Tesla Energy (Powerwall/Powerpack)

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The Powerwall increases the capacity for a house with solar panels, but can also be used during power outages. It can fit on the wall in your garage—to power your Tesla, of course—or the outside wall of your house. It’s about 3 feet across, 4 ft tall, and 6 inches deep. It comes with a 10 year warranty. By pulling homes and businesses off the grid during peak hours, America’s electrical infrastructure would see greater stability. With enough people on board (and critical mass of adoption is obviously a ways into the future) we’d likely see fewer brownouts in our cities. Another attractive part for consumers is that this kind of battery will give homeowners complete energy independence, allowing them to sever connections to utility companies.

Can we play possession football?

I know this has been touched on in the Jedi thread but the question is can Palace really play possession football in the Premier League? i.e. do we have the players good enough to out-pass other teams?

I wasn't Pulis's biggest fan but what I recognised was that he got us to play to our strengths, and until recently Pardew has done the same. However, it does seem like Pardew wants us to try and control the possession more in games, and I'm not yet convinced this is playing to our strengths as we simply dont have those types of players. The Sunderland game was proof that it's not how long you have the ball but what you do with it, and that seems to be our strength so I would like to see us stick to it.

Thoughts?

Peter Kay's Car Share

An inspired return to form or insipid dross?

Suggestion: Adnan Januzaj

Out of favour under LVG, competing for the spots with the likes of Di Maria, Mata, Young & Fallaini. Only made a handful of appearances this season as a result, but clearly has talent as displayed last season under Moyes.

Although he just signed a long term contract earlier this season, but rumors are that he'd be available for a loan move next season.

Why not at Palace? Can play in the number 10 role behind Glen as an alternative to Chamakh.

Suggestion: Ibrahim Ndong

Massively random I know but I was in Marseilles on the weekend and managed to catch a game at the Stade Vélodrome. OM were terrible and lost 5-3 with France international forward Gignac particularly ineffective (a man that slow should not be constantly offside).
Of the players to impress was a young midfielder for FC Lorient called Ibrahim Ndong who was awesome. Good touch, strong and quick and looked to pass the ball quickly rather than needlessly dwell on it for too long like half the OM team. He is 20 and from Gabon and already plays for the national team. Recently signed a long term deal with Lorient but for only £500k or so. Might be worth a look alongside their forward Jordan Ayew who may finally be living up to the massive potential he showed when he started.
Oh and Sir Les was on the same plane as us so I guess he was doing some scouting for when QPR have to sell their entire team in the summer.

Football Marathon 2015

Not long to go to enter your team for the Football Marathon this year. Sign up now!

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Kian Flanagan

According to this article from the express - vultures are hovering for our latest "wonderkid" - i'm ashamed to say i know next to nothing about him.

Can our academy experts such as Woosie educate me on him please?

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Pubs in Newcastle to watch Palace game on Sunday.

Leaving tomorrow to go Newcastle for weekend, just wanted to know if there are any Palace supporters up north! :hi:

Enamel Badges

Anyone know or recommend a company that makes bespoke enamel badges?
Hundreds online but I'd really like one someone has used especially if they are local. Cheers

Rumour: Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United circle Crystal Palace youngster

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Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United are showing a strong interest in Crystal Palace youngster Kian Flanagan. The 15-year-old made his full debut for Palace’s Academy side only last month but has already attracted the attention of the best clubs in England. His status at Palace is clear, too, as he made his first appearance for the club’s development side against Colchester yesterday. The majority of players in the development squad were born between 1994-96 but midfielder Flanagan was born in 1999 and is already considered good enough to play. He signed for Palace from Southend, where he had been since the age of eight, as a 13-year-old, despite interest from Liverpool. Flanagan agreed a two-year contract at Selhurst Park at the age of 14 but Palace face a difficult task to hold on to him. Operating in the No10 role behind the main forward, Flanagan has impressed the scouts of the top clubs, who could pay £100,000 to prise him from Palace.

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May Betting Masters - 138

BM - 138...All welcome, show the BBS who the best punter is; don't delay join today

2015 Order of Merit after March, Noodle at the top

Flat Noodle 19
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Finbar 14
Gooders 13
No1Fan 12
3 Beers at HT 10
Funk Butter 8
Beckenham Boy 5
evvo111 3
StuNick 3
Louis 2
cantspell 2
kayjay 1
Stigma 1
LLCOOLSTEVE 0
PoolKing 0
Little Fozzie 0
srs9jps 0
ardeo 0
€pfc 0
old git 0
Previous winners:

1: el mico
2: three-way 0-0-0 final draw !!!(Plugster, late mail and odds against)
3: Finbar
4: Grim Reaper
5: EagleSE24
6: LLCOOLSTEVE
7: Stigma
8: Stigma
9: Stigma
10: Tor
11: Finbar
12: Finbar
13: old git
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Overall best betting in 2004: Stigma
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14. Reps AJ
15. bradley eagle
16. Tor
17. LLCOOLSTEVE
18. stevejfh
19. Tor
20. Finbar
21. Drunk eagle
22. Ozeagle
23. LLCOOLSTEVE
24. Wildcat Army
25. LLCOOLSTEVE
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Overall best better in 2005: stevejfh
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26: si1965
27: Ozeagle
28: srs9jps
29. si1965
30: hakers
31: Tor (WC '06)
32: srs9jps
33: NO1FAN
34: Drunk eagle
35: Stigma
36: Stigma
37: DedBallSpeshlst
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Overall best better in 2006: Flat Noodle
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38: LLCOOLSTEVE
39: Finbar
40: richdeniro
41: Stigma
Champions league winner 06/07: Ian Hart
UEFA Cup winner 06/07: Gav The Hamster
42: Finbar
43: Funk Butter
44: PoolKing
45: Funk Butter
46: Drunk Eagle
47: StuNick
48: Stigma
49: StuNick
Champions league winner 07/08-1: Finbar
UEFA Cup winner 07/08-1: Gav The Hamster
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Overall best better in 2007: Finbar
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50: GodstoneEagle
51: Funk Butter
52: Finbar
53: Funk Butter
54: LLCOOLSTEVE
55: Al From Bromley
56: Stigma
2008 Olympics: pauldrulez
57: pauldrulez
58: NO1FAN
59: Al From Bromley
60: Drunk Eagle
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Overall best better in 2008: StuNick
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61: StuNick
62: ardeo
63: Stigma
64: LLCOOLSTEVE
65: Finbar
66: No1Fan
67: Al From Bromley
68: Al From Bromley
69: Funk Butter
70: DedBallSpeshlst
71: Kayjay
72: Gooders
73: gjohnk
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Overall best better in 2009: Funk Butter
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74: Finbar
75: StuNick
76: DedBallSpeshlst
77: Swanny32
78: Funk Butter
79: Funk Butter
80: gjohnk
81: Finbar
82: MynamenisnotMax
83: No1Fan
84: gjohnk
85: Little Fozzie
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World Cup 2010 winner: old git
Overall best better in 2010: ?????
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86: Flat Noodle
87: Finbar
88: GodstoneEagle
89: Flat Noodle
90: mynameisnotmax
91: Louis
92: Funk Butter
93: gjohnk
94: DedBallSpeshlst
95: Stigma
96: cantspell
97: No1Fan
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2011 Order of Merit Winner: Finbar
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March 100th edition knockout special: Little Fozzie
Champions league winner 1st half 2011: Finbar
Champions league winner 2nd half 2011: StuNick
Jan - May UEFA Cup winner 2011: StuNick
Aug - Dec UEFA Cup winner 2011: Housey100

98: 3 Beers at HT
99: StuNick
100: cantspell
101: Funk Butter
102: Finbar
103: Swanny32
104: Funk Butter
105: Louis
106: srs9jps
107: Funk Butter
108: LLCOOLSTEVE
109: Funk Butter
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2012 Order of Merit Winner: Funk Butter

August - Dec 2012 Champions League winner: Swanny32
August - Dec 2012 UEFA Cup winner: JamTheEagle

