Palace players treated badly by our fans

RubinsCube said:
As mentioned, Aylott got tremendous stick. Even after he had left!

Phil Barber had a few bad games during my childhood and the home crowd were all over him which I found quite intimidating at the time.

I always thought Gabbiadini got slaughtered. He was no Ian Wright, in a not dissimilar way from how Sage is no Glasner. Gabbiadini tried his best and ultimately that's all you can ask from the player.

In the early 2000s Jamie Smith the right back also got some rough treatment from the fans, maybe because he was the weakest link in the team at the time.
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Jamie smith who run the full length of the field to celebrate his wolves goal against us in 1997 play offs; only to concede a minute later.

They went over the top on phil barber. Basic bullying in my opinion
 
Part Time James said:
The one year I had a season ticket, the guy behind me spent every single game criticising Chamakh. This might not seem particularly unfair other the fact Chamakh had left us 2 or 3 seasons previously.
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You certainly didn't notice when he WAS playing. Think he scored a massive 1 goal for us or something? He was meant to be a striker FFS.
 
PhuketEagle said:
You certainly didn't notice when he WAS playing. Think he scored a massive 1 goal for us or something? He was meant to be a striker FFS.
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Opinions are like sphincters, we all have one, etc etc, but my memory of Marouane was that he was a majorly important player for us.

The first genuine big club signing for us as ex Arsenal when we came up. Played up top and orchestrated the press with Bolassie, Zaha, Cameron Jermone and others. Link up play was excellent and he scored some crucial goals in an FA Cup match against Southampton.

I thought he was crucial to us surviving that first year.
 
syd snot said:
Marco Gabiadini got plenty of clog, mainly because he was about as good as Ian Wright's jockstrap and indeed was Wright's replacement.
Also Michele Padovano another useless c*** of a striker.
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MG was rather like a rusty MG convertible compared to a Ferrari (Ian Wright).

We played the same way expecting him to run in behind like IW but he was a totally different type of forward. Impossible boots to fill and he was on a hiding to nothing looking back now.
 
RubinsCube said:
Opinions are like sphincters, we all have one, etc etc, but my memory of Marouane was that he was a majorly important player for us.

The first genuine big club signing for us as ex Arsenal when we came up. Played up top and orchestrated the press with Bolassie, Zaha, Cameron Jermone and others. Link up play was excellent and he scored some crucial goals in an FA Cup match against Southampton.

I thought he was crucial to us surviving that first year.
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I agree
 
RubinsCube said:
MG was rather like a rusty MG convertible compared to a Ferrari (Ian Wright).

We played the same way expecting him to run in behind like IW but he was a totally different type of forward. Impossible boots to fill and he was on a hiding to nothing looking back now.
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I read somewhere that Steve Coppell hadn't seen Marco G play.
 
chris123 said:
I read somewhere that Steve Coppell hadn't seen Marco G play.
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That would not surprise me - video footage was barely a thing in 1991, he was up in Sunderland, and we had £2.5m burning a hole in Noades' pocket after we sold Wright to Arsenal. I was young at the time but I do remember us spending most of the Ian Wright money (£1.8m?) on him very quickly after Wright left. We were also after a right back Gary Owers for around £2m according to Ceefax but that never happened.
 
RubinsCube said:
That would not surprise me - video footage was barely a thing in 1991, he was up in Sunderland, and we had £2.5m burning a hole in Noades' pocket after we sold Wright to Arsenal. I was young at the time but I do remember us spending most of the Ian Wright money (£1.8m?) on him very quickly after Wright left. We were also after a right back Gary Owers for around £2m according to Ceefax but that never happened.
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Don't remember Owers at all so looked him up. He ended up playing nearly 700 games before ending his career at the mightily named AFC Sodbury.
 
Nicky Chatterton was a real boo boy , with some taking the view that his selection was due to his father, Len, being the groundsman.
A bit unfair really as he wasn’t that bad and had a useful ability to make late runs into the box and nick goals.
 
PhuketEagle said:
You certainly didn't notice when he WAS playing. Think he scored a massive 1 goal for us or something? He was meant to be a striker FFS.
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I remember going to a random league game one season where I only went to 2 games. Me and my uncle said that whoever scored first we would get one of those little caricature figures from the club shop. Chamakh scored the only goal, don't think it was an important one, but I had a Chamakh figure on my desk in Brighton for several years til the cleaner decapitated it. I have a knack for seeing crap players score. As I say, usually I go to one or two games a season. One season Kuqi scored in the only game I went to. There was a bloke on the phone on the way out saying "I'm not joking, Kuqi genuinely did score"
 
Part Time James said:
I remember going to a random league game one season where I only went to 2 games. Me and my uncle said that whoever scored first we would get one of those little caricature figures from the club shop. Chamakh scored the only goal, don't think it was an important one, but I had a Chamakh figure on my desk in Brighton for several years til the cleaner decapitated it. I have a knack for seeing crap players score. As I say, usually I go to one or two games a season. One season Kuqi scored in the only game I went to. There was a bloke on the phone on the way out saying "I'm not joking, Kuqi genuinely did score"
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Glossing over the Brighton reference - a Chamakh figure? Get along to Sotheby's with it. That must be a one of one item.
 
Part Time James said:
I remember going to a random league game one season where I only went to 2 games. Me and my uncle said that whoever scored first we would get one of those little caricature figures from the club shop. Chamakh scored the only goal, don't think it was an important one, but I had a Chamakh figure on my desk in Brighton for several years til the cleaner decapitated it. I have a knack for seeing crap players score. As I say, usually I go to one or two games a season. One season Kuqi scored in the only game I went to. There was a bloke on the phone on the way out saying "I'm not joking, Kuqi genuinely did score"
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Sure I remember Kuqi scoring away at Swansea, and then doing a belly flop in front of us.
Thinking about it, he might have been playing for Swansea??
 
Mattconrov said:
Blimey I forgot our Phil. He got some terrible abuse. Great left foot and crosser on occasions. Also scored a few.
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I wasn’t exactly his number one fan, but when you look back at some of the rubbish and lazy gits we’ve had over the years, you do look back sometimes and think some players who took stick weren’t so bad after all

Except Aylott, Jones, Mahoney, McCulloch, Langley, Stebbing, Ketteridge, now they were shite 🤣
 
BromleyMonkey said:
I wasn’t exactly his number one fan, but when you look back at some of the rubbish and lazy gits we’ve had over the years, you do look back sometimes and think some players who took stick weren’t so bad after all

Except Aylott, Jones, Mahoney, McCulloch, Langley, Stebbing, Ketteridge, now they were shite 🤣
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I see them and raise you Brian Bason !

Re Tommy Langley, I was at a supporters club bash at Selhurst and got into conversation with then manager Dario Gradi. He asked what I thought of Langley. I told him that I thought he was crap and wouldn't touch him with a bargepole.

3 days later he signed for Palace 🤣
 
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