Update - Palace Casuals performance (League) up to the initial post in this topic:

Pld: 14; W: 4, D: 3, L: 7

From then to now:

Pld: 9; W: 4, D: 3, L: 2

I cannot see what has changed to cause the 'improvement', but it obviously looks better. Most of the 'successful' results have come from matches against teams higher in the table with level or higher Quality (ie matches where I wouldn't have been surprised by a 'negative' result), the others from matches where the end result belies the opposition's lower Quality or table position (ie matches where a 'negative' result of suitable severity might spur a post in the 'Vent' thread).

Still considering going back to a lower level with a new team, but that depends on the next few results...