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Should Palace prioritise the FA CUP?
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 Rudi Hedman  Caterham 31 Dec 18 8.29am |
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Originally posted by est1905
Prioritising the cup really worked out for Pardew didn't it! It wasn’t the cup that caused Pardew to destroy our squad. It was just Pardew himself. As soon as he lost players he didn’t have a clue. At that time it was first Jimmy and wasn’t it Bolasie straight after? Not only that but any long term big players just had to go in his eyes, odd and insecure man that he is.
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| Dean_CPFC South london 31 Dec 18 12.19pm |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
It wasn’t the cup that caused Pardew to destroy our squad. It was just Pardew himself. As soon as he lost players he didn’t have a clue. Spot on.
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| Vaibow vancouver/croydon 01 Jan 19 4.38am |
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Also, a good run in the cup can build confidence and translate into (obviously that didn't happen for us) the league, chance to blood younger/fringe players.
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| ChrisGC Wantage 01 Jan 19 7.50am |
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Originally posted by Willo
I wholeheartedly endorse these sentiments.PL survival is the priority and without being disrespectful to Grimsby we really cannot be risking key players in a home game against League Two opposition. Edited by Willo (28 Dec 2018 6.14pm) Yeah, another season of dross and a late scramble for 11th. Then wildly over promote our 7th season in the top division. We're getting relegated eventually, let's take a trophy with us. You can't put the occasional giant killing in a trophy cabinet! All out for the cup and go down. Championship is a better division with quality away days anyway. Poke modern football.
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| Vaibow vancouver/croydon 01 Jan 19 8.14pm |
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Honestly, us being in the prem and moving out to canada at the same time was a stoke of luck in that i can watch 90% of the games, home or away. However, i speak for myself, but i reckon a lot can relate - 70% of the season has been either frustration, heart break, anxiety and horrible to watch. Pardew's first year was amazing - keeping us up and then top 6 at xmas, but after that, his time was a joke and our second season in the prem looked so promising, until Pulis walked. We haven't found our groove since. Our aim should always be 30 points going into the new year. Currently leicester, wolves, watford, west ham and perhaps brighton are on course for that. Is it too much to ask that we be on that level?? Then, it gives us the breathing room to have some fun in the cup. If we finished the season on 45 - 50 points each year and never really looked in danger of relegation and continually got to the last 8/4 of the cups, that would be awesome. 5-7 years later you then sit down and think - ok, what next.
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Melbourne Eagle  Melbourne 07 Jan 19 2.46am |
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Realistically the 2 cups are the only things we can win, so let's have a go. We are good enough on our day to win it and a major cup win could help change our club's mentality (slight inferiority complex?) Cup days are dedicated Saturdays now so the extra load is manageable and for the next round at least, gives us a chance to give our bench warmers a run to keep match fit. I'm all for it, as long as we can avoid dreaded replays. A Tuesday night in Grimsby in January, for instance.
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Den1923  07 Jan 19 2.16pm |
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I tend to agree the cup's are a bad distraction for a team that needs all its energy to stay in the division and we certainly do not want to risk injury to our few good players (look at the tackle by Fox on Townsend, at the weekend, we were lucky that did not break his leg). We have to concentrate on getting the 40 points or so that we need to stay in PL. Relegation would be a disaster for the club and its finances. As someone said earlier in the post we should be capable of getting 50 points without all this anxiety that we have to endue season on season!
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| silvertop Portishead 07 Jan 19 2.32pm |
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Originally posted by Vaibow
Honestly, us being in the prem and moving out to canada at the same time was a stoke of luck in that i can watch 90% of the games, home or away. However, i speak for myself, but i reckon a lot can relate - 70% of the season has been either frustration, heart break, anxiety and horrible to watch. Pardew's first year was amazing - keeping us up and then top 6 at xmas, but after that, his time was a joke and our second season in the prem looked so promising, until Pulis walked. We haven't found our groove since. Our aim should always be 30 points going into the new year. Currently leicester, wolves, watford, west ham and perhaps brighton are on course for that. Is it too much to ask that we be on that level?? Then, it gives us the breathing room to have some fun in the cup. If we finished the season on 45 - 50 points each year and never really looked in danger of relegation and continually got to the last 8/4 of the cups, that would be awesome. 5-7 years later you then sit down and think - ok, what next. This for me. All logic states for a smaller club like ours concentrate on the league. But the fans don't like an early exit. The coffers don't like it. And the players hate it and it rocks confidence. I have heard pundit after pundit saying a good cup run adds nothing to fatigue and provides a real buzz and drive to a squad who are all getting a game and sharing in the collective momentum. On balance a good cup run has to be a good thing.
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| Den1923 07 Jan 19 3.02pm |
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Originally posted by silvertop
This for me. All logic states for a smaller club like ours concentrate on the league. But the fans don't like an early exit. The coffers don't like it. And the players hate it and it rocks confidence. I have heard pundit after pundit saying a good cup run adds nothing to fatigue and provides a real buzz and drive to a squad who are all getting a game and sharing in the collective momentum. On balance a good cup run has to be a good thing. It did not work out on our last good cup run, we got to the final but did poorly in league from when the cup run started and its was our for in the first half of the season that kept us up that year!
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| Omph Liverpool 07 Jan 19 3.12pm |
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Originally posted by ChrisGC
Yeah, another season of dross and a late scramble for 11th. Then wildly over promote our 7th season in the top division. We're getting relegated eventually, let's take a trophy with us. You can't put the occasional giant killing in a trophy cabinet! All out for the cup and go down. Championship is a better division with quality away days anyway. Poke modern football. Don't really disagree in that I have no fear of the Championship -it can be great fun. But right now I'd buy another couple of seasons in the PL just to get the stand done and funded. It may not be a cup but it would be a great legacy of our time at the top.
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| silvertop Portishead 07 Jan 19 3.15pm |
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Originally posted by Den1923
It did not work out on our last good cup run, we got to the final but did poorly in league from when the cup run started and its was our for in the first half of the season that kept us up that year! Yeah that would be the logic. Thin resources stretched even thinner. One bad injury of a key players in a "pointless " 4th round tie... However as others have said our circumstances were very different then. Different squad and coaching team horrible injuries incurred in training not the cup etc. Maybe lessons learned? The cup still has value oversea and winning it for a club our size literally puts us on the map and boosts non Tv revenue. Always a trade off but on balance...
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| bexleydave Barnehurst 07 Jan 19 3.21pm |
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Originally posted by Omph
Don't really disagree in that I have no fear of the Championship -it can be great fun. But right now I'd buy another couple of seasons in the PL just to get the stand done and funded. It may not be a cup but it would be a great legacy of our time at the top.
Bexley Dave Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing! "The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum) |
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