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madcap_v2 SE25 / Ibiza 15 Feb 21 10.47am | |
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Championship would be disastrous, what are you lot on about?! A good thing would be our Premiership survival, new manager, clear out the dead wood, make suitable replacements. If we stay up or go down, we still will need to rebuild anyway and a Premier league status is a better foundation for us to do this from.
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taylors lovechild 15 Feb 21 11.08am | |
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Originally posted by davenotamonkey
...having said that, by far my favourite ever season was our administration / relegation battle season in the Championship. Arriving at Newcastle to hear Victor Moses didn't take the flight. The desperate battles against Doncaster, Scunny, Sunderland. The epic finale. Football, and the very spirit of this club at it's very best. Really shows how complacent we've become. Maybe a spell in the "real football" division might be best? While there is some truth in that, it brushes over what it was like to follow Palace through most of our second-tier years in recent history. How about the period when the club took to piping in crowd chants through the PA to make up for the lack of noise coming from the 13,000 odd of us watching a borderline pub football team punt it long in the hope of Alan Lee putting it in the net? We are punching above our weight in the PL, but the reality is the same would be the case in the Championship. We are not Leeds, Newcastle or Villa. We wouldn't still draw big crowds in tier 2. We don't even have many saleable assets to cushion the blow financially. If we went down the club wouldn't suddenly decide to become a free-flowing and entertaining team, in fact more likely they'd resort to tried and tested as they desperately tried to claw their way back into the PL. There were periods under Taylor and Burley when I considered contacting the police to report abuse.
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samprior Hamburg 15 Feb 21 11.14am | |
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Absolute no from me. Yes the football ar the moment is pretty woeful stuff but I've seen a fair amount of that in the championship as well. Hopefully we'll crawl over the line this year and then the club has to decide where it wants to go.
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EddieMac 15 Feb 21 11.20am | |
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If we end up in the Championship won’t be long before we are in league 2.
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Pigglelet Deepest Darkest Sussex 15 Feb 21 11.35am | |
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Do we really want to go there?
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ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 15 Feb 21 11.56am | |
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The Championship is far too competitive for us. Without a complete overhaul we would go straight down.
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doombear Too far from Selhurst Park 15 Feb 21 12.21pm | |
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Originally posted by NEILLO
There's no good time to get relegated, but this would certainly be the worst of times. All clubs are suffering financially due to COVID and Palace haven't been exactly awash with cash these last few years. I see no positives in inviting relegation.
We need to hang in there for a couple of years or so until our better younger players (U18s etc.) are developed and we see what they're made of. If we bring in a couple of younger players this summer to join Eze, Mitchell, Riedewald and Ferguson (along with a new manager, of course), we will be moving in the right direction. Edited by doombear (15 Feb 2021 12.22pm)
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rollercoaster Cornwall 15 Feb 21 12.28pm | |
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Get the new stand built. Get some assets in place and then going down (which we will some time soon) wont be so bad because we will have a solid platform for getting back.
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southnorwoodhill 15 Feb 21 1.05pm | |
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It's funny, some posters saying how we aren't ready for the Championship, we won't be able to compete giving the current state of affairs.
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nectoneagle necton 15 Feb 21 1.34pm | |
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Just hang on guys , whilst I agree that we are very poor it is probably easier to stay in Premier than gain promotion from championship.
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Henry of Peckham Eton Mess 15 Feb 21 1.47pm | |
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Originally posted by southnorwoodhill
Would Parish push on with stadium redevelopment if we did happen to go down is the pressing question. If he wants to sell the club he's got to. May take a while to regain momentum in the league if we are relegated but a good stadium is the biggest asset a club can have.
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NEILLO Shoreham-by-Sea 15 Feb 21 2.00pm | |
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Originally posted by Henry of Peckham
If he wants to sell the club he's got to. May take a while to regain momentum in the league if we are relegated but a good stadium is the biggest asset a club can have. Unless the original American investment was and is truly ring fenced for stadium development, I would say there's little chance of it happening if we are in the Championship.
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