Well done, Crystal Palace! Been a credit to the Championship this season

Goldstone Rapper · May 27, 2013

They recovered from a poor start to play some sparkling football this campaign. Then they recovered from losing their manager mid-way through the season, a transfer of their star winger (even with a loan back, could have had a destabilising effect), losing their top scorer, and having a terrible finish to the League season (which perhaps shows the competitiveness of this division). To come back from all that and win the Play-Offs with three clean sheets.... takes some doing. It would have been an injustice if Watford had won on their nothing performance today.

Crystal Palace have shown the character and resilience it takes to get promoted from this division. It's going to take the same kind of character and resilience from Brighton to recover from the hole we're in at the moment. Heaven forbid me to say this on NSC but we could actually learn something from what Palace have achieved this season. We certainly don't have as far to go to become a promotion side as they did at the end of last season.

Poyetry In Motion · May 27, 2013

you've been drinking haven't you?

Goldstone Rapper · May 27, 2013

Poyetry In Motion said:
you've been drinking haven't you?

Only to gain clarity.

Ulloa's Soul Patch · May 27, 2013

I must agree with you sir.
But because I'm a Brighton fan, a compliment to our rivals is unacceptable.
YOU CHUTNEY GUZZLER!

brightn'ove · May 27, 2013

Some call it 'resiliance' i call it LUCK

LUCKY ****ERS

Goldstone Rapper · May 27, 2013

brightn'ove said:
Some call it 'resiliance' i call it LUCK

LUCKY ****ERS

Nothing lucky about their excellent performance today. If I was to criticise them, I'd say they should have sewn up the game against Watford long before they did.

RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased) · May 28, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
They recovered from a poor start to play some sparkling football this campaign. Then they recovered from losing their manager mid-way through the season, a transfer of their star winger (even with a loan back, could have had a destabilising effect), losing their top scorer, and having a terrible finish to the League season (which perhaps shows the competitiveness of this division). To come back from all that and win the Play-Offs with three clean sheets.... takes some doing. It would have been an injustice if Watford had won on their nothing performance today.

Crystal Palace have shown the character and resilience it takes to get promoted from this division. It's going to take the same kind of character and resilience from Brighton to recover from the hole we're in at the moment. Heaven forbid me to say this on NSC but we could actually learn something from what Palace have achieved this season. We certainly don't have as far to go to become a promotion side as they did at the end of last season.

Or, they had a poor start, got a bit of momentum Thanks to a hit and miss Brighton reject who found a bit of form diving for penalties with the rest of his colleagues and sticking away penalties. Along the run beating their arch rivals at Selhurst thanks to them having a load of injuries and having a man sent off after 8 minutes. Then at the close of the season being incredibly poor and just about hanging on to the play off places only because everyone else was being incredibly poor while their arch rivals were playing incredible football. Then in the play offs beating arch rivals again because they Didnt take their chances and players not turning up like they had done a few games before. Then to the final where again players of the opposing team who had been brilliant all season Didnt turn up and get promoted to the prem from a Zaha penalty converted by Phillips who will probably never play for them again. I might be partisan, it may be the booze talking, but I think they've been bloody lucky.

drew · May 28, 2013

They didn't lose their manager, they got rid of him.

essexeagle · May 28, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
They recovered from a poor start to play some sparkling football this campaign. Then they recovered from losing their manager mid-way through the season, a transfer of their star winger (even with a loan back, could have had a destabilising effect), losing their top scorer, and having a terrible finish to the League season (which perhaps shows the competitiveness of this division). To come back from all that and win the Play-Offs with three clean sheets.... takes some doing. It would have been an injustice if Watford had won on their nothing performance today.

Crystal Palace have shown the character and resilience it takes to get promoted from this division. It's going to take the same kind of character and resilience from Brighton to recover from the hole we're in at the moment. Heaven forbid me to say this on NSC but we could actually learn something from what Palace have achieved this season. We certainly don't have as far to go to become a promotion side as they did at the end of last season.

