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Quote Kermit8 at 12 Apr 2014 8.39pm

Owners lovely though they are wouldn't have sacked Ollie no matter what and that would have been a very big mistake. He went beyond the call of duty by resigning his post.

10/10 Mr H.

Indeed, Steve P tried to persuade him that he was the man for the job


 


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View Buzzcock's Profile Buzzcock Flag In an underground lair near Bright... 12 Apr 14 9.08pm Send a Private Message to Buzzcock Add Buzzcock as a friend

Indeed. Bigger thanks to Keith Millen though.

 


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We've got a a wonderful friendly club that very rarely gives managers crap over the years. When you create the right environment, managers and staff want to stay. Ollie is a good man and did the right thing. I wish him the best.

 

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Quote Stirlingsays at 12 Apr 2014 6.48pm

Quote miles18 at 12 Apr 2014 6.15pm

1) Only just
2) He had a s*** transfer window and a bizarre 25 man squad
3) Glad he did
4) The best thing he did. Just hope he can finish the season in League 1


With the playing squad we had .....Which was an average team without Jedinak, Zaha and Murray.....He did very well.

s*** transfer window? Hasn't Punch just won us games from the wing? Bannan is quality and so is the lad from Forest....Holloway did better in the transfer market than many.

He's done well for Millwall and has given them a chance.

I think his summer signings were quite good really. As well as Puncheon, Chamakh and Mariappa and even Jerome have started regularly, and Bannan and Guedioura have been on the bench, so whilst there were some spectacular misses in the transfer signings, there are some substantially good signings too. One of the major reasons (I think) that Holloway got so exhausted was that the club simply wasn't set up to handle PL transfers, no Moody to help him, so he was doing all the trawling through the endless videos etc.

Uniquely, he had the humility and good grace to know he wasn't the right man to keep Palace in the PL, and left, quite remarkable really.

 

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View TUX's Profile TUX Flag redhill 12 Apr 14 9.43pm Send a Private Message to TUX Add TUX as a friend

Thank you Ollie(yes, Holloway)
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Many of my buds figured it was a bit of a 'coup' when we signed Ollie. I wasn't as happy as them tbh.
Yeah we went up but how painful was the last few months!
I love the bloke and applaud him for holding his hands up, fairplay.
But 'thankyou Ollie'..................apart from holding his hands up, what else is there?

 

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View MikeT's Profile MikeT Flag Burlington (Toronto Area) 12 Apr 14 9.51pm Send a Private Message to MikeT Add MikeT as a friend

Despite his difficulties this season, I think Ollie deserves a good deal of credit for where we are.

1. He brought in Dobbie, and Kev Phillips for the Championship run in. They played important parts in promotion.

2. Although he caught some heat for the scatter gun, panic signings during the summer transfer window, there was some very good quality there; players who have proved to be key members of the squad: Chamakh, Puncheon, Bannan, Marriapa, Guediora, Jerome, Gayle. Campana as Spanish U20 captain was also certainly worth a roll of the dice.

3. Although Moyse complained about Man U's schedule, Palace had by far the toughest start to the season: Spurs [H], Stoke [A], Sunderland [H], Man U [A], Swansea [H], Southampton [A], Liverpool [A]. We were also not really getting blown out in games, the main problems were not scoring enough and losing concentration at the beginning or end of halves.

So as well as getting us promoted, he left a good enough foundation that Millen and subsequently Pulis were able to refine and build on. I certainly wish Ollie well. Despite the heresy, I'd rather Millwall stayed up, than the clownish shell taken over by Belgium parasites.

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EastEndPalace Flag WithHardNutsCosImAHardBastard 12 Apr 14 11.08pm

Holloway is a clown he shows Barcelona videos as part of his team talk.

 

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Quote TUX at 12 Apr 2014 9.43pm

Thank you Ollie(yes, Holloway)
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Many of my buds figured it was a bit of a 'coup' when we signed Ollie. I wasn't as happy as them tbh.
Yeah we went up but how painful was the last few months!
I love the bloke and applaud him for holding his hands up, fairplay.
But 'thankyou Ollie'..................apart from holding his hands up, what else is there?

promotion?

 


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Quote EastEndPalace at 12 Apr 2014 11.08pm

Holloway is a clown he shows Barcelona videos as part of his team talk.


Yeh, what an idiot. He shows his team what it looks like to be one of the best teams in Europe and what they could aspire to. Why on earth would he want to do that?

 

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View adrian b's Profile adrian b Flag Landrindod, Wales 12 Apr 14 11.43pm Send a Private Message to adrian b Add adrian b as a friend


To cheer success in hindsight is a luxury and a little cocky. But to refer to failure in hindsight...what's the point? Enough to say that Olly got Palace up. What else could Olly have done in the championship but get Palace promoted. Those who do not appreciate that...well perhaps they would have prefered the alternative.

 

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View james03's Profile james03 Flag Bangkok 13 Apr 14 4.53am Send a Private Message to james03 Add james03 as a friend

No real antagonism towards the man. He was here, now he has gone. I was never in favour of his appointment although have respect for him in the manner he departed.

Quite simply he is a decent manager for a Championship side but never in a million years can he be considered good enough tactically for this level.

I believe HE was the person who thought he could do everything on the coaching, managing and new player front. We were threadbare in the backroom staff department whilst trying to compete in the toughest league in the world. Simply that was living in a fantasy world.

Good luck to him for the rest of his career because his going has seen the arrival of a proper Premier League boss.

 


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Edited by TOM EAGLES (13 Apr 2014 6.22am)

 

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