A Christmas break has us put a few things into perspective. After some lengthy cogitation and soul-searching, this extended pod gives us a chance to finally express ourselves after a seven day period which has provided more questions than answers...

We go over the defeat at Chelsea, and once again it is the MANNER of the performance causing fans concern, and not the result itself…

Then, we’ve got to talk about Palace. Frankly, it was pathetic, but what went wrong? Why were we so poor? And who is culpable for our poor form?

We’ll also talk about the arrival of Foley, Jordan and co - they came over to the UK over Christmas bringing odes of joy, but on the pitch, it was anything but - we discuss what’ve learned over the last week from the new AFCB entourage.

And Gary O’Neil, we need to talk about him - he’s new, he’s inexperienced, and he steadied the ship, but has the realisation of the size of the task finally hit him? Is he out of his depth or is he the man to lead us out of this mess?

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