Our troubles are not ancient history. Most of my palace supporting life has been highs and extreme lows and I have never experienced this kind of stability. I'm only in my twenties and I think the majority of our fan base is like us on this board, we recognise how much this period of stability means to this club and I think it will take a lot more than a shiny stadium for us to forget the administrations and the docked points and the loss of our brightest stars. I think for the rest of my Palace days I will cherish the days of Wilf and bolasie on the flanks tearing teams apart and hopefully This current crop as well can carry on that tradition.

Anything we achieve from now on is made sweeter by the tribulations of our recent history and that's why I can't see complacency and expectations becoming an issue any time soon.

Ha. Definitely an Oxford comma though.

If you want to live in a world full of kindness, respect and love, try to show these qualities.

If I WAS a modorater I wood ban anyone for life for even menshunning gramarrr speling or punkchewation; good point thread initiator - and it will happen probably - expectations raised so more of that fair weather Surrey lot we used to get pre-Sainsbury's when a Man U or Liverpool or Spurs or Arsenal would get 45000 in - we were always talked of as a sleeping giant back then - I was there v Burnley you know. I hope we can knock on the top eight door next season or two, win a cup perhaps, get into the Europa in two or three seasons - and could we go one better than Fulham did a few years back - harder now with the Champs League entry for the winners, but we could have sustained success, but the hardcore atmosphere that has grown since our various bankruptcies will no doubt get a bit prawn-sandwiched, inevitable, c'est la vie c'est le football.

So, to return to the OP;

And no, you can't have me on forgoing abbreviations full stops between O and P; that would simply be pedantic.

Well I think Simon's head is large; always involved in espionage. (Name that tune)

The Newcastle fan base is uniquely weird

Thanks - I'll blame the phone's autocorrect and my lack of focus whilst dodging a fellow traveller's sweaty pits :-)

Well I think Simon's head is large; always involved in espionage. (Name that tune)