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Good, and I've got to mention there, of course, the FIP and Vets with the KT shirts are on so right now. Go to tshermonta.com/fip to get your hands on one of those. I was thinking of hands on thing. It's Palli, so two games away from getting there that was a weird intro, from getting their hands on the FA Cup, we'll be talking about Palli's quarter funnel win at Reading with the following people. Kevin Day. Hello. Not James, Travis Endicott. Hello. And Andy Stream. Hello. Palli's surrender to the semi-final. Ooh. Right Wembley. Ooh. You should be in the park. You should be in the park. You should be in the park. Yeah. But we are there. We call it a routine win. It was a... It was a thoroughly competent win. A bit nervous. Yeah, seeing like one of those matches for quite a while, we're despite playing pretty well and being dominant. I just wondered if we were ever going to score. Yeah. And I'll have to put in a couple of absolutely terrific saves. And they had a couple of opportunities on the break. So I did worry about letting our thought it was a very competent performance. Well, I only had two. They had one header that had his head on his feet in one where Hennessy copped up. Nearly threw it back into play. Yeah. But apart from that, the highlights package was all pallets. Well, yeah. We had 23 attempts on goal, which I just thought about 15 minutes in. Palli's didn't seem quite know what to do with the fact that we were clearly a better team without actually ever, you know, ripping up any trees and playing brilliant football. We're just a better team. And then, as far as the Reading found, I'll be a little bit disappointed because they've never at any stage sort of cut and done that we might be a bit vulnerable and went for us. But, yeah, we were totally in charge, busted. It sort of went the way for any neutral watching that they didn't want to expect it to go. Reading held pallets for a bit and then quality and fitness sort of showed through at the end. Exactly. It was almost unpallet in the way that we wanted. Yeah. Well, I was expecting them to score in about the age of seven, eight, nine, for a minute and it to be all over. And to be getting home as soon as we could do, but it was all good by the end of it. It didn't feel like it didn't go the way I expected it to go. No. But it didn't feel right that it went so right. Yeah. If that makes any sense. The only time they really got passionate was when they kicked Wolf in the start of the second half and some of them played Wolf being kicked and falling over. That's when it's only time their fans really came. I think if we'd scored early, we'd probably would have got four or five. It felt, it did feel like it was one of the, I actually think, and I tweeted this from FYP, they actually thought that Mike Dean had a fairly competent game as a referee to be given a completely soft penalty. Well, exactly. That's my first point. I did say, last pod, I said we'd be getting three soft penalties before the end of the day. Well, in the interest of consistency, given I started the entire K petition, I'm starting a petition today against Mike Dean for the United States, just very, very bad referee. Well, I don't know because there was the consensus of opinion on watching the highlights afterwards, the pundits, they all fought as a penalty. Well, I think it was a penalty. It was a silly challenge from the defendant. Yeah, there was contact there. It would have been furious. It'd been the other way round, it would have been furious, but there was a contact. But he was, as someone tweeted earlier, he was impeded, and the same way that Benteke wasn't impeded, Benteke could have carried on. Yeah. The challenge on Balassie was, it stopped in tenuous. I think it's the slightest brush in the same way that they touched. Balassie stopped himself, basically, he'd let the referee know he'd been touched, but regardless, at least we were still attacking, we were still in a situation to get a penalty. I mean, I've got a strong view on the fact that I think that it's a wider and more general point than I think the laws of the game need to be revised, reviewed, amended, and updated. That they've barely changed in 50 years, and the game has changed substantially in that time. The fact that every time we have an incident like this, people go, "Oh, well, this contact, well, that doesn't matter. It's always been peeling up in what to what extent." Now, if there was a lot more clarity as to what constitutes a fail, what doesn't constitute a fail, at the moment, we're free to get it right for the most part, but if you were going to look at those two incidents, the Bentek K1 and the Balassie one from the last night and say, "Well, has that player been impeded such that they can have carried on and tried to score?" You probably, in both instances, say no, but because there's a lack of clarity over what actually is and it isn't a fail, in both instances, you have lots of people who go, "Well, no, I would have awarded a penalty." Well, there are either both penalties or neither are penalties, really, but the trouble is with football. I mean, very good point, doesn't matter whether they're going to score or not, if it's in the box and it's a fail, the ball's in play, and it's a penalty, but it is a contact sport and it's not every contact is a fail, just as not every fail's a yellow card. But Deimos, when we talked about it last week, was clearly, you can call it rash or silly, but he was trying to pull out the tackle, he was clearly trying to pull out and his momentum taken through, whereas Cooper last night clearly left his army, didn't try and take it away. Do you know what, it's a tricky one, because it wasn't a dive, but I think... Well, I don't know, I think if that had happened in the 35 minute and it's wolf running down the wing, and that had happened there, it would have just been way done and we would have been left shouting the way it was in the pitch and the time of it again, exactly like the Benteca one was dying moments, it's like a... I think anybody else in Cadetson had that been given the other way. We would have been, but anywhere else in the pitch, it would have been obstruction probably nothing more, but, you know, we can't turn the clock back, we're not scouses, let's have some dignity and all this decision was made. And to be fair, by Deimos, he was giving decisions like that mostly throughout the game. It was consistent with, I think, the way he was refereeing the game. He was one of the few rest of the season, too, I know he gave that silly yellow against wolf when a gunter was conducted, but for the most part, he was protecting wolf, he was giving him the foul that he doesn't normally engage with, they were playing some intelligent advantages as well, I thought he kind of tried to, there have been a few refs this season who haven't really been able to interpret the game that's going on around them and have pulled it back and pulled it back and pulled it back seven, eight, nine, ten times last night. My dean, to be fair to him, did interpret the way the play was going to go in both directions. There were a couple of times where Reading were breaking and we sort of took him back in the middle of the park, he could carry on, so it was quite nice for once to see a referee who knows how to use the advantage, well, I think it made for a very open and very entertaining and engrossing cut time, because of it. The thing is with my dean, he's got a slightly unfortunate demeanor, he's got a touch of the Clamberg's about him, he sort of arrives at situations quite slowly with a look on his face that says he knows better than anybody else, but he's clearly, he has a respect to the players and you can see that, he plays challenges, decisions, foul less than other refs because they know he's a very good experienced referee, and I'd be interested to look at the statistics, as I imagine he probably gives fewer fouls than most refs, he tends to let both sides get on with it, so I think again with the penalty, Reading, if it was a newer referee, a younger referee, they might have made more of a fuss, but when he's that experienced, and he was quite clear to give his back and thought about it and gave his close to it, was it a record? It was second year, I mean, clearly if he said he's fouled him in the area and it's was, it was, it was a, it was a very bad defending as well, he allowed Balassie to get to the wrong side of him, which I've done it quite how he managed that when it was just a nothing ball. It was, they ended up coming in. Well they struggled with Balassie all night in the area, they did, his movement, that's another encourage thing, because he does look back to full fitness as well. It's a game that he needed I think, coming back to full fitness, playing, engaging the team that's maybe not, you know, your Tottenhams, doesn't have to come up against Karl Walker's. Have we had him in the mid, it looked like we