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posted 24 Mar 2015 12:22, edited 24 Mar 2015 12:22
posted 24 Mar 2015 12:56, edited 24 Mar 2015 12:56
Football is full of emotion
Disliked Newcastle for a long time because of the 'Pardew out' website, chants, banners, paid for 'Pardew Out' advertising board outside the ground etc. They even went on a winning streak and the 'Pardew Out' crew would be as vocal as ever. Strange club.
24 Mar 2015 13:38
posted 24 Mar 2015 14:05, edited 24 Mar 2015 14:05
posted 24 Mar 2015 14:17, edited 24 Mar 2015 14:17
24 Mar 2015 16:02
The Newcastle fans I know couldn't care less where Pardew / Palace finish in the league, you're just one of many teams scratching about mid table like us. I quite like Palace and am glad you've stayed up, have a few mates who are Palace fans and they talk a lot of sense. Any talk that you're a bigger club than us is however nonesense (not that it makes any difference). Yes, we're a joke club and that won't change until Ashley fucks off and I don't see us winning anything anytime soon (nor will Palace) but that's Premier League football these days.
Pardew was a bellend when he was our manager and didn't endear himself to the fans at all. He displayed very little tactical nous and lucked out with the numerous quality signings the backroom staff pulled off for peanuts. He also came across as Ashley's pal which meant the fans would hate him by association.
He earned his stripes as a player for you so stands to reason he will have a natural affinity with your fans and I hope you do well. Nice to see the young lad Zaha terrorising defences again after not getting a look in at united.
Re. relegation battle I can only see Burnley having any chance of staying up. 5under1and will probably batter us again at the weekend and have a mini revival
posted 24 Mar 2015 16:51, edited 24 Mar 2015 16:51
Touched a nerve there
Can only assume you are a deluded Newcastle fan to make such a bullshit statement. In my lifetime (32 years now) Palace have a bigger trophy cabinet than Newcastle. Maybe if you didn't hold onto yesteryear so much, you'd not turn against the manager so quickly because of your sense of entitlement. Pardew has had the shackles removed and feels no pressure at my 'small' club. It must hurt to see the table right now. But it's never been our aim to finish above you, nor Pardew's who had to reiterate it at length on Goals on Sunday, after being asked the question for the umpteenth time. So keep the bitterness to yourself or at least look at your spending each year, which is far below that of Spurs and Liverpool, let alone the other top four. Then ask yourself whether it's time to drop the 'big club' ego, in order to move forward as a club.
Can only assume you are a deluded Newcastle fan to make such a bullshit statement. In my lifetime (32 years now) Palace have a bigger trophy cabinet than Newcastle. Maybe if you didn't hold onto yesteryear so much, you'd not turn against the manager so quickly because of your sense of entitlement. Pardew has had the shackles removed and feels no pressure at my 'small' club. It must hurt to see the table right now. But it's never been our aim to finish above you, nor Pardew's who had to reiterate it at length on Goals on Sunday, after being asked the question for the umpteenth time. So keep the bitterness to yourself or at least look at your spending each year, which is far below that of Spurs and Liverpool, let alone the other top four. Then ask yourself whether it's time to drop the 'big club' ego, in order to move forward as a club.
Touched a nerve there
Football is full of emotion
Disliked Newcastle for a long time because of the 'Pardew out' website, chants, banners, paid for 'Pardew Out' advertising board outside the ground etc. They even went on a winning streak and the 'Pardew Out' crew would be as vocal as ever. Strange club.
Smiths right. The majority of toon fans live in lala land, clutching onto the" Keegan days" . We were a big club, now we are a stagnant club…..and it's supposed to be "sport"!!
Pardew however would of never worked up here , nowt to do with cockney Mafia or Ashley's leash being too tight, more to do with the bloke being a tit, just wait til it starts going pear shaped.
Pardew however would of never worked up here , nowt to do with cockney Mafia or Ashley's leash being too tight, more to do with the bloke being a tit, just wait til it starts going pear shaped.
