FA Cup 3rd Round Macclesfield

[Elwissthebest]

A wonderful result for Football that a team from Level six can beat a Premiership team and the F.A. Cup holders to boot.

A DISASTER for Crystal Palace. I was at Wembley that day in May. I feel a line from Kipling coming on.

Just this: for all his talk about humility and 'we will remain humble', there's actually an arrogance to Oliver Glasner. Let's be clear. The starting eleven today had NEVER played together before other, presumably, than in a practice match. If that. Put that with an artificial pitch, freezing conditions and an opposition packed with professional 'has beens' and 'never will be's. What could possibly go wrong? Players like Drakes Thomas and Rodney stand no chance against knarled and hungry semi pros.

Others have written about the problems Palace have encountered against lowly oppositions whether they come from Norway, Finland or Cyprus. I'm not sure this is a factor of the Chairman's failure to invest in the squad. For Premiership professionals, it's a tactical issue, surely? So I'm interested to know what the Palace manager and players feel they have learnt today and whether they can truly 'learn' from it.

Opposition supporters will sing about Macclesfield for the next fifty years. They've had their 'Wembley' today and good luck to them. Chances are, they will lose 5-0 to a team like Swindon in the 4th round.

The psychological damage to the Palace players will be considerable.

It will be very interesting to see what Oliver Glasner and Steve Parish do next.

 

[grumpymort]

Just had a quick look at the bbc's report on the game, the player ratings. Macc worst player got 9.12, Palace best player(Johnson) got 2.9. Canvot was worst 2.30.

those ratings are meaningless.

of course a non league as such team will get top ratings if they win the game.

canvot was pulled of at half time which is why he would have gotten poor rating plus it was his man that was to do with first goal (he was being fouled VAR would have ruled it out)

Pino for me was worst player and then sosa (pino gets bump because he managed to score but he was terrible all game)

 

[Forest Hillbilly]

Earlier I suggested the players should donate their weeks earnings to charity, which I'm sure wont happen, but the club should refund the cost of tickets to all those fans who travelled to the match and were so badly let down.

Tickets, travel costs, food accommodation. I think the team that turned up today (or rather, didn't turn up)should cover the fans costs. Can't have players being rewarded for failure.

Well done Macclesfield. 👍

 

[wpdavid]

Guehi has revoluted them already.

Was that the conversation at the end of the game?

 

[cryrst]

I checked it out:

The last time a non-league team beat the FA Cup holders before today's events was in the 1908-09 season. In January 1909, Crystal Palace (then a non-league/Southern League side) knocked out the reigning FA Cup holders Wolverhampton Wanderers in the first round.

What a strange full circle moment that was.

TBH it doesn’t make me feel any better 💁‍♀️

 

[stanzerman]

At least this result should stop the irrelevant singing of 'we won the FA Cup' at every opportunity at home games. Perhaps replace it with 'we need 40 points not the FA cup'

 

[waterfordpal]

We’re going to give someone a good thrashing at some point soon!

Hopefully it’s Sosa.

 

[Willo]

The wheels have well and truly left their moorings.
Only 4 wins in 14 Home games in all competitions.
Only 1 win in our last 10 games and that was at Shelbourne.
Only 2 goals in our last 6 PL games and 1 of those was a penalty.
Furthermore some of our signings have failed to impress EG Esse, Nketiah, Pino,Uche, Sosa.
Bottom club Wolves scored 6 against Shrewsbury - we would have struggled to beat them.

 

[Hrolf The Ganger]

No one looked bothered, and our second string players are bang average.

We're on a bad run and this looked terrible, but being out of The FA Cup is no bad thing.

 

[stanzerman]

At least this result should stop the irrelevant singing of 'we won the FA Cup' at every opportunity at home games. Perhaps replace it with 'we need 40 points not the FA cup'

 

[eaglesdare]

Chin up everyone the sun will shine again.

12th place finish and a European trophy up for grabs.

 

[grumpymort]

No one looked bothered, and our second string players are bang average.