Thank you! What a great post. I will miss you guys!

essexeagle · May 28, 2013

RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased) said:
Or, they had a poor start, got a bit of momentum Thanks to a hit and miss Brighton reject who found a bit of form diving for penalties with the rest of his colleagues and sticking away penalties. Along the run beating their arch rivals at Selhurst thanks to them having a load of injuries and having a man sent off after 8 minutes. Then at the close of the season being incredibly poor and just about hanging on to the play off places only because everyone else was being incredibly poor while their arch rivals were playing incredible football. Then in the play offs beating arch rivals again because they Didnt take their chances and players not turning up like they had done a few games before. Then to the final where again players of the opposing team who had been brilliant all season Didnt turn up and get promoted to the prem from a Zaha penalty converted by Phillips who will probably never play for them again. I might be partisan, it may be the booze talking, but I think they've been bloody lucky.

Maybe....Bothered?...NO

Wozza · May 28, 2013

I'm prepared to acknowledge that Palace have a great youth academy. And they proved you don't need a squad of expensive players to get out of the Championship. We can learn from that.

But they were f*cking lucky to crawl out of a poor division. And they had piss-poor attendances even when near the top (eg 14k in their local derby).

Max Paper · May 28, 2013

Absolute bollocks. Jammy ****ers I actually can't believe they did it!

BHseagull · May 28, 2013

drew said:
They didn't lose their manager, they got rid of him.

He left them for Bolton...

Billy the Fish · May 28, 2013

F**K off pal*ce. Two more games and they wouldn't have even made the play-offs. Worzel got his tactics right aginst one team seemingly imploding from within and one team who were a shadow of the side that got 3rd in the league.

Lucky, lucky *******s.

Icy Gull · May 28, 2013

Lucky or not they showed real character in the playoffs, something that I feel is missing from our team. The next manager will have to get the players to instill a bit more backbone into our squad. We now know from experience that pretty football alone won't do it. A few tweaks and a team with belief should see us kick on. Gonna be exciting once this fiasco is sorted..I hope.

Baaaald · May 28, 2013

Any chance we can ban any reference to bloody palace in this forum??

Garage_Doors · May 28, 2013

Wozza said:
I'm prepared to acknowledge that Palace have a great youth academy. And they proved you don't need a squad of expensive players to get out of the Championship. We can learn from that.

But they were f*cking lucky to crawl out of a poor division. And they had piss-poor attendances even when near the top (eg 14k in their local derby).

What do attendances have to do with winning promotion? And would hardly say it was a piss poor division, been one of the most competitive for years.

Deleted member 2719 · May 28, 2013

Goldstone Rapper said:
They recovered from a poor start to play some sparkling football this campaign. Then they recovered from losing their manager mid-way through the season, a transfer of their star winger (even with a loan back, could have had a destabilising effect), losing their top scorer, and having a terrible finish to the League season (which perhaps shows the competitiveness of this division). To come back from all that and win the Play-Offs with three clean sheets.... takes some doing. It would have been an injustice if Watford had won on their nothing performance today.

Crystal Palace have shown the character and resilience it takes to get promoted from this division. It's going to take the same kind of character and resilience from Brighton to recover from the hole we're in at the moment. Heaven forbid me to say this on NSC but we could actually learn something from what Palace have achieved this season. We certainly don't have as far to go to become a promotion side as they did at the end of last season.

Sit down and shut up...............leave it at least a week before you start sucking up to them and reminding us what we missed out on, have you not heard of grieving. :rant:

One Teddy Maybank · May 28, 2013

Think the manager many of their fans wanted sacked, won them the play-off's. Tactics spot on for a team with limited ability and apparently reliant on 3 players (Zaha, the Aussie captain and Murray).

nicko31 · May 28, 2013

Its tough watching our rivals revel in success, they did deserve to come through the playoffs, though their season was patchy and only made the playoffs with 7 minutes to spare.

Saying that it would a lot tougher for all those creditors that lost their skins back in 2010, that would really hurt

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