[Football] Palarse review of the season

[maltaseagull]

A poor season for us, and it brings a end to Roy’s pragmatic approach.
Hopefully a new manager and new players will bring a more enjoyable experience.

Good news that we finished above you lot again, and maybe with a new approach next season, we can widen the gap between us.

Hopefully.
We will be in the top half and you lot in bottom 3.

 

[BBassic]

Agreed we did bottle all of them however we were 1-0 up with 10 minutes to go and gave them a soft as f*** goal from 25 yards out, scored by Jack Grealish to make it even worse.


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Oh yeah for sure. It was a bloody slow journey back from Villa, awful day!

If only Baldock / March hadn't missed their sitters.

Still, I do quite like how we took a Newcastle team expected to win the league at a canter to the last minute of the last game of the season and that they needed us to collapse over three games and a hand from Jack Grealish to finally seal it.

 

[eaglesdan]

Not been a vintage season, but we basically won the games against teams around or below us, and rolled over and let the big boys tickle our tummies. For a defense minded manager we took some dreadful beatings and had one of the worst goal difference in the league. Big decisions to be made in the summer. New manager will be a tough call, as we probably are not the most attractive choice, and a lot of tough decisions regarding out of contract players. There are some very promising youngsters, but we cant expect all of them to make the step up like Aaron and Tyrick have done. Be good to get some high wage earners off the books (Sakho, Wickham etc) but can we attract any decent replacements?
I think if Potter stays (and where could he realistically go that would be an upgrade), with a couple of additions you may finish above us next year. Hope I am wrong of course, but hope we can have fans of both sides in the ground to see

 

[Se20]

Hopefully.
We will be in the top half and you lot in bottom 3.

Its the hope that kills you .

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

It all depends whether Palace get their long-time target Sean Dyche, ushering in an era of free-flowing football to delight the denizens of the new stand at Selhurst.

Personally I don't care whether we finish above or below them as long as we stay up. There's a bigger picture than the rivalry with a small club (A Dullard) in Norwood.

And anyway, now that Sutton United have been promoted to the EFL they surely have new rivals and won't be interested in us any more.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Not been a vintage season, but we basically won the games against teams around or below us, and rolled over and let the big boys tickle our tummies. For a defense minded manager we took some dreadful beatings and had one of the worst goal difference in the league. Big decisions to be made in the summer. New manager will be a tough call, as we probably are not the most attractive choice, and a lot of tough decisions regarding out of contract players. There are some very promising youngsters, but we cant expect all of them to make the step up like Aaron and Tyrick have done. Be good to get some high wage earners off the books (Sakho, Wickham etc) but can we attract any decent replacements?
I think if Potter stays (and where could he realistically go that would be an upgrade), with a couple of additions you may finish above us next year. Hope I am wrong of course, but hope we can have fans of both sides in the ground to see

Fair assessment, I'd say.

Interesting times for you. Jettisoning the comfort blanket of Hodgon's pragmatism, just as we did with Chris Hughton. It has worked out pretty well for us, and we are enjoying watching a much younger team, play a more adventurous style, resulting in being genuinely competitive in almost every game. It could have gone horribly wrong though, as everyone in the media told us.

Palace equally could go either way. Equal chance of finishing tenth, as you have of being 19th at Christmas, with the Always Ultras back making their slit-throat gestures at your players and new manager.

 

[BadFish]

Next year is certainly an interesting one for Palace. I would be interested to know if their fans have faith in their leadership to negotiate this off season's huge change?

Or do they not worry about it because they can just hit the reset button, let their local creditors take the hit and start again as CPFC2022?

 

[maltaseagull]

Its the hope that kills you .

I certainly hope not!

ohhhh

 

[Hugo Rune]

Not been a vintage season, but we basically won the games against teams around or below us, and rolled over and let the big boys tickle our tummies.

You won just once against a club above you. Roy knows the secret to staying in the division, beating the teams below you, will your next manager be as effective at getting the job done?

 

[marcos3263]

I was very very bored so quickly looked at their forum and there is a page querying if their ring fenced stand money will be used to buy players.

