Crystal Palace FC Thread + Championship Chat

[anthonyl]

Haha terrible appointment by forest, that will be billy sharp off.

danny graham being loaned out to a champ side now, any ideas who?

cardiff, back with malky possibly? poyet might be interested since we have signed harley, dobbie, orlandi from swansea!

chris wood off to leicester too, he put in the best individual away performance at the amex to date the other week, but looked like a donkey when on loan to us 20 months ago. maturing well!

[DungBeetle]

"danny graham being loaned out to a champ side now, any ideas who?"

Wouldn't be surprised if it was Leeds in return for a hefty loan fee.

Brighton v Watford tomorrow.  Interesting game.  Would take a point I think despite Brighton's form being a bit indifferent.

[anthonyl]

Well Cassetti is suspended, and you have Vydra compared to Iwelumo now....

Would take a draw right now, but should be a good game of football for the sky cameras. Orlandi and Bruno are apparently back too thank god.

[DungBeetle]

Is Buckley fit at the moment?  If so might not be a bad thing Casetti is suspended - he's great on the ball but slow these days.  Likely Anya will replace him, who isn't half as good on the ball but quick as lightning.  Will probably be a better match up for us against Buckley.

Forestieri is probably still out injured, but Vydra is in fine form at the moment.  Think this will be a good game. 2-2 I'll go for and then if we can follow up by beating out of form Charlton at home on New Year's Day then we'll be nicely positioned going into January.

[TightEnd]

Ex Hull & Preston boss Phil Brown reveals he has applied for the vacant Blackburn Rovers manager job.


The Venky's might just fall for that CV..:-)

[DungBeetle]

haha - wouldn't surprise me

[TightEnd]

We've signed Chris Wood, who looks a good signing to me (on the basis of seeing him twice)

and Alex Baptiste from Blackpool, who I am less sure about

Interesting the chairman seems to be investing again as we are well the wrong side of Financial Fair Play for next season, even before these two signings and are far from certain to get to the top two to justify this...

I expect Wellens, Danns, Gallagher amongst others to leave in Jan to get the wage bill back down

[Horneris]

Two great signings I think whom were badly needed

[Sheriff Fatman]

We've signed Chris Wood, who looks a good signing to me (on the basis of seeing him twice)

and Alex Baptiste from Blackpool, who I am less sure about

Interesting the chairman seems to be investing again as we are well the wrong side of Financial Fair Play for next season, even before these two signings and are far from certain to get to the top two to justify this...

I expect Wellens, Danns, Gallagher amongst others to leave in Jan to get the wage bill back down

Wood is a hit or miss player.  We had him on loan for a while and he was worse than useless, but then seems to have done well at other clubs (and naturally scored against us a couple of weeks ago).

[The Camel]

We've signed Chris Wood, who looks a good signing to me (on the basis of seeing him twice)

and Alex Baptiste from Blackpool, who I am less sure about

Interesting the chairman seems to be investing again as we are well the wrong side of Financial Fair Play for next season, even before these two signings and are far from certain to get to the top two to justify this...

I expect Wellens, Danns, Gallagher amongst others to leave in Jan to get the wage bill back down

Stuff I've heard about Wood is he's a bit of a Billy Big Time.

Might clash with Pearson, or be inspired by him

Interesting to see which way it goes.

[Matt.NFFC.]

Huge game for Forest today (if it's on).  The knives have already been sharpened for Mcleish and if we don't win, it's gonna get a little uncomfortable at the ground today.

We are hugely exposed to pace out wide, can see Palace winning this.

[redsimon]

Another inspection at noon, though its raining harder now than at 9.30. Feel sorry for travelling fans if it gets called off today. I'm on Palace DNB so Forest should win easily

[Ant040689]

Can games be changed to only 85 mins long please, k thx bye.

[Matt.NFFC.]

Onwards and upwards!!

[Ant040689]

Went up to Forest last night. I had a train at 12.15 from st Pancras and only found out the game was on at 11.50!

Felt that the draw was a fair result, but we need to get rid of Ramage at cb so that he doesn't gift teams anymore goals. Murray by himself deserved the win so should be getting support from his defence.

Reid for you guys was fantastic, why the fuck we gave him space to let off a shot I do not know, that didn't happen in the second half anyway!

Our other cb Gabiddon is too good for the championship and absolutely bossed it from crosses and blocks and everything he had to deal with. Complete steal how we got him.

I am really assured about that performance yesterday knowing with our full strength defence and Zaha getting his mental strength back after the transfer window, if he stays, we have a team that will get second in the league. How we haven't won in 5 games I do not know and think this frustration will boil over into say a 6 game 100% record and I think that starts at home to Wolves on Tuesday.

Murray was fantastic and Bolassie on our other wing is the complete winger imo, strong, has a cross, can get past players well and can find the easy pass too and has a powerful shot, pity Zaha is letting him down!