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*Guardian. From the Chris Wilder thread

In all cases, Weetabix have nearly zero torsional rigidity, so are useless as a building block for a body (particularly tendon / muscle / bone)

Presumably there is no value because they don’t need the space. They need to renovate of course, but looks practically impossible based on the location / space and the funds they could realistically allocate. This is not a case of ‘build it and they will come’. Too much competition from better...

I'm going all in

Not sure if you're up to date with you're history, but Palace are currently the oldest football club in the world, which aligns quite nicely with their stadium. So Steve would find his day to day steeped in all of that history. On top of that allure, how many other clubs are about to spend...

Always amuses me when people tell us that it can’t last because ‘future players will insist on higher wages and release clauses’. It’s such a basic logic failure. They seem to think that because some players have been sold for huge profits, that all players can argue they will be worth tens of...

Yep I don't think that many players think about stability and the plan as much as we'd assume they would. All of the rest of the points about the long-term plan are absolutely valid. In their defense, this was the aim with De Boer. Although he was given only four games to make the change...

* NEW RESEARCH JUST IN * My dad said that his many times great-great-great (etc) grandfather played football at a field in Brighton in the early 1800's, thus making Brighton the oldest club in the world* Pinging Paul B now to get the 1901 nonsense changed to reflect our newly invented...

Luckily for the world's truly oldest league clubs there are actual professionals who dedicate their time to this sort of thing. And point out it's bollocks. How very much in keeping with Palace. https://spiksley.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/01.-cp-11-may-update-2.pdf tl;dr - it's not true.

May I respectfully suggest that you divorce that ABSOLUTE HEATHEN. Mint and chocolate is an abomination

As of 5th July, you have lost players that accounted almost 40% of your minutes last year. In the 'minutes played' table, you've kept your top 5 players, but positions 6 and 7 are gone. So perhaps many of the individual's you've released 'never played at all last season', but you've definitely...

Of COURSE it lies. Otherwise you'd just chuck a ton of money on the exact same sequence every year, certainly the top ten if you're worried about the three promoted teams. But precisely because the table lies, nobody is foolish enough to do so.

Ahhh this old chesnut. I think that you'll find in a low scoring game (like football), it is very common that the table does lie. That randomness is one of the reasons why it is the most heavily gambled-upon sport. Much analysis has happened over the years to argue exactly the opposite of...

That is a genius plan, simple but perfect, it's a swiss watch of an idea! Tbh, I'm wondering if you shouldn't have bee na bit more discreet about announcing it publically, because there is a risk that other clubs now might steal this gem. I'm not even sorry, but I'm just emailing Paul Barber...

Tbf, I heard this too. My source in El Gaish say their board are fuming, as they were in the front running, fending off late bids from both Pyramids and the Champions, Zamalek. They had no idea a British club was also in for him! So we’ll played to Palace to beat off all the competition from...

: preach :

An interesting graphic from Experimental 3-6-1 on squad churn - obviously from the current standpoint, so may change rapidly if a load of those ex-Palace players re-sing.

My bad, just double-checked and he's actually arriving at the perfect time, new stand development just finishing up I believe? "Building works will start at the end of the 2018/19 season. Works are expected to take around two years to complete. The existing Main Stand will remain in operation...

Hahaha indeed. They've probably sent him the renders for the redeveloped stand. And maybe some highlight vids of Wilf's best bits (over the past 6 seasons). Got him all excited. Would be priceless to see the look on his face when he arrives at Stad de Clad