got into a 4-4-2 didn't it, so it looked like Balassie and, and Adebayo are in the middle to start with? Yeah. I kind of felt it wasn't really working before Balassie out wide, but how do we feel about, part of this seems quite insistent, doesn't it, with, with trying this, this 4-4-4-4-4-2, but how do I feel about it? I don't think, I don't think Adebayo is mobile enough at the moment to play that. It's all because we've talked about 4-4-2 for a year on this, but with, you know, to accommodate Gayo, more than anything, and it's never really worked when he's tried to play and have a striker off the main striker, especially with, well, it's a couple of games like the main city, we didn't really play as a striker at all, it's tried to be really fluent, it's never quite, quite worked for us, but I'm, I still be interested to see whether he persists with Wickham and Adebayo, I can't imagine, we can't drop Balassie as a heart, so you assume you won't play. I thought the two of them looked particularly bad together in a combination, both times we played. I think it's just, it was OK last night, and I think that comes down to the perspective to be against the championship team, he looked fitter and his touches were better than he was. He loved it in his 90 minutes. Yeah, it was really. Well, that's something you wouldn't have seen for another player, that's the experience and the composure he had in the box. And some of his hold-up play was good to be fair last night. And Balassie is more mobile than Wickham so if you play with two of them, it's probably going to work a bit better, because he's probably going to have more of a natural inclination to drift wide and also to go back and sort of do some of the defensive covering. Balassie, it's an option. I'm not sure it works, I just don't think it's something that's drilled into the team over a long enough period for it to be anything more than just a flight fancy for Pargy at the moment. Do you think you'll put Wickham in for Adebayo when he's fit then? I think he will. I think he will, yeah. But I think with Wickham's back fit quicker than we thought as well. Well the thing about punching though is where does he come back in, because it looked like yesterday, like Cabayo was playing a bit further forward, or maybe not in number ten but a bit further, and he had probably one of his best games of season, he was absolutely fantastic. He was. Is it as simple as just giving him a bit more licence to roam, that brings it out a bit, but was this going to be the fact that there was a campage thing? It's as simple as playing a championship. What we need to do is get relegated and play championships every week and then we'll see how good he is. You want to see if you stay? I am actually up for that. They gave him a lot of time and space, and of course he's a good player when he gets that time and space, but he does lift the rest of the team as well, and he does give you that energy. I thought he was really creative last night. He also demonstrated far, far, far better energy levels than he has done in race and action. People picked up on that Sunderland match where he just seemed sort of wandering about. Last night it was just someone who seemed to just have that vigour about him and that dynamism to just be anticipating everything all over the place. He was better in possession than he has been in recent weeks probably because he's against a lesser opposition, but he was also better off the ball, and I think that was the distinct difference between yesterday's and some of the previous matches. Hopefully that's not just because he's playing against the same that are inferior when they're on the ball and it's easier to anticipate what they're going to do, and hopefully he now kicks off the match to look like they could play for Malu in the season. We shouldn't talk Reading down too much as well. They're quite a decent championship team, their home field's been really good, so they've got a couple of ex-primary league players, so they're a proper opposition, but they're not. It's a totally different game, it's a Tottenham game for example, where we had to be better in a different sort of way. It's just that we were just not used to seeing it. It's tremendously, we're not used to seeing it as being so effortlessly superior in... We played like a majority team. We did. We played like a better team, and then because that again seems to indicate that there's no problem with the dressing room, no problem with the players and Pargy, because they're clearly not. You wouldn't expect Villa to go there and play like that and get a result. And West Brom didn't in the last round, so we don't look like a team in crisis. No we don't. We said that the other week we're not playing badly, it's just things on going away. Well I think they are, but they're only going away in the cup at the moment. In Southampton they absolutely hammered us, we ended up coming away with the win, and the Spurs there on another day they probably could have got something from that match, whether a draw and a replay or a win. And yesterday we all be it that we played very well up to that point, it did take us off penalty for us to make the breakthrough, so maybe that's where it seemed to handle this season. If we can keep that going for two more matches please, and we're here to make up. I am fine having no luck in the league for the rest of the season. We thought a few weeks ago we were saying, would we all take 17th and a cup final place, I think we're all a bit... Yeah, I would. I think we'd all take it now. We'd all take it, definitely 100%. Excuse me, she's toasty. I was quite surprised on the train down yesterday, how many Palace fans were saying they'd take relegation and win in the cup? No way, no way. No way. Well at a point, Neil the Fish made the point very forcibly, and those of you who know him will know how forcibly Neil the Fish could make the point, and his point is, we'll be back in the Premier League one day, but the FA Cup is always on the front of your programme, we've always won the FA Cup, it's never... Well this thing is, 25 years since we've been in a final, who knows if we'll be in another 26th or in another final, we've been in and out of the Premier League about five times in that period. There's something I hadn't really considered, but I think... The financial gap is getting bigger though, so if you drop down this season, I'm going to say that other people will ever come back, it's just getting harder and harder to go up and stay up. If you look at him like Wigan, you know, and Birmingham won the league cup and went down, those teams have not come back since. Yeah, it'd be poor compensation, but it would be a few years, but I mean down there. It's a difficult decision. It comes back to what we were saying in the other week as well about how people view the FA Cup nowadays as it's the same type of thing, if we were having this poor 30 years ago, not that we would have had a time for any of the players to be free, but it's a podcast. It's a podcast. It's not an amazing thing. Jamie, you've got zero listeners again, why is that the only one that hasn't been there? Do you reckon our opinion would have been different then about how the FA Cup was staying in Division 1, as it was called then? I don't know, it's times have changed. I don't know. Well, I think my opinion in the FA Cup is getting more positive close to what we get to in the third round. That's pretty vehement about the BBC and the FA have mucked up their own tournament. And now you can't wait for the one show on my head. No, I don't know, what do you have to do on the one show? Classy's got it rained in the radio times. Well, it'd be interesting to see there's a chance there could be four Londoners, which would be... Yeah. I mean, well, I think we've got a temporary a little bit with some realism, because you look at the team still in it. Oh. Yeah. Arsenal still in it. And Chelsea still in it. And if we end up with those three, the other semi-finalists, I'm not trying to do even way too much. Or even way too much. You know, it's still a difficult round left. Yeah. But the way... So you'd say that about Tottenham. Exactly. And Stoke. And Stoke. That's Southampton. That's Southampton. Yeah. So we've done a... I think Tottenham is right, though. There is definitely maybe not for our generation, our generation, including Kevin and Andy in the same generation as... Well, that's upsetting. But maybe for younger... It's quite upsetting for me. Maybe for younger generation, it is different, because it has sort of been solid a little bit, by the way. It's been treated in terms of TV kick-off times and the draw and stuff. So there probably is a different generation. You might not see it in the same sort of romantic way as we do. I think, as well, for younger... I mean, it's getting to be a long time ago, but letting me and I admit it was when the Rots were sitting, really. I mean, if you're letting one of your own clubs miss