Jan - May 2012 Champions League winner: No1Fan
Jan - May 2012 UEFA Cup winner: Ian Hart
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110: Louis
111: Louis
112: Gooders
113: Finbar
114: Little Fozzie
115: StuNick
116: Flat Noodle
117: Louis
118: evvo111
119: srs9jps
120: StuNick
121: LLCOOLSTEVE
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2013 Order of Merit Winner: Louis

Jan - May 2013 Champions League Winner: Gooders
Jan - May 2013 UEFA Cup winner: Scoopster
Aug - Dec 2013 Champions League Winner: Little Fozzie
Aug - Dec 2013 UEFA Cup Winner: Stigma
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122: No1Fan
123: PoolKing
124: LLCOOLSTEVE
125: 3 Beers at HT
126: Louis
127: Finbar
128: LLCOOLSTEVE
129: 3 Beers at HT
130: Finbar
131: Funk Butter
132: Stig
133: Louis

2014 Order of Merit winner: Finbar
Jan - May 2014 Champions League Winner: Stigma
Jan - May 2014 UEFA Cup winner: Bellyman
Aug - Dec 2014 Champions League Winner: Ardeo
Aug - Dec 2014 UEFA Cup Winner: PoolKing
Winter Olympics 2014 Winner: srs9jps

134: Gooders
135: Finbar
136: 3 Beers at HT
137:

Rules are as follows

1 Every player has 200 points to bet with in the first round.

2 Each separate bet made is 10 points meaning players have 20 bets during the first 20 days. Maximum bet on a single market is 10 points, same rule applies for identical multis (basically no duplicate bets though you can do a team A, team B double on one bet and then add team C for a treble in another bet)

3 In the second round the 4* finalists all start by carrying forward 25% of their score from the first round added to the 150 points that can bet used in the second round. The person who qualifies for the final with the most points also gets an additional 10pt bet. (*if the number of participants gets to 16 or more, then a 5th finalist place will be added and then one more for every 5 players on top of that).

4 Betting Masters, first group stages runs from 0000 on the first of the month (standard UK time) to 2359hrs on the 20th of the month. Then the top four* posters come together in a mini league from there on until the end of the month.
Final bet settlement must occur before 2359 on the last day of the month.

5 Naturally the winner is the person with the highest score at the end of the last day of the month.

6 Scoring consists of total winnings and is inclusive of 10 point stake i.e. someone bets on a 6/4 horse and it wins their score becomes 25 (15 points profits plus the 10 pt stake) There is no score for any bets not used. Losing bets are scored as zero, not -10.
Any bet from an exchange bookie will have a 4% commission (on the winnings), if nothing else is explicitly stated in the post.

7 Players must quote where they're getting their prices.

8 Singles and upwards accepted.

9 For boxed multis and bets such as Yankees, each separate bet within the bet counts as separate and will cost 10pts per bet. e.g. ten trebles from five selections will use up 100 points.

10. E/W bets are counted as two bets in the masters, which means 10 points x 2

11. For tracking purposes, players are requested to put the outcome of their bets on the post for all events other than European soccer/tennis.

12. Where possible players are requested to put down a running total of their bets in their posts, although I'll also try and produce rolling league tables where possible.

13. After a bet has been posted up, one is not allowed to edit it..

14. The bets must be possible to do in real life, meaning for example that if you got a multi, all the odds have to come from 1 bookmaker. You can’t shop around for the highest odds and put them together. "Special promotion" type bets are not allowed though BOG (Best Odds Guaranteed) are.

15. Bets must be placed at odds of 1/10 (or 1.1 in decimal) or higher

16. Any Draw No Bet bets where the result is a push will always have the bet settled as void, never 10pts. Any asian handicap bet where the result is a push (in full) will have the bet settled as void. Any asian handicap where half of the stake is returned will be marked down as 5pts with the remainder of the Asian handicap settled as a win or a loss (this is applicable for asian handicaps such as 2.25 or -2, -2.5 etc)

17. In the event that a player is not sure if their bet will finish in time, before midnight on the 20th or midnight for qualifying midnight on the final day of the month for the final, they can make a provisional bet or bets which then become actual bets only if their original selection(s) finishes at 12.01am or after

will villa do a wigan?

With villa now in the cup final will their players lose focus in the league and drop to the championship just as wigan did. They have been hoovering around the bottom for sometime and their recent good results in the league have stalled as the semi approached. Personallt I would be happy to see one of the mid size teams drop. Villa sunderland or newcastle would do nicely.

Neither of the teams coming up will be able to attract quality players either


Good news for palace for next season.

If another lessor side were to come up via the playoffs it would be very sweet.

50,000 families moved out of London so far

The impact of the cuts and bedroom tax made starkly clear....50,000 families on low income have been evicted and moved out of their neighbourhoods. 500 families a week! The shocking scale is revealed for the first time..To view the link you have to Register or Login

If this were in another part of the world we would be outraged.

Crystal ball Chelsea

Chelsea 1-0
Hazard
40240

Saigon 1975

For all those old enough to remember or those interested in history today marks the 40th anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war. If you include WW 11 and its aftermath probably the longest war in modern history. Apart from celebs dying remembering events like this makes you feel old.

The Emirates FA Cup

The BBC is reporting that The FA Cup will be renamed for commercial reasons. Emirates are allegedly buying a sponsorship of the competition. Previously it's been sponsored as "The FA Cup sponsored by Budweiser" or just "The FA Cup".

What they're proposing is an actual name change, so it will no longer be called "The FA Cup", but instead be called "The Emirates FA Cup".

£10 million per year.

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Interesting. Does this go too far?

Match Updates: Leicester vs Chelsea

Think I would rather Chelsea win

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What is net debt?

Chelsea have a billion of it, Palace just a few million, but what is net debt? The Guardian published a guide to premier league finances today and the smaller clubs like WBA, Norwich and Swansea seem to have far less of it than their bigger rivals. To view the link you have to Register or Login

Are contracts worth the paper they're written on.

Having signed a new three year contract last summer, the club are now having to to offer Yannick Bolasie another new deal in order to hold on to him. WHY, when he still has two more years on the last one?

It makes a mockery of having contracts at all, and begs the question; are they worth the paper they're written on?

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Garvan most successful youth cup winner ever ?

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Interesting article about lack of success for Youth Cup winners. Not sure what it means but not a very good recommendation for academy system if so few go on to make the grade.

Congratulations Carpi (Italian football)

A bit like Bournemouth making the Premier League, tiny Carpi have been promoted to Serie A. Already the "elite" in Italy are trying to ban them from competing next season. :rolleyes:

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Showing a bit of class

If Chelsea to win the tittle against us in Sunday should we as fans show some class and stay to applaud them?
I have no real feeling about Chelsea , I hope we beat them of course but would rather use the opportunity to show yet again what great support we have and are. Therefore staying to applaud them as it is a great achievement to win the league would be the sporting thing to do.













(hides under desk and awaits incoming abuse)

Rumour: Daniel Congre

According to our colleagues at France Football, Montpellier defender Daniel Congré has been formally approached over a possible transfer this summer.

Congré, who has a contract extension offer with Montpellier until 2019 on the table, is looking at the possibility of moving abroad at the end of the season, with his current deal expiring next summer.

The player could be available for as little as €2m, with West Brom, Torino and Hellas Verona all also interested in the player.

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American Spring

An oppressed under-class starts to fight back against a murderous regime that keeps them poor. Arab world - heroes. US - thugs.

Bolasie: Staying or going?

Despite Pardew saying that it would take seriously silly money to part with Bolasie, why is it that the thick-skulled media still persist on a daily basis that Bolasie can be prised away and quoting figures that amount to just a quarter of the money quoted by Pardew and if that isn't enough, they are conjuring up yet more and more clubs as being interested. Where does this media circus all end? I know that CPFC does not respond or bow down to speculation but isn't it time CPFC turned around and said "Enough is enough. Bolasie is going nowhere". Or is this what the fans are going to be subjected with all summer?

Vote for CPFC Fan of the Year: the final 5!