One comment stated: "The club have still got to build replacements for the houses in Wooderson Close before anything can get going..... "

If this is the case and they have to re-home a dozen or so people then this project is way off.

also their forum is ugly to look at with too many adverts taking up a lot of the screen - well done Bozza for keeping ours less cluttered and for keeping a pouting Michelle Ryan at the bottom of the screen. -( although the gigantic animals that shouldnt exist but do can do one)

 

[Hampster Gull]

Palace cant see that year as a good one, the team has no potential its so old, most out of contract, a manager whose given up, a stadium thats more fitting of League One and foreign owners who don't care and certainly dont stay at a hotel in croydon when they pop over. A club at the top oftheir mountain and just about too fall over the other side

 

[papajaff]

I'm a cock...

Ah bless, look what the twát has been lining up. SO excited weren't you?

The twattiest of twats has just got twattier. And on Sunday evening, what a surprise!

 

[loz]

I was very very bored so quickly looked at their forum and there is a page querying if their ring fenced stand money will be used to buy players.

One comment stated: "The club have still got to build replacements for the houses in Wooderson Close before anything can get going..... "

If this is the case and they have to re-home a dozen or so people then this project is way off.

also their forum is ugly to look at with too many adverts taking up a lot of the screen - well done Bozza for keeping ours less cluttered and for keeping a pouting Michelle Ryan at the bottom of the screen. -( although the gigantic animals that shouldnt exist but do can do one)

This forum looks like that if your not signed in.

The houses are staying it’s a strip of land by the Sainsbury’s entrance that’s holding everything up.

For me personally I am looking forward to new players and manager after 8 seasons the prem goes stale. And watching the Brentford match just reminded me of all those exciting seasons in the championship.

So it will either work or not but whatever I’ll will still be making my trip north to Norwood the same as I have since the mid 70s what ever division we play in.

Being relegated for all but about 6 teams is just a question of time, it’s disappointing for about 2 hours then I start looking at who we might be playing next season and planning away games ( something the prem has ruined )

I am sure you lot are the same ?

 

[Charity Shield 1910]

This forum looks like that if your not signed in.

The houses are staying it’s a strip of land by the Sainsbury’s entrance that’s holding everything up.

For me personally I am looking forward to new players and manager after 8 seasons the prem goes stale. And watching the Brentford match just reminded me of all those exciting seasons in the championship.

So it will either work or not but whatever I’ll will still be making my trip north to Norwood the same as I have since the mid 70s what ever division we play in.

Being relegated for all but about 6 teams is just a question of time, it’s disappointing for about 2 hours then I start looking at who we might be playing next season and planning away games ( something the prem has ruined )

I am sure you lot are the same ?

Yes very similar. However as a lifer Albion fan who remembers us in the top flight last time, I also have stark memories of the decline that led to the sale of the Goldstone and the like. This time, I also would like to see the Albion see how far it can build to make use of its supporter base. There are not many clubs that boast a catchment area of 1.6 million but who have done pretty much nothing with it. So I'd like to see us win a cup and play in Europe as a result before go down again. Then playing palace and pompey in the Championship would be absolutely fine fine with me. Having friends who are lifer palace fans, i know they think the something similar about Palace, although they are less scarred because you never lost Selhurst and your last 30 years hasn't been that bad. But n the whole you are spot on.

 

[loz]

Yes very similar. However as a lifer Albion fan who remembers us in the top flight last time, I also have stark memories of the decline that led to the sale of the Goldstone and the like. This time, I also would like to see the Albion see how far it can build to make use of its supporter base. There are not many clubs that boast a catchment area of 1.6 million but who have done pretty much nothing with it. So I'd like to see us win a cup and play in Europe as a result before go down again. Then playing palace and pompey in the Championship would be absolutely fine fine with me. Having friends who are lifer palace fans, i know they think the something similar about Palace, although they are less scarred because you never lost Selhurst and your last 30 years hasn't been that bad. But n the whole you are spot on.

Well we got to the FA cup final in 2016 so it hasnt been all bad.

