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Henry of Peckham Eton Mess 16 Jul 17 11.55pm
Originally posted by ParchmoreEagle I listened to the commentary (2 locals) and I got the impression from them that M UTD had come a very long way since their Brighton friendly. It was a competitive match. Which is a good match. Yes, they (MU) have come a very long way since going out of existence, reforming to play in fields and at other non league grounds around Kent then eventually returning to a new ground in Maidstone. Just a pity CPFC didn't understand how important the 5th anniversary of their return to Maidstone was for the club and locals. Still, they (CPFC) will field a full team of professionals for the overseas tournaments that are non-events of equal parity (e.g. Asia Cup) but no doubt will attract a little bit of TV money. It's a shame but football these days means coming 4th in the Asia Cup is more important than a crowd pleaser at home. It's quite clear the club shouldn't have made a commitment to do something they had no intention of fulfilling properly. Denial is not just a river in Egypt
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Originally posted by ParchmoreEagle

I listened to the commentary (2 locals) and I got the impression from them that M UTD had come a very long way since their Brighton friendly. It was a competitive match. Which is a good match.

Yes, they (MU) have come a very long way since going out of existence, reforming to play in fields and at other non league grounds around Kent then eventually returning to a new ground in Maidstone.
Just a pity CPFC didn't understand how important the 5th anniversary of their return to Maidstone was for the club and locals.
Still, they (CPFC) will field a full team of professionals for the overseas tournaments that are non-events of equal parity (e.g. Asia Cup) but no doubt will attract a little bit of TV money. It's a shame but football these days means coming 4th in the Asia Cup is more important than a crowd pleaser at home. It's quite clear the club shouldn't have made a commitment to do something they had no intention of fulfilling properly.

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ParchmoreEagle Belair 17 Jul 17 12.20am
Originally posted by Henry of Peckham Yes, they (MU) have come a very long way since going out of existence, reforming to play in fields and at other non league grounds around Kent then eventually returning to a new ground in Maidstone. Just a pity CPFC didn't understand how important the 5th anniversary of their return to Maidstone was for the club and locals. Still, they (CPFC) will field a full team of professionals for the overseas tournaments that are non-events of equal parity (e.g. Asia Cup) but no doubt will attract a little bit of TV money. It's a shame but football these days means coming 4th in the Asia Cup is more important than a crowd pleaser at home. It's quite clear the club shouldn't have made a commitment to do something they had no intention of fulfilling properly. Crap mate. If Maidstone people want to see a PL match they are not banned from doing so on any Saturday. FDB NEEDED to see his players playing, their manager NEEDED them to have a decent challenge for their next season (Not a Trouncing) and that was a perfect venue. The first 11 would have murdered them 0-15 and that wouldn't have been beneficial or nice for them on such an occasion. [Link]
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Originally posted by Henry of Peckham

Crap mate. If Maidstone people want to see a PL match they are not banned from doing so on any Saturday. FDB NEEDED to see his players playing, their manager NEEDED them to have a decent challenge for their next season (Not a Trouncing) and that was a perfect venue. The first 11 would have murdered them 0-15 and that wouldn't have been beneficial or nice for them on such an occasion.

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cardiff eagle 17 Jul 17 6.41am
The issue was that they sold tickets on the basis of it being a palace first team. Both websites advertised this until FDB announced three days before it wasn't. Now I don't care as I would've gone regardless but to hear some young palace fans on the walk there talk about how excited they were to see benteke and zaha for the first time in real life was saddening! Their parents had clearly bought tickets based on the advertising and we then moved the goalposts and in doing so shattered their dreams! Really poor move by palace- the kind of thing I'd expect from Chelsea or Man Utd, not us.
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17 Jul 17 6.41am

The issue was that they sold tickets on the basis of it being a palace first team. Both websites advertised this until FDB announced three days before it wasn't.

Now I don't care as I would've gone regardless but to hear some young palace fans on the walk there talk about how excited they were to see benteke and zaha for the first time in real life was saddening! Their parents had clearly bought tickets based on the advertising and we then moved the goalposts and in doing so shattered their dreams! Really poor move by palace- the kind of thing I'd expect from Chelsea or Man Utd, not us.

