[Albion] Say something nice about Palace

[Betfair Bozo]

Their supporters are not gloryseekers.

 

[Dr Q]

I hope they beat Chelsea on Monday night

 

[Falmer Flutter ©]

Work colleague, a neighbour and some of wife's family are all Palace fans, and are pretty sound. I've absolutely loved this week. Palace also gave my son some work experience within the academy at Beckenham (along with Millwall and Bromley) and he didn't get food poisoning.

 

[sydney]

you can spell alpaca and still have an e left..

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Palace are a proper old school football club and they can make a great racket at home. Far better in every single way than a club like Chelsea

 

[timbha]

Palace also gave my son some work experience within the academy at Beckenham (along with Millwall and Bromley) and he didn't get food poisoning.

Nor did Steve Coppell. We know what he got

 

[Falmer Flutter ©]

Nor did Steve Coppell. We know what he got

Actually my son did ask me the other day what VD was.

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

Actually my son did ask me the other day what VD was.

Val Doonican?

 

[POSKETT AT THE VALLEY]

Val Doonican?

Val Doonican or Vince Hill?

 

[AZ Gull]

Their official website provides much better coverage of their academy teams (with full match reports, etc) and you can watch their academy sides' matches on Palace TV (with the schedule known in advance) along with decent-length highlight packages.

Albion U-18s host Palace U-18s tomorrow - a match that ALL Albion fans can watch if........they sign up to Palace TV.

Palace TV

What a shame they do coverage of their academy teams WAY better than Albion do.

 

[cjd]

Maybe more of our fans are at the actual match....

Hmmmm...maybe.

Interestingly regarding our last respective games, Brighton were AWAY to Spurs and the match thread shows 703 postings. Palace were at HOME to Chelsea and the match thread shows 1600 postings.

Overall, I still feel their forum is significantly better than ours. I think they have about 16 or so sections ( even a music section ..ha ha ) which posters seem to abide by pretty well. Personally for me it makes reading about the football far better than the mish mash chaotic format of our Big Board. I appreciate that many here prefer this disorganised way to have what is supposed to be a football forum for our Club.


I do wonder how they pay for their forum. I have never been asked for a donation or joining fee. I see very little interference from the Moderators provided you stay to the allotted section. Or for that matter, asking posters to buy from Amazon.

It would be interesting if people are any wiser as to how they financially manage it ?

 

[Goldstone1976]

you can spell alpaca and still have an e left..

Nearly

 

[Lenny Rider]

They know how to provide quality corporate hospitality at a fraction of the cost of other clubs

 

[bhafc99]

I do wonder how they pay for their forum. I have never been asked for a donation or joining fee. I see very little interference from the Moderators provided you stay to the allotted section. Or for that matter, asking posters to buy from Amazon.

Ringfenced mate. It’s all ringfenced money innit.

 

[A1X]

When you’re on the train out of London and you go past Selhurst Park, you know you’ll soon be back in Sussex

 

[drew]

Hmmmm...maybe.

Interestingly regarding our last respective games, Brighton were AWAY to Spurs and the match thread shows 703 postings. Palace were at HOME to Chelsea and the match thread shows 1600 postings.

Overall, I still feel their forum is significantly better than ours. I think they have about 16 or so sections ( even a music section ..ha ha ) which posters seem to abide by pretty well. Personally for me it makes reading about the football far better than the mish mash chaotic format of our Big Board. I appreciate that many here prefer this disorganised way to have what is supposed to be a football forum for our Club.


I do wonder how they pay for their forum. I have never been asked for a donation or joining fee. I see very little interference from the Moderators provided you stay to the allotted section. Or for that matter, asking posters to buy from Amazon.

It would be interesting if people are any wiser as to how they financially manage it ?

Personally I prefer ours. Like the randomness of threads which I can dip in and out of. If they were on separate forums I'd probably never bother to look.

 

[The Optimist]

Their supporters are not gloryseekers.

This is basically what I was going to say. If you’re from Croydon and support Palace that’s much better than coming from Croydon and supporting Man United.

 

[Questions]

They know how to provide quality corporate hospitality at a fraction of the cost of other clubs

Is getting a Bovril classed as corporate hospitality though mate.

 

[schmunk]

Albion U-18s host Palace U-18s tomorrow - a match that ALL Albion fans can watch if........they sign up to Palace TV.

Palace TV

What a shame they do coverage of their academy teams WAY better than Albion do.

What do you mean? Half of our academy-age squad gets to be on MOTD / EFL Highlights every week...

 

[pasty]

I'll go with the "I've got mates who are Palace" angle.

I'll also say they've had past players who are hard to dislike for a variety of reasons: Ian Wright, Geoff Thomas, Clinton Morrison and Glen Murray.

I adore Geoff Thomas for the funniest ever “Palace player playing for England” moment.