i'm really having trouble with football as an entity and especially this season.

I pay my money to be entertained each weekend, thats why we watch football, an escape, a day out and to be entertained.

In some ways, watching a 9 goal bounce around would be preferable to a dour 0:0 and yet in others (relegation) it isnt and the points and safety are the no 1 issue.

I've not enjoyed much of watching Palace this season , either live or results-wise as its been so flat, I only hope we somehow manage to survive the next 8 games and next year stiffen up a bit and make more of a go of it.

I go to Palace because they are my team, they have been for 34 years and will be for however long I have left. I go for the atmosphere and hopefully to see them win and competing with the best. If to satisfy all these things we need to grind out a season then so be it - I'm here for the long haul after all.

I don't go for entertainment - I don't consider it a show where I must get my money's worth because I am a supporter not a customer. I get my entertainment from the above, but hey if we can spank in a few goals then even better but it's not why I go.

Agreed, It's all about meeting mates and having a few beers before and after the game and enjoying yourself, don't analyse the 'product' too much. We've always played sh!t football, we've always, been underdogs, nothing has changed this season apart form the fact that our owners don't have to come up with 3-5m quid for OUR enjoyment.

Next year when we're still in the prem, we've got another £60m in the bank and we won't be the least attractive club in the division and we'll be able to attract better players.

Edited by Plane (27 Mar 2014 2.20pm)

I can't get my head around going to see Palace and being entertained. If you end up being entertained then happy days, but I have never gone to see us play with that mentally. Really don't understand that at all, but appreciate we all have different opinions.

That said, I think the style and quality of football is very much a means by which TP hopes to use what he has to the best of it's ability, in a manner by which we will gain as many points as he sees possible. It hasn't gone right all the time, because we've played ok at times, and seem inconsistent in reaching that level. It goes without saying that how we are playing at the moment is a long long way from where TP envisions where we will be eventually.

To contemplate not seeing Palace when A) we're playing poorly and B) there's every indication there is light at the end of the tunnel, leaves me absolutely stunned.

Whereas I find it hard to understand people who don't care about the football. Yes I get the whole social bit of it but surely the one thing that we got into this was to watch football. I won't stop going to Palace but if we play like we are now next season then it'll not very entertaining. I rememebr the Peter Taylor days when it was like pulling teeth watching. Maybe it helps to be drunk, then you don't know whether it's good or bad football and can just hurl abuse?