Palace or Newcastle - If we could only beat one of them, who would you choose?

[Hatman1234]

I'd rather beat Newcastle to be honest. If we lose to Palace we can say "we gave you 6 points and we're still above you".

 

[Skaville]

Palace all day long.

 

[melias shoes]

Don't try that with me.

Serious question, why would we have bragging rights when they have already won at the Amex?

Right here we go then. When we play palace,our deadly rivals, and they beat us that gives them 'bragging rights' until we play them again. When we play next week and if we win then that gives us bragging rights. Unless they win then they can lord it over us until the next time we meet. Hope this explains.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Palace.

 

[OzMike]

Palace, both would be good but it would have to be Palace.

 

[Randsta]

But as I said to Simster, ignoring the rivalry aspect and taking the Palace game as 'just' a League game it's one of 46. 46! No one can win them all and every team that gets promoted loses a few games. And IF we lose to Palace (heaven forbid) and ultimately we miss out on the play-offs by one or three points no one can say it was down to losing that or any other single game. If we hadn't conceded that last-minute equaliser against Blackpool, got what we deserved against West Ham and kept 11 players against Burnley we'd be eight points better off already!

I dunno, maybe it's my age but I see the league games as the humdrum, workaday, bog-standard stuff. It's the Cup matches where the excitement is. Out of my seven all-time favourite Albion matches only one of them (Newcastle away in 1979) is a league game. The others are all Cup ones.

I see your point...it's a long season yadda yadda yadda but we need to keep up pressure and another win now will give player confidence to go forwards

 

[Brovion]

I see your point...it's a long season yadda yadda yadda but we need to keep up pressure and another win now will give player confidence to go forwards

Oh I certainly agree with you there!

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Your cock or the nail on your little toe - If you had to have one of them cut off, which would you choose?

About as sensible a question.

 

[Dave the OAP]

newcastle personally. i think we should be looking to go as far as we can in the FA Cup and this is another chance to see a decent team like Liverpool. And not counting chickens yet, but a lot of premier sides have been drawn against each other so our chances of progressing are that much more enhanced. ( so long as we avoid Stoke of course)

Palace is just another championship game, yes with added spice as usual, but still only worth 3 points!

 

[Albumen]

I'd take 3 points, I don't give a f*** about the rivalry. Luckily we'll get both.

 

[Notters]

Taken as a currency a single league game is not as valuable as a single FA Cup game.

I don't think that's the case with our current team though. We seem to go on long winning and long losing streaks and I think defeat to Palace would knock us back a long way. Defeat to Newcastle wouldn't be the same as it would be expected.

 

[Chamberpot]

Crystal United....?

 

[Brovion]

I don't think that's the case with our current team though. We seem to go on long winning and long losing streaks and I think defeat to Palace would knock us back a long way. Defeat to Newcastle wouldn't be the same as it would be expected.

But that's just a feeling you've got, on the other hand we might lose to Palace and then win our next three games. Regardless though my point still stands, every one of the 46 league games is worth three points and every FA Cup defeat means you're knocked out.

However you do have a point, and the other side to your coin is that victory over Newcastle would give us confidence. This is definitely what happened in 76/77 when the club, as now, was on an upward trajectory. The Cup victories over West Brom and Ipswich and the two games against Derby (all old old 1st division clubs) gave everybody a massive lift as we began to realise how good the team was. Beating Newcastle will be a far better preparation for Palace than going about it half-arsed and losing.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Palace than going about it half-arsed and losing.

They better NOT be half arsed Tuesday. Not at ALL.

 

[DTES]

Your club dont do cup runs, You were knocked out of the CC in the very first round, we were Pens from the final and you mock us?

That's the second time I've seen a Palace fan write that on NSC, when it's completely false. I don't get it - they reached the semi-finals, and won at the Amex, why on earth do they feel they have to resort to making up things to laugh at us for? Do they just like looking stupid?

 

[seagull_special]

About as sensible a question.

Wow! I didn't realise you could someone else's post, I don't think its a completely stupid question! if we beat Newcastle and for example drew Man Utd in the next round and it was televised, it could be worth a million which could go into the transfer budget for next season, that could be the difference between signing a Will Buckley or a Billy Paynter. I would choose a win over Palace but if we beat Newcastle and lost to Palace it would soften the blow. In a perfect world we would beat both!

 

[Brovion]

They better NOT be half arsed Tuesday. Not at ALL.

I'm sure they won't be. My concern is that they could be half-arsed on Saturday (regardless of who we were playing on Tuesday) as the Cup 'doesn't matter'. Again I'm sure they won't be. And I really believe if we win on Saturday then we'll win on Tuesday and it isn't a 'trade off'. Beat Newcastle, and then with the momentum and feelgood factor that will have generated we'll STEAMROLLER Palace! We've already proved that tiredness isn't a factor by winning away at Peterborough after the extra time and penalties (to say nothing of the 24 hour postponement) at Wrexham.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

Brovion - get yourself down to the Amex and explain it to Gus. I think I am almost convinced. I think he may be a harder nut to crack.