Palace Post Match Disappointment Thread

[badpiggy]

As BR said though, it's more of a case of not managing the game properly. Once the pressure comes on during these games, we stop keep hold of the ball, we stop marking people and just seem to retreat into a foetal position. We almost need the defence to be bolder and engage teams higher up the field.

Hopefully that's inexperience. In GAA in Ireland there's a big tradition of teams losing All Irelands through inexperience but growing from it - the hurt of losing drives the team on to win it in the next year or two.

[G]

We closed out games earlier in the season when we were hanging on,why,just why didn't we even attempt it tonight.why?

[calvoboy]

Whatever happens, Saturday is party time, we overachieved and I'm well proud of them

Oh well.
No matter what happens i've ****ing loved this season

At the end of the day, most of us said at the start of the season that if we could just seriously challenge for fourth place until 6 games to go it would have been a good season. Few imagined Utd falling so far so fast, and most of us thought we were still a bit behind Spurs and Arsenal, particularly after missing out on our key summer targets.

As it is, whatever happens we will be in the title race until the final whistle on the last day of the season. It is a tremendous achievement regardless of the disappointment of the last couple of games.

Because of that, I'm totally pissed off with the result, but I'm nowhere near as devastated as I probably should be tonight. I really think we're building something here, and we'll be better again next year. I don't buy this "best chance we'll have" stuff. We're deservedly up there now with a weak squad. If we add to it in the summer we'll be better next season, and year after year as long as Brendan stays and is backed by the owners.

[calvoboy]

We closed out games earlier in the season when we were hanging on,why,just why didn't we even attempt it tonight.why?

This surprised me - those one-nils we ground out early in the season we had a similar defensive set up to Chelsea's, and we were happy to defend the edge of our own box. I thought at the time that it was something we were learning (like the three at the back) so that it could be deployed as necessary throughout the season, but we've not done it once since those early games.

[john316]

We closed out games earlier in the season when we were hanging on,why,just why didn't we even attempt it tonight.why?

Agger was coming it seems during the next break in play it seems. We'll never know if that would have saved us.

[Chris]

We closed out games earlier in the season when we were hanging on,why,just why didn't we even attempt it tonight.why?

Because the goal difference was in peoples heads, everyone has been banging on about it for days, the fans there were chanting "attack, attack, attack" every 2 minutes. At 3-0 fair enough but at 3-1 we should have just chilled, instead everyone bombed forward again to get back the goal we'd just lost and it was costly, 3-2 and obviously all the momentum and confidence is with them, it's their home etc, hard to get a grip in that situation.

[Frenchie]

We never make it easy eh?

[Leyton388]

No one is disputing the fact it's been a far better season than we hoped for. Im over the moon with CL football and a second place finish if that's what happens. What I'm not happy with however it our diabolical defensive display's which have cost us when we are comfortable in games.

Our defensive errors have cost us the biggest prize of all. A lot of those mistakes have been individual errors as well.

[Fredo]

Can Villa win at City? If so, it's a 3 horse race again.

[G]

The official spurs twitter page had a pop at us then deleted it.Cunts

[Leyton388]

Like Spurs matter

[Montana]

Can Villa win at City? If so, it's a 3 horse race again.

It's not impossible .

The tribalism of the Premier League is such that teams just love spoiling a party, especially on the last day. Who knows? City could end up drawing both games.

[Bernardicus]

We'll end up with 84 points this season. That's a tally to be proud of.

[wavydavy]

Ashley Cole in our defence next season would be great. He's hardly played all season and has come into the Chav team and looked like he's never been away. Cunt or not he's better than what we have at the minute.

I would have been horrified at the suggestion of Cole coming but after tonight it's made me realise it's players like him we're lacking. Players who concentrate for 90 minutes,who make the majority off decisions within a match correctly and who ultimately DEFEND their goal at all costs. Palace have conceded three goals fewer than us. An apalling statistic.

[wavydavy]

We'll end up with 84 points this season. That's a tally to be proud of.

post the wba game where kolo ****ed up if you'ld have said that we're now gonna take 37 points from the final 14 games dropping 5 points in the process I'd have thought you were crazy. An awful lot to be proud of this season.