From my crows nest position, it seems clear to me that Nolan's contribution this year manifested itself in the way the team played without him. Stick with me here, it's been a long day, but my point is he has clearly been able to galvanise the squad with Sam Allardyce. That saw them through the adversity of being down to ten men. The 'us against the world' mentality. Palace turned up organised and without anything to play for and nothing to lose, and played accordingly. We needed an edge and it wasn't there. Nolan could have been that edge. It's that sort of game where we missed him. it's not like we've been rinsing teams at home this year.