We're on a bad run and this looked terrible, but being out of The FA Cup is no bad thing.

It's the way you go out.

We should not be going out by a tier 6 team and with such lack of performance.

We played a lot of our main players which was available so not second string as you are claiming

 

[ASCPFC]

f*** UEFA

 

[Paul Salvage]

No one looked bothered, and our second string players are bang average.

We're on a bad run and this looked terrible, but being out of The FA Cup is no bad thing.

How is being out of the cup “no bad thing”?
We are very likely to get knocked out of the conference league, and if we do progress then how on earth does anyone think we can/will win it. That just leaves the league, and we’re doing so well in that!
Looks like we are already writing the bloody season off.

 

[eaglesdare]

We really should have started strong and then bring on the academy players.

 

[ASCPFC]

Was that the conversation at the end of the game?

He wanted everybody's phone numbers.

 

[Eddie Moliano]

A season that started so well is turning to s*** and the buck stops with Parish and the board.

Built an Academy that produces no decent players, can't build a new stand and can't support the club's best ever manager. Shambles.

 

[lagoseagle]

Well that’s one way to deal with a fixture pile up

Glasner will blame the players, board, crappy pitch , whatever. The team and tactics were all wrong. He has to shoulder his fair share of the blame.

 

[park the bus]

A wonderful result for Football that a team from Level six can beat a Premiership team and the F.A. Cup holders to boot.

A DISASTER for Crystal Palace. I was at Wembley that day in May. I feel a line from Kipling coming on.

Just this: for all his talk about humility and 'we will remain humble', there's actually an arrogance to Oliver Glasner. Let's be clear. The starting eleven today had NEVER played together before other, presumably, than in a practice match. If that. Put that with an artificial pitch, freezing conditions and an opposition packed with professional 'has beens' and 'never will be's. What could possibly go wrong? Players like Drakes Thomas and Rodney stand no chance against knarled and hungry semi pros.

Others have written about the problems Palace have encountered against lowly oppositions whether they come from Norway, Finland or Cyprus. I'm not sure this is a factor of the Chairman's failure to invest in the squad. For Premiership professionals, it's a tactical issue, surely? So I'm interested to know what the Palace manager and players feel they have learnt today and whether they can truly 'learn' from it.

Opposition supporters will sing about Macclesfield for the next fifty years. They've had their 'Wembley' today and good luck to them. Chances are, they will lose 5-0 to a team like Swindon in the 4th round.

The psychological damage to the Palace players will be considerable.

It will be very interesting to see what Oliver Glasner and Steve Parish do next.

Very well said, precisely so, and one doesn't even need the benefit of hindsight to hazard a guess as to what transpired. Clueless and arrogant from Glasner. The honeymoon is over, he's got nothing more to offer, it's all so predictable. With some of our better players likely to leave the next manager needs to be the pragmatic type.

 

[ambrose7]

Palace players always get an easy ride off the fans. All we ask for is a decent effort and if the other team is better, so be it.

Even after Larnaca, the open goals at Strasbourg, the Leeds shambles it was a murmur at worst.

Sometimes there is a basic standard that only the fans can enforce. This is one such performance. Heat has to go back onto this team until they get back to a standard.

1. The Pino chanting needs to stop. He's had enough time.
2. The club must compensate the poor supporters who travelled for tickets and transport. Frankly, the players should volunteer it.
3. Sosa must never play for Palace again. Sell this month to any taker. Bring through Benamar instead.
4. Glasner must be pulled off his high horse. His 'you're lucky to have me' s*** seems to be rubbing off on the team. He isn't demonstrating the tactical nouse to manage at a higher level anyway. Commit to the club this month or take the decision out of his hands and line up the replacement with a thank you for the great work up to now.
5. Get the Munoz replacement/backup in. The team is a shambles without that position filled.

Far too many of this group are getting under the impression that they're bigger than the club without delivering any recent evidence of it and it is spreading through them like a virus.