^ that's good news. hopefully there will be online streams available for it.


Here is a breakdown of the Development Squad's upcoming pre-season fixtures:-

Tuesday 14th July – Sutton United – 19:45 KO (A)

Tuesday 21 July – St Albans – 19:30 KO (A)

Friday 24th July – Tooting & Mitcham 19:00 KO (A)

Monday 27th July – Hampton & Richmond 19.45 KO (A)

Friday 31st July – Bromley 19:00 KO (A)

Saturday 1st August – Lewes 15:00 KO (A)

Tuesday 4th August – Bournemouth U21s (time and venue TBC)

Confirmation now that we'll be playing Union Berlin on 18th July in Berlin.

So far our first team pre-season shapes up like this:

18th July - Union Berlin (A)

24th July - Supersport United (A : Cape Town Cup)

26th July - Sporting Lisbon OR Ajax Cape Town (A: Cape Town Cup)

1st August - Fulham (A)

3rd August - Dagenham & Redbridge (A)

i'd love to have gone to south africa... but the announcement has come far to late for me...

next seasons fixtures are out wednesday morning... better not be arsenal away again to start!

Brede Hangeland signs new one-year deal.

LINK

Get's it the way early though , as long as we don't have the manager walking out two days before kick off

Away to Norwich first game of the season then. Could of been worse I spose.

In our first five games we play Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City. That's gonna be a fun month!!!

this time our start is tough one compared to last season when it was the run-in. the run-in this time doesn't look too bad.

Sat 08 Aug 2015 Norwich (A)

Sat 15 Aug 2015 Arsenal (H)

Sat 22 Aug 2015 Aston Villa (H)

Sat 29 Aug 2015 Chelsea (A)

Sat 12 Sep 2015 Man City (H)

Sat 19 Sep 2015 Tottenham (A)

Sat 26 Sep 2015 Watford (A)

Sat 03 Oct 2015 West Brom (H)

Sat 17 Oct 2015 West Ham (H)

Sat 24 Oct 2015 Leicester (A)

Sat 31 Oct 2015 Man Utd (H)

Sat 07 Nov 2015 Liverpool (A)

Sat 21 Nov 2015 Sunderland (H)

Sat 28 Nov 2015 Newcastle (H)

Sat 05 Dec 2015 Everton (A)

Sat 12 Dec 2015 Southampton (H)

Sat 19 Dec 2015 Stoke (A)

Sat 26 Dec 2015 Bournemouth (A)

Mon 28 Dec 2015 Swansea (H)

Sat 02 Jan 2016 Chelsea (H)

Tue 12 Jan 2016 Aston Villa (A)

Sat 16 Jan 2016 Man City (A)

Sat 23 Jan 2016 Tottenham (H)

Tue 02 Feb 2016 Bournemouth (H)

Sat 06 Feb 2016 Swansea (A)

Sat 13 Feb 2016 Watford (H)

Sat 27 Feb 2016 West Brom (A)

Tue 01 Mar 2016 Sunderland (A)

Sat 05 Mar 2016 Liverpool (H)

Sat 12 Mar 2016 Man Utd (A)

Sat 19 Mar 2016 Leicester (H)

Sat 02 Apr 2016 West Ham (A)

Sat 09 Apr 2016 Norwich (H)

Sat 16 Apr 2016 Arsenal (A)

Sat 23 Apr 2016 Everton (H)

Sat 30 Apr 2016 Newcastle (A)

Sat 07 May 2016 Stoke (H)

Sun 15 May 2016 Southampton (A)

Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City & Spurs in the first six games, bloody hell!

Sunderland away on a Tuesday night. Seriously?!!

Bournemouth away on Boxing Day - Christmas on the coast it is then!

The run-in looks a lot kinder than it usually is for us.

Haven't seen who Millwall have got first up yet, are the non league fixtures actually out yet? 😉

the club have confirmed a pre-season match against Barnet now.

so our schedule for the first team is...

July 11: Barnet (A) 3pm

July 18: Union Berlin (A) 1pm

July 24: Supersport United (A) 4.45pm

July 26: Sporting Lisbon/Ajax Cape Town (A) KO TBC

August 1: Fulham (A) 3pm

August 3: Dagenham & Redbridge (A) 7.30pm

Sounds more and more like Scott Dann is on his way to Everton then. Think he deserves more of a step up if I'm honest.

And normal Palace service has resumed. Our best centre-back for nigh on 20 years, our player of the season, our rock at the back and he could be off. Typical.

Although, there was a strong rumour going around a few weeks back that he wanted to move back North so if it's for family reasons etc that's fair enough.

What will bloody pee me off, though, is if this £8million rumour is true. Anything less than £10million would be a joke, especially with today's escalated prices for English players.

And if you look on Twitter most Everton fans seem to think he's over priced!!
They have no idea how good he is, best centre half I've seen there since Southgate, Thorn or maybe Andy Linehgan.

i'd be fecking gutted if dann goes... the only way his departure could be compensated is if his replacement was just as good or even better...

...as for the price, £10mill has to be the absolute mininum.

It looks as though Nathaniel Clyne will move from Southampton to Liverpool - will Palace get any part of the fee?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33272451

If you believe the following report we will be getting a cut of any deal.

Link.

I think £12.5m for Clyne is a bargain!

I wonder when we will delve in to the transfer market? even the rumours are slow so far.

The Cabaye rumour is gathering pace again.

Link.

I still have many doubts about us getting Cabaye but if we did manage to pull it off what a signing that would be!

If we indeed have £10m to spend I think I would prefer to buy two players for £5m each rather than blowing it all on one, especially as his salary would be much more than others in the squad.

I don't think the transfer price itself is an issue, more the wages.

I'm pretty sure the transfer kitty is in a healthy position. Pardew & Parish have both intimated they would rather get in 3 or 4 quality signings than half a dozen or more squad players.

From reading stuff the past few weeks it looks like the 4 positions we're primarily after are creative midfielder, striker, centre-back, winger (competition for Zaha & Bolasie)

Cabaye is the creative midfielder being heavily linked.
Ashley Williams the centre-back being linked.
Ola John the winger.
And Loic Remy, Charlie Austin & Dame N'Doye are the strikers being linked.

Obviously there's a few other names floating about that are being linked but those above are the main ones.

Just a quick warning on some of the pre-season games, I'm going to the Fulham game, and my dad's booked it all up, however, if you go through CPFC site, they were charging £50 a ticket, however if you go direct through Fulham, he got them for £10 a ticket.

Just wanted to let you guys know.

Ignore this! Turns out my dad is an idiot

According to the Daily Express, Palace will collect £2.5m.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/footb...ne-Southampton