There were 142 nominates for FOTY, and these have been whittled down to the final 5 as follows:

Chris Hambling
Lou Arnold
Nick Timotheou
Norman Ogden
Paul Phelan

Click on the link below for mini-biographies and on how to vote, voting closes 6May and the winner will be announced at the POTY awards!

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Hull v lpool

Cmon you reds

Trying to remember ex-palace player

The Two Brewers pub in Croydon had this picture of all the palace players from 1986? EdenbrideEagleInExile, Ninjas Headband and I were trying to work out this player from the picture but we just didn't know who it was.

Iranian Forces seize US Vessel

This could get interesting....

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Pick a total losses figure below £200m......

......that Tony should settle for in order to hand over the reins of BHAFC to an owner who can bring instant PL success - as demanded by an increasing number of their fans.

I think Tony should try to 'sell' the club for £50m, making his hit a nice round £150m. Looking on the bright side, within 15 years of not making £10m a year losses, he would come out even.

Planning Application for a Gym

Just been told that Palace have put in a planning application for Gym in the basement of the Holmsdale is this true - thought there were stories of it being flooded,would a swimming pool be better.

Palace losing Focus, 'Pardew fault' says Don Hutchison

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Gregory Mertens heart attack

Doesnt sound good does it :(

needs a miracle

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Brilliant Celebration

Palace U18s after sub goalie saved a penalty

Scott Dann in Merson's Perfect team

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The perfect team to beat Chelsea has our very own Scott Dann in it, nice to see some recognition for what I believe to be one of the best centre backs in the league.

I wish I could fly, right up to the sky: RIP Keith Harris

:sob:

Referee vs Chelsea away this weekend

Kevin Friend.

The only other game he's reffed this season for us was at home to Stoke.

Thatcher and Murdoch

Mrs T? Lying and cheating? Surely not!

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Which goals would you shortlist for Goal of the Season?

Every year, Palace Radio has a competition for Goal of the Season, on which everyone can vote. However, before we can get to that stage, we need to compile a shortlist.

So I would be very interested in your views as to which goals should be on that shortlist

''And Leicester'' v Chelsea.

Theres a few rumours knocking about here in the East Midlands that Pearsons going to play a weakened side against Chelsea....absolutely criminal if he does in my opinion.We're on a roll and the moods tremendously positive both on and off the pitch so to start thinking and acting defeatest could be disastrous.

In the away end i posted a thread of our season from a couple of years ago,''Les and Admin''...we were trying to get promoted out of the Championship and doing well when up popped an FA Cup tie away at Huddesfield,Pearson rested a few players and we were lucky to snatch a replay,we went on a downward spiral after that so in my view....don't play weakened sides,especially when fans are forking out good money.......Everyone knows the quality Chelsea have but in my view if we have a go at them you just never know.

Have Palace fielded weakened teams,and what was your view?....

West Norwood, past and present

Hi all,

I wrote a piece about a lost afternoon in West Norwood for Deserter, which may be of interest to some of you.

I can't post links as I'm still a noob but it's at:

deserter dot co dot uk

It's filled with references to sex and drugs and swearing, for which I can only apologise.

TDR

What does "Rich" mean in 2015?

To somebody who has nothing a person with £100k might seem rich. To others it may be a Billionaire? Personally I see it as someone who can live comfortably but not extravagantly having saved hard or perhaps had the luck to invest wisely.

A 4 bed house in a nice area of London, Surrey or Kent could be £750k. Add in another £25k for a car. £10k furnishings. Having enough savings to generate £30k a year would need another £1m @ 3% interest. So perhaps a minimum of £1.785m.

To own planes, multiple homes, boats would surely need tens of millions.

Interested to what people think Rich means?

Safe House

2nd part of 5 tonight, ITV , had a good start last week, enuff to keep me interested, anyone else watching ??

Rumour: James Roberts

From Oxford
Oxford supporting mates abit worried
Heard we were attempting to sign him

Anyone heard anything?

Jimmy Hill

I did An Search, but couldn't see anything immediately obvious - in light of the BBC lauding Jimmy Hill as one of those 'sorts who changed football', I hit wiki.

He spent his formative years, like most of us, watching Palace. Is he one of us, or anything like that? I met him about 10 years ago as some Sales Award shindig in London, but his dull eyes didn't flicker when I told him I was Palace.

Just curious, really.

Celtic Nation and Norton United are Folding

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Norton United, who reached the FA Cup first round earlier this season, are to close at the end of the campaign. The eighth-tier club are opting to fold as they cannot afford to pay rent of up to £20,000 a season on their ground in Smallthorne, in the northern outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent. Norton left the Norton Cricket Club & Miners Welfare Institute in December after a dispute with the ground owners.

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Celtic Nation dream ends as club prepares to fold Celtic Nation have resigned from the Northern League and will play their final game, at home to North Shields, on Tuesday April 28. Runners-up in 2013-14 but already relegated from the first division this season, the Carlisle-based club will fold. Subject to ratification by the annual league meeting, the upshot of Celtic Nation’s decision will be that Brandon United, the bottom club in the second division, will be saved from relegation.

I put both of these up because it's two very different stories that both end the same way.

Norton are a little club who dreamt just too big and after getting to the FA Cup 1st round this year for the first time ever it's curtains for them losing £1,000 a game with crowds of 50 - 60.



Celtic Nation were founded in 2004 they got funded by an Scottish Millionaire Businessman in 2012 who promised them glory, they got some ex-pros in and all was going well until he decided that the play thing wasn't working and pulled all of his funding in 2014, they started this season with 4 registered players and were relegated.

How to pack a suitcase?

I am going away to Newcastle for bank holiday weekend :hi: and just wanted to know what is the correct way to put stuff in your suitcase. :p

Best pubs in Chelsea for palace fans ?

What pubs would u recommend for Sunday's game come on palace do us proud Sunday :lux:

Pardew's winning/losing runs

A mate of mine pointed out that Pardew was renowned for going on winning and losing runs so I decided to take a look at it..

This season at newcastle he won 5 in a row but followed that by losing the next three.

In 2013/14
Newcastle went on a run that saw them win 7 out of 9 but then followed that with 1 win in 8. Also that season they then won 3 out of 4 but then lost 6 in a row.

The season before that his newcastle side had a run where they only lost 1 in 8 but followed it with just 2 wins from their next 13. They finished the season with 4 wins out of 6 followed by 1 win in 7.

Is this something we may have to get used to at Palace?

Kathmandu earthquake

Surprised there's no thread on this, couldn't find one. If so, apologies, mods please merge.

Terrible tragedy happening right now in the aftermath, the chaos really coming through on the news now.

Also, I don't wish to sound heartless but I'm left wondering about a scientific question. Did Everest just get higher?

Rumour: Yohan Cabaye

Hes been mentioned a few times, seems unrealistic but he is 29 now so the transfer fee would be manageable imo.

Could he be the 'marquee' signing Pardew has referred to

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Whats your live attendance to win percentage this season?

Bored tonight, so I thought it might be fun to see who is the luckiest/most jonahlike supporter to follow the palace this season.

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I have seen 2 wins from 10 matches watched (Leicester home, Burnley away), giving me a score of 20%. (2 divided by 10, times by 100)

Keltic Eagle has seen 2 wins from 15 matches watched, giving him a score of 13.33% (2 divided by 15, times by 100).

If you can beat his score you are truly unlucky :)

Moving to Dublin

Recently got offered and have accepted a new job in Dublin. It's a massive opportunity that I couldn't really turn down. Plus, it's a salary staff job, which comes as a welcomes break from freelancing for the last few years.

I have an apartment sorted for two weeks courtesy of the new agency but will need something more permanent after that, but that can be sorted once over there.

Looking for advice on some other issues, like back accounts, mobile phone contracts, importing a vehicle - how long until I need to register it over there etc and anything else people can think of that may be helpful.

It's all happening very quickly, and I'm not sure where to start, but really looking forward to getting over there and starting the new job.

Call of Duty: Black Ops III

Well, it looks like some combination of Advanced Warfare and Black Ops 2, so I'll probably give it a miss again.

