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Crystal Palace Thread 2006/07

Nice One Sushi Pookey!



( A bit belatedly)

I'd love to know more about the secrets of Selhurst Park, It wasn't built by Hawksmoor was it? ;)
 
We've just bought Selhurst Park back off Ron Noades for £12m :eek:

This is obviously great news for the club :)

I would still like to see us return to Crystal Palace though
 
RaverDrew said:
We've just bought Selhurst Park back off Ron Noades for £12m :eek:

This is obviously great news for the club :)

I would still like to see us return to Crystal Palace though
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Listening to the news reports today, this sounds like a major coup - apparantly Noads didn't know that Jordan was behind the consortium bidding for the ground. He sold it to Jordan without even knowing it!
 
Uncle Ron's been...

SHAFTED !!! :D

Simon Jordan said:
Six and a half years ago, when I bought Palace, I bought it in a manner which was using someone else to buy the club for me to get what I thought was the best deal.

"There were various protagonists involved in the mix which I felt would possibly exploit the opportunity for me to buy the club in the manner which was best for the club to be bought in.

"Now, over the last six and a half years, the club has changed dramatically. We've had some success and we've had a lot of re-building to do, but a lot of good things have happened.

"We've been in the Premiership earlier than we thought we would be, but unfortunately we didn't stay there.

"We've put ourselves in probably our most financially credible position, we've sold players for enormous amounts of money, we've developed a tremendous Academy to bring young players through, we've bought an American soccer academy to feed our UK operation.

"But one of the things that has been on my mind for six and a half years is the freehold to Selhurst Park.

"Recently, I've been hearing various rumours that Selhurst Park had been sold and that Crystal Palace had been offered, by Ron Noades, the opportunity to buy Selhurst Park and had shown no interest whatsoever.

"The facts of the matter are that Crystal Palace had had very little dialogue with Ron Noades and the reason for that is because Selhurst Park has been sold and it's been sold to me.

"I bought Selhurst Park through a structure that was set up over the last two weeks and I'm not so sure that Ron is aware of who he has sold it to, but he's sold it to me.

"That's not a surprise though as he didn't know who he was selling the club to six and a half years ago.

"As far as I'm concerned, it's a re-affirmation of what I said when I took over. It's a significant development for the club in terms of what has been a big concern to the supporters and a big concern to me in terms of the ownership of the freehold.

"I now have this ownership and am looking forward to enhancing the football club as a whole and working with a very progressive council who have been very good to us as a tenant and I expect them to be very good to us as a freeholder.

"I said this was what I wanted to do and I've done it in the way I wanted to do it, in a manner and through a structure, because my ambitions, devotion and interest level is firmly with Crystal Palace.

"That makes it my Achilles Heel in negotiations and I wasn't prepared to be exploited on that basis when the opportunity came around for the price to be prohibited.

"I've now paid the right price for this freehold and now this gives the Football Club the opportunity to do what plans I have had over the last six years and puts everything into place like I said I would do.

"That's the announcement that I wanted to make and to clear up the nonsense and the rumours and obviously also inform Ron that I've bought his freehold."
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:D :D :D
 
RubberBuccaneer said:
So where does everyone drink then before and after?
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I'm going! I'm meeting the 1927 boys in the Ship*.

£25 too! WTF?! Yowch!

*Note to CP hoolies. We're a bunch of faded, embittered old boy CCFC fans, so if you're looking for trouble, you'll definitely be in the wrong place.
 
pathetic performance :(

Morrison especially. I hate to say it, but it really does look like Taylor has lost the dressing room.
 
He's clueless :rolleyes:

The only reason he has any success with the u21's is because he has a squad of the country's best in-form youth going out there desperate to perform and impress regardless of who is in charge.

With exception to the loss of AJ, our squad is stronger than last years, they just look demoralised, lost, and running around like headless chickens. He is playing them out of position time and time again, with no game plan whatsoever. Gutless, no flair, players shockingly unfit, players falling out with each other and he has the cheek to publicly blame the players ?

He needs a miracle to get our team playing properly. Picking the right team selection would be a start. Personally, I'd rather we cut our losses and hand him his p45 in the morning before we end up turning into fuckin Millwall.
 
RaverDrew said:
He's clueless :rolleyes:

The only reason he has any success with the u21's is because he has a squad of the country's best in-form youth going out there desperate to perform and impress regardless of who is in charge.
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I disagree. In fact I remember the FA inexplicably sacking him a few years ago after he stormed qualification, and then the team flopped.

I think it's more that international management is pretty different to club management. Everyone slags off sven, for instance, but he has a pretty shit-hot club management record.
 
come on the Palace big game for us Barnsley at Home tacking my

5 year old son to his first game :D with a few of his mates *wish me luck*

we can`t keep losing can we ? :(
 
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