your own flagship tournament, then that sets a precedent to the rest of the people watching that it's not really at all with your... Yeah. Although I think we did get a little bit misty-eyed with nostalgia sometimes, and although there have been some things with the FA Cup that we don't really like in terms of development, I'm sure people weren't that excited in, you know, the third round, gained back in... Yeah. ...to some mid-80s or whatever. I think we get a bit misty-eyed about... Maybe not, but it was... Certainly in the '70s, it was a big deal in those days, because basically the thought was that anybody could win it. I mean, that's another problem with the FA Cup recently, is that apart from Wigden, it tends to be the top four that win it, you know, for all this talk about them disrespecting it with playing reserve teams earlier on, it still seems to be the big clubs that win, whereas... Yeah. ...30, 40 years ago, the feeling was that any club could win it. But isn't it? If I say it's an... They often seem to win it as well, sometimes almost just because they can win it because we can. While then when there's this quality of my team, my Palace, it would mean so much to even get to the final, let alone actually lift it. Right. So just to get to Wembley for a lot of Palace fans, yeah, we've got a reputation in the playoffs. But it's how Cup record is pretty meager. So just to get to Wembley is good. You can't help but enjoy the publicity and the profile and... Which I think they deserve for this Cup round, don't they, massively, because it is on paper, it's... I mean, even Reading obviously was the easiest for the Cup final, but it's a really good, well-deserved Cup round, isn't it? Well, in 1990, we didn't get a first division team till the semi-finals, is that it? Well, we beat B and three very, very good, solid-filling teams, it's not like beating Norwich, Newcastle, Aston Villa, we beat in, you know, a team that could still probably will, I think, actually win the title, I think the title and probably will win the Premier League this season. And we beat in, you know, two very much established mid-tail Premier League teams who are probably a little bit ahead of where we are at the round as well, so it's been a good run. And I think it kind of changes the way the approach goes as well, because clearly they sit in the dressing room before the FA Cup Games and, you know, the pressure is off them a little bit and they feel good about themselves and they probably play better than they might do in the Premier League game when they're a little bit tense. So how can we make them feel like it's a Cup game in the league? No, that's a big problem isn't it? So it's a good question as if people were drunk and the odds can last forever. I was thinking about that as well, because every single time we've won in the Cup we've come back to going, "Okay, this is our platform, it's our stepping stone now, let's use this," and then we go back and it's the same thing. We nick the kit of the next opposition so that like when Barnsley paid us and they had to play in like our kit, the court will do is we'll leave a change kit, which happens to be a championship team in the away team dressing room and they'll be like, "Well, where's our kit con?" "Oh, look, there's the Reading Kit, we'll play in that," and then the team will automatically think it's a Cup game. Yeah, I think that's a scooby-doo plot of one's team. Well, I think the thing is just, I mean, what's happening in the FA Cup is that each win breeds a little bit more confidence and as soon as we get that first win in the Premier League, we'll probably win two or three, I mean, that's what it will take, it's as simple as that is to get by some circumstances, by any means necessary, we'll get a win against somebody soon, then the pressure will be totally off. But it's just one win and then the pressure drops. Of course. Does it feel a bit like when we're talking about this horrible run and we're in the league since December, but now I guess whatever happens in the league, I mean, I think we will be okay. The Cup run is almost kind of saved the season a bit or sort of saved face a little bit because we thought we'd sort of chucked away this fantastic start with it bad, right? But now does it feel now we're in the semifinals that actually we'll look back on the season and think, I mean, that's a good one. I think if we get to the final, that will definitely be the case because otherwise, five years time we'll be going, I mean, what have you got to the semifinal? But you get to the final and everyone remembers, you know, we can all name the 1990-90 team and then suddenly it becomes the FA Cup final team, everyone remembers that and it's a new shirt. So I think that would really lift the season to be perfectly honest. And, you know, as Pargy's been saying all along, if we finish, 10th is probably too optimistic. But if we finish 14th, forget to the FA Cup final, you'd say, yeah, that wasn't a bad season. And it's well doable. It's well doable. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Just a couple more points then in part one. What is going on with our fallbacks at the moment? Because Wardy again looks a bit of a shadow himself and Sware had a bizarre game last night, didn't he? An air kick the ball in Ledley's face that it was all going wrong for him, wasn't it? Do we need any fallbacks? I think I do like watching Sware because he's such a loose cannon that he's almost quintessentially palace. I mean, he's basically like the fallback version of Yellow from a couple of seasons ago and you don't quite know what he's going to do. I mean, the good thing for Sware is that he's got the pace to recover from some of the glaring position where his teammates. Ward seems to be making some bad positional errors as well, that he doesn't quite have that same turn of pace to be able to get back on himself and to recover. I just think it's that neither of them are defensively that good that they're able to cope with a more open system where they're playing further up the pitch. Ward looked fantastic when we played that sort of deep compact system on the Pugilis where he would advance forward, but it wasn't expected, he wasn't always having to get up and support the ball. That's too with Kelly as well. And yes, it did suit Kelly as well, whereas now they're having to basically be both. They're having to, you know, well, they should be able to and would need to be able to if we were going to be successful in that system, be able to have that sort of positional sense, but also be able to sort of bucking it forwards. And I don't think either of them are sort of very comfortable in sort of that dual role. I think Sware would love it if he didn't have any defensive response, but he's one of the best ways. He was a wingman. He was a wingman. He was a wingman. I think he would love that. He was going forward last night, he looked fine, but defensively, he looked. Exactly. And Ward, I think, looks quite often uncomfortable going all the way forward. Yeah, it sometimes looks competent enough, but sometimes just doesn't look quite like that. That's sort of attacking the fallback. That's really interesting, because even last night I thought Ward looked really reluctant to get forward, which, and again, you'd think that'd be the perfect situation to sort of get a bit of confidence back and bob on, but he looked, I don't know if he may have been told he may have been under orders, but he didn't want to see if he was getting exposed in that. It could be made. It just seems to unbalance everything because then they went so much tends to go down the left because Sware is bobbing on, but then again, even last night, he was Sware is left really exposed on two or three occasions, and probably a better team would have- Although the fair ratings only, I'd say, are only really attacking threat, was Robson Carnot, who was playing on the right side. Yeah, who looked good. And also, to be fair to the fallbacks, the two centrebacks were really, really strong last night. Yeah. Really competent. But does it actually, when Nanny was talking, I was thinking, does it actually make you realise how good centrebacks are that they can have OK games, competent games, when the fallbacks aren't because they're almost sometimes covering for them and always doing their job when they're mucking up. Well, I think the difference was last night you're playing against the championship team and although they're a good championship team, you kind of know how the championship team is going to play. They're going to either go directly into one of the forwards or they're going to try and get cross-after, cross-after, cross-after. And those two are very, very comfortable with both of those. They are absolutely fine with long aerial balls and they're generally OK with crosses coming in from wide areas and from deep and it's when teams play sort of through the middle and sort of have really good number 10 for able to