[Albion] Beat Palace & lose to Millwall OR lose to Palace & beat Millwall?

[Petee]

Exactly. Incredible that fans on here would give up on a potential Wembley Semi-Final for a league game.

I have seen countless Palace/ Brighton games in 50 years. Wins, draws losses. Ron Challis, Boxing Day, 5 penalties, 0-5, Paul McShane, March 17th, 2-3 chaos, Andone run and more, so much more. Good, bad and ugly.

I have seen one Semi-Final. One Semi-Final that bettered anything in 50 years v Palace. Nerve-tingling, body-shaking, gripping excitement and ultimate euphoria. Never felt anything like it. The prize was everything. The Case goal lifted me to heights never previously imagined. At the final whistle, I sat there numb, stunned. This small club, that I had started supporting in the bottom division was going to play in front of a global tv audience.

We will get relegated from the PL. It is a matter of time. Two, three, four years. It will happen as sure as it will happen to the majority of other clubs. Hopefully, we will bounce back. We will continue to play Palace. We are similar clubs. This game pales into insignificance compared with April 18th 1981. Then we really were doomed. We had no chance. That day we won 3-0. We then won the next three to escape on the last day. That was a critical game. Everything on the line. This isn't.

A Cup Semi Final is different. In years to come, your children, grand-children and great grand-children will scour the record books for achievements. Cup runs. How close did we get. We don't have a Cup pedigree. A lot of clubs smaller than us have better. I don't want us to be a soft touch. We are getting better. We are building towards a significant achievement. Two successive Quarters after two in 116 years. A Quarter-Final v a struggling Championship side. Cmon!! A huge no-brainer.
Sod a horrible, ugly league game at dump Selhurst. Its not that game that will keep us up. Its a home game v Cardiff.

This. This. And this again.

 

[Hamilton]

Not voting.

Beat Palace. Beat Millwall. Beat Palace.

Simple.

 

[Napper]

Beat Millwall for me.

Never seen us in a Semi Final of a decent cup.

incidently

**SAINTS GOT 33,411 TICKETS LAST YEAR**

 

[Albumen]

4 points please.

 

[JJ McClure]

Beat Palace. The answer is always beat Palace.

 

[Stato]

Beat Palace. The answer is always beat Palace.

What did Dr Dre build with the billions he made from his headphones?

Where did Jack Kerouac live?

Where did John, Paul, George and Ringo go to get their MBEs?

What did Brighton already do in December, meaning that whatever the result of this one, an 87th season will have gone by and they will have still failed to do the double over us?

 

[View from the Pier]

With our current form last six games I am much more concerned about Cardiff than Palace or Millwall. 4 pts last six games is relegation form without help from others in the race for 18th

 

[Goldstone1976]

Interesting that the "beat Palace" crew are split between...

- beat Palace because they are Palace, and
- beat Palace because it's three points

I wonder if the latter group would be going for "beat Millwall" if we were mid-table and safe.

I would be.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Beat Palace and then go on to finish above them in the league with 3 or 4 more wins before the end of the season.

This would be much better and sustain my Albion Mojo at an almost all-time high level for months to come - in comparison to an expensive disappointment at Wembley.

 

[Simster]

Beat Millwall for me.

Never seen us in a Semi Final of a decent cup.

incidently

**SAINTS GOT 33,411 TICKETS LAST YEAR**

Just looked at Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017–18_FA_Cup

Were there really only 73,416 at their semi with Chelsea. That seems remarkably low to me!

 

[pb21]

Assuming we beat Millwall who would want Palace in a theoretical semi-final (or even final)? Police certainly wouldn't

 

[Sue1983]

I don't get all the beat Palace over everything else...

I know the history as I was there at the time, and I want us to beat them and finish above them but not at any cost. For me I can't see winning against Palace being better than a trip to Wembley for a semi final and maybe a final. The 1983 cup final was one of my highlights replay not as much but I would love for us to be in the final and have that wonderful feeling again but this time winning it! But even being finalists would top beating Palace especially as we have already beaten them this season. How wonderful it would be for us to win the FA Cup.

It would be great if we beat Palace in the league as well as beating Millwall and getting to the semi finals and maybe the final but there is always next year when maybe we don't have such a good cup run.

And wouldn't it be wonderful for the currently players/manager/chairman and all our younger supporters for us to be FA Cup winners.

It is not as though beating Palace is the difference between staying up or going down.

 

[MisterE]

1983 and all that

I don't get all the beat Palace over everything else...

I know the history as I was there at the time, and I want us to beat them and finish above them but not at any cost. For me I can't see winning against Palace being better than a trip to Wembley for a semi final and maybe a final. The 1983 cup final was one of my highlights replay not as much but I would love for us to be in the final and have that wonderful feeling again but this time winning it! But even being finalists would top beating Palace especially as we have already beaten them this season. How wonderful it would be for us to win the FA Cup.

It would be great if we beat Palace in the league as well as beating Millwall and getting to the semi finals and maybe the final but there is always next year when maybe we don't have such a good cup run.

And wouldn't it be wonderful for the currently players/manager/chairman and all our younger supporters for us to be FA Cup winners.

It is not as though beating Palace is the difference between staying up or going down.

I may be wrong but - lets not repeat the 1983 year - cup final and relegation !!!!!!

 

[sully]

Beat Millwall we have a generation that have never seen Albion at Wembley. We will get the points elsewhere

I don’t know about you, but I watched the Albion at Wembley last season.......


Even if you were just referring to prestige matches at Wembley, I feel a bit MEH about the semi-finals being there and don’t think they count, either. It’s a shame that Wembley is over-used for club matches now, diminishing the experience.

I’m still hoping we get to play there three times this season, mind you!

 

[Sue1983]

I may be wrong but - lets not repeat the 1983 year - cup final and relegation !!!!!!

I agree that would be horrendous. I certainly don't want a repeat of that!!!

I still remember the pain of losing in the replay the awful train ride back, and being relegated the same year as if it was yesterday.


But beating Palace and the excitement of being in the cup final for me is a no brainer, Cup final every time! But if the choice was being in the cup final or being relegated then that would be a different matter!

 

[SAC]

Assuming we beat Millwall who would want Palace in a theoretical semi-final (or even final)? Police certainly wouldn't

I think the police would prefer that to Millwall v anyone in the semi-final actually.

 

[Washie]

I take it that all those people who say that beating Palace is the priority and they're not fussed about the FA Cup won't be applying for tickets for the semi-final or final

Already seen Albion at Wembley last season

 

[Norman Potting]

Trounce Palace, thrash Millwall, secure safety with games to spare, make it to Wembley after trouncing Palace again, then upset all the odds by a Murray hat trick overcoming the favourites Citeh.

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Trounce Palace, thrash Millwall, secure safety with games to spare, make it to Wembley after trouncing Palace again, then upset all the odds by a Murray hat trick overcoming the favourites Citeh.

That's the spirit!

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Now our unholy deal has delivered, do the wise men go LARGE on Millwall to banana skin us ?

Nah. Let's win next week as well !