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I think on the whole your Post is accurate and I agree (but will keep my Sky) but the description / definition of provincial applied to Palace is a bit out- its what they would be calling us if the boot was on the other foot !Provincial - an inhabitant of the regions outside the capital city of a country, especially when regarded as unsophisticated or narrow-minded.
Tyke we were discussing it earlier and I agree, 1 season would be nice. But I wouldn't want it to be regular. I feel we'd lose the things I like about rovers, family feel, down to earth players etc.
For me, today highlighted the problem of money in football, and how it ruined it.A mediocre provincial club like crystal Palace can afford 150k a week players, they get crowds less than 3x ours. It's not a meritocracy, it's just about who can scrabble to get to the Premier league for the big pay day. Nah, you can shove it up yer arse. It's all about the football league for me, the Premier league is completely and utterly irrelevant, and I'm canceling my sky sports subscription tomorrow. Please don't get me wrong, this isn't sour grapes. I genuely think the Premier league is shite, ruined by the obscene amounts of money.
The whole EPL thing is really weird. We spend pretty much all our time trying to avoid relegation and getting the very occasional win over the top six which is normally the highlight of our season. We have learnt a style of football which is defend for our lives and hit teams on the break. We aren’t going to make top 6 or even top 8 we are highly unlikely to get into Europe and even if we did it would be a disaster as we don’t have the squad to compete. We are desperately trying to improve our ground but have been for 5 years + and it looks like at least another 5 before we succeed, predominantly because we play our player so much we can’t afford a new stadium, but we have the pay them fortunes or they won’t want to come to us. The atmosphere at most EPL clubs is woeful but we try to be the odd ones out in that respect. On the plus side we do see some incredible players, we do get that occasional win over Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal and we do sometimes get opportunities in the cup which is why we, the fans, wanted to win it so much yesterday. I think some of your fans are unnecessary harsh on your team after yesterday. We had the fortune of scoring early and the timing of the second couldn’t have been better. I think if you could have grown into the game and kept it 0-0 for 30 mins we would have had a very difficult afternoon but after the first goal your crowd and some players seemed to lose belief and it went a bit quiet. I wish you well for the rest of the season and have a sneaking suspicion you will be at Wembley at the end of May. Good luck!! I suspect many Palace fans will be supporting you if you do.
I would have thought most fans of every club who's not been there would want just one season in the Premier League mixing it with the big boys. If the team survives? Brilliant - that'll be at least two years - a bit like Huddersfield now!If you want great stories to tell the kids about, I'm sure 'that one season where we won at Liverpool, drew at Man City, and nearly stayed up' is more interesting than endless tales about not winning at Walsall in so many years.Getting into Europe - possible for a relatively small club like Bournemouth nowadays - will also bring about stories when the inevitable 'dropping back down a couple of divisions' becomes a reality!
Quote from: Rigoglioso on February 18, 2019, 11:07:23 pmI would have thought most fans of every club who's not been there would want just one season in the Premier League mixing it with the big boys. If the team survives? Brilliant - that'll be at least two years - a bit like Huddersfield now!If you want great stories to tell the kids about, I'm sure 'that one season where we won at Liverpool, drew at Man City, and nearly stayed up' is more interesting than endless tales about not winning at Walsall in so many years.Getting into Europe - possible for a relatively small club like Bournemouth nowadays - will also bring about stories when the inevitable 'dropping back down a couple of divisions' becomes a reality!Agreed. You must be mental if Prem isn't your dream being a Rovers fan. England to win the World Cup and Rovers to get in the Prem are the two football dreams for me
My football utopia would be winning Tier 3 like we did at Brentford, then going all Groundhog Day. Forgetting it had ever happened and doing again the next season. Over, and over, and over again...I have no interest whatsoever in making it to the PL, because that could only be done with an obscene injection of cash in the current climate. And if that happened, my club would no longer be my club.
Quote from: Move DRFC on February 19, 2019, 04:31:37 pmQuote from: Rigoglioso on February 18, 2019, 11:07:23 pmI would have thought most fans of every club who's not been there would want just one season in the Premier League mixing it with the big boys. If the team survives? Brilliant - that'll be at least two years - a bit like Huddersfield now!If you want great stories to tell the kids about, I'm sure 'that one season where we won at Liverpool, drew at Man City, and nearly stayed up' is more interesting than endless tales about not winning at Walsall in so many years.Getting into Europe - possible for a relatively small club like Bournemouth nowadays - will also bring about stories when the inevitable 'dropping back down a couple of divisions' becomes a reality!Agreed. You must be mental if Prem isn't your dream being a Rovers fan. England to win the World Cup and Rovers to get in the Prem are the two football dreams for meWhat gets me to attend games on a Saturday is the belief that we have an equal chance of competing and beating the team we're up against. Being in the PL would do nothing, absolutely nothing to soften the misery of seeing my team arseholed week in and week out.Between the two of us, Move DRFC, I'm damned sure I know who is mental on this matter.