Holloway gone

[Bobbins]

Crazy decision - the Palace fans loved him being in charge, but then again, isn't their chairman a proper Palace fan too, and they love him? Will create a split, no doubt, but the biggest question is who will they get in to replace him?

No way Di Canio, his ability to alienate and upset dozens of employees at once should surely put him out of the running. Considering the fan/Ollie relationship, it'd be like replacing Florence Nightingale with Josef Mengele, surely?

Freedman built the side that went up.

Prior to this season, Palace under Holloway went w13 d13 l11. Hardly earth shattering. It seemed for the last two months of last season that Place were trying their hardest to fall out the play off places!

Holloway is a joke of a manager and anyone who thinks he got Palace promoted last season is off their head. He barely managed to get them up via scraping into the play-offs when they were comfortably in the automatic promotion places when he joined, and his record there is mid-table Championship at best. Freedman built the entire squad that got promoted, and laid the ground work since they nearly collapsed as a club and Steve Parish came in for their resurgence, mainly through clever use of their excellent academy.

I follow Palace closely as they're my local team and have two close friends who are Palace fans and they both knew from day one he was out of his depth, even in the Championship. Their trouble is they don't know of anyone better they could attract, which is the only reason the fans weren't baying for his blood.

Holloway is a complete fraud of a football manager. His career is built on a high profile created by saying deliberately stupid things to the press, doing stupid little dances, and hoping that buying 57 strikers every summer is s recipie for success. He bought so many players this summer that not only did he destroy the harmony of a very close Palace squad, he couldn't even fit all the players he bought into the first team 25, and had to leave two out. How fucking retarded is that?

He wasn't even turning up for training sessions at the Palace training ground for the last few weeks, most of the players hardly saw him. He is an embarrassment and a perfect example of what would happen if your normal man-on-the-street somehow got a job as a top-flight football manager.

The only saving grace to this is that A - he's gone, thank God, and B - the ridiculous number of players he bought this summer were either mostly free transfers and/or year-long contracts, so he hasn't riddled the club with debt or high wages. Fortunately the club have been sensible enough to spend the majority of the money they've received from promotion on upgrading the stadium, and buying the training ground, which they previously rented. They've also done other infrastructure work and ploughed money into their brilliant academy which should ensure their future.

Holloway is a joke of a manager and I'm over the moon he's gone. Hopefully he stays out of the game.

 

[Rocksuperstar]

Fair enough, i know the end of last year was a bit of a shitter for them, despite their promotion, but why do so many of their fans love him so much? Well, the one's who were bothered enough to call in on 909 & Talksport this evening anyway.

Take that back, just tuned into the press conference from earlier and it sounds like he walked.

 

[Nine while nine]

Fair enough, i know the end of last year was a bit of a shitter for them, despite their promotion, but why do so many of their fans love him so much?

Maybe because he looks and sounds like the bastard love child of Simon Pegg and Gary Mabbutt. Seriously, what's not to love about that?

 

[UncleBuck]

Would be really surprised if he walked but then he's got enough cash.....
its been mentioned earlier but their only hope is obi wan Pulis!

 

[Bobbins]

Fair enough, i know the end of last year was a bit of a shitter for them, despite their promotion, but why do so many of their fans love him so much? Well, the one's who were bothered enough to call in on 909 & Talksport this evening anyway.

Take that back, just tuned into the press conference from earlier and it sounds like he walked.

Mainly because most Palace fans are still on cloud 9 from last season, when frankly they expected to be fighting relegation, and somehow ended up in the Premier League. They are a great bunch of fans and very loyal, as well as very loud. I also know a few were definitely taken in by his stupid 'cheeky chappie' persona.

And yes he walked. Parish wanted to keep him, thank fuck he didn't convince him.

 

[Spurrific]

Holloway is a joke of a manager and anyone who thinks he got Palace promoted last season is off their head. He barely managed to get them up via scraping into the play-offs when they were comfortably in the automatic promotion places when he joined, and his record there is mid-table Championship at best. Freedman built the entire squad that got promoted, and laid the ground work since they nearly collapsed as a club and Steve Parish came in for their resurgence, mainly through clever use of their excellent academy.

I follow Palace closely as they're my local team and have two close friends who are Palace fans and they both knew from day one he was out of his depth, even in the Championship. Their trouble is they don't know of anyone better they could attract, which is the only reason the fans weren't baying for his blood.

Holloway is a complete fraud of a football manager. His career is built on a high profile created by saying deliberately stupid things to the press, doing stupid little dances, and hoping that buying 57 strikers every summer is s recipie for success. He bought so many players this summer that not only did he destroy the harmony of a very close Palace squad, he couldn't even fit all the players he bought into the first team 25, and had to leave two out. How fucking retarded is that?

