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Crystal Palace vs. West Brom match thread
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 Tickled pink  Cornwall 13 Mar 21 8.49pm |
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Originally posted by rollercoaster
We won the game, we sit mid-table, we are virtually safe with 9 games to go. Congratulations and Well done Roy and the team. We've been somewhat fortunate in a quite a few games but we've been well away from relegation all season and today was a day where our players should've been able to play together with a bit more freedom having key players back from injury, our players should be looking up with expectation rather then just hanging on and hoping as was the case in this game.
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| Chaos 13 Mar 21 8.59pm |
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Originally posted by Tickled pink
We've been somewhat fortunate in a quite a few games but we've been well away from relegation all season and today was a day where our players should've been able to play together with a bit more freedom having key players back from injury, our players should be looking up with expectation rather then just hanging on and hoping as was the case in this game. No. Just, no. It does not matter how "safe" you think we are, the players still play the game the manager gives them. If that is your gripe then fine, but we are secure and the development of Crystal Palace is going forward. If you want a magic gun, then call your local Saudi sheikh.
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| Tickled pink Cornwall 13 Mar 21 9.11pm |
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Originally posted by Bexley Eagle
I am sure we have said that for the last few seasons and yet here we are a point behind Arsenal and safe with a quarter of the season remaining. Amazing really considering the dross we serve up week in week out. It's frustrating because we have failed miserably with the opportunity to build around Zaha, we should've really done a lot more with him rather then just rely on him to get us over the line, quite a disgraceful waste of his exceptional talents.
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| Tickled pink Cornwall 13 Mar 21 9.15pm |
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Originally posted by Chaos
No. Just, no. It does not matter how "safe" you think we are, the players still play the game the manager gives them. If that is your gripe then fine, but we are secure and the development of Crystal Palace is going forward. If you want a magic gun, then call your local Saudi sheikh. Like our stadium I think you'll find it's not.
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| Chaos 13 Mar 21 9.18pm |
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Originally posted by Tickled pink
It's frustrating because we have failed miserably with the opportunity to build around Zaha, we should've really done a lot more with him rather then just rely on him to get us over the line, quite a disgraceful waste of his exceptional talents. Now this is something I can get behind. Rather than have Zaha go (eventually), use the money from Wan-Bissaka etc. and build a top-7 team perhaps.. Use Zaha in a kinda Messi role, roaming between strikers an midfield, perhaps a 4-4-1 + Zaha or a 3-5-1 + Zaha
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| Chaos 13 Mar 21 9.22pm |
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Originally posted by Tickled pink
Like our stadium I think you'll find it's not. Call the Sheikh then. It is delayed yes, but as you will find if you go through the local records, it has been approved. Unfortunately we have Simon Jordan, not al-sheikh Simon Jordania. Edit: I actually like that we are not in control of oil money from the Saudis. Edited by Chaos (13 Mar 2021 9.24pm)
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| doombear Too far from Selhurst Park 13 Mar 21 9.42pm |
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Originally posted by midlandspalace
This is a really odd season, for reasons we all know, and very few teams are showing any consistency at all. Amongst the top teams Liverpool have lost 6 in a row at home, Everton keep losing at home, Leicester have many more points away than at home, Chelsea had a bad run and Lampard got sacked. The current form team in the division (after Manchester City) are Fulham and yet they are in the bottom three. Our squad is old, and yet we are having to play more frequently than usual. The consistency of our oldest player, Cahill, is nothing short of amazing, a free transfer incredibly. We have had more injuries than any other team in the division for many weeks now. Despite all this we have more points after 29 games than we have had in the top flight since 1990/91, and next season will be our ninth, yes ninth, successive season in the top flight. All this with making a net profit on transfers over the last three seasons. Well done Roy! Sorry MP, but we had 39 points after 29 games LAST season after beating Watford. Edited by doombear (13 Mar 2021 9.47pm)
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| Mapletree Croydon 13 Mar 21 9.43pm |
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Originally posted by Tickled pink
Like our stadium I think you'll find it's not. And in other news Our U18s beat WBA 1-7 Why oh why won’t the club make savvy investments.
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| Tickled pink Cornwall 13 Mar 21 9.45pm |
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Originally posted by EddieMac
There are a lot of people on here who really need to wise up. Do you just think because of where WBA sit in the table that we are just going to beat them 10 nil? We have not got dragged into a relegation scrap by being clever enough to play the boring football that we are playing and it works because we are 11th in the table. Newcastle will do exactly the same and they will get enough points which will leave it to the amazing sides of Fulham and Brighton to scrap it at the bottom. There is a reason they are down there, it is because they both have naive, inexperienced managers who have no idea when to shut up shop. Up the Palace and King Roy of Croydon. I was rather hoping we'd be able to string more then three passes together and to be able to create and score our own goal rather without the help of one of their players stupidly handing us a ridiculous free shot at their goal.
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| Chaos 13 Mar 21 9.50pm |
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Originally posted by Tickled pink
I was rather hoping we'd be able to string more then three passes together and to be able to create and score our own goal rather without the help of one of their players stupidly handing us a ridiculous free shot at their goal. I was rather hoping we'd win the game. What kind of supporter are you?
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| Tickled pink Cornwall 13 Mar 21 9.54pm |
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Originally posted by Chaos
Another Whine-whine. IF time-machines were a thing we would have Pele. MAYBE this kind of football allows us to be in Premier League another few seasons, so we could finally have the new Selhurst Park. MAYBE this is good enough. For now. Chaos, you sound quite like our club.
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| Chaos 13 Mar 21 9.56pm |
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Originally posted by Tickled pink
Chaos, you sound quite like our club. How so? I complain for a reason. I want my club to be better.
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| Chaos 13 Mar 21 9.58pm |
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That includes supporters.
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| Tickled pink Cornwall 13 Mar 21 10.01pm |
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Not as Chaotic as you.
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| Chaos 13 Mar 21 10.05pm |
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Originally posted by Tickled pink
Not as Chaotic as you. Ach, so wrong as you are, I came to this response. AAAAAAA Brilliant.
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| Tickled pink Cornwall 13 Mar 21 10.08pm |
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Originally posted by Painter
Agree 100%, some seem to want Wilder who plays awful football and cant motivate his team, now destind for relegation. There is absolutly no logic to some of the nonsense posted. He was a brilliant artist last season, finished ninth and you of all people should've been aware of that.
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| Tickled pink Cornwall 13 Mar 21 10.12pm |
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Originally posted by Ginger Pubic Wig
Palace failing to win Premier League matches with sufficient elan. We truly are cru Charlton, 2007 vintage. A semblance of football would be nice, don't quite understand why you mention elan.
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| Chaos 13 Mar 21 10.13pm |
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Originally posted by Tickled pink
He was a brilliant artist last season, finished ninth and you of all people should've been aware of that. Cool. Kudos. Can he do it again? No not so much.
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