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Honestly - it was an utterly hopeless performance


Well well what a performance, did we actually perform, that's dubious. The first half was so bad it was untrue. That in itself is very worrying and indicates that Sherwood probably won't be in the post at the start of next season, we will have appointed someone like Louis van Gael.

Crystal Place were a thousand time better than us in that first half, the players seem to have never met each other, the two strikers might as well as grabbed a book, a cuppa and a deck chair and done a spot of reading for all the movement they had.

Tim Sherwood had a look on his face that shouted I don't know what to do. Was there actually any game plan or was, as in increasingly seeming the case, he just sends the players out to do whatever they feel like?

That's fine when it works but as soon as something goes wrong it all falls to pieces. You have to have a framework to do that in. This will be a hit and miss rest of the season for us, we'll either score with bits of brilliance or miss and concede to lose so it may be a bumpy ride. How it will end who knows.

Man City or Chelsea would have scored 10 in that half against us we were that bad. Two in central midfield in modern day football is not enough, games are won and lost in midfield generally and we consistently get overrun. One of the front men has to drop and work if they don't you have just seen what happens.

Our first goal was a Sam Allardyce Bolton West Ham move,route one hump it forward stuff. Fortunately they were fast asleep Ade won a header and Eriksen tucked it away. Now they could relax a little and it was written in the stars than Jermain Defoe would score his first Premier League goal of the season as soon as he has announced he is leaving, shame he didn't pass the ball a little later and we'd have been in again but no he was more interested in himself.

I know that sounds harsh but it's the truth and I'm not going to get started on how when we are winning we have to learn to be clinical again.

Soldado looks to me as if he is not happy. I suspect but have nothing to back it up, but I suspect some of the players don't get along with Mr Sherwood. If that is the case and we get a divided dressing room Tim won't be the man sorting it out.

The club has talented players who it seems leave the actual hard part of being creative in the last third to everyone else. They look good as long as they have a talent who does that bit for them. Nothing wrong with that that's part of a successful team but we seem to have too many of the same type of player.

Vlad Chiriches is not a Premier League centre-back by a long way, we are desperate for Vertonghen or Kaboul to take his place, hurry up and get fit guys.

Nabil Bentaleb was our best player, a 19 year-old kid. Walker had a nightmare, Lennon created but static forwards meant he was wasting his time but some of his crosses were poor. Hugo Lloris was bored after 70 minutes so decided to see how many mistakes he could make from corners in quick succession.

Corners there's another thing, we couldn't defend them, beaten for headers continuously, shots blocked by their own players.

We won 2-0 but we were lucky and it papers away not cracks but bloody great canyons. I seriously hope Tim can turn it around but it was madness to me appointing him in the first place. Pride should have taken a back seat and Hoddle given the role until the end of the season but of course with Sherwood as Levy's blue eyed boy that had no chance of happening.

Relegation fodder made us look like relegation fodder and it was only when they had to push forward instead of play on the counter attack that we had any room to pass the ball about. Then Adebayor decided to drop back into midfield and pass the ball around playing keep ball.

A very frustrating day but he ho we won so we can brush the problems under the carpet and pretend they don't exist can't we.

Bentaleb, a Defoe goal and a 2-0 scoreline were the only positives to take from that but it doesn't auger well for the remainder of the season.



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10 comments

  1. Anti Sherwood bollox. The 1st half performance was awful, Sherwood then put it right with a quality 2nd half performance. The new signings are actually starting to peform for him which they didn't under AvB and we've got a severely injury hit squad. Sherwood is a breath of fresh air, and I along with the majority of fans are behind him!
  2. The author of this post needs to support his team and stop trying to find negatives in a win!! Because a win is a win is a win.
  3. What a load of horse shit, a thousand times better than us in the first half, what does that mean? 2nd we played with much better tempo, and won relatively comfortably!
  4. Agree with those comenting. It seems as though there are some bloggers who supported AVB rather than Tottenham and now are spitting out there dummies with ridiculous pieces like this. So Tim gets no time but AVB didn't get enough? We have improved (not massively,) but we are better and at least I can bare to watch Tim's Tottenham, unlike AVB's
  5. Whoever wrote this is article is an idiot. Shame on you. This Palace side lost 1-0 to the same City side that beat us 6-0. Credit must be given to them as well. Remember this is a game played between two teams and is understandable that one can have a few minutes of dominance and then the other. Credit must be given to Tottenham for coming back strong in the second half and took the game. Tottenham are a lot better under Tim and had we had players like Jan, Paulinho and Sandro fit there was going to be a lot more convenience performance. Get behind Tim and stop writing this rubish. In Tim I trust
  6. I agree with the article, I was there and the first half was the worst performance I can remember. Against a good team, with a penalty taker, we could easily have been 3 down. The second half was better but hardly "quality".

    In fact in the first half the players mostly looked like they couldn't care less what the result was.
  7. All sensible neutrals are saying we were poor and the fact can't be ignored. That said Sherwood deserves a chance to see if he can get the players firing. AVB had some time and Tim will get this season.

    We got away with it. While I agree we need to support the team its ignorant to just ignore the problems that are obvious.

  8. The writer of this blog points out some home truths and gets crucified for it.
    1-I was there. I confirm our first half was abysmal. Credit to Palace then for making us that way at least as much as we let them.
    2-The second half was down to TS giving the guys a kick up their backside. Well done Tim, wish you'd done that in the first half as well!
    3-fact we now have 13/15 points under TS. Extraordinary! Way better than expected. Well done TS
    4-to make way for Bentaleb, TS's chosen son, and to play a 4 4 2, we will have to let one or two of our new players go. Who will it be?
  9. Am not that enthused by Benteleb. He is gud but with the way Dembele plays, we need a holding midfielder to enable Dembele play a little up da pitch. Dat is why, i think Capoue shd be given da nod ahead of Benteleb. Capoue did marvelously well against Man United and it was his wrk rate dat gave us a competetive edge in da midfield. Ever since Capoue was dropped, we can all see hw our midfield is being overrun by every oponent we meet. Tim needs to look Sharp and bring back Capoue.
  10. Thanks for the last comment, we definitely need a holding midfielder in the middle because with bentaleb in there with dembele, it'll be a repeat of the arsenal game. We are too open with personnel he picks p in his lineups.