0-0 at half time.

not a bad half, just no cutting edge today so far.

goal! Chamakh scores. 1-0.

full-time: Palace 1-0 Swansea

a well deserved win. and a TOP TEN finish!! fantastic!!

Top 10 finish!! Just won £100 off the the OH

just to confirm then:

10th - joint second top flight finish ever, matching 91/92.

48 points - our highest in the Premier league era.

brilliant. well done to everyone at the club!

Wrong hehe... 3rd is the best finish for the Palace in the top division. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990%E2...ootball_League

read my post again, I said 10th was our joint second top flight finish ever, which it is.

Even better end to the evening!

So happy, never thought top 10 would happen and even though some players didn't look good, spirit and morale was on a high, fans superb, pardew funny on the mic. Glad he didn't sing!

We're in a good position for transfers this summer, and maybe chance of another safe season (really not expecting another top 10 finish) hopefully sorting out the pitch! Even punch jnr fell over on it.

Not a great game but what a great day!

Never expected to claim 10th place at the start of the day so I'm absolutely delighted that we managed to do it. And Tusk is spot on above, it matches our second highest finish ever in the top division.

Five years a go we were on the brink of extinction and now here we are, a top 10 Premier League club. Remarkable.

Fully deserved the win today, we showed much more attacking intent than them.

Now, hopefully we can have a calm summer with some good signings coming in so we can have a go at breaking the 50-point barrier next season.

That was fun. We really did deserve to win, which makes a nice change against Swansea as they usually play it around us for fun.

Delighted to see Chamakh score, he's a class player when he's not injured.

Never imagined we'd get a top half finish. What a season.

good day yesterday... we got the right result, kept a clean sheet at last, and earned ourselves a top 10 finish... top stuff!

i haven't enjoyed an end of season lap of honour like that for years... i was full of pride!

We pocketed £13.6m for finishing 10th.

Hopefully some of that is now spent on getting the pitch perfect.

we made a grand total of £74.35 million.

£52.5m = equal share that all prem clubs get
£13.6m = finishing 10th
£8.25m = 11 live matches

Don't we get even more now Norwich are up and as I understand it their parachute money gets spread out among the other clubs?

Right then let's be honest here, this is Paiace after all. We've had a blinding season, established top flight club now. Great group of players, a manager we all love and the best owners in football.
So, the question is,
Just how will we find a way to cock it all up this summer?
We don't do safe and cosy, we only do strife and cock ups.
Surely we can find a way to ruin all this? 😉

Yeah, you could well be right there.

I did read that in 2016/17, the first season of the new megabucks TV deal, if we repeat what we did this season (including 11 live games) we would pocket a staggering £118 million!


Pardew to Besiktas?

So sorry I couldn't make it to tonight's game. JS deserves the best of testimonials.
Not many players have been so loyal in their career, he stayed while others deserted when times were hard.
One of our all time greats!!

A great night - the least Jules deserved. Loved the display in his honour in the Holmesdale before kick-off.

Over 11,000 there and it was thoroughly entertaining. The Dundee fans were terrific.

An enjoyable game, too. Loved it when Pardew came on, he still has a few nice touches!

And of course in typical Palace fashion we nearly threw away a 4-1 lead when Dundee pulled two late goals back!

Haha, no coincidence this was after we lost Speroni to Dundee.

It was a great night. The first half was a good game, the second was a lot of fun with all the old players.

cracking night & cracking entertainment... really pleased that jules got such a good night...

seeing some of our old stars was the real highlight for me...


meanwhile, we are set for a desso grassmaster pitch next season... link.

I agree with all that has been said about Jules testimonial. it was a really good night all round.

and great news about the pitch, too. hopefully that will be the end of our problems with it.

I have no idea what a Desso GrassMaster pitch is, but if it stops the players falling on their arse all game it's got to be worth it.

^

I see the crazy transfer speculation has already begun what with both Dann and Bolasie already being linked to other clubs.

As someone else said at HOL, this could be a long summer!

pre-season games known so far: (subject to change)

14th July - Sutton United (A) - Palace XI
28th July - Hampton & Richmond (A) - Palace XI
1st Aug - Tooting & Mitcham (A) - Palace XI
1st Aug - Fulham (A) - Palace 1st team


supposed to be an announcement this week for the rest.

We're going to be taking part in the inaugural Cape Town Cup in South Africa at the end of July.

Link.