Iain Dowie
Iain Dowie
Iain Dowieis an English-born Northern Irish football manager, former professional footballer and sports television pundit...
ball difficult half minutes passed second surface
I thought we were excellent, particularly in the first half and then for 25 minutes of the second half. On a difficult surface I thought we passed the ball very well.
five four goals outside rate terrific top
Outside of the top four strikers in the Premiership, I rate him up there as one of the best. He's got five goals for us now and he is doing a terrific job.
felt game great kid recent reserve shown time training
Marco has shown us that he is a great kid in training and I felt that it was the right time for him after he had showed more than enough in a recent reserve game at Arsenal,
battle due question respect
With all due respect to everyone, there is no question that if AJ is fit, he starts. That is where we are. It is up to everyone else to battle it out.
bring few hopefully
We are working on a few fronts and will hopefully bring in one or two.
crowd
We have to keep the crowd on their toes,
bit concerned
We were a little bit concerned that we hadn't got more of a lead.
ball gives hardly hopefully kicked missed option problem towards
Hopefully we are getting towards the end of the problem because we've missed Danny. He gives us a different option and it's very frustrating because he's hardly kicked a ball for us this year.
confident fit good pleased powerful quite run seems
He is back fit now, which I am pleased about. He is a powerful lad, who seems confident after a good run in the team, and quite right too.
expect keeping players point rest wayne
I have made the point that I do not want to let any players go. I didn't want to let Wayne go. I wanted to keep Wayne but that didn't happen. That was out of our control, but all the rest are in our control. I expect us to be keeping them - I really do.
fan gone mum palace
He's a big Palace fan and so is his mum and I think that if I hadn't got him she would have gone bananas.
time
He did brilliantly for us in the time he was here,
ask dress faults fine maybe sure
I can't see any faults, I'm sure he has some - you should maybe ask his wife. But even his dress sense is fine by me.
We are going to have a difficult-to-beat side. If we get one or two other signings, or re-signings, done it will be very good.