Barclays Premier League 13/14 Thread

[NickisBHAFC]

First topic message reminder :

Lamela is the biggest waste of money ever

[mystiroakey]

What about 2004, oakey? That was brilliant.

nah.

1990 , 1986  1996 

Are my Top 3 performances

 2004 and 2006 we could have actually won both imo(with a lot of luck) but not a brand that was worthy for me!

[mystiroakey]

Mysti. If Palace win the Champions League playing defensive football, soaking up pressure, you wouldn't care how little style their attack had.

thats too insane to comprehend

But chelsea have done it and i celebrated the win in portugal - in my hotel bar- with 50% english and 50% german watching


Good times - great crack/

[mystiroakey]

  Id rather be a sparrowEagle than a snail..

yes I would




If i only could


I surely would

[CFCNick]

I was in a tiny little pub on the Kings Road packed with about 200 Chelsea fans. Don't think I'll ever experience an atmosphere like that ever again unless England win the World Cup.

These are off my phone. They don't do it justice but to date it's the best night of my life.

Before kickoff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT_ShSmDJsg

After the shootout - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=decqp5NZYW4

Outside Stamford Bridge - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSWbt4OWMOY

[mystiroakey]

Nice . Good to know there are chelsea fans that live on kings road!

[NickisBHAFC]

tbh if im paying money for a season ticket, i want attacking football and good entertainment than seeing us scrape out 1-0 wins and not playing well.

[mystiroakey]

It looks odds on we are getting pullis. jokes

[mystiroakey]

Gareth southgate could have been a great shout. Darn under 21's!!

He has palace blood, speaks a lot of sense, loves youth, loves 'REAL' football..

[Guest]

I'm a fan of the dream teams. Arsene Wenger has Steve Bould and Lee Dixon poking about the place, I said in the Middlesbrough thread that they should bring in Ravanelli + Juninho.

What about:

Mark Bright as manager
Ian Wright as ass man
Aki Riihilahti as first team coach / twitter account monitor
Nigel Martyn as GK coach
Hayden Mullins as def coach
John Salako as conditioning coach
Geoff Thomas as finishing coach

Failing that, Chris Coleman will be out of a job soon.

[mystiroakey]

Ian wright is a traitor and thinks he is arsenal..

But then i am also coming around to that line of thinking as well.................




Not really, they are rightfully my no.2!!

[CFCNick]

If you had Mark Bright as your manager not only would you get relegated from the Prem but you'll plummet down like Luton did.

[mystiroakey]

The mark bright manager comment was so ludicrous it didn't register first time.

[Guest]

Yep, I was being totally serious with that section of my post  

[mystiroakey]

I knew that dude!

still its so beyond the world of realism that i couldn't even laugh at it. it is the surreal for the surreal

[Guest]

He'd do a better job than Tony Pulis though.

[mystiroakey]

Id rather have Pulis..............................





Just 

[Guest]

If Pulis ever became Albion manager, I'd stop watching them. Until he left. He brings the club down. Any hope you might have of seeing good football is gone. Any hope of lively interviews, gone. Any hope of quality players, gone. Any hope of anything other than massively boring times, gone. I know two former Stoke fans who used to love football, and who no longer even watch football, the experience of having him come in a ruin the atmosphere at their club having drained them of their interest in the game.

[mystiroakey]

I know dude, but dont bring me down.. I was saying all that before and then started getting a bit more positive!

Now i am in tears again

[Guest]

Sorry mate

Those two people (a couple I know) now follow speedway. That's how low they got

[Dolphin Ziggler]

But relative to what Stoke had, he brought in quality. I'd say those two blokes are just planks in all honesty

[Guest]

Palace chairman, `pulis is out of work & has never been relegated from the EPL`.

Both points are about to change it appears.

[Dolphin Ziggler]

He should just approach Mackay and see if he can convince him that Cardiff are too mental. Although I'm convinced Norwich will sack Hughton within the next year or so and Mackay would take that job I reckon

[compelling and rich]

say what you want about pullis style but what he would do straight away is tighten up palaces leaky defence. his teams play to there strength no point going playing football against the top clubs, wont get you no where. while i think its too late for them this season they would have had a much better chance of staying up with pullis than holloway if they had started with him

fans are fickle, if palace start winning no one will care about style

[kingraf]

with Arteta and Santi back, will be interested to see Arsene's midfield this weekend.

[mystiroakey]

"fans are fickle, if palace start winning no one will care about style"

Nope we are not all cut by the same cloth.

secondly he wont get us winning enough to stay up so its a nonsense appointment

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Pulis will have to go some to sure up a defence that includes Damien Delaney and Joel Ward. It's no Begovic, Shawcross and Huth

And Dolph it is certainly something I can see happening. Hughton's got a run of 6-8 games now where we really need to be picking up wins and climbing the table. If not I can see him going fairly soon.

Malky would be cool dont see him coming, I fear we'd make a run at Lennon which I wouldn't be in favour of

[mystiroakey]

Id love to have malky- top manager. and cardiff have gone insane internally!!

[compelling and rich]

"fans are fickle, if palace start winning no one will care about style"

Nope we are not all cut by the same cloth.

secondly he wont get us winning enough to stay up so its a nonsense appointment

i agree that he hasn't got the base squad to work with anything so will probably still struggle. but you saying you still wouldn't be happy with pullis if he kept you up?

only seen palace couple of times this year and they were hardly the worlds best to watch, certainly not that much better than pullis' stoke and losing a lot more

[mystiroakey]

Whatever happens i will back the next manager. Pullis or not..