Brixton protest against housing costs and gentrification

Nice to see people on the streets trying to stop the spiralling housing costs in London .
Hopefully a few more of these protests might turn Property investors from abroad away from London .
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Joel Ward ?

Anyone know where Joel Ward was yesterday ?

Is Ledley our most important player?

Discuss it's surely no coincidence that when we signed Ledley last year we instantly became a much better and more composed side. Whenever Joe has no played we have generally been poor yet when he and Mcarthur were in the middle we was absolutely superb. A vastly underrated player in my opinion and I believe he is the most important player in this team.

Discussion: Who's going to be leaving this summer?

I have no idea who will be joining us this summer but how about some suggestions who will be off

For me certain:( if we can get rid) Ramage, Garvan, Bannon, Guediora, McCarthy , Fryers, Price, Hunt

Maybe: Campbell, Hangerland, Mariappa,

Possible: ( but hope not) Gale, Delaney

Last time Palace had no corners in a home game?

I asked this question on another thread but can;t see an answer. Anyone know when Palace last went 90 minutes at home without getting one single corner? I can't remember it ever happening! :)

House buying deposit

A friend is buying a house, they've paid the deposit, contracts have been exchanged and a date set for completion.
A problem has a risen in getting the rest of the money and it is unlikely that it will be available in time for exchange.
Will the deposit be lost in its entirety or is it possible to change the exchange date by a few weeks.

If anyone has any experience of such a situation or genuine knowledge of what happens in this event I'd be interested in your comments.

Edit: No, it isn't me.

Puncheon and Bolasie on Goals On Sunday (Sky Sports 1)

As per the title. On now.

Are we safe?

How many points needed to stay up?

Suggested Team and Formation For: Chelsea (away)

-----------------------Speroni--------------------------------
Ward---------Dann-------------Delaney------------Kelly
----------------------Jedinak--------------------------------
Zaha--------Puncheon---------Mcarthur----------Bolasie
-----------------------Murray-------------------------------

Subs:

Hennessey
Souare
Ledley
Chamakh
Chung
Sanogo
Gayle

One last chance. I'd love to give Chung a start, but who do you drop? Let's hope they work a bit harder.

Why has the general election thread been closed?

Seems odd. Was it a mistake?

Fair Play Steve Harper

Didn't roll around in mock agony when Sanopoint went in on him and signalled to the ref that it was he'd gone for/got the ball.

Top sportsmanship

11th

Will every calm the **** down

2 bad days at the office

Jesus Christ

Corner count zero

Corner count

Palace 0 - Hull 9

With Yala and Wilf tearing up defenses we usually have a decent corner count. I'm sure I can be proved wrong, but this is the only match I can remember with no corners won. And we're pretty dangerous on corners. Misfortune or a Steve Bruce tactic to keep the shackles on our wingers?

Bulk cardboard recycling

Very dull thread guys, but bare with me,

In the daily course of our business we accumulate quite alot of cardboard, which needs disposing of, we used to use sevenside who became DS Smith to collect this, and all was fine until they subcontracted our area to biffa.


We store our cardboard in a garage and it needs loading into a recycling truck by hand, biffa say they can offer us a skip or a bin to put it in, neither of which will work for us as we have no space for this.

My question is does anybody in the Surrey area know of a company who could collect cardboard without it being bailed or in a bin / skip. Or does anybody on here have a use for loads and loads of cardboard, I'm thinking gardeners, car breakers, the boxes are hike boxes so aren't of a particularly useful shape for much

Sorting out the pitch must be our number one priority

Yes we were total garbage today and yes it looked like they had already checked in at the Costa del Sol
But in a defence to our forward players, I get the distinct impression that they have all lost their confidence running and turning at pace because of the dreadful pitch.

This has to have something to do with our away form being so much better.

I know it is easy to say "it is the same for both sides" but that is not necessarily the case as our guys now expect to fall arse over head and as I say will or have lost confidence.

We have replaced it already once but getting it right has to be priority number one:veryangry:veryangry

Wilf almost TOO unselfish?

Over the past few games particularly Zaha seems reluctant to beat the last man and have a pop at goal himself. Today was a prime example. He outmuscled the Hull player ten yards inside the Hull half and started to run in on goal but rather than possibly try and get a shot away or push on into the box he squared it harmlessly to a Hull player who cleared his lines. He seems to do this quite often these days. Is it a confidence thing or riding to instructions do you think?

Chelsea Game In Los Angeles

Any meet-ups or suggestions where I can watch the Chelsea game in L.A. next weekend please?

Thanks

NEIL

Today's minute silence.

As we all know 56 fans died and good today that we showed respect to these Bradford fans RIP. There is always one prick out there, whoever it was that shouted " anyone got a light"
Well you are scum. Real low life scum!! Did it come from behind the HF? :veryangry

Pigeons M.O.T.M?

Although one at back first half we sent an attacking 3 into their penalty area for entire 2nd half. Only criticism I'd aim at them was they were very narrow rather than spreading across the box. Discuss:p.

Player Ratings And Reviews: Hull (home)

Poll to follow, if you can be bothered to vote for any of them...

LONG BALL SITUATION

Personally I think we need to stop playing long balls up to Murray, as the other teams have now sniffed it out. I think we need to start playing the balls out wide to Bolasie and Zaha more, who can pretty much easily beat there opponents. And put good crosses into the box.

Kyle walker

#kylewalker that is all for now. I'll let you guys take a look.

Thanks Palace

Been a long time since I posted and only been in here a few times to correspond with a palace fan on private message, but just a quick thank you to the Palace fans that were involved in the REMF game at Lewes last night, not sure if they are on here but, the charity is proud to have you guys on board and over 12k raised on the night. Had some good banter with the players and fans during and after the game, which was played in a good spirit with no nastiest. Once again thanks and pains me to say, well done on your more than survival season, as looked at your squad and manager and thought nailed on for going down, you proved me and others wrong.

Yours in sport

Recommendation for driveway and patio

Does anyone have any recommendation for someone to go to for a getting a new driveway and rear patio in the Kenley area?

Ireland

I've never been but would like to go.

Dublin seems the obvious option but is renting a car and going along the west coast for a bit a better bet?

Live Com and Updates: Crystal Palace v Hull City

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Best Broadband: Virgin v BT ?

I have a Virgin and BT fibre optic cable in my road. Am I right in thinking that BT share their cable with all other companies ie PlusNet and Talk Talk but Virgin does not share their cable?

Mascot V Hull City

As my son is going to be one of the mascots tomorrow, I was wondering if anyone knew if any of the players themselves once did the same, and if so, are there any photos?
He has also been given explicit instructions (by me) that if he meets old flatface, he is to hold his hand out to shake, then at the last moment, pull his hand away and do the old 'schoolboy error' thing with his hand :lux::p:D

Travelling Football Fans & Hotel Selection

Dear fellow fans,

I am a football fan and enthusiast and I love watching English Premier League.

Now I am doing a research for my Masters thesis about travelling football fans and hotel selection.

Please take a few minutes to answer this questionnaire below. It is completely anonymous.

You only need to have travelled to attend a game in this season and stayed at a hotel during the trip.

It will take you less than 10 minutes to complete. Please answer all 3 parts, the 1st will take about 5' and the rest less than 3'.

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Your opinion matters!

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Lund University
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Hartlepool fans

Planning to dress up as Bob Marley at their game away at Carlisle, are being urged by Kick It Out not to blacking up their faces, as far as i'm aware no one has even mentioned about blacking up.

Kick It Out making themselves busy again or justified concerns?

Dad's face tattoo of son

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Words....fail....me

Suggestion: Micah Richards

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If Villa are in for him, then I definitely think we'd have a chance.

Souare - Richards - Dann - Ward

Managers' mouths

Maybe it's different here in the states, but generally team managers ('head coaches') here don't make such direct comments about personnel worth as "I'd sell Bolasie for 40-60 million" as Pardew was quoted this week... along with "Every player has a price." Their input is valued, but behind the scenes, in closed-door sessions and they rarely if ever make such public commentary.

