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linguini UK 15 Jan 17 1.15pm
Originally posted by Stuart Shave Remember during our promotion season, you could go on twitter and you could see Rambo, Delaney, Moritz, Jedinak etc posting pictures just doing simple things like having a coffee together in a cafe. That kind of team spirit / bonding just doesn't exist in the PL once big signings and loadsamoney comes on board for a club like Palace. We were actually ticking along quite nicely before the Americans came on board with money. We might not have stayed in the PL forever but at least the heartbeat of the club would remain. Really, is promotion to the PL really that great? Promotion to the PL is great but...... Whilst not wanting to go down, for me the PL is: * Overpaid players * Ridiculously high transfer fees * Badly officiated (Stupid that Video replays are not used) * Constant cheating by the very best players. As well as the rest..... Snodgrass It's possible to survive but with that comes a regular kicking from the same teams (So good that Leicester bucked the trend) and an acceptance that we spend a fortune and more just for the privilege of being here. That's the price we pay.
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linguini

UK 15 Jan 17 1.15pm

Originally posted by Stuart Shave

Remember during our promotion season, you could go on twitter and you could see Rambo, Delaney, Moritz, Jedinak etc posting pictures just doing simple things like having a coffee together in a cafe.

That kind of team spirit / bonding just doesn't exist in the PL once big signings and loadsamoney comes on board for a club like Palace.

We were actually ticking along quite nicely before the Americans came on board with money. We might not have stayed in the PL forever but at least the heartbeat of the club would remain.

Really, is promotion to the PL really that great?

Promotion to the PL is great but......
Whilst not wanting to go down, for me the PL is:
* Overpaid players
* Ridiculously high transfer fees
* Badly officiated (Stupid that Video replays are not used)
* Constant cheating by the very best players. As well as the rest..... Snodgrass
It's possible to survive but with that comes a regular kicking from the same teams (So good that Leicester bucked the trend) and an acceptance that we spend a fortune and more just for the privilege of being here.
That's the price we pay.

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Booted Eagle Bristol 15 Jan 17 1.18pm
Originally posted by KAOS He won't be with us next season if we go down tho! We'll probably buy Murray back off Brighton to replace him ... you heard it here first! Haha He is on loan from Bournemouth. “ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ” —United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld
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Booted Eagle

Bristol 15 Jan 17 1.18pm

Originally posted by KAOS

He won't be with us next season if we go down tho! We'll probably buy Murray back off Brighton to replace him ... you heard it here first! Haha

He is on loan from Bournemouth.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

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Booted Eagle Bristol 15 Jan 17 1.26pm
Originally posted by Aray Run around a bit? Jump for the odd winnable ball? I agree with you though that there is a confidence factor One of the highlights yesterday showed his lack of willingness to run back and scrap. Luckily we didn't concede. Where is the player who scrapped with Ward forcing an error and then powered on and calmly planting the ball beyond the goalie ? If he had stayed at Villa and shown some fight there last season he might of looked better for us. That said Townsend did show this for Newcastle and he has been a disappointment as well. “ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ” —United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld
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Booted Eagle

Bristol 15 Jan 17 1.26pm

Originally posted by Aray

Run around a bit? Jump for the odd winnable ball?

I agree with you though that there is a confidence factor

One of the highlights yesterday showed his lack of willingness to run back and scrap. Luckily we didn't concede. Where is the player who scrapped with Ward forcing an error and then powered on and calmly planting the ball beyond the goalie ? If he had stayed at Villa and shown some fight there last season he might of looked better for us. That said Townsend did show this for Newcastle and he has been a disappointment as well.

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Mo Sizlak 15 Jan 17 3.00pm
Trevor Aylott. If we only paid a pound for him it was a pound too much. Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....
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Mo Sizlak

15 Jan 17 3.00pm

Trevor Aylott.
If we only paid a pound for him it was a pound too much.

Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said....

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Pista Bristol 15 Jan 17 3.42pm
Originally posted by Kermit8 To this day it all started to go wrong big money transfer wise when we paid a ludicrous £650,000 for Mike Flanagan a few months after Notts Forest broke the British transfer fee by paying £1m for Trevor Francis in 1979. Flanagan was beyond sh1te. and then to add insult to injury we ended up with Francis as well. old time bbs refugee
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Pista

Bristol 15 Jan 17 3.42pm

Originally posted by Kermit8

To this day it all started to go wrong big money transfer wise when we paid a ludicrous £650,000 for Mike Flanagan a few months after Notts Forest broke the British transfer fee by paying £1m for Trevor Francis in 1979.

Flanagan was beyond sh1te.

and then to add insult to injury we ended up with Francis as well.

old time bbs refugee

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rob1969 Banstead Surrey 15 Jan 17 4.28pm
Originally posted by Kermit8 To this day it all started to go wrong big money transfer wise when we paid a ludicrous £650,000 for Mike Flanagan a few months after Notts Forest broke the British transfer fee by paying £1m for Trevor Francis in 1979. Flanagan was beyond sh1te. Flanagan and Allen - just strolling !
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Banstead Surrey 15 Jan 17 4.28pm