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Crystal Palace vs WBA - Match Thread - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 10-05-2018
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Cyrille fires past future Baggie Paul Barron to secure three points at Selhurst Park, 4th October 1980
We all go down, we all go down, we all go down together. The journey that began eight years ago, and has lasted most of this decade, comes to an end on Sunday afternoon at Selhurst Park with what may be Big Dave's last game at the helm. On the day we commenced this spell in the Prem with a 6-0 hammering at Stamford Bridge, Darren Moore was still in his playing career at Burton Albion. Few of us had heard the names Peter Odemwingie or Saido Berahino. Twenty-year-old Salomon Rondon had just made his debut in the Spanish top flight, while lifelong Albion fan Sam Field had just celebrated his twelfth birthday.
It's been a long and not entirely happy voyage to this sorry conclusion, but we've had our pride restored in recent weeks, and can still avoid finishing bottom. If this is the end for Big Dave in the dugout as well, then it'd be great to see him finish his time in charge unbeaten, too. We know that Roy is a professional and we'll get no favours from him, but here's hoping we can get the better of Palace on Sunday, as a statement of intent that in twelve months' time, we'll all once again be going up together.
RE: Crystal Palace vs WBA - Match Thread - silverbaggie - 11-05-2018
Few of us had heard the names Peter Odemwingie or Saido Berahino.
Quite a few of us would prefer not to hear those names ever again. Neither of them did their careers any favours by forcing moves away from the shrine by throwing various tantrums.
On a positive note lets hope that our performance at Palace has Woy banging his head on the hoardings again.
RE: Crystal Palace vs WBA - Match Thread - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 11-05-2018
(11-05-2018, 08:19)silverbaggie Wrote: Few of us had heard the names Peter Odemwingie or Saido Berahino.
Quite a few of us would prefer not to hear those names ever again.
Yeah, that was more or less what I was implying. The Premier League journey has given us some rotten moments as well as good ones, and sometimes there's no harm in bringing one chapter to an end and starting anew.
RE: Crystal Palace vs WBA - Match Thread - drewks - 11-05-2018
....a lot of truth in that last line Ska'd; now that the agony of waiting for the inevitable is over, I'm actually thinking that NOW is a turning point for the club.
I do realise that the Championship is by no means easy - far from it - but I really hope that the hierarchy will reassess what is important, and bring back the values that this club has always held dear. It's not about survival at all costs, it's also about entertainment
RE: Crystal Palace vs WBA - Match Thread - BaggieSteve - 12-05-2018
I suspect few will share my view but I don't have the same level of loathing to Odemwingie and Berahino that others may. Like nearly every one on here, i regard their behaviour as poor and incredibly stupid but I also believe that people make crap decisions for what they believe to be the right reasons and then have to live with their cock ups afterwards. For both of them, their decisions were pretty catastrophic for their own careers, and they had a seriously negative impact upon the Albion. However, I reckon all of us, at some point in our lives, have made some pretty bad calls which may have adversely affected others. What I do believe is that in Odemwingie we had a natural finisher who still is, I think, our top scorer in the PL and, in Berahino, an incredibly talented young player who scored some superb goals for us. They both made really bad decisions for which, as we say in Scotland, they got pelters but they also gave us some great moments and I think I'd rather remember those.
RE: Crystal Palace vs WBA - Match Thread - 4evaabaggie - 12-05-2018
Baggiesteve, I agree with most of your post, they ruined their careers and they put a stain on Albion, I would rather remember the good than regret and let the bad eat away at me .... I disagree that we all have made bad decisions that have adversely affected others ..... I for one have not having worked for three decades for a blue light service ..... I am sure there are others in the same boat ... young men getting to rich to quick believe their hype and make mistakes ..... to err is human, to forgive Devine .......
RE: Crystal Palace vs WBA - Match Thread - Ska'dForLife-WBA - 12-05-2018
(12-05-2018, 00:04)BaggieSteve Wrote: I suspect few will share my view but I don't have the same level of loathing to Odemwingie and Berahino that others may. Like nearly every one on here, i regard their behaviour as poor and incredibly stupid but I also believe that people make crap decisions for what they believe to be the right reasons and then have to live with their cock ups afterwards.
Odemwingie I've thawed out towards, not least because of his gesture last month of voluntarily flying in from Indonesia to play the charity game at Halesowen. My cousin was there and got chatting to him after the match, and suffice it to say that he is a top bloke in person. I suspect he still bears grudges against some individuals at Albion, and he's said some saft things on Twitter (a crime shared by some hundreds of millions of people, not least the leader of the free world), but as a man I think he's probably sound.
But Berahino... I really, really struggle to see him ever doing anything like Odemwingie did last month. Everything he's ever said or done points to him being an obnoxious waste of space with an ego he couldn't control, and probably never will.
People do, of course, make crap decisions for what they believe to be the right reasons, but if their idea of the right reason is "because the entire universe revolves around me and the sun shines out of my nitrous-oxide-emitting arsehole", then I reserve the right to judge them very, very harshly.
RE: Crystal Palace vs WBA - Match Thread - silverbaggie - 12-05-2018
Yes I watched that charity match on YouTube and saw that another of our errant sons got a hat-trick. Namely Lee Hughes.
One of the best moments for me was a little lad, probably no more than 7 maybe 8 years of age, hit the post when a real thunderbolt of a shot.
RE: Crystal Palace vs WBA - Match Thread - Dingle-Dingle - 12-05-2018
It`s that little voice in the ear....... "Hi it`s your advisor/agent. You are worth more than that so I can cream some more from you".
DD
RE: Crystal Palace vs WBA - Match Thread - talkSAFT - 13-05-2018
Halftime - no comment! Very boring. Where's Phillips?