[Albion] Pre-Palace nerves

[Bridcutt]

Fair enough! Perhaps “playing that well” rather than “doing that well”. Getting all the plaudits without necessarily getting the results.

Yeah it's just I find it hard to feel positive when this is the case when we were like this so often during Potter's first two seasons. We'd get false hope that we're a really good team because we'd be playing super well, high xG etc but it wouldn't change next game. Still miss so many chances

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

I’m being dragged along to see Lizzo tonight so I’ll pop my phone on airplane mode until I get home, if I see that we’ve lost I’ll probably just sit in my car crying all night.

Again.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I look forward to seeing the ‘orses tonight, and seeing how many police forces are involved by the writing on the vans.
10 points for Cornwall or Durham!

 

[Bridcutt]

I’m being dragged along to see Lizzo tonight so I’ll pop my phone on airplane mode until I get home, if I see that we’ve lost I’ll probably just sit in my car crying all night.

Again.

it's bad bitch o'clock

 

[Stat Brother]

Pull yourself together man. Some of us are camped in enemy territory full time.

Will you be going to open top bus parade, on Thursday?

 

[peterward]

Yeah it's just I find it hard to feel positive when this is the case when we were like this so often during Potter's first two seasons. We'd get false hope that we're a really good team because we'd be playing super well, high xG etc but it wouldn't change next game. Still miss so many chances

We've always been a fan base that hopes for the best, but still think there's a sizable % that still expects the worse against Palace..... When theyve been better they invariably win, when we've been better, too often there's been smash'n'grabs or them fluking an unlikely result against the balance of play.

We all live in hope of another West Ham style trouncing, many probably expect Palace to play worse but still get something.

 

[Taybha]

Unusually for this fixture I'm not nervous at all,no amount of luck will help them tonight,a nice early goal and then really ramp it up and hopefully tear them to pieces for the entire match.

Wilf will be so angry by 70 minutes he will tackle himself from behind in the penalty box resulting in the ref doing him a massive favour by sending him off.

It's about time we annihilate them so bad they hurt for years and if we get it right we have the squad to do it.

Anyway 1-1

 

[grubbyhands]

Do wish Zaha wasn't playing, he's the one player in CPFC2010 that really does get the rivalry

I want Zaha to play, only to see his boggle-eyed face contorted with disappointment and tears whilst being endlessly goaded by a full house and whoever De Zerbi sends down the touchline, -ostensibly to warm up-remember the Greyhounds oscar -winning baiting of the SEGW? I begrudgingly admire him for his undoubted ability and agree he absolutely gets the hatred between the 2 clubs. What really makes my piss boil is the way we give the snot-gobbling little scrote supporters the oxygen to believe we actually give a flying f*** about them. Utter scum! Aside from that I've met some cracking Palace fans, they must cringe at the kindergarden Ultras' behaviour.

 

[Bozza]

We haven't been doing that well though. One win in 4 vs all winnable games. Played alright but doesn't mean anything

Whilst results are, ultimately, the only thing that matters, I'd much rather be playing well than not.

De Zerbi nailed it in his presser yesterday when he was asked about it would be if Palace played like Fulham. In case you haven't seen it....

"We can't control the result. We can control the quality of play, we can control the style of play. We can control the brave, the passion, the attitude to put on the pitch, but the result - I can't. I don't know if there is a coach can control the result but there isn't only one way to achieve the result.​

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If they play like Fulham, we will play like the game against Fulham. I will be happy because we played a fantastic game. We lost the game but playing like with Fulham, we will win a lot of games."​

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Keep playing like we are and we'll win more than we lose.

 

[BBassic]

I’m being dragged along to see Lizzo tonight so I’ll pop my phone on airplane mode until I get home, if I see that we’ve lost I’ll probably just sit in my car crying all night.

Again.

We went to see Lizzo in Berlin a couple of weeks ago and it was bloody fantastic. An incredible show.

Still, given the choice of Lizzo or the Palace game I'd probably want to watch the game. Probably.

 

[Official Old Man]

I watched the Man City domination last night and as they kept talking about Real Madirid v Liverpool I was thinking do I bother watching it or not, completly forgetting I had a match to go to tonight.
Problem is it's in our minds that they are three games without a shot on target and so it's 0:1 to them with an OG in the 89th minute.

 

[Swansman]

Massive game this. Most important Derby since you-tell-me.

Win for Brighton = dream about Europe lives on
Win for Crystal Palace = massive confidence boost that might well mean they avoid relegation

Brighton losing = forget Europe and focus on the top 10
Crystal Palace losing = looking quite grim for them

Draw = not really helping either team anywhere

 

[macbeth]

all depends on if we can take one of our chances early. longer it goes on at 0-0, more i can see them snagging something. that being said, law of averages dictates they are well overdue a beatdown

 

[El Turi]

The palace fans are desperate for them to be more attacking tonight. I’m hoping Vieira will buckle to the pressure and go for it as that should open up a lot more spaces for us rather than when they just stick everyone behind the ball.

 

[Sheebo]

The Duke of Welly a hooligan pub pre made sheet sign Do they get any sadder…

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

Massive game this. Most important Derby since you-tell-me.

Win for Brighton = dream about Europe lives on
Win for Crystal Palace = massive confidence boost that might well mean they avoid relegation

Brighton losing = forget Europe and focus on the top 10
Crystal Palace losing = looking quite grim for them

Draw = not really helping either team anywhere

Yeh, so that's not doing much to reduce my pre match nerves!

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

The Duke of Welly a hooligan pub pre made sheet sign Do they get any sadder…

I find it quite heartening that despite being ruthless hooligans, they still considered the composition of the piece by utilising alternating colours for the CPFC part.

They’ve clearly got an art GCSE or two between them. If I was being absolutely ruthless though I’d have to deduct marks for the poor kerning on ‘with’.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

Do they mean "down" as is "down in 12th place" or "down" as in "down in the Championship"?

And do they mean "wiv" as in "with"?

 

[Eeyore]

Massive game this. Most important Derby since you-tell-me.

Win for Brighton = dream about Europe lives on
Win for Crystal Palace = massive confidence boost that might well mean they avoid relegation

Brighton losing = forget Europe and focus on the top 10
Crystal Palace losing = looking quite grim for them

Draw = not really helping either team anywhere

I don't agree with that. A loss and we are still in the driving seat.

 

[Eeyore]

The Duke of Welly a hooligan pub pre made sheet sign Do they get any sadder…

I read from those pictures that a group of Brighton fans said they would be happy to meet them at a pub for fisticuffs and sent them there knowing it would be closed and they would have a wasted journey