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Alan Smith: F or A?

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Was always a fan, though I know he had a mixed record. Preferred his style of football from his predecessor Sir Steve, great promotion campaign in 93/94, unlucky relegation following season with two cup semi finals thrashing Villa, Citeh and Wolves with somed electrifying performances. Liked a lot about his return season, dreadful start including 1-7 loss at Huddersfield, but turned it round with memorable perfoprmances with Forsell, Freedman and Morrison. Liked his inclusion of Rubins and Kolinko in the squad, lost the dressing room after the 0-5 semi defeat at Anfield, and Kember had to rescue us to keep us up, Stockport and all that. Best quote after a succession of 1-0 wins ... "the trouble with winning 1-0 is it's a bit like sex, you only really enjoy it till just after it's finished." Some of you have a less favourable view but I'll start us off with a 👍from me.

So are you 👍or 👎 for Mr Smith?
 
the 7.1 loss to Huddersfield was under Coppell when we were in administration.

Promotion season was great and was unlucky when we got promotion as funds were limited due to the Holmesdale build. Having said that paying well over £1m for a young and unproven Bruce Dyer wasn't the best way to spend limited funds.

Second spell was one of under achievement. On paper we looked better than the performances.

Difficult to guide overall, 6 .5 out of 10 maybe
 
Alan Smith was the first manager appointed by Simon Jordan.

I recall being in my seat in the 'Directors Box' when we were defeated by Wolves. There was a chant of "Stand up if you want Smith out" and a member seated in this area promptly raised himself to his feet. !
This was Smith's last game in charge that season, replaced by Steve Kember.

Smith did secure promotion for us back to the PL back in the 90s.
 
I remember thinking at the time that the promotion season was made to look more impressive by Armstrong, who basically tore up the league single handed that year.

Overall I think AS did ok - no more than a 6 out of ten. He had a way of setting teams up which worked until it didn't.
 
For me he was a completely self-important ego maniac, with no management skills at all, his second spell was terrible, i can remember the pre season friendly against Fulham who were in the division below us, we lost 5-0, and the Palace fans where baying for blood, collar turned up what a moron
 
Lanzo-Ad said:
For me he was a completely self-important ego maniac, with no management skills at all, his second spell was terrible, i can remember the pre season friendly against Fulham who were in the division below us, we lost 5-0, and the Palace fans where baying for blood, collar turned up what a moron
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in Smith's defence most of that pre-season was managed by Coppell. Jordan took us to China to play a couple of games whilst we had the Chinese Captain in our ranks and it impacted training - supposedly Coppell let them eat in McDonald's as most didn't like the local cuisine.
When we returned to the UK completely under prepared we promptly lost 6-0 at Millwall, who were a division below us.
Jordan expected us to challenge for promotion that season so Coppell resigned 2 weeks before the season. Smith was then appointed.
 
I quite liked him. Terrible behaviour from so called fans after the wolves game. You'd have thought he was murderer for the abuse he got.

Kinda funny people throwing their season tickets from the holmsdale, being the last home game.

Some bloke lobbed his on to the pitch and immediately panicked. His season ticket contained his credit cards.
 
Mattconrov said:
I quite liked him. Terrible behaviour from so called fans after the wolves game. You'd have thought he was murderer for the abuse he got.

Kinda funny people throwing their season tickets from the holmsdale, being the last home game.

Some bloke lobbed his on to the pitch and immediately panicked. His season ticket contained his credit cards.
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Todd Boehly does that at every game.
 
NMPalace said:
in Smith's defence most of that pre-season was managed by Coppell. Jordan took us to China to play a couple of games whilst we had the Chinese Captain in our ranks and it impacted training - supposedly Coppell let them eat in McDonald's as most didn't like the local cuisine.
When we returned to the UK completely under prepared we promptly lost 6-0 at Millwall, who were a division below us.
Jordan expected us to challenge for promotion that season so Coppell resigned 2 weeks before the season. Smith was then appointed.
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We were also defeated 5-1 at Crawley Town with new owner Simon Jordan in attendance.
Frazer Digby was in goal and was far from impressive, Dean Austin was our scorer.
I was there !
 
NMPalace said:
in Smith's defence most of that pre-season was managed by Coppell. Jordan took us to China to play a couple of games whilst we had the Chinese Captain in our ranks and it impacted training - supposedly Coppell let them eat in McDonald's as most didn't like the local cuisine.
When we returned to the UK completely under prepared we promptly lost 6-0 at Millwall, who were a division below us.
Jordan expected us to challenge for promotion that season so Coppell resigned 2 weeks before the season. Smith was then appointed.
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The parting of ways was on account of a clash of personalities.
 
He’s got no hair, but we don’t care!!

Such a nice bloke and I’ll never forget the promotion season. Success for Palace is promotion to the top flight and in my 50 years a fan we’ve done that 6 times and he gave me one of them, so it’s a thumbs up for me.

Such a shame the second spell was so bad, but as with Big Mal and Terry Venables who had bad second spells, I can forgive them all for the memories first time around
 
A classic case of ' you should never go back '.

Smiffy won promotion with a squad that by rights should have stayed up anyway.

Second time around it wasn't like that.

On a personal note, I've met him on numerous occasions down the years, and really enjoyed his company.

So its 👍from me
 
NEILLO said:
A classic case of ' you should never go back '.

Smiffy won promotion with a squad that by rights should have stayed up anyway.

Second time around it wasn't like that.

On a personal note, I've met him on numerous occasions down the years, and really enjoyed his company.

So its 👍from me
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Unbelievable wasn’t it?? We were actually at the player of the year do with the players when we beat Ipswich as good as celebrating staying up, it felt like job done
 
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