Why would that person in that role have so much input to the business/finance side of the organization that he could confidently make those public comments? These statements, especially at this point of the season, are a distraction, a disruption and can tend only to cause friction among the players. For pete's sake, focus on the on-field issues and let the 'front office' do their job.

Suggestion: Antonio Cassano

Free agent since January because he hadn't been paid by his club since June the year before.

He admits he 'misses football'

Even Palace wages are better than nothing.

In a world in which Cambiasso plays for Leicester and Bojan for Stoke, is this such a far fetched idea?

£23 million profit from 1st Prem Season ...

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The club were promoted from the Championship in 2013, when they made only £3.5m profit on a £14.5m turnover. Financial results for the year ending June 2014 show turnover rose to £90.4m. "The improved profit stemmed mainly from increased broadcasting income, combined with prudent financial planning," chairman Steve Parish said.

Well, that worked out well. Anyone checked out the accounts which must have been released?

After game Pub away fan friendly

I'm meeting a couple of Hull supporting mates after the game, no colours or obvious northern accents, drinking hole on South Norwood side of the ground suggestions.

Is the Victory Club any good (walked past but never been in myself)...failing that spoons in the High Street I've seen mixed colours in before.

Jules contract extension confirmed by the man himself

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Vote For Yannick Bolasie As Premier League Player Of The Month

There is a link in this article to vote for Yannick Bolasie in the Premier League Player Of The Month for April.

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Buying a house

Just wondered if there was a more ridiculous process in life than trying to purchase a house?

I could ellaboarate but less is more..

Thoughts?

Palace in Saigon

Just moved to Vietnam for the summer to do some studying and teach English. Wondering if any BBS'ers were stationed out here and interested in catching a game or grabbing a beer. Based in sunny Saigon.

Suggestion: Jay Rodriguez

Might sound like a bit of a stretch, but would it be worth trying for this guy in the summer? Before his injury he was on his way into the World Cup squad, and he may find himself out of favour on his return, especially with Southampton probably looking to further improve in the summer for a real European push.

There's always the worry of the injury recurring, but we took Kelly in similar circumstances and he's turned out well. I feel like Rodriguez would fit the bill of a great all round striker for us, or an inside forward with great finishing.

Out of our reach and a stupid suggestion, or someone we should realistically try to push for?

Another volcano erupted

In Patagonia yesterday. Near my fovourite town Puerto Varas.

Career change/retraining/adult apprenticeship

I've worked in an office my entire working life in pretty low grade positions and after some recent health issues I've decided it's no longer for me. In fact I despise it. I'm now approaching 32 and have to make a change.

I would love to get a trade or retrain and wondered if anyone has an hands on experience of doing this at a later stage in life?

One draw back is I don't drive but I am starting to learn once I'm feeling a bit better which should open up more opportunities.

BBS Election vote 3.

.........................Week 2
Conservative.....................53....28.96%
Labour..............................58....31.69%
LibDem..............................11....6.01%
UKIP..................................29....15.85%
Green................................18.....9.84%
Other.................................3.......1.64 %
Wont vote/spoil ballot paper..9...4.92%
Moo

Crystal ball hull

2-1
Murray, Puncheon, Huddlestone
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IOS BBS App - are push notifications fixed for you?

Post here chums and let me know

Mad Max (PS4, Xbox One, and PC)

It seems like a mash up of a bunch of different games.

Yannick Bolasie - Golden Eagle

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Safe If we beat hull

Surely we need to celebrate this. It's what we set out to do this season and a win this weekend will secure it. Just because we've over achieved and might be targeting top half now doesn't mean we shouldn't celebrate achieving the original goal.

Saturday night will be a big one I hope!

Palace U21s

Palace U21s need to avoid losing their final two games by nine goals in total to win the league. They get nothing for it mind, apart from a home draw in the play offs. Would be at home to the 2nd placed team in the Northern Division 2.

Press Conference Live: Hull City (13:30 BST)

Watch live here.

WTF Is this??

Kids found this odd looking bone in one of the flowerpots in my back garden and I have absolutely no idea what it could be from. Looks like a claw but along the bottom it looks like there is a row of teeth.

Anyone got any ideas??

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Bolivian football kit abuse

A graphic designer has received "torrents of abuse" from South America over a picture of a new national football kit he sketched as a hobby.

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Happy Birthday Kiralyspyjamas

Happy Birthday Kiralyspyjamas, hope you have a great day in court today and get the result that you want;)

A good year for you with the job promotion and moving into your own flat soon.

Speroni's tonight to celebrate :lux::lux::lux:

Happy St George's Day

As the title suggests, happy St George's Day all.

Loyalty points (non ticket purchases)

Without wanting to start a debate on the pros & cons of such a scheme, what's the current position on collecting loyalty points for non-ticket purchases?

I hear examples of people being awarded points for club shop purchases. Was this ever officially 'rolled out?' And if it is up and running I guess we had all better start swiping our ST cards when we buy HT beers?

The only news story I can find on t'interweb refers to a 3 game trial period from November this season.

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Article on the Crystals

This may be of interest, it may not be.

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Best way of converting USD to GBP?

I have a USD balance in a brokerage account from my company sharesave. I stand to lose about £2k on a wire transfer direct to my HSBC account (based on a similar transaction that I made last year, hence not wanting to be shafted again), or about £1k on the 0.64 exchange rate the brokerage firm will apply to send me a cheque in GBP.

I looked into going via an intermediary like Thomas Exchange, but can't do that as the brokerage firm require that the payment is made to an account in my name rather than an intermediary.

Banks seem to be very secretive about the rates they'll apply to any given transaction, whether that be a wire transfers or to pay in a USD cheque. I'm obviously not expecting to get the market rate of 0.665 but 0.64 seems an excessive premium....

Lower Ticket Prices - TV Deal

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For the lazy few, here are the highlights: West Ham have become the first club to announce they will reduce season ticket prices as a result of the Premier League's record television deal. West Ham's cheapest adult season ticket that season will cost £289, down from between £620 and £940 for the 2014-15 campaign.

This is obviously more to do with the fact they realise they won't fill their new stadium at their current prices than the TV deal right? Will more teams start doing this thanks to the monster increase in TV money, or is this going to be the anomaly?

Either way its a good PR move for West Ham, as they could substantially increase their future fanbase if people are drawn to Premier League football at those prices. They are also vastly reducing their U-16 tickets to about £5 per match.

How big are Palace on Twitter?

For the first time ever (apparently) social networking site Twitter have revealed where each top flight club's followers are from.

Palace seem to be 16th/17th biggest everywhere, except Britain where we are 18th.

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Why does the PL season finish so late?

I'm sure this has been explained somewhere already, but I suddenly noticed this morning that the FL season finishes next weekend - while we've still got five fixtures to play. Is there a reason for this?

Rumour: Tim Krul

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Collection for Bradford Fire Memorial on Saturday

As you may be aware, this year marks the 30th anniversary of the Bradford City fire disaster in which 56 supporters lost their lives and hundreds more were injured.

The anniversary will be marked throughout the Football League and Premier League this weekend.

A minute silence will be held before our match and the supporters' trusts of Hull and Palace are hoping to hold a bucket collection at the stadium. In case this doesn't happen, and for those who can't be at the match, we've set up a justgiving page to raise money for the Burns Unit at Bradford University, which was set up in the wake of the fire.

Any donations - no matter how small - will be gratefully received. You can donate online here: To view the link you have to Register or Login

This is all been arranged as short notice as the CPST were only contacted by the Hulls fans who brought it to our attention (for which thanks) a short time ago so the bucket collection which would be inside the ground is looking a bit problematical - so does anyone here have quick access to either collection tins or collecting buckets and could bring them along early on Saturday? Any volunteers to shake them would be good as well.

Why We Mustn't Forget Sandy Denny

"With new music from Laura Marling, Florence + The Machine and Joanna Newsom to be released over the next few months, the influence of the first lady of British folk rock, the indomitable Sandy Denny, will be heard throughout 2015.
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Auschwitz Guard Trial

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Would a 21 year old back then have had any choice other than to follow orders?