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Lyons550 Shirley 17 Jul 17 8.51am
Originally posted by Henry of Peckham Yes, they (MU) have come a very long way since going out of existence, reforming to play in fields and at other non league grounds around Kent then eventually returning to a new ground in Maidstone. Just a pity CPFC didn't understand how important the 5th anniversary of their return to Maidstone was for the club and locals. Still, they (CPFC) will field a full team of professionals for the overseas tournaments that are non-events of equal parity (e.g. Asia Cup) but no doubt will attract a little bit of TV money. It's a shame but football these days means coming 4th in the Asia Cup is more important than a crowd pleaser at home. It's quite clear the club shouldn't have made a commitment to do something they had no intention of fulfilling properly. ...and in that one sentence you lost my vote. to suggest playing an overseas mini tournament against Liverpool, West Brom/Leicester equates to a game against Maidstone Utd is 'parity' is ridiculous. I agree that it should've been made clearer and earlier than it was that it wouldnt be a full strength squad...but it's been known for at least 6weeks that we were going to Hong Kong...so what were people expecting? Us to play and U23 side against Prem teams in favour of playing a full strength one against Maidstone Utd...that's laughable. The Voice of Reason In An Otherwise Mediocre World
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Originally posted by Henry of Peckham

Yes, they (MU) have come a very long way since going out of existence, reforming to play in fields and at other non league grounds around Kent then eventually returning to a new ground in Maidstone.
Just a pity CPFC didn't understand how important the 5th anniversary of their return to Maidstone was for the club and locals.
Still, they (CPFC) will field a full team of professionals for the overseas tournaments that are non-events of equal parity (e.g. Asia Cup) but no doubt will attract a little bit of TV money. It's a shame but football these days means coming 4th in the Asia Cup is more important than a crowd pleaser at home. It's quite clear the club shouldn't have made a commitment to do something they had no intention of fulfilling properly.

...and in that one sentence you lost my vote. to suggest playing an overseas mini tournament against Liverpool, West Brom/Leicester equates to a game against Maidstone Utd is 'parity' is ridiculous.

I agree that it should've been made clearer and earlier than it was that it wouldnt be a full strength squad...but it's been known for at least 6weeks that we were going to Hong Kong...so what were people expecting? Us to play and U23 side against Prem teams in favour of playing a full strength one against Maidstone Utd...that's laughable.

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Henry of Peckham Eton Mess 17 Jul 17 6.32pm
Oh come on, the Asia Trophy is nonsense ... full stop. Crystal Palace football club let down Maidstone United ... fact. Nothing more to be said about it. All I am saying is "don't pretend you are something you are not". I thought we were better than that. Denial is not just a river in Egypt
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Eton Mess 17 Jul 17 6.32pm

Oh come on, the Asia Trophy is nonsense ... full stop. Crystal Palace football club let down Maidstone United ... fact. Nothing more to be said about it. All I am saying is "don't pretend you are something you are not". I thought we were better than that.

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ParchmoreEagle Belair 17 Jul 17 7.25pm
Originally posted by Henry of Peckham Oh come on, the Asia Trophy is nonsense ... full stop. Crystal Palace football club let down Maidstone United ... fact. Nothing more to be said about it. All I am saying is "don't pretend you are something you are not". I thought we were better than that. Since when do lowly Maidstone Utd 'demand' playing full-strength PL teams in their preseason? Since when do Palace owe it to their supporters to field our multi-million pound first eleven? Whose venue was it anyway? Who was responsible for the advertising? Who wanted a magnificent 4,000 capacity stadium filled? Palace? Or MU? Get back to reality mate! It wa THEIR venue, THEIR advertising, THEIR supporters and THEIR (comparitively) windfall profit. If the supporters were conned it was the MU hierarchy that were more to blame. [Link]
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Originally posted by Henry of Peckham

Since when do lowly Maidstone Utd 'demand' playing full-strength PL teams in their preseason? Since when do Palace owe it to their supporters to field our multi-million pound first eleven? Whose venue was it anyway? Who was responsible for the advertising? Who wanted a magnificent 4,000 capacity stadium filled? Palace? Or MU? Get back to reality mate! It wa THEIR venue, THEIR advertising, THEIR supporters and THEIR (comparitively) windfall profit. If the supporters were conned it was the MU hierarchy that were more to blame.

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Henry of Peckham Eton Mess 17 Jul 17 9.41pm
Originally posted by ParchmoreEagle Since when do lowly Maidstone Utd 'demand' playing full-strength PL teams in their preseason? Since when do Palace owe it to their supporters to field our multi-million pound first eleven? Whose venue was it anyway? Who was responsible for the advertising? Who wanted a magnificent 4,000 capacity stadium filled? Palace? Or MU? Get back to reality mate! It wa THEIR venue, THEIR advertising, THEIR supporters and THEIR (comparitively) windfall profit. If the supporters were conned it was the MU hierarchy that were more to blame. Er ... since Palace voluntarily accepted an open invitation to participate in MU's 5th Anniversary celebrations. Palace shouldn't have taken it up. There was absolutely no pressure on Palace to do anything so why not take it seriously or just keep out of it? I've supported Palace man and boy and I did find it very embarrassing. Quite sad to hear the kids asking their dads which ones were Zaha and Benteke. In my experience of organising events nothing ever gets to the printers without an OK from both sides. No excuses, it was a poor show from our club. If you've ever attended these sort of things the stars usually just make a token appearance and sign autographs. Not a competitive game but family fun. True, Palace didn't even have to field the U23's we could have sent a few shirts and asked the crowd to make up a team. Perhaps next time if everyone is too busy? In the meantime, let's all get excited by the upcoming Asia Trophy ... anyone going? Denial is not just a river in Egypt
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Eton Mess 17 Jul 17 9.41pm

