Well good bloody grief that was rubbish wasn't it? I think I've had more entertaining bowel movements.
The worst thing about it was that once we went 1-0 down there was absolutely no belief from any-one, most worryingly of all, from us, the fans. There was no chanting, not even much in the way of shouts of frustration. The yellow order seemed to have had the mute button pressed on them. Just a depressed resignation that there was no way we were likely to get back into the match against a decent goalkeeper and a generally better than us Palace side.
Because be in no doubt this was no 'we played well and were really unlucky'. Neither was it anything to do with the officials who were pretty excellent throughout. Although as it was Mark Halsey you'd expect this. One wondered what he'd done to be ref'ing such lowly fair. This was down to us just not looking up for it, not having the quality where it counted and too many players looking like they are simply coasting.
Dyche mentioned the fans again in his programme notes and how we've got an important part to play. I really hope that he's not going to go down the same road as Aidy in the 07/08 season where we're being blamed as much as the players for the performance. That would be fair enough if you paid us to sing and create the atmosphere, or at the very least let us in for free, but when paying £460 for a season ticket please don't expect me to clap my hands or stamp my feet to what we witnessed this afternoon.
I know we've lost good players as Dyche said in his post match interview on 3CR. But he's also brought in lots of new faces and they aren't performing. He needs to change things and pretty quickly. And its not like he hasn't got options with our academy alumni either twiddling their thumbs or appearing in the lower divisions.
