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[ASCPFC]

Jerry Murphy?? 🤣 I suppose him and McGoldrick did both play for Ireland, so easy mistake

Murphy was a tad earlier.

 

[cryrst]

Smurf had left Palace about 5 years earlier . I seem to recall MacGolderick got a late goal for us that gave us a bit of hope for the return leg

Sorry yes got the first letter right 🤦🤔😁

 

[ASCPFC]

Sorry yes got the first letter right 🤦🤔😁

Murphy was one of our best players but largely forgotten these days.

 

[rikz]

I still say he’s not, Steve Coppell built a team that finished 3rd from players that came from Bristol Rovers, Crewe, Aylesbury, Dulwich Hamlet, Ten-em-bee etc etc, that will never ever be repeated with all the money being thrown around now. We were 7 minutes from winning the cup with him as well.
Yes Glasner won us the cup and he improved players and in our prime under him we were very enjoyable to watch, but he’s still second best to sir Steve for me

Great memories under Coppell but the game now is incomparable. Back then the english game was technically terrible, the players pre match warm up still included a couple of pints and pack of crisps, yeah we finished 3rd, playing hoofball all season.

 

[cryrst]

Great memories under Coppell but the game now is incomparable. Back then the english game was technically terrible, the players pre match warm up still included a couple of pints and pack of crisps, yeah we finished 3rd, playing hoofball all season.

Perfect warm up though 😁

 

[mtp1958]

Murphy was one of our best players but largely forgotten these days.

who spud he was ok , was due tobe subbed against stoke scored while standing with the palace supporters , ok maybe not that far , sub told to sit down and I think we got a draw , talking about how funny it was on the train back to london

 

[dg1937]

What a load of s***. Allardyce ffs

And no Dick Graham?!

 

[Casual]

You can only beat who’s in front of you. So if the standard was soo bad, where was the good quality football?
Serie A was great at the time.
3rd in England is 3rd in England.
Do you think the Brazilian/argentinian leagues were great at the time?
No. football has evolved and they’ve all come over here.
We had Martyn, Thomas, Salako , Wright in and around the England team.
Don’t knock the team under Coppell , great team IMO. Full of battlers.

Great memories under Coppell but the game now is incomparable. Back then the english game was technically terrible, the players pre match warm up still included a couple of pints and pack of crisps, yeah we finished 3rd, playing hoofball all season.

 

[Elwissthebest]

I still say he’s not, Steve Coppell built a team that finished 3rd from players that came from Bristol Rovers, Crewe, Aylesbury, Dulwich Hamlet, Ten-em-bee etc etc, that will never ever be repeated with all the money being thrown around now. We were 7 minutes from winning the cup with him as well.
Yes Glasner won us the cup and he improved players and in our prime under him we were very enjoyable to watch, but he’s still second best to sir Steve for me

Agree 100 percent. Coppell any day of the week. Bromley Monkey's point about the paucity of resources he had to work with is the telling point.
Coppell put in years and years. By comparison Glasner has breezed through. And Steve Coppell NEVER thought he was too good for the place, unlike the present incumbent.

Incidentally, it is a pointless argument to award the gong to Glasner on the basis of the claim that football is more sophisticated nowadays. You can only deal with what's in front of you and Coppell did, year in, year out. Only one legend in this comparison and it isn't the one who threw all the toys out of the pram.

 

[Elwissthebest]

Murphy was one of our best players but largely forgotten these days.

Very talented player indeed. There was something very special about that late 70s Youth Cup (twice) winning team that formed the core of the team that won the old second division.

 

[Lanzo-Ad]

Murphy was one of our best players but largely forgotten these days.

He could open a tin of peas with his left foot.

 

[madcap_v2]

Pulls, big Sam, coppell, veners, Allison.
As palace managers they were better. As employees of palace no OG has won the best. There is a difference imo. Pulis bit dodge yes but had the results and team at heart for a while.

I asked ChatGPT and statistically our top 3 Top-flight managers ever are:

1. Steve Coppell
2. Oliver Glasner
3. Tony Pulis
(With Roy Hodgson 4th)

 

[RubinsCube]

Agree 100 percent. Coppell any day of the week. Bromley Monkey's point about the paucity of resources he had to work with is the telling point.
Coppell put in years and years. By comparison Glasner has breezed through. And Steve Coppell NEVER thought he was too good for the place, unlike the present incumbent.

Incidentally, it is a pointless argument to award the gong to Glasner on the basis of the claim that football is more sophisticated nowadays. You can only deal with what's in front of you and Coppell did, year in, year out. Only one legend in this comparison and it isn't the one who threw all the toys out of the pram.

I always felt Coppell had a bit of an unfair reputation for being tactically dour. There was a period, for example, where Eddie McGoldrick played as a sweeper in the top flight. At other times we played with four in midfield but a narrow three (Pemberton overlapping on the right).

If he did stick to 4-4-2, it was because that was an effective utilisation of the players at his disposal. Specifically, getting the ball forward quickly to Wright and Bright was difficult to play against given the quality of those two.

