Info - police advice? Though I don't think it was considered particularly ultra-moody (except if it's Palace fans against Uncle Ron)

nice to see PLB is moving a bit today. Small amounts but moving nonetheless I think 13K today so far

Tough Fixture list.. [Link] Saturday Sheff U, Monday FA Cup with West Ham then replay on the Weds !!!!

Palace use to play a lot of sundays,because of sainsburys

I think number of clubs experimented with Sundays outside of the old 1st Division and Friday eves as well at that time. Theory was you might tempt top flight fans to visit. We played Carlisle on a Sunday that season to. For 2 million quid Marcus mumford can sing his whole album at the first game :D

Can anyone recall why the 5 0 Palace win was played on a Sunday in 1985 ?? [Link]

Take your point Lurker, but can't see anyone coming for PK with a viable offer in the summer, been out injured a fair bit this season. Rudoni still v young and needs experience. Good chance of keeping hold of both I'd say. Agree that those 2 probably are the one's to watch of the bunch.

KT2 problem is of those we have 2 (Kalambayi and Rudoni) who would really look good at this level - so the chances are better than us will be looking at them. And I wouldn't blame them for taking a chance to see how far they can go.

Our high number of young players puts us in with a better chance of a decent squad next year. All depends on how things pan-out, but only takes 2 or 3 of our youngsters to really kick on by then (Osew, NGW, Rudoni, Roscrow, PK, Hartigan, even Wood all have potential) and we can focus on fewer, higher quality additions in the summer window.

CW I keep hearing this but the funny thing is I've only once in 6 years seen it actually happen where parents have got out of control. Sadly though I've watched far too many refs aggravate parents and I'm not talking about dodgy decisions. I'm talking about home players being allowed to get away with what would be a straight red for violent conduct. In fact far from petulant parents its the petulant kids and the refs who have no interest in dealing with them that's the issue. The amount of injuries and lucky escapes I've witnessed from players literally just kicking opponents that refs have called fair challenges is atrocious. And I am not talking 50-50 or opinion, I'm talking about players violently having their legs kicked out from under them when the ball isn't even near where they've kicked. Studs first challenges, forearms to the face, sliding and karate kicking an opponent, punching. Sad thing is I've also seen a few brilliant refs who can take the same kids and ref/coach the game into an enjoyable experience - because they're good at it, not because of anything to do with the parents.

Spit - who said we cant sing the champagne song anymore? Tbf I don't remember hearing it for a while now.

“It’s not football any moooorrre!!” 🤪

the way football gone with,money,vars,not heading the ball,hardly tackle,cant sing champagne song,BRING BACK THE 80S !!!!

Lurker-I’m surprised anyone wants to ref kids games these days as the parents are all so aggressive and think their kid is a genius, in return for 15 quid a game or some such pittance

Given that there seems a proven link between heading the ball regularly and dementia that is probably the lesser of 2 evils

spartan there will be anyway when you get clowns like the ref my son's team got yesterday who saw nothing wrong with a kid trying to kick the ball with his foot directly next to/over the head of an averaged size 15 year old.

JtD - re- banning heading the ball for kids, there will probably be more head injuries from boots flying in at head height BECAUSE they are not allowed to head the bloody ball.

Kite - if you bring your own cushions, yes 😬

Do we get padded seats at NPL ?

I doubt we'll get more than half of the recruitment right. Roscrow, McLoughlin, O'Neill, Trott, NGW, Lamy, McDonald, Pinnock, Connolly, are not exactly surpassing our expectations (some of them are decent players but not being sold into the championship any time soon). I'd imagine it's pretty much the norm that you aim for four good additions and end up with two and a couple of disappointments across almost every club. A couple of clubs always outliers in recruiting very well and a few outliers in recruiting terribly. Would be nice to be an outlier but not going to expect it.

@Isthmian. We beat them twice in same year [Link]

SFA bans headers for kids [Link]

Doobs Sanders isn't ours

OI that was the point I was already making

If we were able to get into a position where we could keep hold of the likes of Leo and Rudy, to play alongside the likes of Paul K and Sanders, I imagine we could be pretty decent in this division over the next few years. Youngest squad in the division by )12 months, so will hopefully get better...