Originally posted by ParchmoreEagle

Er ... since Palace voluntarily accepted an open invitation to participate in MU's 5th Anniversary celebrations. Palace shouldn't have taken it up. There was absolutely no pressure on Palace to do anything so why not take it seriously or just keep out of it?

I've supported Palace man and boy and I did find it very embarrassing. Quite sad to hear the kids asking their dads which ones were Zaha and Benteke.

In my experience of organising events nothing ever gets to the printers without an OK from both sides. No excuses, it was a poor show from our club. If you've ever attended these sort of things the stars usually just make a token appearance and sign autographs. Not a competitive game but family fun. True, Palace didn't even have to field the U23's we could have sent a few shirts and asked the crowd to make up a team. Perhaps next time if everyone is too busy? In the meantime, let's all get excited by the upcoming Asia Trophy ... anyone going?

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ParchmoreEagle Belair 18 Jul 17 6.55am
Originally posted by Henry of Peckham Er ... since Palace voluntarily accepted an open invitation to participate in MU's 5th Anniversary celebrations. Palace shouldn't have taken it up. There was absolutely no pressure on Palace to do anything so why not take it seriously or just keep out of it? I've supported Palace man and boy and I did find it very embarrassing. Quite sad to hear the kids asking their dads which ones were Zaha and Benteke. In my experience of organising events nothing ever gets to the printers without an OK from both sides. No excuses, it was a poor show from our club. If you've ever attended these sort of things the stars usually just make a token appearance and sign autographs. Not a competitive game but family fun. True, Palace didn't even have to field the U23's we could have sent a few shirts and asked the crowd to make up a team. Perhaps next time if everyone is too busy? In the meantime, let's all get excited by the upcoming Asia Trophy ... anyone going? 'INVITATION', exactly. You've made my point well. They obviously invited Palace to field the team of Palace's choice, NOT just the first 11. I doubt whether Palace were invited to only field their first 11 and then reneged - THAT, if you can prove it, would be a disgrace and support your ire. Maidstone Utd obviously decided to advertise Palace with some big names to sell the tickets I strongly suggest. The people were there I also suggest to watch a competitive football match more than just some big names from the PL, and to hopefully see their team do well. If the Palace under-23s beat them 1-3, goodness knows what the senior squad would have done! And that would not have been appropriate or nice for the 5th anniversary. End of the day, Maidstone Utd were in charge of the event, NOT Palace, and if Palace have cheated them then we should be reading about it but we are not. Now let's end this stream, TY. [Link]
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Belair 18 Jul 17 6.55am

Originally posted by Henry of Peckham

Er ... since Palace voluntarily accepted an open invitation to participate in MU's 5th Anniversary celebrations. Palace shouldn't have taken it up. There was absolutely no pressure on Palace to do anything so why not take it seriously or just keep out of it?

I've supported Palace man and boy and I did find it very embarrassing. Quite sad to hear the kids asking their dads which ones were Zaha and Benteke.

'INVITATION', exactly. You've made my point well. They obviously invited Palace to field the team of Palace's choice, NOT just the first 11. I doubt whether Palace were invited to only field their first 11 and then reneged - THAT, if you can prove it, would be a disgrace and support your ire. Maidstone Utd obviously decided to advertise Palace with some big names to sell the tickets I strongly suggest. The people were there I also suggest to watch a competitive football match more than just some big names from the PL, and to hopefully see their team do well. If the Palace under-23s beat them 1-3, goodness knows what the senior squad would have done! And that would not have been appropriate or nice for the 5th anniversary. End of the day, Maidstone Utd were in charge of the event, NOT Palace, and if Palace have cheated them then we should be reading about it but we are not. Now let's end this stream, TY.

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Lyons550 Shirley 18 Jul 17 9.40am
It appears that the reason the 1st team didn't play was due to it being a 3G surface and they were concerned it may lead to injuries prior to flying out. It wasnt even a full strength U23 squad either with 9 left out and a number of 17yr olds playing! The Voice of Reason In An Otherwise Mediocre World
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Shirley 18 Jul 17 9.40am

It appears that the reason the 1st team didn't play was due to it being a 3G surface and they were concerned it may lead to injuries prior to flying out.

It wasnt even a full strength U23 squad either with 9 left out and a number of 17yr olds playing!

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