 

[Charles]

What a load of s***. Allardyce ffs

FSA seems quite a useful comparison to me. His trick was arriving in January, averting near certain relegation and effing off again. Glasner spends two seasons, achieves things your club never quite managed before and effs off again. I suspect a third season would be like his compatriot Hasenhuttl's at Southampton; so I'm not too resentful it won't be happening. He's done us quite nicely and it isn't over yet; it's starting to look much as though the 'excuses' of injuries and fixture congestion were true reasons. I can't see the point of trashing a manager's reputation when such things happen. It's true we should have had a bigger squad amd he's put his hand up to that. Hopefully from October to July is long enough for the football directorate to find an effective replacement although the centre back precedent could be more reassuring. (I'd be surprised if Frank Lampard turned out to be that person though less so if we have to find out the hard way.....Palace always do things the hard way....it's getting very late...next cliche from someone else please)

 

[mtp1958]

Succession of managers have helped to build this club from 1969
Bert head , had alot of wonderful players the Don , Paddy , Whittle , Hughes , Wallace so on , Then Mr Allison gave the kids a chance and what kids they was ,
TV then took us back to top tier , sadly not long enough but we didn't know Bloye had put us in debt ,

Then the Uncle Ron period ,
Coppell a 28yr old manager was was given all the misfits and turned them into a top level team robbed of FA cup Robbed of European football ,
Alan Smith not a bad manager trusted kids , then we slipped again ,

wasnt until Dowie that things started to look up again , we was fitter and some good players but didn't last ,

Then we almost lost our club , a number of fire fighters was brought in ,who wasn't interested in staying just there egos ,


Then Roy worked with what he had , used a system to keep us in top tier year after year , giving us a solid base , without that Glasner wouldn't have had the players he had today , to win the FA Cup ,

So forget stats they tend to cloud the issue,
Coppell will be no.1 until we have someone who spends more than 5 mins with the club ,
Roy no.2
TV / Allison no.3
Bert Head no.4
Glasner no. 5
Then anyone of the rest

 

[NEILLO]

Agree 100 percent. Coppell any day of the week. Bromley Monkey's point about the paucity of resources he had to work with is the telling point.
Coppell put in years and years. By comparison Glasner has breezed through. And Steve Coppell NEVER thought he was too good for the place, unlike the present incumbent.

Incidentally, it is a pointless argument to award the gong to Glasner on the basis of the claim that football is more sophisticated nowadays. You can only deal with what's in front of you and Coppell did, year in, year out. Only one legend in this comparison and it isn't the one who threw all the toys out of the pram.

One of the best things Ron Noades did was to not only appoint Steve but to stick with him.

As I pointed out earlier, in this era Coppell would have been lucky to see the season out.

When you have people on here that wanted Glasner sacked 18 months ago, can you imagine how much slack Steve would have been cut.....

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Agree 100 percent. Coppell any day of the week. Bromley Monkey's point about the paucity of resources he had to work with is the telling point.
Coppell put in years and years. By comparison Glasner has breezed through. And Steve Coppell NEVER thought he was too good for the place, unlike the present incumbent.

Incidentally, it is a pointless argument to award the gong to Glasner on the basis of the claim that football is more sophisticated nowadays. You can only deal with what's in front of you and Coppell did, year in, year out. Only one legend in this comparison and it isn't the one who threw all the toys out of the pram.

Exactly!! I think if we were going to have a vote on a statue outside the new stand, we’d see who our greatest ever manager and true palace man was.

 

[Lanzo-Ad]

One of the best things Ron Noades did was to not only appoint Steve but to stick with him.

As I pointed out earlier, in this era Coppell would have been lucky to see the season out.

When you have people on here that wanted Glasner sacked 18 months ago, can you imagine how much slack Steve would have been cut.....

I think that was only me 😊

 

[BromleyMonkey]

Great memories under Coppell but the game now is incomparable. Back then the english game was technically terrible, the players pre match warm up still included a couple of pints and pack of crisps, yeah we finished 3rd, playing hoofball all season.

Now the game is technically dull!! Far too much tippy tappy pass pass pass, Sir Steve would’ve had a field day playing against some of these players whose heads are messed up with mind numbing tactics. It’s a simple game over complicated, it won’t be long before the game is non contact. Different era’s I know, but our team was still built from lower league players that finished the 3rd best team in the country at that time
Besides, if we played so much ‘hoofball’ how come we had two of the best midfielders in the country at that time? Yes we used to get the ball forward quickly at times, but it wasn’t always just aimlessly banged forward as you would suggest
As for the game is technically better now, have you not noticed some of our shooting and finishing in recent weeks?🤣🤣

 

[taylors lovechild]

I think that was only me 😊

Fair play for acknowledging your insanity.

I usually support managers and players longer than they deserve. Trevor Francis and Pulis are probably two exceptions. I never liked either from day one. I never like Bruce either, but he pulled out faster than a Catholic committed to family planning.