Crystal Palace X1

[YELLOW]

Apparently the game was abandoned because Taylor was not too happy about some of the tackles during the game.

 

Francis' tackle on their lad didn't look too bad. Apparently their guy has a suspected broken arm caused when his arm got trapped under the steel barrier. Nasty injury but Francis is hardly to blame for it.

[It's Me]

Actually the score was 2 - 1 Canvey according to the laws of the game!

 

I thought the referee was playing a strange game, allowed a serious elbow on Bourne, allowed a Palace player to take a vicious kick at a Canvey player (when their own player hurt himself as a result) the ball was kicked out by one of their players he gave a goal kick and not a corner.

 

Yet every time Canvey got a little physical out came the whistle, I got the feeling he was asked to protect Palace players!

 

Strange game, night, atmosphere, ending.

 

I heard three reasons for ending the game early.

 

1 Pitch was to slippy and dangerous (The pitch was perfect even when wet).

 

2 Peter Taylor was incensed by the injury to one of his players and demmanded the game ended?

 

3 Lightning (Ha! Ha!)

 

Anyone know the truth??

[Matt H]

Think it's a mixture of both. The weather conditions, (which were stopping at the time the game was called off) made the pitch wet and slippery, that could be argued resulted in the injury to the Palace plsyer, which made Peter Taylor insist the game be postponed.

 

Wonder if he'll do that in the same conditions when they're winning a league game?

[Mini Goose]

im not sure who he was but i believe he slid into the fence and had his arm wedged under neath the fence! he has a broken rm and a disloacated shoulder but i think the break was very bad.

does anybody know who the player was?

[YELLOW]

Player was Aaron Dalhouse.

[Lefty]

was it the same player the collided with bourne in the first half?

[onebreast]

Well actually fellas i got the train home from Benfleet after concord training and i got on the train with the ref from the Canvey game as i recognised him from previous games . He said he called it off becuase that bloke was injured and also that the lightning was a potential problem .

He said Peter Taylor was not happy about the tackle but said if it was one of his players and he let the bloke slip down the touchline without a tackle he would have not been happy with his player would he.

I asked if it was a good game and he said it was a good game , said Canvey are a good side apart from the left back who he thought was pretty poor ! seemed like a nice fella to be honest

[richard sparkes]

i wonder if its crow or bourney the ref was on about?

[Mini Goose]

Originally Posted By: YELLOW

Apparently the game was abandoned because Taylor was not too happy about some of the tackles during the game.

Francis' tackle on their lad didn't look too bad. Apparently their guy has a suspected broken arm caused when his arm got trapped under the steel barrier. Nasty injury but Francis is hardly to blame for it.

thats no reason to abandone the game tho.
just because taylor didnt like some of the tackles.

and after speaking with some of the palace fans on their forum i hear that there is no broken arm as first thought and dalhouse has only suffered with the dislocated shoulder.

[ronin]

You`ve got to accept that wierd things happen in pre-season games and that Crystal Palace were doing us a favour by sending a side down.

 

Glad to hear the player`s injury is not as bad as first thought.

[onebreast]

Originally Posted By: richard sparkes

i wonder if its crow or bourney the ref was on about?

he said " they are a bit dodgy at the back , the left back cant have been a first team player"

[YELLOW]

I heard a friendly between two non league sides the other weekend was abandoned after 10 minutes because of an incident on the pitch that resulted in one player suffering a broken leg and the opposition player receiving a nasty head injury.

 

These things happen more frequently in friendlies than you think.

[Matt H]

For a pre-season game it would've been the conditions that lead to the injury that would've cancelled the game. I highly doubt it would've been the tackles because if that was the case, it would've been abandoned as soon as Bourne went down after that challenge. Had it been a competitive game, their man would've seen a straight red.

[Linneycifc]

You all seem to have missed the main point here it's that MLS mania has even hit local journo's tut tut Mr Marshall We call it FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Originally Posted By: ronin

the "soccer" being accompanied by a heavy thunderstorm.