be right in front of them and they get stretched that they look a little less comfortable. So, I mean, I think they're a great, great pairing, I certainly do and I think they've been fantastic for us at times this season, probably less so other times. But I think last night we saw the perfect game for them in terms of the opposition. The whole fallback situation is Kenny Tamplin was there last night in a spectacular camel hair coat. Nice. It looks like he didn't have the hump taken out of it. It would be really interesting because he was on the sky a few weeks ago talking about the format role and he said, "Your job is to defend." And he said, "Then after an hour, if you know you've got the other team meeting, that's when you can start to get forward." There's now the fallbacks in general seem to view themselves as extra attackers and the art of defending a little bit has gone out of the game and that's where Swari lets himself down just in terms of positioning. I mean, he's strong, he does recover well, he's a good tackler. It's not a bad head over the ball for his height but he just does get caught out of position too. And earlier in the set then. Is that a manager as well? That's a good question. Well, that's a good question. I mean, earlier in the season, the last team was doing a lot of covering for Swari and going forward with a pair of the look quite exciting but it's a good question as to who's thought it is. But they asked the original question. He said, "Well, yeah, you probably would want two more fallbacks." It's probably both. Both thought really. I mean, you know, it's playing a slightly more open system but it's then the individual players' attitude at fulfilling that role and I think there are other positions we probably want to address first in the summer. But I mean, if you've got sort of a long-term plan to be a top eight, Premier League team then I think those two areas will also be one that will eventually need some focus. I think that's one of the most key areas on the pitch for the formation we like to play as well. When we've got two wingers up and got three at the front, them going up and down, it's turning into one of the most important positions or the fields for any team to be honest and you look at all the best left backs and right backs, if you've got your Ashley Coles and right now, people are bellering, they've all got a lot of pace and that's what Swarry has and it's what Ward doesn't have, which is why he's well and you need, it's almost like you would want to see Balassie try and play it right back. Sometimes, imagine him and Wilf down one side. If he had it, if he was good defensively, Balassie, because he's got enough strength and he's got enough pace and it's one of those positions now that you just have to be the fittest player on the pitch and you have to be able to do two jobs. Unless you're in your lead and back at the time, it's just showing no ambition, although they're no ambition at the top of the league. But the majority of teams playing 4, 3, 3, they have two fast, strong left backs and right backs. They're on that many. They're on that many. They're on that many. They're on that many. Also, you talk about Leicester, you look at their centre backs compared to ours, start the season. Would anybody say, would you swap ours with you for Morgan? No, no way. Who's Morgan should be? All logic screams that they should be in the championship, at most, let alone doing really well in the... I think he's a very good one, but... Yeah, and Morgan, I think he's... I think he's... He was a really good player and maybe still turning out for Stoke occasionally, you'd expect him, but not the two of them. And they've played virtually every game. But they're incredible. That shows us confidence. He's got confidence. He's got confidence. Yeah, he's got another point. Yeah. One of those players managed to maintain that score. He's only playing the next. Ooh! Well, there you go. That's awful. That's awful. That's awful. But we will be previewing the rest of the game for now. We're going to wrap up part one there, and in part two we've got questions from our listeners, so join us in a bit. Welcome back to this week's one, for your planned podcast! The Wembley podcast sort of... The Wembley? Not yet. No, as I said, they're a lot of Wembley yet, but we will be. Yeah, pod 173 is sponsored by Vector Printing for all your printing embroidery needs. Go to Vector.co.uk and Inspector Weather. Yay! And JCIS, the Global Research and Brand Consultancy from South London. Run by a Palace fan. Visit JC-IS.com. I will. I will. Good. Right, time for questions, my listeners. Lots of questions this week. I can't read them all out. So apologies. I've handpicked some good ones. Lots of upbeat questions, which is brilliant, considering our run reasoning. The first one is Louis Wilmot. Hi, Louis. And would we be nowhere without WILF? I thought it was a great performance again from him. Well, we certainly get in the championship, wouldn't we? 'Cause it's as soon as he actually won us the playoffs. More or less single-handedly. Yeah, he's really maturing, isn't he? He is. I mean, even some of it, he was getting kicked all over the place last night, frankly. There were a lot of fairly rough challenges on him. And aside from the one time where there was the sort of fisticuffs and the guy who lashed out a little bit, and he did react a tiny bit, he seems to in the last few matches really have got it into his head that he needs to just get fouled, go down, pick himself up, take the free kick, move on with the game. Bloody game. And that's he being able to tell us him, I think? Yeah. I think he can tell us to grow up and kind of take over his role. Yeah, yeah. It was a great picture on Twitter of, I think it was during that moment of Delaney holding off four of them. Like that scene from Jurassic Park, all off, all that, which is pretty much every game Delaney jumps in and helps him out. But we've talked about this in a pod, haven't we? You need your experience, bros, to come in and do that, and that's their role, that you need to learn a little bit about that. Delaney covered a lot of ground to get there as well, which was good. So, Wilf needs to know that he's protected by... I think if it counts a bar fight, one player in the pellet squad that I want to jump in is probably Delaney, he does seem to do that every time, there's any form of fisticuffs or something. He's quite good as well, I've noticed, and I think, that when Wilf is starting to pull up a little bit, he seems to have that sort of, you know, older head experience, pretty thing about him that sort of puts him around the shoulder. Exactly, yeah. But the only thing Wilf does need to improve is where Balassie's finishing this, but his decision-making, I think, is getting much better, especially in the box, and his control at pace is just phenomenal, and Balassie's more noticeable, if you like, probably get a better YouTube highlights video out of Balassie, because it looks flamboyant and stuff, even though it's more simple, but Wilf is just playing really well. If you get the stats, you know, Wilf, at one point, had the most successful dribbles with season, I think, a few weeks ago, he'd been fouled the most time to season, so actually, he's getting on there. Well, he still is, isn't he? Well, he's carrying the ball inside a lot more, as well, as they used to, and that's causing problems, and that's what led up to the second goal, that's not what it's just him carrying it. Exactly. It's just the same at the top of the season, because he's got a ball covered inside. The decision-making is just getting deficit, I mean, last night, you know, a couple of seasons ago, when he's starting to come from the right, until he's left, he just probably lashes that later. Whereas he actually spots last night, he gets the ball battle, and I've got a couple of points. Exactly. Well, then, well, can I ask you guys this, then, if he continues in this kind of vein of form, or even if he doesn't, given how good he's been last week for that ball, is he in the shot for player for you? Not answering any questions, unless you tweet in this section. And if I tweet this... You've got to tweet questions in for this section. No, I'm the host, I'm allowed to go off-peak, so I can do that. He's in for player of the year. I think he should benefit from that. I think, yeah. The course of the season. Definitely, yeah. Yeah. If he keeps playing like this for the rest of the season, then we've had a doubt. Yeah. I agree. I agree. I agree. I agree. I agree. I agree. I agree. I agree. I agree. I think MacArthur would have been in there, given the injury. