Bigger fish to fry than palace?

[Working class pride]

Dont get me wrong I was brought up with the palace thing through the 70s and 80s and for me it will always be a great rivalry.

But is the reality that the Albion will over the next few years continue to fulfil its regional identity and so will palace be small fry compared to the Albion?

Just a thought but is this rivalry likely to end up going the same way as say Stoke and Port Vale? Intense for the fans but in footballing terms, just too one sided?...

 

[Questions]

Dont get me wrong I was brought up with the palace thing through the 70s and 80s and for me it will always be a great rivalry.

But is the reality that the Albion will over the next few years continue to fulfil its regional identity and so will palace be small fry compared to the Albion?

Just a thought but is this rivalry likely to end up going the same way as say Stoke and Port Vale? Intense for the fans but in footballing terms, just too one sided?...

If we can beat them that might be a start this season.

 

[teaboy]

Dont get me wrong I was brought up with the palace thing through the 70s and 80s and for me it will always be a great rivalry.

But is the reality that the Albion will over the next few years continue to fulfil its regional identity and so will palace be small fry compared to the Albion?

Just a thought but is this rivalry likely to end up going the same way as say Stoke and Port Vale? Intense for the fans but in footballing terms, just too one sided?...

Is that not what the situation has been like for the last 20 years anyway, just with Palace on top on the footballing side of things?

 

[u'vebeenamexed]

I can't see Crawley becoming our rivals and Pompey are sinking fast so I guess we are stuck with Palace in terms of locality. Southampton may return next season to the Championship - if we are still here

 

[jackanada]

Well most of them had the decency to keep hating us when they were way higher in the league, so it's only honourable for us to carry on.

Once they are playing in league 2, at the athletics stadium (where they move to temporarily while Selhurst is redeveloped, only it 'mysteriously' goes tits up and is sold for housing and a GIANT sainsburys to repay a massive loan from the directors), bankrupt and playing awful football the 750 people there can warm themselves thinking of our rivalry.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Palace are small fry now to be fair, and on a downward spiral.

With Portsmouth disappearing as well for a few years, i reckon a new rivalry with Southampton is where it is heading.

 

[5mins-from-amex]

Palace are small fry now to be fair, and on a downward spiral.

With Portsmouth disappearing as well for a few years, i reckon a new rivalry with Southampton is where it is heading.

It gets right on my tits when people just label palace small fry, we have been below them for the best part of 30 years! but we finish above them in the league by 7 points and that's that, there not worthy of are rivalry? Arrogance is an understatement.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

It gets right on my tits when people just label palace small fry, we have been below them for the best part of 30 years! but we finish above them in the league by 7 points and that's that, there not worthy of are rivalry? Arrogance is an understatement.

Well of course they occupied a false position funded by charities, small businesses, and the taxpayer, so I don't think we can really take the last 10 or so seasons of their 'superiority' too seriously.

 

[Normal Rob]

It gets right on my tits when people just label palace small fry, we have been below them for the best part of 30 years! but we finish above them in the league by 7 points and that's that, there not worthy of are rivalry? Arrogance is an understatement.

This. Plus the fact that after all the years of being below them, when we are above them people want to start having a rivalry with someone else? where's the fun in that?

 

[5mins-from-amex]

I am well aware of the way they cheated there way to the prem, but still you cant ever change who your main rivals are! it will always be palace no matter what league they or we are in!

 

[Washie]

No, I will still hate them, even if they go out of buisness, just the name makes me sick.

 

[DTES]

We've only just got back in the same division as them 18 months ago! Yes, we finished above them last year - but we didn't beat them! We'll (very) probably finish above them this year too, but we still haven't beaten them yet. After a few consecutive seasons of us being in a division above them, then this might be a fair question - but the answer will still probably be no, as they continued to hate us while we languished in Division 3.

 

[Pavilionaire]

One of the indicators we're REALLY back is to do the double over Palace.

 

[Twizzle]

We are their cup final, they are the new leyton orient to us.
5-0 to us at their place would do nicely please thankyou.

 

[Triggaaar]

Stupid thread

 

[algie]

Stupid thread

Shit thread i agree.

 

[OSRGull]

Yeah great idea, let's just change our main rivals and hate Leeds and man utd like everyone else?



Yeah, no thanks.

 

[Brovion]

Blimey, let's just wait until we've really eclipsed them shall we? And seeing as they were bigger and better than us for about thirty consecutive years and people (on both sides) still consider us to be main rivals I think that day is still some way off.


(NB: This thread mentions Southampton. Any minute now one of the Brighton-obsessed Southampton fans will be on here desperately claiming that we are obsessed with them!)

 

[Stat Brother]

If we can beat them that might be a start this season.

This

Is that not what the situation has been like for the last 20 years anyway, just with Palace on top on the footballing side of things?

This

It gets right on my tits when people just label palace small fry, we have been below them for the best part of 30 years! but we finish above them in the league by 7 points and that's that, there not worthy of are rivalry? Arrogance is an understatement.

That

We've only just got back in the same division as them 18 months ago! Yes, we finished above them last year - but we didn't beat them! We'll (very) probably finish above them this year too, but we still haven't beaten them yet. After a few consecutive seasons of us being in a division above them, then this might be a fair question - but the answer will still probably be no, as they continued to hate us while we languished in Division 3.

The other

Stupid thread

Bingo

Shit thread i agree.

lol x

 

[Titus]

Yeah great idea, let's just change our main rivals and hate Leeds and man utd like everyone else?

That's not what he said.