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Memory Lane Memories and nostalgia about Crystal Palace F.C |
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yep cracking opener 3-3 on a sweltering day, Osborn grabbing a point with a header in the final seconds.
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May be wrong but I thought I remembered that Coppell offered for a double of Shearer and Le Tiss, but fell through 'cause Le Tiss wouldn't move. Maybe my old memory playing up though.
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Slight blunder there then, though it's not guaranteed he would have been right for Palace, but he wasn't exactly shit was he
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The fee was agreed with Man City who thought they had agreed a deal with Geoff, he then backed out last minute when Wolves offered more money. Dalglish wanted Thomas but Blackburns chairman vetoed the deal as he didnt think Thomas was worth the money |
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i have a vague recollection that Bright and Armstrong didn't get on, i don't recall if it was personal or just when they were on the field.
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I also remember being strongly linked with Teddy Sheringham a year or two later. Turning on the radio, cheering a Sheringham goal and then realising that hadn’t actually signed for us but for Forest for whom he had just scored against us.
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The fact that we could have had Bright, Armstrong and Collymore even after losing Ian Wright is one of the depressing things of that era.
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[QUOTE=swissroll;14015177]The fee was agreed with Man City who thought they had agreed a deal with Geoff, he then backed out last minute when Wolves offered more money.y/QUOTE]
And Thomas was a boyhood city fan and used to stand on the kippax with his late father
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Would love to know what would have happened in alternative universe if we had been more forward thinking and sensible with recruitment back in the early 90s. History has shown how many good players we possessed in that era because of what they went on to achieve later in their careers post Palace etc. Paul Williams was a decent player too and would have been a perfect sub or back up forward if we had a first team front two of Armstrong-Cole or Collymore. Noades really let the squad stagnate and get weaker and weaker. I think we only signed Darren Patterson a reserve full back in the summer of '92 when we should have been regenerating the nucleas of the team which came 3rd a year earlier. |
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Yes we were defo keen on him before he left Millwall for Forest. Think they offered bigger wages but not sure he would have joined us because of the rivalry. He left them for Spurs after just one season.
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If only it was that easy, Collymore was a nightmare to manage by all accounts, and clearly had a strained relationship with then assistant boss Alan Smith. Every time I watched the reserves at Plough Lane you could see Stanley had undoubted ability. Lets not forget he was a young lad away from home (Similar to Wilf at United) I remember reading for the first 18 months he was with us Collymore was still going back to Cannock one/twice every week and was clearly struggling to settle. RE: Lack of transfers 1992/1993 - we spunked so much money in 1992 and had very little to show for it. Mortimer cost us 500k and was a disaster, we lost 600k on Gabiaddini going to Derby 5 months after we'd signed him. 1m+ for a club of our size averaging 15k attendances wasn’t feasible (don’t forget the tv deals didn’t exist back then) I think Noades was prepared to let Sir Steve reinvest the money from the proposed sale of Thomas to Blackburn but that then fell through. When we purchased Williams he struggled for fitness and then struggled to get any sort of form in the direct system we played. He was much better with ball to feet and never really got a chance to show his ability. Took him almost a year to score his first goal away to Birmingham
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Geoff thomas was going to move to Blackburn just after shearer signed but he had such a stinker of a game (very unusual for him) v them on the opening day in front of a mightily unimpressed jack walker, their rich owner, that he changed his mind.
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2.8m (rising to 3m) with Thomas being paid 8k a week. Think Arsenal had been looking at him as well. 12 months later he joined Wolves for £800k.
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If Collymore was a young player today he would have a much better chance of a more fulfilled career. Young players are so pampered if he showed the merest hint of his undoubted talent we would never have let him go in another era. I think we offered Millwall Stan and Jamie Moralee part ex for Chrissy A. Mick Mc took Moralee ��
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No wonder we went down.
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I love Steve as much as the next man but tactically we were all plan A and no evolution.
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Persisting with Coleman upfront in the latter part also did not help.
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Always thought it was a strange signing despite the modest fee. Never had the physique to be a top player and lacked any pace to dictate a game. He was the stand out player at Sutton and recommended to Steve by Billy Smith who was then Carshalton manager. Maidstone called it in the earlier post.
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