I doesnt mean i like the thought of it at this moment in time.

Yes maybe that is fickle, i just call it being a fan of a club that is never quite good enough

[Guest]

What if it's Di Canio

[Guest]

But relative to what Stoke had, he brought in quality. I'd say those two blokes are just planks in all honesty

It was a man and a woman, I don't know any man-on-man couples.

Obviously Pulis improved the playing squad, but he took some skilful players (Pennant, Etherington) and took all the excitement out of their game, akin to what Mourinho did with Joe Cole.

[mystiroakey]

What if it's Di Canio

i would take him on..He deserve another shot, A total lunatic, but that may just work in saff london!

[Guest]

Di Canio might make relegation more interesting, I'll give him that. I think he'd need to sign 24 Italians in January too.

[NickisBHAFC]

Spoke to a mate today who is a big Palace fan, he just sort of echoed what i have been saying. He has 100% respect and loves Holloway simply for beating Brighton at the AMEX best night of his life and then the best day of his life at Wembley. But he missed the trick in the summer, they should of gone down the Hull stratity and brought in 6 class players that have good experience of this top flight e.g. Huddlestone, Graham, Figoura etc. Instead of bringing in pointless players and wasting cash e.g. Dobbie, Thomas, Grandin (Failed Championship player) Jerome etc.

Great Super Sunday instore, Sunderland vs Newcastle and Chelsea vs City

[Guest]

There were a whole host of players that could have helped Palace. The likes of John O'Shea, Wes Brown, Matty Etherington, Kenwyne Jones, and loan players from bigger clubs. Albion would have loaned them George Thorne, probably Berahino too. They were mis-managed in the summer, definitely.

[mystiroakey]

Those players attract big wages and have higher expectations though and if hull go down with us i would put money on palace going back up before them!!

trust me remember what you just said and then think about it in 5 years time..

[CFCNick]

Hull aren't going down. There's about 5 teams worse than them.

[Guest]

I was only talking about staying up - I'd have gone down the route of buying hardly anyone, using the money to renovate the stadium and training facilities, put a proper scouting network in place, then build from the Championship.

Albion had several yo-yo years where we stocked up the cash to build our club the proper way, then made a go of it properly. Since we went 'live', we've finished 11th, 10th and 8th. That should be the model for all clubs, and if they educate their fans, let them in on the plan, get them excited about what the vision is, the fans wouldn't mind a rubbish season in the Prem. Especially if Palace reduced season tickets to say £200 each.

[mystiroakey]

Hull aren't going down. There's about 5 teams worse than them.

I wouldnt bank on it mate!!!




You lot have to understand going up rarely works- it normally just ruins your club more than it helps you..(and 95% of teams go the hull route)

These guys(palace owners) have the right idea. I cant say it enough. Yes its a different philosophy, but one that may pay off. Buying aged expensive players that all attract big wages isn't going to guarantee you are in the pl, even if it works for one year it may not work for more than 2 and then you can be financially crippled as a result!

Yea It works if you can bank roll(qpr, fulham) but not for clubs like us or hull.

Just look at what's going on at cardiff allready who have gone the hull way as well!

[CFCNick]

Hull spent very sensibly. Cardiff had almost as bad a transfer window as Palace and United did.

[mystiroakey]

"- I'd have gone down the route of buying hardly anyone"


Holloway admitted he bought too many players(obviously its not massive money or wages)


He admitted he did not reward the players that got us up enough. And that was right.


Some of the signings were good- some were just /headsgone!


we had players almost as good as many of the players that came in anyway!


The irony is that the player that got us up. Isnt even playing any football whatsoever!!!(Zaha)

[mystiroakey]

Hull spent very sensibly. Cardiff had almost as bad a transfer window as Palace and United did.

You cannot compare palaces transfer to cardiff's that is a complete lack of understanding!

They bought 3 players at 10m each ffs!! which also attract huge wages, 1 off those players will pay for 7 of ours in wages!

[CFCNick]

Yeah, Cardiff spent loads and Palace didn't but if you look how it's played out for both clubs they are equally as bad. Where as clubs like Hull, Swansea, Norwich and Southampton have had excellent transfer windows.

[Guest]

I think the jury is out on Swansea and Norwich, not sure any of those moves have been a success just yet.

[mystiroakey]

Hull are definitely looking ok at the moment(best of the three). But i am not sure they are going to stay up..

I think cardiff may just edge it, but not sure about hull. I wish them well though. No sour grapes at all. There were not financially scared like our club has been in recent years, they threw the dice a bit more.

[Guest]

I hope Cardiff go down, as it'll shove Peter Odemwingie's classic 'Cardiff are better than Albion' comment right up his arse.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

I think the jury is out on Swansea and Norwich, not sure any of those moves have been a success just yet.

Leroy Fer spits in your face

[mystiroakey]

Why has fergie bothered with this book?

Why do very rich people bother , Yes it will make him a few quid. But so what..If he isnt net worth 30m minimum i would be shocked!

Its just causing a load of nonsense tbh

[Dolphin Ziggler]

Sounds like the most intriguing sports book of the year. Only 350 pages too. I'll get it. Not like its that Kumquat Redknapp

[mystiroakey]

I have to read it- but he seems to be causing a lot of grief for others and yet is still 'in' football!!

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