[valpayne]

I didn't word that too well, Val.
Rondon never fails to give 100%, but he's just not good enough for me - £30m is too much to sneeze at for a player worth about 1/2 of that (whatever "worth" means nowadays).
Fletcher was pretty good yesterday, as well - don't understand why he was subbed.
But the players collectively lost that energy they've had for the last month or 2, and it's been that that's given us edge over the lower teams we've managed to beat comfortably. So I wondered whether there was a subconscious complacency throughout the team now that we'd reached the magical 40 pts. (After the break, Palace showed the fight that we'd been showing recently, and I'd like to have compared the 1/2 time team-talks!)

Fair play TS and I share your frustration. I think Rondon has adapted to the prem pretty well compared to last season and he could yet come up with the goods as far as goals are concerned. I'd be wary of losing him at this point because finding strikers that guarantee goals is a very tricky business and its the big clubs that get those kind of players not the likes of us. The most frustrating thing is whenever we seem to find a gem we lose them one way or another. Sado is the latest massive disappointment. Then we had Lukaku and Odemwingie. They all wanted to leave for so called bigger clubs and were left scratching our arses. Maybe this will put a twisted perspective on our goalscoring ability look who are top goalscorers actually are. Unbelievable to see a 37 year old central defender going toe to toe with our top scoring striker :-o http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/team...op-scorers