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I would still stick MacArthur in, because the team has crumbled since they've been there. Yeah. Fair point. Okay. So, to Wilf in a little bit, right, in that he mentions him, it's from Chris K. Oh, I like Chris. He says, "What is more of a concern going forward? Wilf's temper or Suarez mistakes?" I think, Wilf, as we just mentioned, it's a good question, but I think Wilf is working on his temper, definitely, or the club, or working on it for him. He's less prone to retaliate than he has been. He's still... The thing is, as well, it comes back to the conversation about the referee. Yeah. Exactly. But the more experienced referees give him more protection, because there have been games of seasonals. It's been shameful. He's been targeted, really. Well, it's like the younger referees were trying to make a point, aren't they? Yeah. Well, I think what happens is that younger referees decide before the game that he's a diver, and they react accordingly, basically, because it's a lot of, yeah, it's difficult. He doesn't dive. He doesn't go down. He's an everything. But everyone does. Yeah. If he plays for another team, we would say he dives simple as that, but he hasn't been getting that protection. He's staying on the pitch. I mean, a couple of times, Bournemouth, he was lucky to stay on the pitch, I think. And Watford, as well. And Watford. Yeah, Watford. But I think Swari's probably more of a worry than Will, for the only. Yeah. In a way, it's not the Will's bad temper, but you put up with that side of his game, because he's so good, really, because he does what he does really, really well, so you can forgive him the occasional. Whereas Swari is... Yeah, his temper is just an add-on, Swari's the problem is his actual job in the first game. Yeah, exactly. That's a very good way of putting it. And those mistakes. Yeah. Oh, way more dangerous than the team. Yeah. But then again, Mecura Winger, who's about to get himself sent off at any time, just by punching somebody in the face, and a fall-back who kicks the ball in his own face, he just sighs, brilliantly palace. Yeah. That's true. So I thought we can change it. Don't forget a goalkeeper and not makes himself. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We throw the ball back on the pitch last time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was going out for a goal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was just waiting for that end to just explode and just go. All said, last pod. Surely. Yeah. Surely it was going to be sprouts. For sure. Surely that's why he played on Monday. He's not even on the subs bench. Well, he's a... No. No. No. The shirt was hanging up. Yeah. The shirt was hanging up. Yeah. The shirt was hanging up. Yeah. The shirt was hanging up. Yeah. The shirt was hanging up. Yeah. The shirt was hanging up. Yeah. The shirt was hanging up. Yeah. The shirt was hanging up. Yeah. The shirt was hanging up. Yeah. It was going to be in a difficult spot to put him back in the team. Hennessy coming back fit, allows him and out where he goes, and this is very much supposition, but it allows him and out where he goes, "Oh, sorry, Alex. Wayne is back and fitted. He's my number one goalkeeper." Yeah. You'll get a chance again. Was if he drops in for another goalkeeper again, you know, but Sperronian there. It's fairly equivalent that he brought me to the team and immediately dropped him for that reason. His confidence has already been... I mean, I do wonder whether in that regard, at least it sort of saves McCarthy from being completely shattered in terms of his confidence because he does give that out to Pargi. Well, how about Julian's confidence though? He must be pretty low. Well, I'd be starting him every week anyway, so... Well, that's the thing. I mean, Pargi's painted himself into a corner a little bit of goalkeeper-wise. Mark Larson last night, criticising Wayne Hennessy's feet, interesting. Did he? Very interesting. Does that mean you are the Mark Laurence in India, right? I've been called a lot less. OK. Next question is from Eagles Kev. Hey, Eagles Kev. Well, he says... No, not you. Is it you? It might not be, don't it? It might be Travis's mum. It could be. Well, that's not called a name. Kev, that's true. Davey's Eagles. He's Eagles, eh. The question says, "How many beers will I consume before the semi-final?" I'm going for seven. What between now and then? There's three licks away. So don't worry, you Kev. There's a love of good. Well, it's a bit... Do we know what day it's going to be on us? 23rd or 24th of April, I think. Yeah. So, it might go Sunday. Essentially. Yeah. There is... We were having this discussion last night about the... What is the up to a number of beers you can safely drink before... Four. ...still enjoy the game. Four. Is that what it is for? Not because you can't drink any more than four pints, because now obviously people start questioning my masculinity. Yeah. I can't have it now. It's pod. Obviously. But any more than that, and then you're just not going to remember a great deal and/or make a fool of yourself. No, no, it's very fun. Whereas the four and/or numbs you as to, like, the potential bad performance. Six. I think it makes the time... It depends on the individual. We went five pretty much, one half time. That's fair enough. But we did start early yesterday. We were drinking on a train-up. Well, I think most palace friends were. A lot of people weren't there for us, so fair play. I'd say for most people, for me, for one and a half probably. Yeah, one of the most thimbles. Palace fans were brilliant. But Palace fans were brilliant again last night. Fantastic. It was just really exciting getting off the train and seeing about a thousand of them in front of that pub. Yeah, exactly. Enjoying themselves according to the police. Fresh as well. And singing and dancing, Crystal Palace songs. Yeah. And then one guy getting banned from Reading Times into it. Well, we've all banned ourselves from Reading Times, so next time we play them. You just weren't expected from the Thames Valley police, who ended up having to pay out a huge amount of compensation to Palace fans for being bitten in the face by a dog five years ago. But they would be confrontational. I, for one, was particularly amazed at that. But to be fair, on Lewis, the Thames Valley police are always really nice. So in real life, they're lovely, aren't they? This is not bad, it's casting. They've got their own stuff. Yeah, they're always a fly in the wall documentary. OK. And the next question is from Tank Matt, who says, "Why are we extremely bad at crossing the ball?" Oh, we're not bad at crossing the ball, we end up with sort of six or seven very deep crosses. Yeah, I know. We were better last night. I think during the season, especially from dead balls, we've been pretty poor. Although, having said that, we scored a lot of goals earlier this season for me. We did. But I think, if you talk about Zahara Balassie, there's still no decision-making, as we said, couldn't be better, but we don't reign that many crosses in compared to how, I mean, especially under Pulitzer, it was pretty much either the long ball or the early cross. But are we playing a different system? We're playing a different system, yeah, but it's a fair point, isn't it? To be fair, we were criticized in Swari earlier, but Swari does have a decent whip to cross into the box. He does, every now and again, but it's like one out of ten that manages to take the danger area. He either goes right over the back pose, or it doesn't beat the first man, and that's what happens with... Yeah, if we're criticized in Balassie and Zahara for the decision-making, his decision-making is appalling, Swari. Yeah. Because he gets himself into such good, I mean, for all that we moan about, you're going forward too much. He does get into some really good positions, and he gets to the by-line, and then, well, you don't bother getting your hopes up there, because you can pretty much know as you say. It looks like he panics a bit sometimes. Yeah, yeah. He does seem a bit erratic on them, but he's like a puppy sometimes, which is in play. Yeah. He just does a back-foot there, and it looks like he could have been a gymnast if he wasn't a footballer sometimes. Well, he's brilliant. He's brilliant, though. But if you throw it up, he's a great player to have on a pitch. He's quite entertaining as well, but yeah, he's... I think I answered. He's very palace. Going back to the crosses question, crossing is just a very inefficient way of creating chances. So you just have to probably be alive to the fact that if you do put in crosses, even if they're well-hitting, they're into the right areas, they're not always going to meet a man, because a man's not necessarily going to, time is running at the right angle and the right time, and these things do happen if you play in the manner that we do. I don't think our crossing is actually that bad, frankly, I think. Well, that's a good target, man. He scored that one from exactly, yeah. And, you know, Reading did clear sort of three or four of the line last night from crosses that we put in there were then met by good headers, so I don't think it was a huge problem personally. I think, as Aaron says, our sister, we have