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I think Kamada is unrecognisable from the player who first played for us. His movement, passing and touch are really good. Still the occasional silly foul giving away dangerous free kicks but we will really miss him next season.

Possibly the best thing I’ve seen on tv for a long time.

And we had a little Noades out protest afterwards. Remember the Noades Busters posters?

Weight shifting

That was an exception though. They put 5 past us a few weeks earlier. I do think we might be seeing the limits of our way of playing. Maybe Forest last year shows how well it can go.

Why can we never break down a low block. And why do we always look worse after Glasner changes the formation.

I’m not sure whether his decision was wrong but the fact we had no alternative didn’t help.

Anderson is a brilliant footballer. One of those players who even when they are playing against your team you enjoy watching. He has amazingly fast feet.

He may not always have got it right but was the most creative player in our team. He does need players to make the runs but we really struggle against teams who sit back.

Be honest. It’s a bit more than ok.

I feel football has created ownership structures that leave us all a bit cold. Our billionaires aren’t nice people or have any connection to the club. And this is the model - see Forest, City, Newcastle……

Careful. Forest will take their place.

There is something a little odd about having Nketiah as his backup. He is not a bad player but just a completely different player to Mateta. Makes it hard to swap between the two.

The odds reflect the bets being put on so they will shift. As political betting doesn’t attract relatively loads of bets it can be volatile. Bookies have no greater insight or wisdom.

Where is Doucoure at now? Will he be back this season and how long before he is anything like he was. And he was fantastic. Him getting back to his best would be a huge boost. Especially if Wharton goes in the summer.

My issue is that everyone a big player leaves it becomes a crisis. Other teams (Brentford, Brighton, Bournemouth) seem to have more longer term planning and replace players with less drama.

It is all a bit of a mess. There are people/actions we can blame for this situation but it will never be easy for a club our size to be near the top. And stay there. We do need some new players though.

I think it isn’t a simple Parish or Glasner right or wrong thing. We are in a tricky situation where players are being picked off by bigger clubs, we are a middling Premier League team financially. Palace is owned by people with no link to Palace and managers and players are never as loyal as fans.

I think there has been a lack on investment when it was needed but Glasner does have a history of doing this. I think he is very stubborn and that’s why he is so successful but doesn’t stay anywhere for long.

Also for Glasner, now is the time to go. His stock was at its highest after the FA Cup win and this summer is his best chance of a big job. I am sure he is quite hard headed about this.

You may be too young to remember Steve Ketteridge.

But is he blameless. They played with no intensity until it was too late. And this isn’t the first time.

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To try and be positive. This performance may make Glasner less attractive to bigger teams.

But the pattern is very similar to out European games. We just cannot play against a team that gives us possession.

Millwall fans are probably saying similar about Esse. Not sure there is much in football that isn’t tainted in some way.

And we got him cheap from Reading who will also feel they lost out.

Yeah, although crazy spending by other teams make it really hard to compete. And we are not a big team. Really overachieving looking at our ground/capacity but with untapped potential.

I’ll take it as these failings are luxury failings compared to failings of the last 10 years (which are still good years comparatively).

I really identify with Dick Advocaat holding his coat on the red carpet. This is the sort of awkwardness that always happens to me.