[Albion] The definitive 'Why are you NOT going to the Palace match?' poll

[Commander]

Near me sits people that come from Milton Keynes. Portsmouth, Bristol and Tunbridge Wells. If extra time game doesnt finish until gone 10. If working next day and with game on TV I doubt if I would attend

The fact that you think extra-time is played in the 3rd round of the FA cup suggests that you aren’t exactly a big football fan anyway. Probably best you stay at home.

 

[Albion Dan]

Do you think it will impact the match in April?

No we will sell that one easily as will be a game we and they need to stay up so sure the hype will return. The sad thing is I would have been gutted to miss a palace game in the cup in any of my previous 35 years supporting the albion but thanks to TV scheduling this game has become a total non event! I still hope we smash the twats though obvs.

 

[Wozza]

I don’t understand the ‘It’s a reserve team game’ argument. Is that what people really go to football for? To see specific players play? How the hell did these people cope for 90% of our entire history when our players have been shit?

It's not about specific players, it's about effort and application.

Putting out a half-baked team (totally understandable given our PL position) is not an attractive 'sell'.

(Arsenal fans would probably agree this evening)

It’s almost as strange an excuse as ‘it’s a Monday night’, when we got almost 30,000 for the might of Stoke City the last Monday night we played.

That's been covered extensively elsewhere.

Fewer than 5000 fans bought a ticket for that match (and many of those were at £15).

Thousands of STH didn't/couldn't go.

 

[Commander]

It's not about specific players, it's about effort and application.

Putting out a half-baked team (totally understandable given our PL position) is not an attractive 'sell'.

(Arsenal fans would probably agree this evening)



That's been covered extensively elsewhere.

Fewer than 5000 fans bought a ticket for that match (and many of those were at £15).

Thousands of STH didn't/couldn't go.

I still don’t get it. Maybe I go to football for different reasons.

FA Cup, biggest rivals = small crowd.

Modern football is shit, it really is. Makes me question the whole thing, and makes me more and more interested in non-league football. I’m going to end up like Return of the Rev if I’m not careful.

 

[Eeyore]

I see lots of justifications. I don't feel the need.

I simply don't fancy spending 25 quid on a reserve match that is on the box.

 

[Wozza]

I still don’t get it. Maybe I go to football for different reasons.

FA Cup, biggest rivals = small crowd.

Modern football is shit, it really is. Makes me question the whole thing, and makes me more and more interested in non-league football. I’m going to end up like Return of the Rev if I’m not careful.

Ok, so what do you find more offensive: CH not putting out a full-strength team or the lack of interest by some Albion fans?

 

[Commander]

Ok, so what do you find more offensive: CH not putting out a full-strength team or the lack of interest by some Albion fans?

Both. But most of all Man Utd ruining the FA Cup by refusing to take part in it all those years ago. That’s what started the downfall. Modern football is shit.

 

[Saunders]

It's not about specific players, it's about effort and application.

Putting out a half-baked team (totally understandable given our PL position) is not an attractive 'sell'.

(Arsenal fans would probably agree this evening)



That's been covered extensively elsewhere.

Fewer than 5000 fans bought a ticket for that match (and many of those were at £15).

Thousands of STH didn't/couldn't go.

Wenger has won the cup 3 times in the last 4 years putting out "half baked" teams ok it didnt work this year but we would give our right bollock for just one of those wins so i doubt sensible Arsenel fans would agree with youl.

 

[Bozza]

If this were a first choice XI v first choice XI, a game treated by both clubs as worthy of the rivalry, I'd be all over it. I'd be struggling to sleep tonight as I was the night before the league game. Tomorrow I'd be a mess until I got an early train over to Brighton and got my first pint on the go.

But the clubs aren't, and we all knew they wouldn't as soon as the draw was made.

There is nothing to be gained by winning for either side: "You beat our reserves - so what? See you in April when it really matters."

And, ultimately, that is why I am OUT.

 

[OzMike]

Kilometrically challenged.

 

[Lyndhurst 14]

Kilometrically challenged.

Mileagally challenged - the States hasn't gone metric yet

 

[maffew]

Kilometrically challenged.

Lame excuse, if you had set off 3 days ago...

 

[OzMike]

Tempted to get up early to watch this and be a Zombie all day Tuesday.

 

[Thecoffeecake]

Mileagally challenged - the States hasn't gone metric yet

AND WE NEVER WILL! HIGH FIVE!

Also, what does skint mean, broke?

 

[maffew]

AND WE NEVER WILL! HIGH FIVE!

Also, what does skint mean, broke?

skint = broke yup (also the name of Fatboy Slims old record label who was our kit sponsor) but yeah no cash is what it means

 

[Albion my Albion]

Too* far for a Monday night. I'm not taking any holiday time off for an FA Cup match.

*see spelling--spelled correctly

 

[Del of Albion]

In Hong Kong

 

[maffew]

Too* far for a Monday night. I'm not taking any holiday time off for an FA Cup match.
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Fair do's

Too* I'm not taking any holiday time off for an FA Cup match.
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Will that apply to any round (say it was the 1/4s or semis?

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

Unpaid half day off
Drive from Devon and get back at 2.00am and up at 5.30am for work
No thanks

 

[Icy Gull]

Come on, someone on this thread must have woken up this morning and thought “ ****, this is Palace we are talking about, I’ve changed my mind and have decided to go”