been asked to play parties when he came in, we asked to play a different system, so actually, maybe we're not just relying so much on knocking balls in the box. I think she would rip her in a bit more as well, it seems a bit of a dance again. We don't put enough pace on our crosses, we've stick them in there across the ground, and they don't beat the first man. Or we float them in. They'll get back to the back. Yeah. There's ones that come in from the corner of the box, and they just whipped an instant danger area in between the goalkeeper. I think Balassie was putting in loads of good crosses against Liverpool way earlier in the season. I remember him floating a few good ones, and they went into dangerous areas. Yeah. And all it needs is to touch them from a defender or an attacker, and sometimes they go in. I do wonder with the whole floating corner thing, whether, I mean, I think things are very alive to the fact that corner is now a potential danger for them in terms of like the break. And if you fall in, it's probably a lot less likely to get pinned out straight away on the break. Yeah. And if you fall within. And I do wonder whether that's the rationale behind it. That's a very good point. It may well not be. And I might have just imagined that out of thin air, but we're going to try it. I think that's a good point. Very good point. Right. The next question is Matt Philip Harris. Oh, I know, man. He says, "Which Palace player do you think would benefit the most by getting on the score sheet in coming games?" We talk Campbell got off the bench and score one, anyone else that needs a goal? Yeah, he made a hard look of it. He missed the first challenge with a one-on-one, and then even he couldn't miss the fall of half of the post. No. I did like that he smashed it so hard that there's a sort of still photo of that as he takes the shot that actually puts it in the net. And he's leaning at such an angle, I just thought he would have been sorry Fraser Campbell for his spamming lick to give him what it's a luke on the outside of his boot hitting the post and gone back out. Yeah. He looked like he was trying to hit a worldy for about thirty-five yards in the picture. Ambrose though. Yeah. So to that question three weeks ago, I mean Wickham, who's now looked so much better player for having got his goal, I suppose had he by all, or Will possibly. Oh, but that's here possibly, you know, he's just coming back as well. And I would say he's not playing with Jason Punch and definitely needed a goal. No, yeah. Before he got into it. I'll be really interested to see what he does when Punch's fit again. I think he'll come straight back in. I think he'll come straight back in. So I think he's... Pardon you as this sentiment? I think he either led or jetnet will give way. I would imagine. Yeah, he would drop back again and he would stick straight back in. Well, I guess we should give prey to the dead in jetnet because they were good. I mean, maybe there's more than a game for them, but they did their job. Yeah, jetnet's had two good games on the spin. I mean, it's more impressive that he played well against Liverpool than last night, but yeah, they both did exactly what they had to do. They won a lot of challenges last night, jetnet stayed on his feet in particular, so yeah. And it was the right, you know, it was the right line-up and formation and system to go with for a cup tie at the lower league team. You know, it worked at those two. I think we've said this every week, and the Pardon's jetnet's a good top quality championship player, not quite good enough for the Premier League. Gennet would probably gain most championship teams, to be perfectly honest. So it's not surprising that he had a good gain last night. Yeah, we'll have a fair play to him. Rick Eveli says, "Which current Premier League ex-pallest player or players would you buy back, for example, Watson, Raoulidge, Klein?" I mentioned this before, the Tottenham game, if we had all of our current Premier League players that used to play for Palace in our team now, how would he be doing where he'd be in the league? I think what's probably, say, Klein would be much, Watson's time much, much better than I thought he would do. And he's probably got more about that level, to be honest, than I could do now. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Look, Klein's got a full work conversation here. Klein's got the perfect balance of defense of the game. It's one of my favourite for all, I think. I'd personally go with Klein, I think, particularly given that I think Ward struggles a little bit, particularly in the more open system, I think he's probably not quite as good as a lot of Palace fans imagine anyway. And Klein is now, you know, an international class, fall back, and particularly good at that, buck and ear in forward thing, so it would have to be him for me. I'd go at Bamford. Just to annoy him, just to see what Twitter is. You've got his count. His count is the plan in the Premier League. How's they fun? He's a fun, he's a fun, he's a fun, he's a very good shout. He's doing two perfectly fun. Yeah. The reasons why he couldn't come up with it. Okay, moving on to the next question. Because he's at South Florida, he's got a three in contract, so he can do him with, yeah. The next question comes from Kevin Childs. Hi, Kevin. He says, "There's lots of Kevin's this week." Yeah, there are. It's a Kevin week. There was once, ten years ago, where things weren't particularly going well for my career. There was a national Kevin day, a national international Kevin day, and I still couldn't get on five lives. That's such a good point. But my home's Kevin day. He's like, "No, I've got for another Kevin." But it's Kevin day. It's Kevin day. So yeah, it's fine. We get someone who's got a lot of girl called Kevin. Brilliant. Okay. Kevin says, "Can you please give a shout-out to Paul Lawrence. You spoke to him on the train. Paul suffered a serious injury at the game. He fell down the stairs for the second goal. The arse is badly bruised and is touched and going for the pub on Saturday. [laughter] Get well soon, Paul. Yeah, good luck, Paul. Good luck. Good luck with the arse. [laughter] Oh, God. I don't know what you're saying. It's like you go over here. I don't know who he means by who spoke to him on the train, but it's a big lead. The big lead. Oh, okay. Totally. The big lead with the sore arse. Yeah, the one who's... [laughter] Right. Next question. Oh, God. Okay. Right. Good. Okay. Then it first comes from Dan Tuffield. Hi, Dan. He says, "How under-emphasized are the performances of Joe Leslie?" He goes about his work, doesn't he, Joe? Yeah. He's not the sort of player that's ever going to catch you on because he's not got this sort of mobility that a Kebai has in his defensive work, and he keeps it simple. Yeah. I like him a lot. I think he's done very well since coming in. Really well. Particularly because he's well. He's got a fantastic bit. Yeah. You know, the sort of role that he does carry out is always going to be a little bit under-appreciated by sort of fans and by some pundits as well because, effectively, you're there as an engine, aren't you? I mean, James McArthur was for a little while under-appreciated. Yeah. I mean, he's got that slight extra touch of class about him when he's in possession. But a lot of the good defensive work that he does isn't always given the praise. It should be by sort of third parties and everything. So yeah, perhaps we do need to give Joe a little bit more. Yeah, he's probably the closest thing we've got to a genuine boxer box. Yeah. Midfielder. Exactly. But I think you're right. There are certain positions in the team that do go overlooked a little bit. So he probably should have had two goals last night, frankly. He managed to miss two abs to the first one. The first one. Definitely. He stuck it away when it's Liverpool, though. Yeah. Exactly. He praised some people when he was doing that box-to-box role and scoring goals. You know, scored against Liverpool, scored against Leicester. Yeah. When he was knocking the goals, I think you noticed a player more like that. But actually, like you said, the role he does is important. Well, also, to be fair, and we've moaned about this a lot, even in the first part of the season when we're doing well, that Midfielder's getting ahead of the strike. It's a little he does do that as well. So at least he's in the situation. He's in the box to miss the chances, which is a big difference from a lot of games in season. Yeah. Punch wants to come straight back into the team. Would he be led? Would you keep over yet, isn't it? I think he would do. Yeah, I would. Yeah, I would. I would. I think he would be combined punch in a little bit of what I would have thought. I agree. OK. Lee Ayers. Hi, Lee. Hi, Lee. He says, "Does Benitez joining Newcastle make our position are either drop safer or more dodgy?" That should make much difference, personal. That's a really good question. It's