CPFC SYDNEY SUPPORTERS

Inspired by the Melbourne and Adelaide Supporters the Sydney supporters group aims to provide Crystal Palace Supporters in Sydney and supporters visiting Sydney a social network where we can come together for drinks and watch the odd game or two. Supporting the Palace from Australia is always hard and it is always easier when you know there are fellow supporters out there. Based at the Royal Exhibition Hotel next to Central Station makes it the perfect home, away from home. As a football pub the Exhibition offers a good blend of football teams to exchange banter with. Our rivalry with Brighton is continued in Sydney with an annual game of football against the seaweed. Though we lost the first one, there will be others. South London and Proud.

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Jubilant scenes after the final whistle  as the Crystal Palace Sydney Supporters celebrate in style. 

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First Day of the 2015/16 Premier League saw the Crystal Palace Sydney Supporters meet up at the Royal Exhibition for the game against new boys Norwich City. With a great turn out CPFC SYD were in good voice and were able to celebrate a good victory. 

A raffle was also held with the prize of a jersey signed by last season team donated by CPFC captain Mile Jedinak. the jersey was won by Tony King and $265 was raised to be donated to the Dylan Tombides Foundation.

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Down the Royal Exhibition for the game Vs Liverpool on may 16 with Palace won. It was also the last game for James Howland author of The Palace Addiction who had been living in Sydney for the past year and had regularly joined in the Crystal Palace Sydney Supporters events.

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A tribute Yannick Bolasie by the Crystal Palace Sydney Supporters. (Mar 21 Vs Stoke)

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March 21 at the Royal Exhibition for the Game Vs Stoke.  

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Crystal Palace Sydney Supporters celebrating a victory of West Ham at the Royal Exhibition (Feb 28)

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At the Royal Exhibition for the game Vs West Ham on Feb 28. We have a good rapport with Sydney Hammers as we both watch games at the Exhibition.

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Down the Royal Exhibition for the game Vs Leicester.

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Palace Vs Everton Supporters (Zenith Data Systems Replay)

On the 6th of December, Palace Supporters took on Everton Supporters in a replay of the ZDS Cup and to raise money for the Geoff Thomas Foundation for Leukemia Research. 

It was a great afternoon of football played in in hot sticky conditions and torrential rain and saw Crystal Palace Sydney record their first win with an impressive 5-1 demolition of Everton.

Goals from Seany Robb, Louis Chaperon, Dale Quartery and a brace from Ed Goodall sealed a convincing win. Everyone on the team put in a great effort and we are starting to develop as a team and improve our play.

There was also plenty of support on the sidelines form partners and the guys drinking the beer.

After the game there was beers BBQ and a raffle all organised by Jimmy Fletcher and Will Taylor.

Beer and sausages after the game were donated by our friends at Endeavour Vintage Beer (www.facebook.com/endeavourbeer) and the Australian Meat Emporium (www.facebook.com/…/The-Australian-Meat-Empo…/172945319515818).

There were a number of happy punters who won some prizes such as a;

case of Endeavor Vintage Beer,

limited edition Palace Legends print, thanks to http://www.hallyink.com

Vouchers for some of Sydney's most desirable eateries and Mosman's leading boutique jewellery store, Lily & Mitchell (www.facebook.com/lilyandmitchell).

We ended up raising over $800 for the Geoff Thomas foundation.

Many Thanks must go out to Jimmy Fletcher and Will Taylor for orgainsing the day raffle and prizes.

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Pictures from the Palace V Everton supporters played on the 6th of Dec. Palace Supporters won 5-1.

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Crystal Palace Supporters played Chelsea Supporters on a Windy Sunday (16.11.2014). Chelsea stormed into a 2 - 0 lead but the Eagles fought back with 2 well taken goals by Seany Robb Chelsea took the bragging rights with a 6-5 win on penalties. Great day out and thanks to John Harrigan for organizing the day and Alistair Pavey for being the ref and taking a load of stick.

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Palace V Brighton

Another year and another disappointing loss against the Brighton Supporters. Playing a team consisting to 2 ex pro's was never going to be an easy job and on a hot Saturday at the Kings school made it harder.

The team put it a great effort and made the Brighton team battle hard. Unfortunately we conceded two penalties once again making it hard to get the victory we deserve.

The scored ended up being 4-2 with Scott Englefield and Louis Chaperon scoring for us. We came up against a good keeper and probably didn't get the decision we deserved.

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Brighton and Crystal Palace fans live the trials of the long-distance supporter | Joe Gorman

Joe Gorman: An annual fixture in Sydney sums up the difficulties and joys of supporting a team on the other side of the world

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FFDU 5s Tournament

It was another scorcher for the FFDU 5's Supporter Tournament at the Kikoff venue in Marrickville. CPFC Sydney was well represented by Marc Weeks, John Harrigan, Tom Crinnegan, Jimmy Fletcher, Will Taylor, Daniel Poole, Scott Englefield, Seaney Tarrant and James Howland.

Starting off slowly we lost to professional looking Brighton outfit which had a couple of ex professionals losing 5-1.

We then won against Liverpool, Blackpool and Chelsea to progress to the quarter finals where we took on Sydney Cove 23 going down 2-1.

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Palace V Burnley

Crystal Palace Sydney Supporters will be meeting at the Royal Exhibition Hotel for the Burnley game on the 13th of September at 10pm with Kickoff at Midnight.

Jimmy Fletcher will have the cpfcsyd stubby holders for sale, so make it down watch the game and hopefully we will get our first win.

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Above is footage of Will Taylor's amazing penalty save or did it hit the post. 

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Sydney Hammers put together this film of our game played 11 May. The game ended in a 3-3 draw.