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 Midlands Eagle  16 Feb 17 4.06pm |
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Originally posted by tonymikejoe
Spot on Midlands Eagle. I'm only at year 33. A mere rookie compared to yourself, no doubt. Unfortunately that's true much as I'd prefer to be your age again
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| monkey Sittingbourne,but made in Bromley 16 Feb 17 4.19pm |
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Originally posted by tonymikejoe
When the owners and Pardew decided we were the sort of club that should be signing annoying footballing mercenaries like Emmanuel Adebayor. We are not 'one of those clubs' and it looks like we will pay the ultimate price. I hope Parish has learned something. Although if we'd kept Adebayor we could've saved £32 million on Benteke, because from what I've seen, they're pretty similar, lazy arses who need the ball plonked straight on their head with a pin point cross to make an impact,,,,,,except one would've been cheaper
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| Mo Sizlak 16 Feb 17 4.24pm |
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Every professional player is a mercenary these days.
Babs and Clean Willie were in love they said.... |
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| est1905 16 Feb 17 5.22pm |
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Originally posted by bubble wrap
The day we let Tony Pulis walk out of the club. Er, we didn't 'let' him walk out the door. He asked for his bonus early then jacked and walked. His choice, thought he was being clever and pulled one over on those idiots from South London with more money than sense.
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| est1905 16 Feb 17 5.28pm |
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Originally posted by Rudi Hedman
This is true but you don't know what led to it regarding transfers. Parish likes those under 25 with resale value. Many prem managers don't. We'd all love to know what happened but never will unless a Pulis book comes out and he might be censored anyway. Wasn't Pulis at the World Cup supposedly scouting but appearing on tv for extra pocket money? There are 2 sides to every story but the fact Pulis was called a liar by the unbiased judge in court, was ordered to repay every penny, has been advised by his own council NOT to appeal or he could face ruin AND TP himself has refused to comment (presumably for fear of getting sued further if he is tempted to lie to make himself look good) is all quite telling wouldn't you say?
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| est1905 16 Feb 17 5.34pm |
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Originally posted by chris123
We've had no leadership since Jedinak left. On the pitch THIS is the reason. Sure we've missed Bolasie but the loss of Jedi is what really killed us. We lose the midfield battle every single game now. Even in games we scrape a win.
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| tonymikejoe UK 16 Feb 17 6.53pm |
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
Unfortunately that's true much as I'd prefer to be your age again
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bodge  16 Feb 17 7.03pm |
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If only Speroni had not made that wonder save v Brighton we could have all been happy.
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| eagle@ tn34 hastings 16 Feb 17 7.15pm |
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I dont beleive you can put our demise down to one exact point in time . All I know is I felt a change in how I saw palace when we bought benteke for all that money. People on here wetting their pants and saying hell defo get 20 goals this season. I would have been happier if we'd bought 2 strikers who can craft a goal and run at the opposition rather than wait for the ball to land on their head.
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| Spitfire Biggin Hill 16 Feb 17 7.42pm |
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History shows that when Palace put together a promotion team to the top flight, its usually full of hunger and passion etc. Unfortunately it also shows that if we survive the first season in tier 1 we do OK for a couple of years with a few modest additions. Once we change more than the critical mass of the promotion players (sometimes by sale - Wright, Bolasie etc) and replace with highly paid 'names' we start to struggle and fade and generally get relegated. We always seem to get the mix/balance of players wrong and lose that grit and determination. For me this started at the first game of last season when Jedi made way for Cabaye at Norwich. I actually don't mind Cabaye but its the loss of the fight, determination and spirit that players like Jedi bought that I think lead us to where we are now. Also the way he was treated/humiliated with the loss of captaincy etc didn't help.
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| Mo Sizlak 16 Feb 17 7.49pm |
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Pardew put us on this road. No-one else. Well his damage is done now and we can only hope that a manager with the calibre of Allardyce can get us out of his mess.
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| Booted Eagle Bristol 16 Feb 17 9.06pm |
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Originally posted by spartakev2
When we didn't strenghen the squad in jan 2016 transfer window.... I agree. We let a transfer window pass us by, thinking that the squad could hold their own over that season. They did but only just. If we had strengthened then with a couple of players they may have been bedded in by now and we might be in better shape.
“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ” |
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