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It is mind numbing boring tactics at the moment but IF we can stay up by that route this season then that's great. I'm sure Pulis will build a more attack minded squad and mindset next season if can survive this season. We will no longer be the new boys in the league and have a few quid behind us as well. We have 9 games to save our season lets just get behind all at the club and pray we stay up.
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Personally, I feel that we are more likely to go for a win today than we were against Sunderland.
I do feel that Pulis felt that we could not afford for Sunderland to leapfrog us in the table, and going for it against Sunderland could have left us exposed to this. You've seen all the moaning from the Sunderland players about our attacking intent; the reason being is that a draw hurt them far more than it hurt us. We have less to lose today. |
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Yes Jedinak and KG have been awful passers. However take them out of the side (or even only one of them out of the side) and replace them with people who can pass the ball but are too lightweight and all of the sudden the defense is exposed and we start letting in more goals.
I know we could have proably beaten Sunderland if we showed more attacking intent, but if the only way we can get players who can pass into the team would be to take away our solid (if unspectacular) foundations, leading to the chance of conceding more than we score, then I wouldn't be happy. As someone said earlier, I'd hate it if we started scoring but as a direct result started conceding more too. I'd take a boring 0-0 draw any day than playing better offensively, scoring goals, but always having a chance conceding a goal in the last minute to lose. And even with the attacking players Pulis is leaving out, there's no guarantee they would win us games anyway (a la Holloway). |
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I think we have a better chance of winning today than we did last week
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I think we'll go down if we continue to play like this. In some ways that's not such a bad thing, obviously I want Palace to play at the top but there's a lot of negatives to it. That's not for this thread though.
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I never really get what people describe as pretty football and what makes one type of play more interesting than another. It's all a matter of tastes I suppose but I just like seeing a contest. Of my team can find a way of competing at the highest level then Im pretty chuffed at the thought of it. It bores me to watch Spanish football where one team just passes it round the opposition and totally outclassed them. I was also did not enjoy the games at the start of the season when sides did this to us.
I have however enjoyed all the games we have contested since pulis took over. If some people can't appreciate defensive and counter attacking football that's unfortunate for them as that is how we have played recently. It makes sence for the team with the less capable players to use this tactic. I don't understand the negativity towards it. The players go out there to play the game and try and win it, not to entertain the fans. That's what sport should be about. If you want sport that maximises entertainment but sacrifices the foundations of the game why not try WWF
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I'm also confident that if we stay up; Pulis will add additional quality to the squad which will mean that we can afford to exert a little extra pressure on teams in the attacking third.
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Yep, back it up just behind Jules and in front of the posts. A big, bendy, double decker one with special netting down to the floor.
Then all eleven stand in front of it with big long pokey sticks to keep the Northern ruffians away. The team should also be sporting T-Shirts bearing the face of Mr L. Cattermole of the Sun-da-lund, to be displayed at the end of a dour, drab, grating mind numbing 0-0 which takes us one steps closer to safety. Tactical genius I am.
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He's yet to show he can do that for 90 minutes against Premier League opposition. I know he hasn't been given the chance, but I do remember a few times last season when he started matches he looked off the pace. Don't get me wrong, I love him and he puts in a huge amount of effort, but I think his role at this level is one to come off the bench and get into oppositions faces as they tire.
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Less so as was from my phone with a few random added words and autocorrect changing words to the wrong ones but hopefully people get the point I tried to make
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As much as players such as Wilf, Routledge, Moses etc dazzled me with their skill and pace, they did equally frustrate me when they didn't put in a good shift, something that you could always rely on the aforementioned players to do. I guess the only exception to this rule would be AJ- his role in our promotion and Premiership seasons has probably made him my favourite ever Palace player. |
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I also suspect that if we were to set up a more attacking team we would also probably fail to stop them scoring. Last edited by mexicaneagle; 22-03-2014 at 12:46 PM. |
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So far Pulis has managed to win most of the "winnable" games, with the only shock result being Villa away (thanks to Gayle). We now only have one "winnable" game at home to Villa and even if we win it we are not guaranteed to stay up. Say we go into the Man City game needing 4 points to stay up, knowing we have Liverpool at home and Fulham away. Would you still agree we should "park the bus" then? |
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Each to their own, but part of the reason I watch Palace and spend thousands on the club is to be entertained. Nobody falls in love with football as a child watching two banks of four and set-pieces and time-wasting.
Nobody, despite the hyperbole, wants us to suddenly play like Arsenal, but we do have the players to attack matches and play with a bit of verve (unfortunately the two best footballers at the club are currently out on loan). Besides, it's not just pure aesthetics anyway - we are far more likely to stay up if we actually look to score goals; we won't stay up if we play like we have done in recent weeks. We looked far stronger before we made the January signings (not saying they're bad signings, for the record) - since then, it's been a more typical Pulis approach, with obvious results. I also love the delusion that it's a needs must thing - we will play exactly the same way for as long as Pulis is here, whatever division we're in. |
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Their top scorer is Remy - OUT and then Cabaye. Since they lost Cabaye they have looked a shadow of the team they did with him and their recent win was their first in 6. Newcastle scoring is far from guaranteed, especially as they hit Hull on the break, something they will not have so much opportunity to do against us. |
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