One thing that did make me happy is the way Leicester fans cared more about winning the FA cup than coming 4th in the league, showing football authorities that winning the FA cup is really important to everyday football fans...I would love palace to win one of the two cups even if we went down doing it....but then I am not an owner.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Thought experiment:

If the Palace away game had been a mirror image of the Amex game, that is to say they had hammered us all day long and we had won the match with our only two touches inside the box - literally the ultimate smash and grab - would that have been our highlight of the season? Would it have been better than Man City, or the Spurs/Liverpool double week?

I think it's a bit like when someone gets a ball straight to the bollocks. It's hilarious when it happens to someone else but agony when it happens to you. If we'd been absolute dog turd for the whole game, got absolutely battered and then won it with only our second shot of the game, scored by a striker that had about 5 goals in 2,000 games I'd have laughed my arse off.

 

[MJsGhost]

I actually think having so many players (15? 16?) out of contract this summer is a huge advantage for Palace. Given the state of football finances for all but the super-elite, it's very likely that any contracts agreed in this climate (for all but the very top players) will be significantly lower than they would have been. Not much good for clubs with players on long contracts, but a bonus for clubs like Palace at a juncture where they can offer more modest terms to players they want to keep (they are unlikely to be offered more elsewhere), or jettison those they don't.
The only caveat being that they really need to appoint the next manager quick-smart, so he/she can make the call re who to offer new terms to, who to let go and who to target in the transfer market.

Obviously, if they get the wrong person in, things could go HORRIBLY wrong - they would have a large number of players on new deals, so the subsequent manager's hands would be tied when it comes to refreshing the squad again.

I really hope it's Lampard, because I reckon he'd do a really sh|t job, whilst also thinking he's doing them a favour by being there.

 

[SAC]

I actually think having so many players (15? 16?) out of contract this summer is a huge advantage for Palace. Given the state of football finances for all but the super-elite, it's very likely that any contracts agreed in this climate (for all but the very top players) will be significantly lower than they would have been. Not much good for clubs with players on long contracts, but a bonus for clubs like Palace at a juncture where they can offer more modest terms to players they want to keep (they are unlikely to be offered more elsewhere), or jettison those they don't.
The only caveat being that they really need to appoint the next manager quick-smart, so he/she can make the call re who to offer new terms to, who to let go and who to target in the transfer market.

Obviously, if they get the wrong person in, things could go HORRIBLY wrong - they would have a large number of players on new deals, so the subsequent manager's hands would be tied when it comes to refreshing the squad again.

I really hope it's Lampard, because I reckon he'd do a really sh|t job, whilst also thinking he's doing them a favour by being there.

I think it would be make or break for Lampard. Do well and he'd be able to look at a top 10 club with European ambitions but do badly and who's going to employ him?

 

[MJsGhost]

I think it would be make or break for Lampard.

Agreed

do badly and who's going to employ him?

Hopefully B'muff so he can f*** them over too

 

[Charity Shield 1910]

Well we got to the FA cup final in 2016 so it hasnt been all bad.

One thing that did make me happy is the way Leicester fans cared more about winning the FA cup than coming 4th in the league, showing football authorities that winning the FA cup is really important to everyday football fans...I would love palace to win one of the two cups even if we went down doing it....but then I am not an owner.

Since the Albion were last in the top flight (and a cup final), we have played behind closed doors after the goal posts were pulled down in a demo against the board, lost our ground, stayed in the football league by a 1-1 draw at Hereford, played at Gillingham, then Withdean and eventually got back to being a proper club. In that time, you have had the Ian Wright team, been to 2 FA Cup finals, never left Selhurst and played a very good amount of top flight football. I'd say that "not too bad" is an understatement for your last 30 odd years by comparison.. completely with you on the FA Cup with Leicester. Why wouldn't they want to win the Cup over playing in the Champions League and being knocked out in group stages? The Cup is history, the Champions League mere money. I'd like to see the FA Cup being given a Champions League place, but the power rests with the big clubs not the FA so that will never happen.