palace prepare for next season already!

[balloonboy]

This must sound like heresy, but in the past few months I've developped a strange sympathy for Palace - their promotion was very similar to ours, making it through the play-off semis when they shouldn't have, and finding themselves in a league where to be honest they shouldn't really survive. They also have a gifted manager who knows what he's doing. I'm pretty convinced that Palace are looking at this season in the Premiership as a building block for longer term survival in the top league from 2006/07 onwards - if they're relegated, there's no chance that Dowie will get the sack (same goes for McGhee).

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

it would be nice for one of the 3 clubs who went up last year to stay up

 

[Spicy2]

This must sound like heresy, but in the past few months I've developped a strange sympathy for Palace - their promotion was very similar to ours, making it through the play-off semis when they shouldn't have, and finding themselves in a league where to be honest they shouldn't really survive. They also have a gifted manager who knows what he's doing. I'm pretty convinced that Palace are looking at this season in the Premiership as a building block for longer term survival in the top league from 2006/07 onwards - if they're relegated, there's no chance that Dowie will get the sack (same goes for McGhee).

I might agree with you balloonboy if it didn't make me so

 

[balloonboy]

it would be nice for one of the 3 clubs who went up last year to stay up

I think you'll find that will be West Brom (who made sure their 2002/03 season was just a part of the preparation for ensuring they stayed in the top division come 2004/05)

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

i think them or norwich have them team to stay up

 

[saafend_seagull]

norwich?! theyve signed f*** all. west brom have a good hardworking side who will grind out results and stay up as i predicted at start of season.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

norwich have a good side, just because you dont sign anyone doesnt mean you dont have a good side

 

[brighton rock]

11 new players have joined the palace this summer

Boyce -looks good so far only time will tell
Speroni argentine keeper
Kiraly hungerian internatinal keeper
Kaviedes the star of equadorian football
Hall top defender and a class player
Ventola itialan striker from inter milan
Serondo-uryuayan itternatinal defender from inter milan
Torghelle-big strong target man hungerian internatinal striker
Andrews-lots of pace
Hudson -good centre back with a big future
Kolkka- finnish internatinal

will give us a chance to fight the drop once the players jell toghter if

 

[itszamora]

And before they signed for Palace I had heard of at least three of them...

Seriously, of all those players I think only Ventola and Kolkka are of Premiership standard. Torghelle, Kaviedes and Sorrondo might be but I'd never actually heard of them. Flashy foreign names though, what will happen to them when you are relegated?

 

[saafend_seagull]

my mate goes to essex uni in colchester and says andrews is crap.

 

[brighton rock]

we would be left with a very strong division 1 side ready to push for promotion again

 

[saafend_seagull]

we would be left with a very strong division 1 side ready to push for promotion again

True, ud be one of the favourites if you keep your manager. but can you afford to keep all those players with the parachute payments?

 

[brighton rock]

my mate goes to essex uni in colchester and says andrews is crap.

hes very fast,cover for andrew johnson i would say,he cost nealy as much as zamora so i hope not

 

[saafend_seagull]

hes very fast,cover for andrew johnson i would say,he cost nealy as much as zamora so i hope not

zamora was young and had potential. i think andrews is about 25-26 from what he says.

 

[brighton rock]

True, ud be one of the favourites if you keep your manager. but can you afford to keep all those players with the parachute payments?

Kaviedes Ventola and Serondo are on 1 year loan deals all the rest are on 3 or 4 year contracts

 

[saafend_seagull]

what contract is routledge on? how many years left?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Kaviedes the star of equadorian football

 

[brighton rock]

zamora was young and had potential. i think andrews is about 25-26 from what he says.

think palace only got him for his pace because if aj was out our front line would have very little

 

[brighton rock]

hes called god in equador and is ment to be a footballer of the highest class if he settles down into the english game he will be a star this season

 

[brighton rock]

what contract is routledge on? how many years left?

1 year to go, talks on a new on are on going at the moment