I often feel nostalgic about Palace and then I watch some of the highlights from the Eighties and remember just how awful our football was.

Enjoy the moment, older Palace fans know. I said to a mate I'm Palace through thick and thin he replied "I know all about the thin remind me about the thick".

One more point

ZDS, play off wins, FA Cup Finals, anything more than just avoiding PL relegation seasons, wins over 'bigger clubs', wins over Millwall (cup recently), BHA, Watford and others we hold antagonism toward, probably a couple more but I'm afraid we'll only have a 'highlights reel' as opposed to a trophy cabinet.

Our current period, as you say Badger, may well come to an end some time in the future, perhaps sometime soon in the very near future, and these will be hailed as 'Glory Days'. Absolutely agree, we'll have sh!t runs as we look to have begun now and the mood and emotions will nosedive but overall, we must enjoy and savour it.

COYP.

Edited by Nicholas91 (27 Nov 2023 2.31pm)

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!

There is only forwards or backwards in the PL., standing still is just moving backwards on a smaller scale. To younger Palace fans they will only have seen an upward trajectory so it’s no good banging on about nostalgia to them because they won’t understand or appreciate it. That’s not being derogatory, it’s just what they are used to.

I would say 90% of supporters on here knew that the purchase of 3 or 4 players in key positions at the start of this season could have seen us challenging for the top half of the league, however there seems to be a self destruct button at Palace that gets pressed just as we get some momentum going. It’s almost like we don’t want to be too successful. No replacement for Wilf, no striker and no fullback has left us short and boy are we feeling it at present.

Personally I don’t really give a damn about how poor we were in the past. I remember some good football back then too but I am firmly fixed on the present as nothing is achieved by looking backward. Im not being greedy or over ambitious, I just want the Club to do its absolute utmost to get a decent squad together even if that means bunging a decent salary at 2 or 3 seasoned player loans to get us through injuries this January. Loans for a winger, striker and replacement for Doucoure would do wonders for us in the window.

Report of the Luton match in today's Times is headlined:
[/b "No panic yet, but Hodgson formula is showing cracks"

I am not expecting Paddy McCarthy to be the next manager of our club.

I think Paddy will take over from Roy, only till the end of the season, and then a new manager will come in the summer

“That’s a joke son, I say, that’s a joke.” “Nice boy, but he’s sharp as a throw pillow.” “He’s so dumb he thinks a Mexican border pays rent” “ “Son… I say, son, some people are so narrow minded they can look through a keyhole with both eyes.”__ Forhorn Leghorn