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Warnock Enters The Win Column

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Nice! At the seventh time of asking Neil Warnock has notched his first win at manager of Crystal Palace. We earned it through a 2-1 victory at ten-man Colchester United yesterday.

After breaching the 100 goal mark last time out Clinton Morrison was back with a brace, scoring both the first goal and the second-half winner at Layer Road.

And the best bit? We’re no longer in the relegation zone. Let’s hope that’s the last we have to hear of the R word this season.

Colchester United 1-2 Crystal Palace [BBC Sport]

Clinton’s 100th Earns a Point

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Almost three full months after number 99 Clinton Morrison finally reached the 100 goal mark in a Palace shirt, heading in Mark Kennedy’s cross in the dying minutes to secure a 1-1 draw with QPR.

It had almost happened earlier in the game, but at that time Clinton’s effort past Lee Camp was ruled out for offside. At the other end QPR boss Luigi De Canio credited Julian Speroni’s performance for keeping Palace in the game.

After the game Neil Warnock said it was the first time that the players have been on the receiving end of his temper, and the result seemed to make it worthwhile. Our current situation depends upon your point of view. We’re unbeaten in our last three games and just one win away from a jump of several places in the table, but conversely we’re yet to win under Warnock and remain second-bottom, ahead of only Norwich.

For one day though I’m going to try and forget about that. The day, and the milestone, belong to Clinton Morrison.

Crystal Palace 1-1 QPR [BBC Sport]
Clint’s 100 goal countdown [cpfc.org]

A Clean Sheet! A Clean Sheet!

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I know, it seems like a strange thing to get excited about, but a full three months into the season we’ve finally kept a clean sheet. Pity that a) it took three months, and b) we had to play Scunthorpe to get it.

Anyway, at least it is a step in the right direction. The counter-argument to that is that there’s just about a count in place regarding the number of games Warnock has been in charge without a win (now up to four games). Thankfully he sounds positive, stating “I will be looking to see what we can do in the loan market to strengthen us up front”.

At least for one day, the defenders get a break.

Scunthorpe 0-0 Crystal Palace [BBC Sport]

Watford Visits Make for Unhappy Viewing

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It was another night where it looked like we would have a difficult job to get a positive result, and so it proved as league leaders Watford ran out 2-0 winners. It was depressingly familiar to the play-off defeat of eighteen months ago (Marlon King scores, check, we don’t, check, all to easy for Watford, check). Not an enjoyable night’s viewing.

The match will remain notable though for the debut of youngster John Bostock, who is still just 15 years old, making him the youngest player to ever appear in a Palace shirt. He was brought on with eighteen minutes still to go with Watford already two ahead, so it seems a bit gimmicky to me (especially with the Sky cameras on hand). Hopefully though it is the start of a long and successful career at Selhurst Park for Bostock.

(At least we’re not talking about how we’re still in the bottom three. D’oh!)

Crystal Palace 0-2 Watford [BBC Sport]

Stoke Crash Warnock’s Welcome Party

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Hmm, probably not the way that Neil Warnock envisaged his first home game as Palace manager. Despite Dougie Freedman’s equaliser Palace ended up being on the wrong end of a 3-1 scoreline.

Among the visitors and main talking points tonight were the Miami Dolphins’ cheerleaders, or for anyone who is a fan of Fighting Talk might know them as: “Let’s hear it for Gary O’Reilly!”

On a more serious front it sounds as if Warnock is still evaluating what he has to work with. “I can’t fault the players for effort – perhaps one or two are trying too hard,” he said, before continuing, “At 1-1, I thought we would go on and win it, but instead they picked us off.”

As an additional thought, what has happened to teams like Stoke and Portsmouth, who used to be certainties for 4 or 6 points every season, to suddenly develop winning runs against us? Shouldn’t this be balancing up somewhere? Coventry City and Nottingham Forest, I hope you’re taking note of this.

The fixtures don’t get any easier either. The next visitors to Selhurst Park are league leaders Watford.

Crystal Palace 1-3 Stoke City [BBC Sport]

Warnock’s Debut Ends In a Draw

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Neil Warnock’s first game for Palace ended yesterday in a 1-1 draw with Blackpool at Bloomfield Road. Palace’s took the lead through Tom Soares, who later saw red for an alleged stamp.

After the game Warnock was quoted as saying, “”I want our players to enjoy coming to work. We’ll win some and lose some but I just want everyone to enjoy it.” If we start winning a few more then I suspect we will all start to enjoy it a lot more.

Blackpool 1-1 Crystal Palace [BBC Sport]

Warnock Takes Over

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We know that Simon Jordan doesn’t advertise the manager’s job in the small ads, but if he did I suspect it would say something like “Opinionated chairman seeks like-minded manager to get us out of this miserable division”.

If he wants opinionated, then new appointment Neil Warnock is his man. If he wants someone to get us promoted, then Warnock’s track record show he could very well be that man. However at the moment the threat facing us is of leaving this division by the wrong door.

Warnock appointed new Palace boss [BBC Sport]