stortfordred

Brighton freely admit they plan for the next manager. It is silly not to. Nothing to do with morals. Nice could have jumped ship himself and possibly wouldn't have been well enough to continue anyway.

Perhaps it's more a case of no one wanting the job.

We do have a decent group of players who can play a bit. The first 20 minutes (for example) against Stoke demonstrated classy, attacking football with great movement. However, there is a flaky mentality that even an experienced manager like Pearson couldn't completely counteract. I really doubt whether our younger players are going to be able to respond to a young inexperienced coach who has all the tactical ideas but no clue as how to motivate players to play well when under the cosh.

Expect to see Nige as your bin man sometime soon. Btw haven’t listened to all of it.. have the bridges been burnt?

No podium required. Enough empty seats even when ‘sold out’. But seriously, if communication is something he recognises has become an issue, he needs to take advice as to the best way to go about it. This could have been a start, if he’d followed his old man and had a segment where he answered questions from the fans.

He hates us more than Hollowhead does....talking of which....

As it’s a load of balls, here’s the answer. Two teams on the pitch, both playing attacking, front-foot football; let’s splash out and get two balls on the pitch. Even better, let’s have four balls for each team, then you can have both overlapping full backs and inverted ones at the same time.

That's as big a shift, if not bigger, than the Scott/Semenyo shift in resources. We didn't replace those two with similar quality; what could lead us to believe that we will replace Gould and Pearson with better quality? I'm less optimistic than you, Dave. I can't see a Postecoglou like Ange(l) coming to save our board.

Well at least it’s heading somewhere.

Three years and you still haven’t proofread your post?

You’re a youngster. I’ve had 50 years of mainly bollox but the last three days and those two videos have been up there.

He looks like he’s on day release from an institution-Barrow Gurney

Spurs went in to win the cup that year…. as I think they did after beating us in the semi final of the League Cup. if only…. RIP Gordon

Has he got experience in League 1? Oh hang on- he won't be there next August!

Much the same against Rotherham, although this thread was something of a commentators’ curse. Knight had a shocker yesterday. He gave the ball away every time apart from one back pass.

One s too many in your post. Crappy doesn’t even describe how poor we were except those two minutes of genius. The referee was even worse than we were.

If another defender gets injured, then we’ll have to play 2-3-5. That takes me back!

Like him too but our midfield failed to win enough 50 50s after their goal. Not sure we won much in the air either throughout the whole team. When we get the ball down and play we look good but did we earn that right enough? Perhaps that’s where Knight needs another calm head ball winner alongside him rather than a somewhat frantic Williams.

Oh and the proof of this particular pudding is the five week turn around at Spurs. Nothing has changed in the ownership structure but, at the moment, they have attacking, entertaining football so the hatred of the owner (all too evident a short time ago) fades into the background.

It’s been said many times but we need to be careful what we wish for. Better, in my opinion, to be regularly competing well in the Championship than failing miserably in the Prem. I wonder if Sheff Utd fans are waking up this morning feeling that they’ve entered the promised land. Give me entertaining, attacking football at 3pm on a Saturday and I don’t care about the balance sheet and the whys and wherefores of amortisation. I care that some of our best players have gone and it’s probably bad that we don’t get the money for them up front but there will hopefully be another taxi on the rank. I’d rather have a local owner; there is probably none of them that are really perfect. Bloom has probably got just as big an ego as SL (is that really an issue? Steve seems reasonably modest for a billionaire to me) and for every team like Brighton or Bournemouth there is an Oldham, a Charlton or a Barnsley. Yes the communication leaves something to be desired but let’s get the game back and worry less about the business. Too much of a romantic I suppose but……when the ball hits the goal, whether it’s Cheesley or Cole, it’s amore.

Slam dunk mate. Slam dunk!

Quite right. Love Tinman. Legend for me with boots on. Knows a player. But… But love me duck, he ain’t the one who’s going to take the club forward for n the way a Gould or a Scudamore could bits a different skill set entirely. OK Alexander was less than visible. He wasn’t shit like Ashton either but unless the club is to be sold, you need someone really brilliant in that role.

Dean’s holdin’ Lee’s Johnson. 2 pricks in the same sack!!!

That’s shit mate. Flush this thread now!!!

There's a City in my mind Come along and take that ride And it's all right, baby, it's all right And it's very far away But it's growing day by day And it's all right, baby, it's all right Would you like to come along You can help me sing the song