Croydonbloke
Palace in Sussex
Good shout This one is more appropriate!!You should probably change your avatar...
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Good shout This one is more appropriate!!You should probably change your avatar...
Good shout This one is more appropriate!!
Most their fans hate Charlton more these days so they are prob half loking forward to renewing their rivalry.
As for Palace going down, it would be nice but I can't see it happening.
I was beginning to look forward to playing them regularly like it was (apparently) in the old days. Now it's looking like, apart from a bit of fun and games next season, we could pass them going in the opposite direction and never even play them at Falmer!
Sorry about another palace thread by the way!
I was beginning to look forward to playing them regularly like it was (apparently) in the old days.
Just what I thought as I travelled down for the 5-0 humiliation at Selhurst. Wouldn't bother me if we crossed without playing each other.
This is the second time in 10 years these parasitic scumbags have gone into administration-all the time their moronic supporters took great delight in our struggles.
If they end up in Blue Square South it will be nothing less than they deserve. Let them suffer for a few years.
My only concern is their demise is not happening quickly enough.
F*ck em all!
Only by the virtue of -10, not that we are shit.
And I don't expect you to stay up either, you always let us down.
However we decided to stick to our preferred style of just 'being shit'.
I think Crystal Palace have made a very poor appointment today. Paul Hart has had a lot of opportunities, and with the exception of Pompey last season, has failed everywhere.
What he said. I wouldn't lose any sleep if they went out of business.My only concern is their demise is not happening quickly enough.
F*ck em all!
I AM concerned - that they're going to get away with it. I know people want to play them next season but I think that's being a bit 'selfish' for want of a better word. In other words I think some of our fans don't really care about the wider implications - so long as we can play our rivals next year (and hopefully beat them, twice) then everything will have turned out ok.
I can't share that view; I don't want to play Palace next season. For me the WORST thing that could happen will be that at the end of this, after the usual smoke and mirrors and behind-the-scenes horsetrading, they end up still in the second or third tier of professional football (relegation, ooooh what a punishment) but with a nice, clean slate ready to start again. Ditto Portsmouth. Maybe especially Portsmouth as if someone had offered me a few seasons in the Premiership, the FA Cup and a European campaign with the only price being Administration, relegation (by the standard one division) and then a fresh start - I'd have bitten their hands off.
Sorry, but for the overall good of football I want to see Palace and Pompey go bust and have to reform, thus following in the footsteps of Accrington Stanley, Aldershot and Newport County (to name but three). However I can't see that happening and football clubs will continue to think that the normal rules of business (such as paying your Tax) don't apply to them, so yes, I AM slightly concerned.
Actually I think NOT owning the stadium might be their salvation. If they did own the ground then they may have been forced to sell it to clear the debts. As it is the Administrator, creditors, Taxman, liquidator, whoever can't touch it as it isn't an asset of the business in question....
Interestingly, I'm not sure how easy the way out is of this mess for Palace. They don't own their own stadium, the only assets by-and-large are the players. Does anybody want to take over a club with no stadium and £30 million debt? Doesn't sound overly attractive to me, and this is what, ironically, places them in a more precarious situation than Portsmouth.
Crystal Palace (now debt free) still playing at Selhurst Park and all it's cost is a few league points.
You've completely missed the point. Of course individuals will suffer, but 'Crystal Palace FC' will survive, and ten, twenty, thirty years down the line this will hardly merit a footnote in your history.Couldn't agree less.
What about the staff that lose their jobs because of administration?
Not very well paid jobs but usually done by people with a real love of their club.