Premier League is mostly like watching chess these days.

This is what I fear too. We avoid the drop and go bonkers celebrating on the last day of the season. Then what? The problems start all over again.

Shush...............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surely we can't lose there?---if Plymouth were to win any of those games it would push one of those clubs nearer to the drop? If they don't, they are down.

Birmingham in the worst form of anyone. The club most likely to slip into the bottom 3 at the death. I hope!

Our record against lower sides (of which there are not many!) is terrible. No guaranteed points there--as QPR found out).

He's probably a Palace fan!

Is Telovic?

0-1. Pears error.

In theory yes but we are producing more than our share of good young footballers through the good work our Academy. More than we did when we were Premier League! But we don't see much benefit. Its totally unfair.

Add Philips to the list for a miserly £2M and Finneran for nothing (likely) and there's the set. What have we become?

Walker Trust did that!

If that outcome, after relegation and administration, were assured, I'd wish it.

Good on him! He hasn't the brass himself but he must know enough people who have. Not impossible that he could one day head up a consortium. Like him, I'm dreaming!

We've paid £12M for Brereton and Gallagher and its odds-on we'll receive nothing for both. This is incompetence of the highest order. I can't think of any other club currently making such a balls-up of it.

Branthwaite a strange one. Has kicked on a lot since his spell with us where he looked very ordinary. Poveda wasn't a dud but he wasn't consistent.

I thought that when Mowbray came, we had a plan to gradually build up the squad over a few years and make it to the Premier League. Instead we allowed contracts to wind down, couldn't afford to replace those we lost with same quality and have virtually given away half a potential EPL team ( I'm including Ash Philips in this). The result is we are farther away from promotion than ever, we are struggling to avoid relegation to Div 1, there is no plan, no money and no hope under these owners.

Possibly true but we're not down to the bare bones like we were. That's my point. That was a stronger starting line-up and a stronger bench than we've had for a while.

Yep, we can add him to the list of players we brought on and another club got the benefit for bugger all.

We had both McFadzean and Carter on the bench against Sunderland. I think we're in a better place defensively now.

It makes me sick that he's being described as a" Palace Gem". They've has fuck all tp do with it. Just handed a cheque over to an impoverished club, (with billionaire owners),

Pretty confident we'll stay up now. Dependent on avoiding injuries to key players with JRC possibly the most valuable to us of all. Sorry Sammi! We played a blinder and that should vastly up our confidence. No reason why we can't play like that again. I expect we'll get the points from those remaining fixtures where the other side has nothing to play for. Points against the likes of Southampton and Leicester would be a bonus. Be a good time to sell us if we stay up. Its the most you'll ever get Venkys! Otherwise we stay up and face yet another transfer window farce and the problems kick off all over again.

From the Guardian--enough to make you puke. Palace---a genius at discovering new talent! As if it wasn't bleeding obvious! Wharton the latest Palace gem Crystal Palace’s admired recruitment department have unearthed another gem in Adam Wharton, the 19-year-old bought for £18.5m from Blackburn in January. If Eberechi Eze was the outstanding player at the City Ground, his runs dovetailed with Wharton, whose vision and weight of left-foot passes were on point on a number of occasions. To follow Eze and Michael Olise, Wharton is the latest Palace diamond mined from the EFL, where talent abounds if you look in the right places. Daniel Muñoz, the Colombian defender also signed in January, also put in a fine performance at Forest. Little wonder Dougie Freedman, the former Palace striker and manager turned Eagles sporting director, is one of the most respected members of football’s ever-growing class of front-office execs. That Palace are renowned as a talent factory is tribute to the department Freedman heads up. Wharton, capped by England Under-21’s last week, represents the latest proof. John Brewin

Its a struggle though when you have 2 keepers like ours. I always feel both have a couple of blunders in their repertoire! Disgusting that we are lacking in such a key position.

We had less possession too---45% as against 55%--seems to indicate we were rather more direct!