Match Updates: Champions League 21/04

Bayern 1-3 Porto (SS5)
Barca 3-1 PSG (ITV)

Come on Porto

Nice touch from Leicester

Nice touch from Leicester,

West Ham - Managerial Machinations

I see Klopp has told West Ham to clip-klopp on.
(And there is a "state aid" enquiry into the Olympic stadium deal).

Champions League Seeding Change

Good change I think... league winning sides from the top 7 leagues and current holders will be ranked 1st in the draw

Quote:

“For the purpose of the draw, the 32 clubs involved in the group stage are seeded into four groups of eight. The first group comprises the titleholder (top seed) and the domestic champions of the seven top-ranked associations in accordance with the access list (see Annex A). "If the titleholder is one of the top seven associations’ domestic champions, the group is completed with the champion of the association ranked eighth. The other three groups are composed in accordance with the club coefficient rankings established at the beginning of the season”.

So if the top of the leagues don't change, next season will see these teams as the top seeds: Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Chelsea, Juventus, Paris St Germain, Zenit and Benfica + the Champions League winner.

If they are one of the top 7 leagues anyway then the 8th league will be included - Dutch (PSV)

A New palace arrival

Congratulations to Bubbs11, producer of the fantastic " A palace minute " has between himself and his lovely wife produced a beautiful daughter Katerina born this morning at 9.46 weighing in at 5lb 3oz. Welcome to the palace family Katerina. You join us at a great time.

Referee for Hull on Saturday

And it's a warm welcome back to Selhurst Park to Mark Clattenberg.

Three times in one season, we are so privileged to watch the great master at work.

Name a "Tinpot" Team who have NOT beaten Brighton

No, can't think of any.

Charlton want a new mascot

Charlton are looking for a new design for their mascots.
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It came as a great suprise to me their mascots weren't Clowns, may be the BBS should help our near neighbours with their quest.
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Red and Blue bowtie

Does anyone have a red and blue (Palace red and blue) bowtie I could borrow?

I've now ordered 3 online that have looked good but all have turned out to be more Barcelona red and blue than Palace. :bash:

If anyone could help I need it for Friday.

Thanks

Televised game pre Hull

Sky have Brighton v Watford

BT have Saints v Spurs


Not sure about everyone else but would love to watch the Brighton game in the stadium bars before our game, watching Guedioura stick a couple past them would be great.

Anyone know if the club will automatically show the PL game ?

Doncaster v Fleetwood highlights

Enjoy

Congratulations Brighton on a new achievement

If the boys in blue and white manage to secure one more point, then for the first time in their history they will have stayed 5 seasons continuously in one of the top two divisions in English football.

Marvellous stuff, I think a round of applause is called for. :p

Half & Half Scarves

I'm wondering if anyone here can help me on this one.

So for each match we see the vendors selling the half and half scarves to tourists. The scarves also have the date of the match on it so virtually valueluess post the game.

What happens to all these spare scarves?

Do they get binned, recycled, given to charity?

This must happen all over the country and I've always wondered about this.

unbelievable

you guys got to take a look at this..simply hilarious

un un un unbelievable.... I so stunned like vegetable? :love:
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Rumour: West Ham interested in McArthur

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Vauxhall Zafira Indicators

Need help!

I have a Vauxhall Zafira 2006 and the indicators have this thing where they don't stay in place you indicate and it goes back to central position.

My question is how do you cancel the indicators as they do not stay in place like on most cars where you just move the indicator back to the central position?

Thanks in advance

Staffie from the Hol R.I.P

Terribly sad news

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The Holmesdale Online 2 mins · We are very sad to hear about the passing of a true friend to the website "staffie" who has been a moderator of the message boards for a number of years, and a great help to many. He will be sorely missed by us at HOL Towers and a huge number of people he helped over the years. RIP staffie our friend. ‪#‎cpfc‬

RIP staffie

RIP staffie

Terribly sad news

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RIP staffie

Brighty and the Parish's seem very close...

Glenn Murray in Football League team of the decade

:lux:

April 19th 1969 Promotion

46 years ago this evening more than a few glasses were being raised to celebrate our first ever promotion to the top division after coming from 0-2 down to beat Fulham 3-2 and secure runners up spot to Derby. :lux:



In the 46 years that have passed we have only slipped out of the top two divisions for three seasons and have spent 15 seasons (fingers X soon to be 16) in the top division, despite some desperate fiancial times that would have finished off many clubs. Given a stable financial situation and continued good stewardship all being well we should be able to celebrate in 4 years time the 50th Anniversary of that wonderful promotion day as an established top flight club :p

migrant drownings

How should Europe react to the number of migrants trying to reach Europe in boats from Africa?

Should we be rescuing them and mounting patrols to ensure their safe crossing, or should we in the delightful words of Katie Hopkins be viewing them as vermin and doing nothing to protect them.

Or is there a third way that involves trying to understand why people are so willing to risk their lives to try and come here for a 'better life' and work to ensure their better life can happen at home.

Rumour: Emiliano Viviano

According to reports in Italy we are interested in signing this goalkeeper:



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Name a "Tinpot" Team who have beaten Brighton

Simple game I know, but since they appointed themselves a big club and now sneer at so many let's examine their record. I will start:



Brentford

Best premier league ref 14/15

Simple question we have all had enough of poor referees but lets see who people think has been the best ref in the premier league this season.



Your vote can be either based on Palace games you've watched or football as a whole.



All choices are referees who have reffed 10 or more PL games this campaign.

Fit Note Question

I have been off sick for 9 working days. I visited my GP after being off for 4 days as I wasn't getting better, this was last Monday 13th. My GP signed me off with a Fit Note covering the period 13th April to 20th April.



I only realised today that it doesn't cover the first 4 working days of illness and wanted to know if any knows as I've been off work for longer than 7 days whether it needs to cover the the initial 4 days as well? Or can I self-cert for the first 4 days.



Also are the dates inclusive? So if the note is dated 13th to 20th April, do I return tomorrow or Tuesday 21st?

Audible, Sonos and Android question.

I've just got Sonos and I'm a little bit in love with it. I can play Audible through Sonos with my laptop. But I'm struggling to do it via my phone. What I've read online seems contradictory and not successful. Has anyone managed to do it?



Please help!

Goals on Sunday

Yannick and Punch are the guests on next Sunday's show. Let's hope we don't get beat next Saturday.

Trim the fat

With Pardew keen to bring new players in to really push on over the summer, we are going to have to trim the fat from our squad. The question is who goes. This is our squad list at the moment.



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1. Julián Speroni



2. Joel Ward





3. Adrian Mariappa





4. Brede Hangeland





5. Paddy McCarthy





6. Scott Dann





7. Yannick Bolasie





8. Adlène Guedioura





9. Yaya Sanogo





10. Fraizer Campbell





11. Wilfried Zaha





13. Wayne Hennessey





14. Jerome Thomas





15. Mile Jedinak





16. Dwight Gayle





17. Glenn Murray





18. James McArthur





19. Zeki Fryers





20. Jonathan Williams





22. Jordon Mutch





23. Shola Ameobi





24. Lee Chung-Yong





25. Barry Bannan





26. Chris Kettings





27. Damien Delaney





28. Joe Ledley





29. Marouane Chamakh





34. Martin Kelly





36. Hiram Boateng





40. Pape Souare





42. Jason Puncheon



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I'd guess Bannan, Ameobi (unless he's given a coaching role), Fryers, Thomas, Campbell, Guedioura and Mariappa are the most likely to be deemed surplus to requirements. Whether or not we'll move them all on or not, and to where, is another question.

Suggested Team and Formation For: Hull (home)

-----------------Speroni-----------------------

Ward-----Dann---------Delaney-----Souare

-----------------Jedinak------------------------

Zaha----Puncheon------Chamakh----Bolasie

-----------------Murray--------------------------



Punch can drop deep to collect, with Chamakh in the hole. Press high up. Ful backs to get forward. Mcarthur to rest in a game where we shouldn't need his defensive abilities, after an excellent season - well done James.

picking the bones: needing a Plan D

so a couple of times (less since AP's arrival though) this season we've played games where the other teams has shut up the ******* shop been dire and beaten us by the odd goal.



what can we learn and take from these games into the rest of this and next season.





