[Albion] Catching them

[Weststander]

One thing I was looking forward to, ahead of last night's game, was the prospect of sitting just one point behind those wankers up the road.

Granted, they'd have had two games in hand on us, but with their next two fixtures being Leicester (away) and Man City (at home), there did seem to be the real chance of us looking down on them for a while and, with a bit of luck, finishing above them in the Premier League.

But, yeah, we know how that went.

And doesn't that always seem to be the case? Every time we seem to be within touching distance, we **** it up royally, consigning ourselves to a longer period of time wondering when the tide will turn in our favour.

*sigh*

For 4 seasons.

We simply make things hard for ourselves.

 

[BNthree]

But, but, but ... we did it in the second half against Wolves. What's happened since?

The mythical second half against Wolves. Where surely the only reason we played well was because it was almost impossible to play any worse than the first half.

 

[Motogull]

As far as I'm concerned, bragging rights are about league positioning and most recent results. The Wankpuffins are in possession and may enjoy that. The kunnts.

 

[Bozza]

Dare we dream?

 

[Grassman]

As soon as I looked at the table, I thought yes.

 

[Acker79]

Dare we dream?

Maybe... if you hadn't bumped this thread! You done gone and cursed us.

 

[Sheebo]

Looking at the fixtures, I doubt it. But we’re still quite clearly so so so so much better than them in all areas (apart from maybe finishing), so I won’t be too bothered. Big refurb job needed on their old caravans in the Summer too.

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

There’s always next season, assuming you stay up.

DICKHEAD

 

[Albion Dan]

I’d love to see it but every time we ever get close we blow it again.

 

[Hamilton]

I have a feeling that this year, yet again, we'll finish behind them...

BUT, next year will be different.

(then again, I say that every year!)

 

[Lethargic]

I have a feeling that this year, yet again, we'll finish behind them...

BUT, next year will be different.

(then again, I say that every year!)

Agreed I think next year will be the change and we will remain above them for a while.

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[Tony Towner's Fridge]

'Them' look old and very very turdesque........


Reckon 'Them' will be bottom three next season.


TNBA

TTF

 

[Change at Barnham]

Palace have a huge opportunity to rebuild their squad this summer and also bring in a progressive exciting young manager from somewhere.

It's a case of waiting to see how well they manage the situation. If they promise Smug Eddie a decent war chest for incoming players I could see him doing well there.
But realistically I'm not expecting their invisible American owners to be very generous with making funds available.
Old man Roy has done a decent job in keeping them out of danger this season, even if they are terrible to watch.

 

[Quinney]

They are on the edge of one way or the other. How we have managed to keep below them for so long I’ve no idea. Looking at everything on and off the pitch, surely next season is the one that we finally establish ourselves.


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[Quinney]

They are on the edge of one way or the other. How we have managed to keep below them for so long I’ve no idea. Looking at everything on and off the pitch, surely next season is the one that we finally establish ourselves and they will hopefully end up going through the leagues.


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[rogersix]

Hmmm.

I think their strongest first 11 is slightly better than ours - they currently have a real star player in Zaha (we hate him because he is good) which we don't.and Hodgson plays to their strengths while Potter doesn't seem to know what are strengths are.

I guess the proof is in the pudding - they always finish above us in the league and the league never lies.

Our strength is playing as a team

 

[Klaas]

Palace have a huge opportunity to rebuild their squad this summer and also bring in a progressive exciting young manager from somewhere.

Have they come into some money or something? Sorry, I pay very little attention to stuff going on outside of Brighton these days. Would have thought with the pandemic almost all clubs will be having very quiet summers.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Have they come into some money or something? Sorry, I pay very little attention to stuff going on outside of Brighton these days. Would have thought with the pandemic almost all clubs will be having very quiet summers.

They have loads and loads of first team players out of contract and off the wage bill.

 

[Gwylan]

Palace have a huge opportunity to rebuild their squad this summer and also bring in a progressive exciting young manager from somewhere.

They did that a few years ago: how many games did De Boer last? Was it six?

It's one thing wanting to rebuild a squad and play better football, it's much harder to do it. It's why I think Potter's ability to reshape the team completely and maintain our PL status has been incredible.

If Palace want to do similar, they're going to have to swallow a bad run along the way. As we saw with De Boer, Prince Charming would never have tolerared the winless run that Potter had earlier this season.

 

[Official Old Man]

I have a £20 end of season highest in table bet with a pub owning mate of mine.
He jokes that he now declares me on his tax return I'm paying him so much.
Seeing him at the end of May and got a sneaky feeling I'm going to be quids in.
He did say a month or so back he couldn't see Palace getting another point this season, which is how it's going.