an astonishing, it's a sort of thing only Newcastle would do. Yeah. To pay him, presumably a shed load of money and to let him ever get out clause. Yeah. So he's got no real emotional attachment. It's a purely academic exercise for him. Logic would dictate you got some of that Nigel Pearson in, who would have a better chance of keeping them up. Yeah. But then we'd have a better chance of getting them back up if he, you know, is it good manager? Well, Coach Pulus. I mean, ultimately, you know, he's not that happy West Brom. West Brom aren't that happy with him. Of course. Fans don't like a staff of him. Fans don't like a staff of him. They probably got him for a few million quid. But they would take any style of football at Newcastle as well. But it's just, you know, clearly, but he is a good manager. But to bring him in with an under-confident, he's not a random raver. He doesn't strike me as a sort of manager that's going to inspire fear into the more massive amounts of confidence. And he's well known as a sort of, you know, white-balled technician. He hasn't got a lot of interest. I don't remember one ex-liberal player described him as, you know, he's treated. The player's like meat puppets, basically. So it's an odd one to come in. Meat puppets. Yeah. It's just, you know, interested in beyond, you know, he's just obsessed with their stats and with their up-to-index and their fitness and their blood tests results. And they're no interested in their personality. I think from with that Newcastle team as well, they've just got a lot of very, very poor footballers or footballers. And he can't bring anybody else in. You know, you look at their squad and their team, I think. I don't really like a team to be. I know they like a team. There are very few players that I would even take in the panelists team from there starting 11 at the moment. I mean, you'd probably take, well, you would definitely take Shelby. Yeah. You'd probably take one of their goalkeepers. Yeah, man, man. Yeah, man, man. But even then, you'd probably not all that short. And they spent all that money in the window, didn't buy any defenders. That's where they're struggling. And they've got a really, they couldn't really ask for a more difficult first game away to Leicester. So you kind of think if form goes as it should when they lose that, then straight away to confidence is low. And it's just an odd one. I mean, obviously he's a good manager, but he's never managed at that level. He's never come into a struggling team. And every team he's come into is a really good player already and could bring better players in. It's kind of fallen into that sort of category as something must be done kind of decision. Yeah, that they've decided clearly that doing something, whether or not it's the right thing to do, it's better than doing nothing or leaving McLaren and going down the window. But I don't think it would actually make a huge amount of difference, frankly. Unless it creates such a buzz around that dressing room and puts effort levels up sort of 15% were sort of capable of going up. But even then, I don't know. But he's not. He's not that sort of, he's not a sort of manager who stands on bench as well. Which is why they're probably trying to approach people. Yeah, exactly. I mean, the thing is, I suppose they're argument is they would get definitely going down. I mean, the fans of all the other teams around them are probably a little bit more concerned that they would have been, if McLaren was still managing, because they were going down under McLaren. Yeah. No doubt he couldn't. He certainly couldn't turn it around. When the players are publicly saying they're not happy. So they've obviously got more chance of staying out underneath it. But I think I agree with Adi and I think they might be a little bit of a bounce, but it's hard to do. It's just astonishing in the first place to hide McLaren. He's been a serial failure. Every single job he's been in as a manager. Every single pundit, every single person who's played under him says he's a brilliant coach, brilliant tactician. Can't manage it. Now, I'm not entirely sure. Maybe Travis can elucidate. I'm not entirely sure what makes a good manager and a good coach. But clearly McLaren is really highly rated as a coach, but he just can't seem to motivate players. He just can't seem to get them enthusiastic. And it doesn't help but Newcastle as others here are kids pointing out that the manager doesn't bring the players in. Yeah. Travis is in charge of recruitment. And then you have to make the most of the players that come in. And again, that's something you know Benitez won't be there come what may next season because he won't tolerate that. Benitez would demand his own system, his own people. And I don't think Newcastle are ready to make that sort of systemic change. But it's, again, as Andy says, it's a real knee-jerk reaction. But they've got enough money to go out and get a proper top class. Yeah, when somebody else would be looking for boys or maybe, or Pearson or Pius. And they'd go out and find the most expensive one available. And one of them is rounded manager at the start. Yeah, well it's amazing they didn't go. Well that's the point. I mean you'd probably look at that and go, well he's, but, you know, but Addy Myal played for Real Madrid. So it doesn't necessarily guarantee you a top quality, although of course Addy Myal is a good player. And Benitez is a good manager. But it's a totally unknown quantity in these circumstances. So why not go for Pius or Pius? I think there would be much more sensible decisions. So what is the difference between a good coach and a good manager then Travis? It's a good question there. Yes, it depends varying. There's loads of different. When you see some managers animating, you've got the clops and then you've got your Benitez like we're talking about. And then a coach sometimes, your fitness coach, it doesn't matter who's doing that. You know you've got around five laps around the pitch. You're ever telling him to do that, it doesn't matter. Your coach, I mean your manager, the person who's the tactician, they need to be someone's approachable. Personal relationships to players, I always thought was a big thing when I was playing football. How you need to want to play for that manager and that manager needs to want you to play. You need to have that trust. And that's when you say when managers lose the dressing room, the coach is still there. He can put you through your paces. I think they always need to be loud and be on your back. But a coach, I mean a manager, you can be either way, but as long as you have the respect for your players. And they have respect for you. Because that's the thing we're all taking off. You don't necessarily have to like them, do you? I mean you'd have to be scared of them. It's like Fergie famously, barely went to the training ground. But it's Friday, I'd have other things to do. But clearly knew exactly what he was doing between one o'clock and three o'clock. Well when were you? Yeah, I was in year six and I was playing for Lewis and Barrow. We ended up winning the national trophy that season. We had a lot of good players in the team. But I remember for the first year games a lot of the parents were looking at them and thinking, well he's like shouting and almost swearing at 11 year old kids here. And they were actually representing their schools in a certain way. Is this too much? And all of us, we'll go back on our pants like you were right. Is it too rough and weird or just be there just like, no, no, no. We will have like the utmost respect for this guy. It's just about, it's just a relationship. It's just a relationship. You're used to that. How ugly were you? No, it's all a relationship. It's just about how approach you are as your manager. And I guess I'll make some wonder then. He's got 10 games to build that relationship. He doesn't know he's got a reputation but across Europe. But they don't know his reputation as a sort of fearsome manager. We're scared of it. We hear from the club that the players love parking. They really want to play for him. I think you can see that with the players as well. In the way that you can see that first goal against City last week, you can see they don't particularly care. And same with when you were worn off with it? Yeah, absolutely. You can see the players. They want to play. There's no lack of effort or commitment. You see Remy got on the sidelines. He didn't like he wants to be sitting there. Everything just seems so wrong with that. That's so that's an anomaly really in the town. And I also thought he was interested in us now. I thought part of his body language was much better last night. On the top side, he was much more animated than he ever was recently. That rubs off on players as well. He was really animated. And I don't know whether it's because the Redding fans were having to go at him. I was amazed by how much animosity towards him. They don't like