1. don't concede first in games like this: it gives the other team no impetus to try and attack, they'll put a million men behind the ball and we'll be ****ed.



2. dont get frustrated: THE BIGGEST POINT, professional teams will kick you and nudge and do everything they can to put you off your game, get up, get on with it, don't get involved and pick up needless bookings.



3. be patient: keep the ball, pass it around, drag them out, play football.



4 physical presence: needing someone who can mix it and disrupt things to make space for clever players and neat touches.



5: Maverick behaviour: if they're camping in their own half do unexpected things, pick up the pace, shoot from strange angles try things that are unconventional. shoot instead of cross, aim everything at goal and play for scraps. get it on target make the keeper think.





any other thoughts?

kai kai at the double

Anybody catch his two goals for Cambridge yesterday



30 yard free kick and and the other from outside the box



Wonder if he deserves a run out for us at the end of the season once the football league has finished.



Is Pardew likely to give our youth products a chance? he gave a few an outing in the toon cup game for them (in which kai kai scored on his debut for us)



Think he could save us a lot of money.

The Pitch for WBA game

I'm surprised not to see a thread about this.



Bolasie slipped 7 or 8 times when on the ball in the first 30mins, Zaha a lot too.

Yet they water the pitch more at HT....



Wrong studs? No training sessions on that pitch?



The pitch played into the hands of 'play the way you're facing' types - like WBA.



I can't see the logic of making the top layer so wet with our players, especially against a Pulis side. It's as if the groundsmen are still working to Pulis/Warnock instructions.

Guard of honour

Am I correct in thinking we may have to perform one of these for the Chelsea scum should they win the league (win their next two) before we meet them at Stamford bridge?



And won't we have to do the same for Slippy G for his last home game?



Please someone tell me I'm wrong on both counts :(

Suggestion: Davy Klaassen

Another top product to come from the Ajax academy. Following in the link of Eriksen and Siem De Jong, I think he looks the part at only 22 years of age. He plays in behind the Striker and scores goals, would he be a realistic capture for us? I think given the position we find ourselves in it would be a great opportunity to test himself on a bigger stage.



Maybe it's not a position where we need strengthening as we have a good strength in depth in that area. I do however feel he would be better than all our current options, and it's a position that if improved vastly improves us as a side.



Pardew signed Siem De Jong for Newcastle who unfortunately has been set beck with long injuries. Pardew said De Jong was the most technically gifted player he's ever worked with.



Could be a the type of signing that marks the transformation of the club to that next tier in quality.

banana barry - 'suspended by Bolton'

We all know Neil Danns is a knob but it appears, maybe, that him and Bazza may have had a ruckus in a hotel midweek.



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Subbing Jedi off at half time

So what does it mean? The guy has played every second for us (when available) since he signed and yet taken off today at half time.



Mass histeria below please...

Player Ratings And Reviews: Vs WBA (Home)

Sorry I haven't started one of these for a long while and so may have screwed this up - but here goes (Where is GF when you need him :) )

Today's programme

A guy at my work asked me to pick him up two (not sure why) and of course I completely forgot.



Does anyone know if the club sell these? I can't find anything on cpfc.co.uk.

Thank Christ Pulis left.

It would be tough having to watch that turgid dross every week. I suppose it was just such a relief to see a bit of organisation last year that we were blind to the anti football on show. We saw it from the other sides pov today.

Match Updates: Reading v Arsenal / Chelsea v Man Utd

why schedule both at same time?



Anyways, come on Reading

Who was the ref today?

**** him. He had an absolute shocker. Worst I've ever seen. Useless prick.

Found season ticket.

I have found a season ticket in my pub, I will hold it here. pm me for details if you have lost a season ticket in sutton recently, if it is yours then you can arrange to collect !

Recommendations on Seeing the Northern Lights

Mrs Selhurst300 has a significant birthday next year that ends in a zero and has indicated that she would like to see the Northern Lights.

I believe that this means more than a cheap weekend in Blackpool in the autumn and I would appreciate any recommendations BBSers might have as to when and where to go to optimise the chances of viewing the Northern Lights.

Ian Wright: I knew Pards would transform Palace

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Live Com and Updates: Crystal Palace v West Bromwich Albion

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Sicily

I am in Sicily. It's a bit odd. But Mount Etna is impressive.

Funny books and other products

This looks like an essential purchase for the young ones:

Sunderland game online, anybody have it?

Hey guys, I didn't get to see the full Sunderland game, is there any way I can watch the game online bar staffie's holmesdale downloads?



I know theres a website that has been posted on here and the HOL numerous times that allows you to watch full games in 4 separate videos. Anybody have the URL?



Many thanks:lux:

CPFC Monopoly

Available here...



We really are in the big time now



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Deposit return following a rental.

We have just moved out of a rental property, we had damp and rotten windows and after asking the landlord to fix these (he assured us he would) we were then giving a notice of repossession by him.



We've cleaned the property and been checked out by the letting agent, but the landlord reckons we have not done it to a suitable standard and is now seeking quotes for the work he reckons needs to be done.



Over the last few years, I've cleared sections of the garden that were causing problems to the neighbours, had a tree professionally removed as it was dead and a danger, has to spend £20-£30 a month on moisture traps and crystals to remove condensation and purchased a Karcher window vac to suck up excess moisture from the windows.



What course of action should I now take? He is tighter than a knats chaff and I reckon he will get the most expensive quotes and we will not have any deposit left.

Can I make a counter claim for the work I have done?

Has the letting agent screwed up by checking us out and not saying they had a problem with the properties condition?

Is there anything I can do?



Our deposit is held by the deposit protection service.



Many thanks in advance.

Jules Charity Quiz Night - May 14th

CRYSTAL Palace goalkeeper Julian Speroni will be the special guest at a quiz night in Reigate.



He will at Home-Start East Surrey's event on May 14 at St Mary's Church Hall in Chart Lane.



Starting at 7.30pm, it will feature football-themed questions.



An auction and raffle will also be held.



Home-Start East Surrey, based in Redhill, helps families with young children who are coping with challenges like domestic abuse, child abuse and multiple births.



Volunteers are trained to visit families in their homes in Redhill, Reigate, Tandridge and Oxted, with a recent extension in the area of coverage into the Mole valley.



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Ticket's are £15 per person? Who's up for creating a team???

Tomorrows game is MASSIVE,our cup final

No no no not Palace silly.Harlow Town FC.2 games to go and one point behind Needham Market who also have a superior goal difference.We are away to them tomorrow.My 12 year old son and I are booked on the coach and it`s party time,flags balloons the works.It`s a bit like a do or die Palace thing that we do every now and then,Stockport,Sheff Wed Brightscum semi etc.We could win there tomorrow,only manage a draw in our last game and still lose the title if Needham won their last game.Nerves are building already.



P W D L F A +/- Pts

1 Needham Market 44 32 4 8 94 39 +55 100

2 Harlow Town 44 30 9 5 104 55 +49 99

3 AFC Sudbury 44 27 5 12 83 50 +33 86

134,400 racist and other discriminatory abuse of Premier League footballers

A reflection of the mental health problems in people



134,400 racist and other discriminatory abuse of Premier League footballers posted on social media this season



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An enormous volume of racist, homophobic, sexist and other discriminatory abuse of Premier League footballers and clubs on social media has been revealed in new research for the game’s anti-discrimination organisation, Kick It Out.



The search of Twitter, Facebook, supporters’ forums and blogs, using key abusive terms with players’ and club names, refined to identify direct abuse, found 134,400 discriminatory posts this season, from August 2014 to last month.



The research has also highlighted the huge number of abusive posts received by some individual black players, finding that Mario Balotelli, of Liverpool, was sent more than 8,000 discriminatory posts on social media, of which more than half were racist. Danny Welbeck, who moved from Manchester United to Arsenal in September, received 1,700 abusive posts, exactly half involving racism. Daniel Sturridge was sent about 1,600 discriminatory posts, more than 60% abusing him on the grounds of sexual orientation.

