Let's talk about the Crystal Palace game

[normal rules]

Plenty to be pleased with and proud of tonight

[selby]

A good  effort I can accept that they all gave what they had.

[DollyRover]

Great effort from the lads, olowu in particular for me, kept one of the best strikers in the Premier league quiet all night.

[normal rules]

Can we lease take note of that set piece that gave palace their first. So simple. So effective .

[normal rules]

Not a single card all game .a rare thing

[idler]

Can we lease take note of that set piece that gave palace their first. So simple. So effective .

Can we lease take note of that set piece that gave palace their first. So simple. So effective .

Their player was pulling Luke out of the way to give Mateta room. A blatant foul that the ref and Lino ignored.

[Padge_DRFC]

Game was pretty dull in large parts as expected with a prem side hogging the ball.

Atmosphere was dreadful btw in the home end. Apparently football is more passionate the lower the leagues....

[Avsuptem]

We could have nicked that on another day..both their goals had an element of luck about them.

[Nudga]

Game was pretty dull in large parts as expected with a prem side hogging the ball.

Atmosphere was dreadful btw in the home end. Apparently football is more passionate the lower the leagues....

Said the same about the atmosphere,  was very flat.
Doesn't help singing the same format songs as other clubs just with name changes.
We've never been original have we.

Was very amused singing "is this a fire drill " at the day trippers leaving early. Couldn't even hang on and clap the lads off.
"ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!?"

[SydneyRover]

Can we lease take note of that set piece that gave palace their first. So simple. So effective .

The commentators on Optus called it, at least I think they called it before the goal, saying that that something was up, having that receiver of the ball in the block.

[PDX_Rover]

Can we lease take note of that set piece that gave palace their first. So simple. So effective .

Can we lease take note of that set piece that gave palace their first. So simple. So effective .

Their player was pulling Luke out of the way to give Mateta room. A blatant foul that the ref and Lino ignored.

Yes! Saw that. Had his arm right round him and blatantly pulled him out of the way. Mols should have gone down.

[drfchound]

I will say fair play to Palace in that they have played such a strong line up, certainly taken both us and the Cup seriously

This season can give them their best ever chance of lifting the FACup.
They are almost certain of staying up and looking at the teams left in the competition then they don’t have much to fear.

[Sammy Chung was King]

We just lacked the quality to ever bother Palace unfortunately. They kept us at arms length, a bit fortunate with first goal.We were very solid, but couldn’t keep the ball. Will Hughes controlled the midfield. I would have liked the manager to have kept Billy on with Ironside, but don’t think it would have bridged the quality gap.Good to see a big crowd for us.

[Chris Black come back]

That felt like we had a better go than in 2019. The statistics tell an interesting story. More possession last time than this time (47.8pc v 39.6pc) and more shots both on target (5 v 4) and generally (19 v 15) last time than this time. Blunt statistics but an interesting read. Perhaps Palace had weaker ball players and carriers last time in midfield (Schlupp, Mayer and Milivojevic) or more likely, we had much better than this time (Kane, Whiteman and Crawford).

[pib]

Good effort. They have got quality players and would’ve needed to have an off day for us to have a sniff. Unfortunately they were very professional and did exactly what they needed to do. Had a couple of moments where we went close to pulling a goal back to make it interesting but wasn’t to be. As with Everton away, no shame in the performance though.

Good luck to Palace. Hope they go on and get to the final. Thought their supporters were brilliant last night.

[selby]

Yes I hope they go on to win it if only for a different team for once, and the fact they beat us.
  The main difference with our game last night was Anderson and his positional sense when we didn't have the ball, tackled well and didn't leave gaps around the box, also looked pacey at times.
  Olowu our MOM by a country mile and really did himself no harm at all while in the shop window, if he isn't snapped up for nothing at the end of the season by a club higher up the pecking order I will be gob smacked.

[ForsolongaRover]

The BBC report does not give Rovers much credit - comfortable win etc for Palace, but in the “Comments” there lots of compliments  from Palace fans on how we played.

[DonnyOsmond]

What was the mare getting into the West Stand yesterday though.