Saint Pete

It's exactly this kind of negative nonsense that is music to Pellegrino's ears! We should have been confident in our own ability to score at least 2 and win the game. At the risk of stating the obvious, football is about winning matches, and the teams that win games are the teams that are successful. Somewhere along the line, as a club, we seem to have lost sight of this simple fact, and in my opinion, this started with Puel. No argument that Pellegrino is significantly worse in this regard with his "draw is as good as a win" mentality. And by the way, we DID concede a goal against Beer Sheva despite playing in such a cowardly negative way, and then had to throw everything at them to try and score 2 in last 10 minutes! Which we almost did. Think how many we could have scored if we had played properly from the start. I personally don't call that clever tactics on the part of Puel. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

We should have been easily good enough to go out and play positively against Beer Sheva and get the win at home. Instead Puel set us up to **** about and play for 0-0 and we got what we deserved. Pretty unforgivable as we were dumped out of Europe totally unnecessarily. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

If any of that is true, it’s an absolute farce! Why on earth we are risking our premier league survival by keeping him in place is beyond me, particularly if it’s true he is now not trusted to run things on his own. It would explain why the team look so confused though!

Ah yes, another classic 0-0, how could I forget?

What on earth makes you think we would have got “at least a point” against United? There’s zero chance we would have been 2 goals up in the first place!

Irrespective of result tonight I reckon Palace have too much about them to go down. We will need to finish above at least one of the teams above us currently.

I can only go by what I have seen from Austin on the pitch, and when I've seen him play he has shown no lack of effort, and has shown plenty of desire to score goals. That DOES put him at the other extreme to all our other forwards, including Long! Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

A dithering inability to take decisive action, on and off the pitch.

We only looked like we might score in the second half once Gabbi came on and gave us a more positive set up going forward. First half was abysmal, never created anything. If we had started with more purpose, as you should always do at home, we would probably have won. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

He doesn't ever look likely to score a goal, which is not great for a striker. Also, his link up play is nowhere near good enough to justify a place in a premier league side if you are the type of striker who won't score loads. Once Austin is back I personally wouldn't have him in the squad based on ability as Gabbi and Long are better sub options. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

I would love to see that starting 11 - nice and positive from the start and would get the crowd right behind the team. Sadly, I expect MP will probably pick Redmond, JWP and Romeu rather than Sims, Gabbi and Hojbjerg. Will be the usual cautious stuff from the start, with Sims and Gabbi likely being thrown on late again to try and salvage a point in the dying minutes.

Very lucky point. Stand by for the bull **** in the post match interview about our “character”, how it shows we are growing, and how everything can change in the next few weeks. Don’t fall for it Les, he has to go now.

What a surprise.

We weren’t much better against West Brom in my opinion. Difference was West Brom are dire defensively currently and gifted us 2 goals.

This has got 1-0 Burnley written all over it, probably a late goal. Are we ever going to wake up this season and realise we are in a relegation scrap?

We have proved over 2 games that under MP we are marginally better than West Brom. Unfortunately, that means we are worse than pretty much everyone else in the premier league. A typical game between 2 struggling sides really. Lacking quality for most of the match, with the Tadic and Rondon goals out of character with everything else on show. McCarthy apart, I thought we still looked dodgy at the back, allowing a number of free headers in the box that would have been punished by a better side. I actually thought Redmond was reasonable and one of our more effective players today as at least he was prepared to run with the ball in the direction of their goal which was a novelty to see in our side. Sims also looked lively in the short time he was on. All in all, we won and have a quarter final to look forward to, but don't think the performance gives much confidence of better things to come in the league. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

Maybe so, but the more sensible club owners and chairmen are able to recognise that results on the pitch trump everything else in football, and that the commercial and corporate types will be out of a job if the team and manager are not good enough to keep the club in the premier league. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

So incredibly short sighted though? Do they not realise that all that global branding stuff goes straight out the window the instant we cease to be a premier league club? Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

That is just so so depressing to read. So much complacency and head in sand mentality even now. Pellegrino's own comments hardly seem to convey the urgency required to get the results needed now to avoid relegation, he's talking about improvement in 6 months FFS! I fail to see this improvement that the board think has been shown in last few weeks. We managed to scrape a win at the bottom club, but all other performances have been totally in keeping with the rest of our season so really don't see where this confidence in MP to turn it around is coming from. Seems to be just blind faith and hope rather than anything based on real evidence or analysis. And talking about next few games being pivotal for managers future is surely massively missing the bigger picture which is if we don't get results in next 5 games we are down and it's irrelevant what happens with the manager after that point as far as this season is concerned! Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

Hoedt really isn’t great, is he? Pretty worrying he is now considered our best centre back.

FFS.

FFS. Could do with Bournemouth winning this one.

I agree that our squad should be plenty good enough to be well clear of relegation if well managed. BUT if we aim to finish "high up the table", there are a couple of areas that definitely need addressing where our squad has definitely regressed in last couple of seasons. One of those is a lack of pacy attacking players who can find the net. So, given that Promes always seemed like a 50/50 chance of us signing him at best, it's disappointing and a bit strange that the club weren't able to do more in lining up another good alternative to strengthen this area of the team. They clearly had the cash available hence the large bids for Promes. Sent from my Moto G (4) using Tapatalk

I think the 5 games after Liverpool are critical. If we can win 3 of those, I reckon we should be OK.

Klopp making himself look a **** as usual in post match interview. Both pens were right, get over it!