cut him more slack than other players. To my memory he has conceded 4 penalties in the Prem this season due to individual errors.

That being said he has shown a lot of promise and been part of a very strong back line. 

I honestly think we would be relegated in 20th place this season without Grealish. Each match is worse than the one before.  No Villa highlights, no good attacks, awful desfensive errors and no chance of scoring a goal even if the match was 900 minutes. 

The way Smith has handled this injury is embarrassing. And his lack of alternative tactics is poor. 2-0 to Fulham. 

Two goals in the last five, against consistently poor opposition. One of the five was a fluke deflection.  

Smith is the man to fix it but he needs to be more flexible in his tactics and stop lying about when Grealish will be back. Let's not forget we all knew this was the same shin injury he had in 2019 and was out for 3 months, Smith said with a straight face he might have been back within a week. 

Yeah, we'll lose this one. 2-0 to Fulham.

We've had some of the easiest games of the season with Jack out and got 5 points from 6. Average that over a season, factoring in tougher opposition, and we would finish on around 30 points. Ie certain relegation. 

 It's dire and such a shame that this is how this promising season will end. 

4 minutes ago, Paddywhack said:

I thought we were poor, but according to the match thread “WE’RE GETTING WELEGATED! WAAAAAAH”

We aren't getting relegated but our form and performances are pathetic and without Grealish we would clearly be bottom 3 or close to it. 

Unwatchably awful again. Cannot remember the last time we played competently. 

I think we'd be very close to going down without Jack Grealish this season. I dont think the problem is that the players around him are awful, it's more our entire style of play is built around him, and of course he's world class. 

I hope we can persuade him to stay this summer, but I wouldn't blame him if he wanted to leave. 

Appalling all round performance, we are a one man team. 

Hourihane would create at least two excellent opportunities per game with his set pieces. I do not understand how Ramsey, Barkley, Trezeguet or Sanson are a better option than him.