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Not been at all active on here for the last few weeks, largely because the general feel around the club is so low from day to day. Having been to every game this season barring Leeds and Brighton (A), there’s no doubt in my mind that 99% of our fans are desperate for Pierre Sage to work out. Our attacking patterns, when they click, can be fantastic and he has had to endure Henderson, Sarr & Mateta being injured for long spells of the season to date, Disasi getting a three game ban and now JP too. Alongside that, there’s been a huge shift in the Selhurst atmosphere and big personalities from the last 18-24 months who’ve departed; that’s a tricky situation for any manager to walk into. Yesterday, we’ve gone down to 10 after just 13 minutes and known, from that point on, that the game-plan is pretty much in the toilet having rested JP in midweek so he could go all out at Spurs. It’s headache inducing. I take all of those things into account when trying to zoom out and look at the bigger picture but with the worst goal difference in the league, sat in the bottom 3, the highest xG against in the PL, second most saves per match and second most clearances too, it doesn’t currently feel like the sort of football that’s sustainable if you want to steer clear of relegation. There isn’t a Palace fan out there (I would imagine) who doesn’t crave a sense of stability and want to build something for the long-term. Maybe, if Sage had had a more favourable landscape in terms of player availability, we’d be sat in mid-table and none of this noise would have occurred but the reality is what it is. I wouldn’t make a change following last night, it was something of a lost cause as soon as the red card happened and I don’t know who the right person to come in and improve us would be regardless but there are certain things which need to shift dramatically across the coming weeks for it to not become an inevitable if reluctant parting. Apologies for the brain-dump.