Crystal Palace FC Thread + Premiership Palaver

[Ant040689]

Rene Meulensteen is favourite, just atm, with Dan Petruscu a close second.

Redic how many guys have alternated being favourite for this job. I hope through all of this our caretaker can have a pop of being in charge for at least another month, Keith Millen that is. Has us playing with a great spirit, generally defensively sound and is doing his best to try and coax one of our forwards into finishing form.

Meulensteen has just joined Martin Jol at Fulham, so Petrescu the hotpot again now.

How many games has Millen been in charge for so far?

Any likelihood they let him crack on until January and bring someone in for the transfer window?

Or just do an Oyston and keep him there until the window closes, so that they don't have to do any dough

Millen has had three games and in all three a draw or a win would have been a fair result and we have been playing with a great defensive spirit allowing the other team to dictate possession but leaving them with few chances all match and then hitting them on the counter.

We conceded two against West Brom and two against Arsenal, but we generally played very well defensively in both and our attack had more than enough opportunity to get a draw/win in both games but we haven't had that bit of luck.

I think with the way Millen is coaching and how well we are playing since Holloway left, if we do score, it could see us open the floodgates. I hope it's from open play, I hope it's Chamakh, I hope he gets a great amount of belief and kicks on.

What I hated about Holloway and what he has agreed was a big flaw of his is that his team's must play a certain attacking football with ball retention. Never does he like to focus on the defense and from that a counter attacking game. When we played his style we were worse for it most of the time, when we played Millen's/Freedman's style we were so much better.

Now I think that is terrible that you can't change to accomodate your team's strengths and he forfeited a lot of points trying to make us play a certain style of football that a lot of the lads were just not capable of doing.

[Ant040689]

There is a chance, a small one, that Millen gets a further month or more, to see what he is about, which would make me happy.

[Ant040689]

From looking at the betting markets (1/16, no-one had gone in past 1/2 before) and Petrescu's agent saying how keen he is, plus our chairmen announcing they hope to have news later on today, he could be our new manager.

Impressed with his record in Romania and Russia and could be exactly what we need. Definitely will be somewhat of an unknown entity in terms of exactly how he will fare, but his keenness, apparently, for a long term contract, seems as if he wouldn't be scared of the task of getting us back up again from the Championship, if that were to happen.

Also, as a weird coincidence he scored 11% of his Chelsea goals at Selhurst Park against Wimbledon (3). May already have a fondness for the place .

[tikay]

From looking at the betting markets (1/16, no-one had gone in past 1/2 before) and Petrescu's agent saying how keen he is, plus our chairmen announcing they hope to have news later on today, he could be our new manager.

Impressed with his record in Romania and Russia and could be exactly what we need. Definitely will be somewhat of an unknown entity in terms of exactly how he will fare, but his keenness, apparently, for a long term contract, seems as if he wouldn't be scared of the task of getting us back up again from the Championship, if that were to happen.

Also, as a weird coincidence he scored 11% of his Chelsea goals at Selhurst Park against Wimbledon (3). May already have a fondness for the place .

All change.

Petrescu on the drift, & Dyche & Dowie both shortened considerably.




http://www.oddschecker.com/football/football-specials/crystal-palace/next-permanent-manager

[Ant040689]

From looking at the betting markets (1/16, no-one had gone in past 1/2 before) and Petrescu's agent saying how keen he is, plus our chairmen announcing they hope to have news later on today, he could be our new manager.

Impressed with his record in Romania and Russia and could be exactly what we need. Definitely will be somewhat of an unknown entity in terms of exactly how he will fare, but his keenness, apparently, for a long term contract, seems as if he wouldn't be scared of the task of getting us back up again from the Championship, if that were to happen.

Also, as a weird coincidence he scored 11% of his Chelsea goals at Selhurst Park against Wimbledon (3). May already have a fondness for the place .

All change.

Petrescu on the drift, & Dyche & Dowie both shortened considerably.




http://www.oddschecker.com/football/football-specials/crystal-palace/next-permanent-manager

So he is, he is still odds on though, so the hope remains. I would hope this still goes through as for me he would be the most exciting prospect of the front runners. Sean Dyche though could do a job perhaps. Would prefer Pulis over him though, but it has been reported Pulis has completely scuppered talks with us.

Dowie is the man, really, that I would have a problem with. If he got the job then he gets my support, i just hope it doesn't come to that. It would have been a similar situation from me if Coleman got the job.

[Ant040689]

Rumours there is a press conference at 3.30pm.

Still Petrescu is favourite for the job, but has come way out to 5/2

[DungBeetle]

I reckon they've talked Pulis into it.

[Ant040689]

I reckon they've talked Pulis into it.

Palace fans on the forums would generally dislike that a lot, but I would welcome it if he could keep us up indefinitely under his reign, despite any unattractive football he may persist with. Results orientated, me.

[Marky147]

Rumours there is a press conference at 3.30pm.

Still Petrescu is favourite for the job, but has come way out to 5/2

This is getting like Blackpool now

[The Camel]

Crystal Palace: the comedy that just keeps on giving.

[Karabiner]

I reckon they've talked Pulis into it.

Dowie surely.

[tikay]

To be fair, finding anyone to even accept the job can't be easy.

Effectively, they are looking for someone to manage their relegation, which is still (officially) 5 or 6 months away.

Imagine the grief he'll get, week after week, from the Media. Then his CV will include took Palace down.

It's a poisoned chalice, just like the England job. 

[DungBeetle]

Meh.  It's 500k a year to stick a bunch of blokes wearing headphones in a 4-5-1 formation and shout "COME ON" before each match, before hoping Speroni has a blinder.  It's also a free option - if you do down then it was inevitable, if you stay up you are the Midas.  Plus if you start next year badly you'll get another £1 million payoff for being rubbish.

What's not to like Tikay?

[tikay]

Meh.  It's 500k a year to stick a bunch of blokes wearing headphones in a 4-5-1 formation and shout "COME ON" before each match, before hoping Speroni has a blinder.  It's also a free option - if you do down then it was inevitable, if you stay up you are the Midas.  Plus if you start next year badly you'll get another £1 million payoff for being rubbish.

What's not to like Tikay?

Reputation.

[DungBeetle]

I don't think it will harm your reputation.  Their squad is a Championship standard squad, so nobody is going to think you messed up if they go down as long as you make a decent fist of it?

I reckon the Palace fans would probably take right now relegation with a few scalps along the way and finishing on 35 points if you offered it.  The real fear is the Derby style nightmare season.