He wasn't even turning up for training sessions at the Palace training ground for the last few weeks, most of the players hardly saw him. He is an embarrassment and a perfect example of what would happen if your normal man-on-the-street somehow got a job as a top-flight football manager.

The only saving grace to this is that A - he's gone, thank God, and B - the ridiculous number of players he bought this summer were either mostly free transfers and/or year-long contracts, so he hasn't riddled the club with debt or high wages. Fortunately the club have been sensible enough to spend the majority of the money they've received from promotion on upgrading the stadium, and buying the training ground, which they previously rented. They've also done other infrastructure work and ploughed money into their brilliant academy which should ensure their future.

Holloway is a joke of a manager and I'm over the moon he's gone. Hopefully he stays out of the game.

Absolutely nailed it, great post.

 

[LSUY]

Palace fan on SSN: "I would like to see Neil Warnock."

Good God. Could you imagine supporting a club where you'd look forward to hiring a manager like Warnock?

 

[Marty]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24648077

Crystal Palace: Tony Pulis will be approached over vacancy

*Groan*

 

[mpickard2087]

Yeah apparently the two front runners are Pulis and Warnock. Hilarious.

 

[Hoddle&Waddle]

I'm probably in the minority but I think Pullis would be a great appointment. with the players they have, going 'long ball', and doing it well is their best chance of staying up.

 

[nightgoat]

Can't stand Holloway. I won't miss him.

 

[King of Otters]

Holloway is a joke of a manager and anyone who thinks he got Palace promoted last season is off their head. He barely managed to get them up via scraping into the play-offs when they were comfortably in the automatic promotion places when he joined, and his record there is mid-table Championship at best. Freedman built the entire squad that got promoted, and laid the ground work since they nearly collapsed as a club and Steve Parish came in for their resurgence, mainly through clever use of their excellent academy.

I follow Palace closely as they're my local team and have two close friends who are Palace fans and they both knew from day one he was out of his depth, even in the Championship. Their trouble is they don't know of anyone better they could attract, which is the only reason the fans weren't baying for his blood.

Holloway is a complete fraud of a football manager. His career is built on a high profile created by saying deliberately stupid things to the press, doing stupid little dances, and hoping that buying 57 strikers every summer is s recipie for success. He bought so many players this summer that not only did he destroy the harmony of a very close Palace squad, he couldn't even fit all the players he bought into the first team 25, and had to leave two out. How fucking retarded is that?

He wasn't even turning up for training sessions at the Palace training ground for the last few weeks, most of the players hardly saw him. He is an embarrassment and a perfect example of what would happen if your normal man-on-the-street somehow got a job as a top-flight football manager.

The only saving grace to this is that A - he's gone, thank God, and B - the ridiculous number of players he bought this summer were either mostly free transfers and/or year-long contracts, so he hasn't riddled the club with debt or high wages. Fortunately the club have been sensible enough to spend the majority of the money they've received from promotion on upgrading the stadium, and buying the training ground, which they previously rented. They've also done other infrastructure work and ploughed money into their brilliant academy which should ensure their future.

Holloway is a joke of a manager and I'm over the moon he's gone. Hopefully he stays out of the game.

Well I like him.

 

[King of Otters]

I'm probably in the minority but I think Pullis would be a great appointment. with the players they have, going 'long ball', and doing it well is their best chance of staying up.

Hope they get him in time for the weekend...

 

[yawa]

Most of my family are palace fans and are glad he's gone. He would have never kept them up and him leaving now gives them the best chance or staying up.

Not that I like Pullis but he can keep a team up and that's what they need.

 

[Marty]

I'm probably in the minority but I think Pullis would be a great appointment. with the players they have, going 'long ball', and doing it well is their best chance of staying up.

I'm not going to claim it's a bad appointment, he'll give them as good a chance of survival as any, but I was enjoying not having to see his anti-football every week.

 

[Kendall]

No big surprise. He was moaning right away, playing the victim. Then complained they'd bought too many players and said he was annoyed with the job he's got.

The guy is a lemon.

 

[Kingstheman]

Would be really surprised if he walked but then he's got enough cash.....
its been mentioned earlier but their only hope is obi wan Pulis!

Darth Pulis, surely?

 

[Mouse!]

Darth Pulis, surely?

Wedge Antifootball.

 

[Snarfalicious]

They bought really poor players. They spent like 19m and bought a bunch of garbage with it. They are the type of club that should have been looking far and wide for loans and instead they decided to sink a few million here and there on players that really had no business being relied upon to keep a club up.

 

[Mouse!]

They bought really poor players. They spent like 19m and bought a bunch of garbage with it. They are the type of club that should have been looking far and wide for loans and instead they decided to sink a few million here and there on players that really had no business being relied upon to keep a club up.

Yep. How much did they spend on Dwight Gayle? Certainly more than we spent on Belgian International Chadli or Romanian International Chiriches.