I don't hate Newcastle fans, just have a dislike of them this season. When Pardew got sacked, there were two posters off their toon forum signing up to the Palace forum, making the 10 reasonable posts needed, before they could have their profile verified, and I kid you not the 11th post was paragraph on paragraph on how shit Pardew was and how he was taking us down
I do have a compliment though. They have a great away following and probably the best away support I saw at Selhurst all of last season and no different from when we met in the Championship a few seasons ago. So it's not all bad
I do have a compliment though. They have a great away following and probably the best away support I saw at Selhurst all of last season and no different from when we met in the Championship a few seasons ago. So it's not all bad
Anyway back to the relegation battle which is much more exciting and worthy of more discussion. There is definitely a trend of at least one team in the relegation zone with 8 games to go making it to safety (2010/11 and 2011/12 seasons had two teams in recent years). We saw it last season with Fulham's mini-revival, albeit it little too late and Sunderland swapping places with Norwich. Teams just above the drop definitely feel the pressure more at this stage, than those who have been inside it for the majority of the season. Can see at least one of the current bottom three surviving.
I don't hate Newcastle fans, just have a dislike of them this season. When Pardew got sacked, there were two posters off their toon forum signing up to the Palace forum, making the 10 reasonable posts needed, before they could have their profile verified, and I kid you not the 11th post was paragraph on paragraph on how shit Pardew was and how he was taking us down
I do have a compliment though. They have a great away following and probably the best away support I saw at Selhurst all of last season and no different from when we met in the Championship a few seasons ago. So it's not all bad
I do have a compliment though. They have a great away following and probably the best away support I saw at Selhurst all of last season and no different from when we met in the Championship a few seasons ago. So it's not all bad
The Newcastle fans I know couldn't care less where Pardew / Palace finish in the league, you're just one of many teams scratching about mid table like us. I quite like Palace and am glad you've stayed up, have a few mates who are Palace fans and they talk a lot of sense. Any talk that you're a bigger club than us is however nonesense (not that it makes any difference). Yes, we're a joke club and that won't change until Ashley fucks off and I don't see us winning anything anytime soon (nor will Palace) but that's Premier League football these days.
Pardew was a bellend when he was our manager and didn't endear himself to the fans at all. He displayed very little tactical nous and lucked out with the numerous quality signings the backroom staff pulled off for peanuts. He also came across as Ashley's pal which meant the fans would hate him by association.
He earned his stripes as a player for you so stands to reason he will have a natural affinity with your fans and I hope you do well. Nice to see the young lad Zaha terrorising defences again after not getting a look in at united.
Re. relegation battle I can only see Burnley having any chance of staying up. 5under1and will probably batter us again at the weekend and have a mini revival
That's a fair response JustinCredible. Never was saying we are or could be in anyway bigger than Newcastle mind. We will always be small, so long as we stay at Selhurst Park and don't look to expanding. Not something I really mind if we can keep winning 1 in 3 for the next few years and look to improve on that and not just have ambitions of survival. Everyone measures 'big club' differently. I see it as either fanbase worldwide including average attendances or amount of success not just over last few decades but since the club formed. No club bigger than United that has both.
Anyway back to relegation:
Leicester have the easiest run in of the 3 and most clubs just above the drop. Their game in hand is very important and should they win that, they will be right back in the fight. If you were to give them a second go at this season, they would more than likely be safe already. They have goals in them and never looked 'truly awful' every week or suffered any major thrashings. The manager losing the plot each week doesn't seem to affect the work rate on the pitch. Win 5 of their last 9 gives them 34 points. Safety?
Burnley are the most likely to stay up because they have a team that go to battle every game. A proper football club and a great away day.Sean Dyche my manager of the season if he keeps them up.
QPR have had some unlucky decisions, especially when it comes to to the final minutes of games and either not taking those important chances or imploding. The harshness of it sometimes can only have a negative effect on the club and the fans, which in turn gets carried through to the next game.
Having looked more into the prem history and seeing who survives, nearly every season a team in the bottom 3 with 8 games to go, has survived.
The season really does start for them all after the International break.
Anyway back to relegation:
Leicester have the easiest run in of the 3 and most clubs just above the drop. Their game in hand is very important and should they win that, they will be right back in the fight. If you were to give them a second go at this season, they would more than likely be safe already. They have goals in them and never looked 'truly awful' every week or suffered any major thrashings. The manager losing the plot each week doesn't seem to affect the work rate on the pitch. Win 5 of their last 9 gives them 34 points. Safety?
Burnley are the most likely to stay up because they have a team that go to battle every game. A proper football club and a great away day.Sean Dyche my manager of the season if he keeps them up.
QPR have had some unlucky decisions, especially when it comes to to the final minutes of games and either not taking those important chances or imploding. The harshness of it sometimes can only have a negative effect on the club and the fans, which in turn gets carried through to the next game.
Having looked more into the prem history and seeing who survives, nearly every season a team in the bottom 3 with 8 games to go, has survived.
The season really does start for them all after the International break.
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