"Ironically, the longer the game went on the more chances we created but sadly the three best ones fell to the hopeless and hapless Sam Baldock - and he didn't make the opposition keeper work anything like hard enough. I really do think had he been playing Kevin Nolan might have got on the end of something for us today"

No blatant personal agenda's there, whatsoever. No Siree.

Palace do lack a cutting edge, but they aren't a poor team, especially defensively.

Faubert & Vaz Te really let Maynard down in the first half. Having said that, he seems very static for a striker.

We looked a lot better when Carlton came on.

Noble used and kept the ball well. Just speed it all up a bit Mark!

Although he looks like he's running in treacle, Faye made some decent tackles and leads the back four quite well.

Not the best management yesterday, Big Sam.