55th in the World atm

On these rankings with a lot based on form and what league you're in. The 'MIGHTY' Palace are currently 55th. Bigger than AC Milan. :lux::D

Only six games left.

Looks so little on the home page. A yawning summer (winter here) here and no WC. What is everyone going to do?



I have the Copa America to look forward to. I have tickets for every Chilean game (National Stadium) including the final.

Chelsea ticket

Hi my card has been debited for my Chelsea ticket on my away season ticket but no ticket has turned up anyone in the same boat ?

Striking Distance

We learned on Saturday that Bolasie's prime range is about 6 yards. No problem. Let's hope he gets many, many more opportunities from close range. It's a lot better than seeing them sent airmail into the beer queue for beer.



My question is, who is our best player from distance? I say that in play it must be Puncheon. He seems most likely to get it on target from outside the box. Gayle has a strong leg too.



Set pieces it's obviously Punch or Jedi.



I don't need my goals scored from Matt Phillips range. I think most goals are scored from fairly close.



Also...who was the best from distance EVER in a Palace shirt?

Keeping it classy against WBA

Following on from the fantastic success of To view the link you have to Register or Login thread I would like to appeal to your good natures once more in the West Brom match.



Listen, I know this is a tough ask. I appreciate that feelings are running high. Pulis did the unthinkable.



He kept us in the greatest league on earth for the first time ever. He secured our future with a fantastic run of games.



I know this is not what we expect at Palace. I know we expect and demand crisis and failure.



But let's collectively step over this outrage. This blip in an otherwise unblemished record of failure.



Let's keep it classy against West Brom.



Who is with me?

The Holmesdale Cravatics

There seems to talk of a new group starting up at Palace, they go by the name of the Holmesdale Cravatics.



Does anyone know if any members post on here? Would love to get involved as I wear cravats to every match! Finally a group that I would fit into at Palace.



The account added me on facebook earlier and I've seen pictures of these lads. They look very intimating and I would like to know if I could find another cravat wearing buddy on here that would like to accompany me in introducing myself to the Cravatics. It's making me anxious just thinking about it, don't want them to "rough me up" or even worse strangle me with one of their cravats for trying to speak to them.

On The Beach

Has anybody booked a holiday through



Onthebeach.co.uk



Any feedback? Good, bad, indifferent?



Cheers.

Newzoids ..What did you think ?

Worthy of being hailed as the New spitting image ?



Watched last nights opener and i thought it was very good, wasn't quite as irreverent as spitting image used to be, but then the restraints on being pc are higher these days so it will never be as wicked as they were. All in all though i thought it did a fine job and was pretty funny in parts..

Press Conference Live: West Brom (home) PC

Is there one being done today does anyone and if so, any links etc?



I'd also be interested to see theirs out of pure curiosity too if anyone also has a link to that.



TIA :p

Vote Balotelli- Liverpool player of the year!

Mario Balotelli is receiving plenty of votes in Liverpool's 'Player of the Year' poll on their official website - after it was hijacked by Manchester United and Arsenal fans. (Daily Mail)

Voting seems like a good idea to me, pity it was a Wanker/Gooner idea. I voted for Mario

Discussion: New striker

What are our options?



Babacar

Bamford

Deeney

Austin

Afobe



I would be happy with any of those. Perhaps Deeney/Austin plus one of the others. I think Remy is probably out of our reach.

Suggestion: Christian Fuchs

Just noticed on the BBC Football site that Schalke defender Christian Fuchs, the Austria captain, 29, is out of contract in the summer.



A freebie worth looking at?



Christian Fuchs is an Austrian professional footballer who currently plays as a left back for Schalke 04. Fuchs is known for his strong crossing and direct free kick or indirect free kick skills. Wikipedia

Born: April 7, 1986 (age 29), Neunkirchen, Austria

Height: 1.86 m

Weight: 84 kg

Career start: 2002

Spouse: Michaela Fuchs (m. 2007–2012)

Current teams: Austria national football team (Defender), FC Schalke 04 (#23 / Defender)

Reggie Yates' Extreme Russia

Interesting insight into the far right nationalism that Russia is experiencing. First of a three part series on BBC3 if interested.

The Pie Thread

Curried Scallop.

Civil Service entitlements

I'm not one to join in civil service bashing, but just got this.



I sent my brother a birthday message to Ofgem, and got a reply to say he is on shared parenting leave - I expected that. It said he would be back in the office at start August. 3 and a half months :eek::lux:



Does that sound about right?

Suggestion: Cleverley

Would he be worth a look? Is he all that? Do we need him? I'm unsure on all these questions. Apparently Arsenal and Spurs in for him, although I find it hard to work out how he'd fit in their sides.



Would we be better placed giving Johnny a run? What about Lee Chung-Yong?

Newcastle 'ambition'

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Talk about subjectivity. If Palace had 34 million in the bank I'd be happy as hell.

Quote:

Newcastle had more than £34m sitting in the bank at the end of the last financial year, the club’s full accounts have revealed. The club announced record profits last month of £18.7m for the 2013-14 season, but the full accounts registered with Companies House on Monday show that £38.6m was transferred into Newcastle’s bank account as a cash-flow sum – paying off a £4.5m overdraft and leaving £34.1m available. The revelation has infuriated Newcastle fans who claim the owner Mike Ashley has little ambition beyond remaining in the top flight and benefiting from the lucrative Premier League TV deals.

Brutal AND stupid.

What is it with this sort of murderous moron and filming themselves with their ill gotten gains ? The sheer waste and vicousness of this crime is beyond any human comprehension...



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Match Ticket Information Hull (H) 25th April

Sold out just in case anyone missed it :p



Pretty cool that we're selling out a nothing game for us a week and a half in advance against Hull

Next Premier League powerhouse....ARTICLE

Not getting carried away but a good article..... GOD IT FEELS GOOD :)



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Bradford fire 1985

Chairman linked to at least 8 fires before the one that took 56 lives:



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Autograph Query

Morning guys,



A friend managed to get my shirt signed by a few players at the club but I'm struggling to work out all of the players - can any of you help? I've added two photos, one of them all and one with the two I'm struggling with...



So far I've got:



McArthur

Ledley

Dann

Ward

Murray

Campbell

Mariappa

Speroni



Thanks!



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Copper runs over suspect

Then his boss claims he saved his life as they would've shot him to death :rolleyes:

Crystal ball WBA

Score, scorers, attendance please.



Palace 2 Worst Bum Itch 0

Murray Zaha

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Dawson subbed off after torrential, justified abuse.

ISS Pass

Twitter 10 Minutes until an incredibly bright #ISS pass over the UK. For times and info visit To view the link you have to Register or Login …



How incredibly bright I wouldnt know West to East

Wilfred Zaha day

Not sure if there has been suggested before but the 13th of May is approaching which is the 2 year anniversary of Zaha's exploits against Them.

Was thinking from now on we should make every 13th of May Wilfred Zaha day :lux:.Not sure how we would celebrate it any suggestions?

Suggested Team and Formation For: West Bromwich Albion

.........................Speroni

Ward. ..........Dann. .....Delaney. .........Kelly



.................McArthur. .....Jedinak



Zaha. ................BOLASIE. ...............Puncheon



........................MURRAY



Team pretty much picks itself , let's see what Bolasie can do in the number 10 role in a home game

Match Updates: A. Madrid v R. Madrid/Juve v Monaco - Champions League quarters

Madrid derby is on ITV



Come on Atleti

Are we a dirty team?

Apparently, we commit almost 14 fouls per game - the highest in the league.



Can't say I've ever noticed it when watching games. Sh*t refs or are we a bit niggly?



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Fair Pay to Reading....

Last season in the away end....this is what greeted the Leicester City away supporters.....i'd forgotten and just noticed it on one of ours facebook page....nice gesture from Reading fc it has to be said....how many football clubs can you think of that do roll out the red carpet for travelling opposition football fans.........i'll have a think about it.........

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