Worst stream ever.

Anyway, lost 2-0 after lots of subs. Had two goals disallowed - probably wrongly. Still cool to see Cabaye in a Palace shirt.

Missed it completely. For some reason I had it in my head it was a 4pm kick-off!

Considering it was a legal stream, that was awful. Apparently they are putting the game back up to re watch it. I just hope they sorted out the video. How was that not a pen.

The commentator was actually alright especially with the scoreshite comment.

Steve Parish has just tweeted this in the past few minutes:

looks like one is gonna be patrick bamford on a season long loan from chelsea...

... smart money on keeper alex mccarthy from qpr being the other, with wayne hennessey off to west brom...

Bamford on a season-long loan has now been confirmed.

McCarthy expected to follow, he was supposed to be having a medical today.

I'm optimistic about Bamford, he's untested in the Premier League, but got a good record lower down. As a loan, he has to be better than Sanogo.

And I would very much like McCarthy, if he can get his Reading form back.

bamford is definitely an upgrade on sanogo and i reckon an upgrade on campbell too... give him the chances and the lad knows where the net is...

does that mean we're done with strikers though this window?

Bamford could be a very astute signing for you, will be curious to see how he gets on. I'd sooner have him as one of our striker options than Falcao, but hey ho….

Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing him and how he fits in and develops over the season. The kid certainly has talent.


Listened to Steve Parish on TalkSport last night. He seemed to indicate that we had 5 targets and once Alex McCarthy is confirmed that will be 3 of them in the bag.

He went all coy when Ashley Williams was mentioned, said the club admired Charlie Austin but intimated he might end up elsewhere (mind games?), confirmed Pato had been "offered" to us but was unlikely to end up a Palace player, and stated that Dwight Gayle was in Pardew's plans.

I'm betting that we are definitely wanting a centre-back in ASAP but as for the potential fifth signing... another striker? another winger (Ola John)?

happy to see Bamford come in. no news on McCarthy yet.

a Palace XI drew 1-1 with St Albans last night. Berkeley-Agyepong with our goal.

The signing of Alex McCarthy has now been confirmed. He's penned a 4-year deal.

Paving the way for Hennessey to join West Brom now?

good signing. happy with that.

first match in the Cape Town cup v Supersport Utd:

Starting XI

Hennessey; Kelly, Dann, Hangeland, Souare; Jedinak, Ledley; Puncheon, Mutch, Lee; Campbell.

Subs:

Speroni, Delaney, Scales, Cabaye, McArthur, Kaikai, Murray, Bamford, Gayle

2-0 up in 16 minutes. Goals from Jedi and Chung-yong Lee.

3-0, Mutch with the third after 28 minutes.

Campbell makes it 4-0. I wasn't expecting it to be this easy!

half-time: 4-0. bit of a breeze.

Palace subs: Bamford and Kaikai on, Campbell and Puncheon off.

Cabaye, Delaney & Scales now on.

full time: SuperSport 0-4 Palace

the final is on Sunday.

Pardew's just said that there was no Murray, Bolasie and Zaha today as they were carrying slight knocks.

Hopefully they get the bloody stream fixed for Sunday.

Sporting Lisbon beat Ajax Cape Town 4-2 on penalties after a 2-2 draw so we'll be playing Sporting in the final tomorrow afternoon.

Line-up against Sporting Lisbon, kick-off 2.30pm.

McCarthy; Ward, Delaney, Dann, Souare; McArthur, Cabaye; Puncheon, Mutch, Gayle; Murray.

Subs: Hennessey, Kelly, Hangeland, Scales, Jedinak, Lee, Kaikai, Zaha, Bamford.

great effort from Mutch early on.