Next manager - Ben Garner confirmed (p256)

He has Palace roots (if you are emotionally able to process this truth!).

CAFCTrev said:

Gravesend_Addick said:

I stand by my opinion that Garner is a good manager & tries to play good football, but he doesn't have the players to play the way he wants.

Right now it's about getting results.  He needs to find a system that suits the player's he's got, not the players he wants. 

...and TS isn't willing to fund the players he wants. So what happens if we are still hovering around 16th place in another months time? Garner says he needs 2 or 3 transfer windows, will he be here that long if we are struggling?

Good players won't want to stick around for a year or two waiting for an organically grown team.

Bids will come in and good players will be replaced by inferior ones or not at all.

Huge, huge praise from me this morning for Ben Garner for being the first manager for years to take the cup seriously.

For years I have moaned to anyone who will listen - including on here on numerous occasions - the nonsense of us not taking the cups seriously. It has been absurd that a club of our size has not thought it worthwhile to try and have a cup run or bring a big name PL club to the Valley. And the team selections have so often been a micky take out of fans paying good money to go and watch.

I point the finger at all managers for this, even our three recent greats - Curbs (who stopped showing any interest in the cups when we got in the PL), Powell and Bowyer (whose attitude to the cups in particular stank as he couldn't even be bothered to name a full subs bench on occasion).

Garner on the contrast has done the exact opposite, naming strong teams. He has even kept Wollacott in goal when just about every other manager has used the cups to give the reserve goalkeeper a run out. And he got his reward last night when Wollacott saved the penalty.

Garner deserves a good draw. We deserve a good draw.  And it will be a huge pick me up for the club if we get a PL big boy at the Valley and can sell it out. The money from it might even persuade TS to open his cheque book in January and buy us a striker!