It's a good job we didn't take take this stance during WW2 then bud? My granddad on my mums side was Polish. He along with many fled their homeland and came here to fight with us.
How times have changed..............

Time to move forward together.

My point is not about colour, it's about being welcoming to allcomers. It is also about seeing opportunity where others see an excuse for negativity. We should have welcomed earlier generations better. Let's at least welcome the new arrivals in the best possible way and think about how to make it attractive for them to join in with something that gives us so much pleasure. And indeed for us to get extra enjoyment from the differences that they will bring. We are such a vibrant club we can cope with change, unlike some.

It's never easy supporting the Eagles.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

How can I make this simple for you? We missed the boat with the first immigrant waves. Maybe I should have said Turks, there were loads of them came to South London but I doubt many are Palace fans. Colour is just a red herring.

My point is to build our fan base quickly we could choose to become the most welcoming club to incomers. As other threads bang on and on about, there are lots of them and they probably arrive without a strong allegiance to a London club but with an interest in football.

Or we can choose to make it hard for new people to join our club, just like so many of you do with the HOL. I imagine Guntri tears his hair out with the way new people get hounded off the boards. Maybe we just don't want anyone new to be a Palace fan, after all we do just about fill up Selhurst, maybe that should be enough. Then we can keep out the plastics and the Nigels that everyone despises so much.

Well I don't really know what you would expect a club to do beyond what it has done. Palace is a very welcoming club.
As for the fans sites, I agree with you. The BBS is an appalling site with the same group of people being allowed to boss the site by abusing any newbie they don't agree with. And the Hol although far better, is a little too precious with who and what it allows people to post. Too many red and yellow cards being handed out lately from what I see, and all slanted one way politically speaking. The club has no control over that of course.

Following on from this post, can we make an impassioned plea to all albinos in South London who couldn't give a f*ck about football, but because some twonk on here is desperate to boost attendances any which way he can, to come and support Palace?

Maybe we can attract a wave of them?

Or am I missing the boat?

'We are going to make a little bit of history here’ Mr. J. Ertl.