to do that. They really don't. They don't like him. Okay. Good question. That was a good question. Yeah. Okay. Question from Michael Cavendish. Oh, Michael. Oh, Michael. Who should start in gold at winning the Esperoni? I think that's the Esperoni for me. He won't. No. He won't. He's quite clear that Henness is his first choice goalkeeper. And I thought it was really interesting that, again, he's clearly sending signals out for McCarthy at his conference. But I was amazed that Julian wasn't even on the bench. Yeah. I thought we were all expecting him to be involved. I was more amazed by his shirt. Yeah. That's the most surprising thing. Well, like the Redding fans are there. There's a view sub apparently according to the two. Yeah. Yeah. It'll be head of seat unless he's injured. Yeah. Good. Thank you very much for your questions. Listeners. In part three, we're going to go back in time in this week. Ooh. So join us in a bit. Come on, come on again. Don't worry. It's the first thing. Welcome back to this week's 12-year-old podcast. Hey. Pod 173 sponsored by Vector Printing for all your print and embroidery needs. Go to vector.co.uk and that's Vector Willa. Hey. And JCIS, the Global Research and Brand Consultancy from South London. Visit JC-IS.com. I will. I will. Good. I will. We've gone back in time to any things that have happened in this week in Paris's history. And we're going to first of all go back in time to 1981. Ooh. To Sunday the 14th of March. Palace lost one near what home to Sunderland. But what did it signify, that result? Did we go? Oh, don't think we were relegated. No, but it's to do with playing badly. Is it the longest run of defeats that we've ever had or something? Possibly. Well, it longest run without a win. I don't know if it's the longest, but it was a run without actually a point. Any idea how many games it was? 15? No, we're near that. That was seven. Seven league games without a point. Oh, wow. Who was the manager at the time? Alapology. Dario Grady. Oh, Dario Grady. Was that the year we had four villages? You might have been here. But it puts the... Didn't he end up being bitter about Palate's ever since? Yeah, he did, yeah. I think he might have been. But it puts the current run into perspective, doesn't it? Because it's bad, but it's not. Have we gone seven league games without a point? No. We've got a couple of points in there, anyway. We've got four points out of the league. Can you imagine Twitter if we were seven league games without a point? Oh, we've got a couple of points. It's bad enough when we take until the 81st minute to score against Reading. Can you imagine seven games without a point? It's pretty bad. I've just seen on another page, Saturday 21st, so a week later, March 1981. Dario Grady got his first point as Crystal Palace manager when his men managed a one-all draw with Leicester City. Oh! So there you go. Right, Tuesday 17th of March 1987. Who joined Palate? For £7,000. Alan Pargy. Alan Pargy. Alan Pargy? Yeah. He joined Palate's in this week in 1987. £7,000. Yeah, from the oval. Correct. Well, well. Sami's most of our players now probably earn enough in a day to buy Alan Pargy in the past. Yeah. Well, even then, that wasn't a lot of money. £18,97 that would have been a lot of money. £7,000. Sorry, you're over. I'm over. And he literally looked like a waste of every single one of those £7,000. Never a massively popular... But it's not what he'd have, do you believe? No. No, it's true. But Steve Copple did spend a lot of his programme notes saying you don't see what he does for the team. No, we don't. No, he doesn't. But again, we talked about some roles in the team that are less noticeable than others. Yeah. And, you know, in hindsight, that's £7,000. I suppose it was money well spent. Yeah, because it was one moment. Absolutely, yeah. It was worth way more than that. Who was it saying during the week? I think it was Terrence to remember who army was saying that he sees similarities between Pargy then and Jordan Mutch currently in a kind of a much maligned midfielder that people don't really think is that good and a bit of a waste of money. So he reckons that in the future, well, this season Jordan Mutch is going to score the winner in the semi-final and then go on to people and it's his manager if he is there. No. I wonder what the odds are though. Yeah, he couldn't. Well, let's write it into all this day. Yeah. And notes at the back of the note. No, we can look back a lot between capture. OK. So that's a big moment for in this week. It is a big moment. Correct. You know, cards joining. Tuesday 20th of March, 1990. Right. Cup. FA Cup. Year. What did the EM write do? Break his leg. Break his leg. Yeah. For the second time in the season. Yeah. Ooh. During the one on Draw with Derby. It's just a bit careless, isn't it? Yeah. Isn't it crazy that that was 20th of March and then when was the cup final? Two months, not even two months later. Yeah, it was a funny factor though. But he was always an injury weight to happen because he was so eager to throw himself in the tackles like Jack Wilshire. Was he right? He would go in for the balls that he had no right to win or no chance of winning. He'd still make the effort. So he was always getting knocks like that. But yeah, I mean, and that story itself of him coming off the bench. Yeah. It's just going to be very difficult for us to overcome that. I can't wait till we find out what happens in a set of finals. Well, we will... Are we going to be able to cope with him out? Who are we going to play at that format? Will it be Peombitter? A full bag. In the semi-final. In the semi-final. Oh, right. Yeah. What's going to happen? Well, maybe a full bar will get a challenge, I think. No, I think it wasn't as Steve Coppola would tell you last night. Was he? Yeah. He was doing the puppetry for the live coverage parody. A bit like Malcolm Allison in 1990. Yes. Steve Coppola was trying really hard to have two hats on. Oh, of course. Yeah. He's maybe got their biggest seven points total when he was managing it really. Yeah, 106 points. Wow. But he's clearly... He was clearly... He's the Hollis. He's the Hollis. And he's back this week. Wasn't he? Partly brought him down the training ground. Do you know? During the week, I think, to try to give the feeling of... The feeling of a car back on the training ground. Would you clearly it worked? Yeah. You've got to bring him back for the semi-final. Yeah. And the final. He would be... If we ever do get a statue, it'd be for me a big couple. Yeah. But you know, you just know in typical palace fashion. It just wouldn't look like him. No. It'd be like that, that centenary mural that we had. Yeah. Who is that? Is that John Barton? No, it's Steve Coppola. I would bribe the sculptures. It'd look like Jerry Murphy's. It'd look like... It'd look like... Oh, that mural was such a happy day when that mural went. I don't care if it was primary school kids. It's dreadful. Not that he is. It was, I think, it was the problem. It's a long battle. It could have been... It could have been anyone. Anyway. Yeah. Okay, that's it for this week, this week. In fact, that is it for the pod this week. Oh. 'Cause when it tries to be different this week, we are going to release part four, which of course we previewed in this game, as a separate F.Y.P. pod extra on Thursday morning. It's nearing nearly a double the amount of people asking, "Why can't I download the pod properly?" Oh, I meant to mention now the top of the pod. If you can't download the pod on your iPhone... Well, it won't be listening. No, it won't be listening. No, it won't be listening. No, it won't be listening. No, it won't be listening. No, it won't be listening. You can't download this particular podcast that you're now listening to, what you want to do. It's all out of your software. Yeah. If you have had problems... If you're not listening... If you've got a panel who you have sold you, he has problems downloaded, but you are able to listen in glorious, technists out of whatever it is. Yeah. Don't use the podcast app on iPhone. Use a different app. There's eight, I wasn't. Overcast and... Downcast, downcast. Use those. Good. So that's it. This pod is over. We're going to release part four as a separate pod on Thursday, or we'll preview the Leicester game. So, do you want us then? Goodbye. Goodbye. When it comes to business travel in Orlando, it's never business as usual. Oh, sure. I could go on for days about all the incredible places to hold meetings, or the Michelin dining, or the innovative industries that'll make you feel right at home. But Dr. Michael Edwards of Ocean Insight said it best. Orlando is as much a business capital as an entertainment one. So dive in and see what's happening in Orlando, where the possibilities for business travel are unbelievably real. Learn more at OrlandoForBusiness.com. This podcast is part of the Sports Social Podcast Network. [BLANK_AUDIO]
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