[It's Me]

Originally Posted By: onebreast

I asked if it was a good game and he said it was a good game , said Canvey are a good side apart from the left back who he thought was pretty poor ! seemed like a nice fella to be honest

Ha! Ha!

Bourney was my man of the match, and Crowe had a safe sensible game, mind you the blind b@stard never made a decent decision all night!

[Ribbit]

No, he didn't give Palace a penalty in the first half for a clear handball.

[ronin]

A bit late but i found this match report on a Crystal Palace website

 

Freak accident triggers abandonment

 

Palace's Club XI friendly with Canvey Island came to a pre-mature and quite shocking end after 75 minutes play, following a freak injury to Palace's centre-half Aaron Dalhouse.

 

Dalhouse was dualling for the ball out by the left touchline, both he and a Canvey player went over on the rain-slicked pitch and Dalhouse hit the metal mesh perimeter fence hard. His arm and shoulder slid underneath the fence which sprang back with huge force pinning him to the ground. The normal gap under the fence was only two/three inches and thus, the fence cut very deeply into his shoulder causing at least a dislocation and possibly a break of the upper arm. Dalhouse was in very obvious discomfort, howling in pain throughout the attempts to free him and was eventually stretchered away extremely gingerly.

 

Up to that point, the game had been played for the most part in a thunderstorm and had been a lively affair with plenty of goalmouth action, right from the off. Ashley Robinson tormented his marker down the right wing, almost setting up Lewis Grabban with a rebounded shot, Grabban looked to have steered the ball home, but a deflection send it spinning over the bar. Grabban was then played in by Jamie Smith and really should done better with a free header from 10 yards out. Within a minute, Robinson again drifted away from his marker was inches away from getting on the end of a deep cross from James Dayton out on the left. Ben Kudjodji also headed wide from a good position.

 

At the other end, Canvey’s Ian Luck tested out David Wilkinson who held well. The Islanders were finding the most joy attacking down the left side, with Jeffrey Amidou getting himself tied up and giving away free kicks in dangerous areas. It was as a result of one such kick that Canvey ended up taking the lead on 15 minutes. The free kick was whipped in, and canvey’s Clydie Roberts knocked the ball down for Nicky Rugg to poach from close range. Leon Gordon almost made it two with a drilled shot from 20 yards than Wilkinson could only punch away.

 

Midway through the half, a teasing cross from Robinson was misjugdged by the Canvey keeper, Ricky Wiseman, who fumbled the ball behind him under pressure from Kudjodji. He grasped the ball at the second attempt, but the ball squirmed away under his body and Kudjodji pounced only to have the effort disallowed for an infringement on the keeper, which looked more than a little harsh from behind the goal.

 

Five minutes later, parity was indeed restored, as Kudjodji brilliantly timed a run to meet another measured Robinson cross from the right, fired past the keeper who managed to get a hand to it, but the force of the shot took it in anyway.

 

Amidou was then involved in a nasty clash of heads which held up play for a few minutes, both players were ok to continue. The half close with Canvey almost snatching the lead again through Luck.

 

With pitch conditions becoming even more greasy, the second half didn’t have quite the same level of excitement as the first. The most notable Palace action came from Grabban, whose shot on the run flew narrowly over on 54 minutes and a piledriver from Smith, which was well held by Wiseman on 65 minutes. After the first Palace substitutions, Smith found himself in a more advanced role and acquitted himself vey well there after a quiet first half. At the other end, Luck was again the main danger with one effort drew a praticularly fine stop from Wilkinson.

 

On 73 minutes, the awful injury to Dalhouse occurred and after a long chat with both captains, about the conditions, the Referee blew for time 15 minutes early.

 

Palace: (4-4-2) Wilkinson, Amidou, Hills, Bingham (Sweeney 55), Swaibu, Dalhouse, Robinson (J.Scannell 65), Smith, Grabban, Kudjodji, Dayton. Subs not used: Thorpe, Edwards, Clyne, Abnett, Comley, Cadygan

 

http://www.palace-echo.net/features.shtml

[Ribbit]

That sounds nasty.