When Neil Warnock switched formation to a 4-4-2 against Plymouth earlier this month I was over the moon.

Having grown tired of a 4-3-3 system which worked sparingly in the previous months I was full of hope that the new tactics would bring about an upturn in fortunes - sadly I was mistaken.

The defeats against Watford and Wolves were abject displays and we never looked like winning either game, leading me to the conclusion that it wasn't the system that was letting us down but the players - either we don't have the right ones to make the tactics work or the ones we do have simply are not good enough.

On Saturday we had James Scowcroft and John Oster playing in the wing roles and neither of them looked up to the task.

Oster has put in some Premiership class performances in the middle of the park and can feel understandably aggrieved to have been switched to the right-hand side, where he seemed lost and hardly featured against the Hornets.

Scowcroft was short of match fitness and doesn't have the legs or the ability any more to be out on the wing where he was in his days at Ipswich and Coventry and offered little threat against the classy Adrian Mariappa.

Against Wolves Warnock changed it and went with youth in the form of Lee Hills and Sean Scannell but the outcome wasn't much different.

Hills is more comfortable at left back and no matter how many times he plays at left-wing he just doesn't suit the position and looked short of ideas.

Scannell probably did the best out of all of the players mentioned but again he is a forward playing out wide. He works hard for the team and it is hard to criticise him but sometimes it would be good to see him take on his man and get to the byline more often.

As for what the solution is I don't know but hopefully it will be sussed sooner or later otherwise Palace's season could be over with 10 games still to go.