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No pretending involved. It is my belief that that play doesn't exist for us at the present because Kane carries no threat in behind.
He was manhandled by Guehi today and 19yo Fofana last season. It's gonna hit you like a ton of bricks when you realize/admit it.
There were no other players that high or stationary where the CBs could find shade. #EnglishOak
You said we as a team had 0 threat today...yet Kane was the tip of our very flaccid spear. Surely he is at least partially responsible for our lack of threat.
Fair comment.No-one is saying that but he massively changes that god awful midfield three
We also got one of our bi-annual "everything that could go wrong, did go wrong derby" games out of the way!!!!I've said this all season, but our results and performances have been worryingly close to those of AVBs infamous second season.
Narrow, barely interesting 1-0 wins and then out of nowhere, get utterly trashed by a supposedly 2nd rate team. That season it was West Ham, this season it's obviously Palace.
The twatting came a little earlier than that season.
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Not trying to be knee jerk but that was up there as one of the worst performances since pre Redknapp days. I don’t actually remember the last time we played 90 minutes without even creating a half chance. Holy fook that was as bad as I’ve ever seen.
It looks like our recruitment team consider this season a write off as they rebuild the squad over a few transfer windows. If that’s the case, why did we keep Kane?Same, just watched MOTD, it really did look Bad. Was made worse by following the UTD game and seeing their embarrassment of riches that they can put on the pitch - We are miles away from them (and others).
To be fair to Palace, they have been due a win for a little while now and, from what I've seen, they've generally played better than their results suggested and Connor Gallagher looks like a very promising talent.Yep huge indictment. There is containment and there is context. To be as blunt when Palace are the opponent is pretty damn poor.
Just watched us on MoTD, was hoping we'd look better on a second run, but it really was as bad as I remembered.
It's easy to blame Winks but I think he was the best of the Dynamic Three in the first half (which I admit isn't saying a great deal).
There, I've said it.
Skipp for me was the poorest of the bunch. Jenas said he didn't look 100% fit, I reckon he was right.
The negative tactics to start I can forgive, given the absentees in the squad. To not change it at half time is the unacceptable part.
But you need better forward player than dele to try to nick. Gil May have come on and beaten a couple of players on the counter and created a chance. Dele just fumbles. There was one moment in the 2nd half where we countered he had the ball around half way line and just kept hold of the ball instead of realising the ball to reg on the overlapp. He left it too late and by the time he passed it pushed reg out towards corner flag and momentum was lost.There are lots of managers who play 10 man situations that way, the idea being keeping the door locked, even at 1-0 down, offers the best chance to nick something from the game.
There's an argument for it.
And why not push players like Devine etc into the first teamIt looks like our recruitment team consider this season a write off as they rebuild the squad over a few transfer windows. If that’s the case, why did we keep Kane?
Just watched us on MoTD, was hoping we'd look better on a second run, but it really was as bad as I remembered.