Happy club?!

[wonkydog]

I don't like they comments of the current coaching staff and at a guess it seems they feel let down by the lack of drive shown by the club in January player recruitment. Given the problems of the summer they probably feel the club should have backed them with a at least another 3 signings. If the loan window is similarly barren, do not be surprised if they decide to leave at the end of the sseson

 

[portslade seagull]

I don't like they comments of the current coaching staff and at a guess it seems they feel let down by the lack of drive shown by the club in January player recruitment. Given the problems of the summer they probably feel the club should have backed them with a at least another 3 signings. If the loan window is similarly barren, do not be surprised if they decide to leave at the end of the sseson

Along with half the team at this rate, too many out of contract

 

[symyjym]

Along with half the team at this rate, too many out of contract

All these players coming to the end of their contracts is not a bad thing, in fact we may be saying next year that it has been timed to perfection to allow for massive changes in the summer.

 

[EastUpperSeagull]

It's not just losing games that bothers us, it's the manner of the way we play. As others have said, Don't really mind losing if we played well - but we aren't playing well and we are losing.
Players have been injured, but that doesn't excuse the way the team is set up - we have attacking reserves. If the tactics aren't working you change them, but we don't.
No, Watford weren't really much better than us [from what I've read] BUT they scored 2 goals - we had 65% possession and 1 shot on target. Hitting the post and having 0ne knocked off for offside makes no difference - we aren't attacking teams. Not really knee jerk comments IMO. Seriously, when was the last time Brighton really excited you ? the second half against Leicester in December, I'd guess. That was a lot of matches ago.

This

 

[vulture]

All is not right on the playing side. Lots of players unhappy with Garcia and Jones.

 

[Ernest]

All is not right on the playing side. Lots of players unhappy with Garcia and Jones.

They play like it

 

[vulture]

They play like it

Heard from the horses mouth. A current player .

 

[glasfryn]

Along with half the team at this rate, too many out of contract

and some (maybe a lot) of the fans .........oops sorry customers

 

[poidy]

I guess for the first year of ffp it's all about finding the loopholes.

Haven't we got accountants that can find the loopholes too?

 

[Sergei's Celebration]

Heard from the horses mouth. A current player .

What is their beef with him?

 

[albionite]

What is their beef with him?

Probably not being picked

 

[dougdeep]

All is not right on the playing side. Lots of players unhappy with Garcia and Jones.

When did they tell you this?

 

[British Bulldog]

When did they tell you this?

In his dream.

 

[Kneon Light]

All these players coming to the end of their contracts is not a bad thing, in fact we may be saying next year that it has been timed to perfection to allow for massive changes in the summer.

It is a bad thing when it is a lot of our better players out of contract who will be expensive to replace.

 

[Eric Youngs Contact Lense]

It's not just losing games that bothers us, it's the manner of the way we play. As others have said, Don't really mind losing if we played well - but we aren't playing well and we are losing.
Players have been injured, but that doesn't excuse the way the team is set up - we have attacking reserves. If the tactics aren't working you change them, but we don't.
No, Watford weren't really much better than us [from what I've read] BUT they scored 2 goals - we had 65% possession and 1 shot on target. Hitting the post and having 0ne knocked off for offside makes no difference - we aren't attacking teams. Not really knee jerk comments IMO. Seriously, when was the last time Brighton really excited you ? the second half against Leicester in December, I'd guess. That was a lot of matches ago.

personally, I think we are lucky, and we just need to take a step back. When I think about the teams that have actually been promoted to the PL in recent then the majority appear to have been well established Championship clubs who have been competing at the top end of the Championship for a number of years (often failing in the play-offs for a couple of years), have been relegated from the premier league recently, or, the odd case like Southampton who have had a business plan in place for years that appears to be paying off for them for now : develop young players, sell them on for big money once they have done well for you, and build from there. This is how I feel we are trying to go about it, and how I would like us to go about it. The tricky bit is that we have done so well, and we now have to try and balance the long term plan with the short term expctations based on a great run at the end of last season. The attacking football that we all believe we should be playing is only possible when your players perform consistently : Buckley, Kaz, and Ulloa have not done that, and Buckley and Kaz have struggled to do that at all...really galling because they are superb when they turn it on.
I am trying not to use the word consolidation, but having a team in the top half of an incredibly difficult league, when we know that if we play well we have a good chance of winning matches is not a bad place to be. I am not settling for that, but am comfortbale to let the Club develop and establish itself that will mean grinding out results and draws when we are not on fire. Not everything is rosy, but there is a lot more right than wrong.

 

[Greavsey]

All is not right on the playing side. Lots of players unhappy with Garcia and Jones.

This is kind of what I was getting at when I started this thread. Though I think there is more a divide between the playing side including management and the Burke/Barber alliance.

 

[Icy Gull]

It is a bad thing when it is a lot of our better players out of contract who will be expensive to replace.

If Oscar has decided that he wants different players who better understand how he wants to play and are more capable of it, maybe not? Doesn't bode well for the rest of this season if that is so though.

I have no idea if this is the case but I am coming around to thinking it is a possibility.

It will be an interesting close season if we go down this route.

 

[Greavsey]

If Oscar has decided that he wants different players who better understand how he wants to play and are more capable of it, maybe not? Doesn't bode well for the rest of this season if that is so though.

I have no idea if this is the case but I am coming around to thinking it is a possibility.

It will be an interesting close season if we go down this route.

Yep and then another transitional season while all the new players bed in - at least first half. Just can't see there being wholesale changes, but I'm sure there is an eye on lowering the average age of the squad and buying players young enough to have a resale value.

 

[Icy Gull]

Yep and then another transitional season while all the new players bed in - at least first half. Just can't see there being wholesale changes, but I'm sure there is an eye on lowering the average age of the squad and buying players young enough to have a resale value.

Who's contracts run beyond this close season? Have we got the basis of a side if most of those whose contracts expire are let go?

Ince
Stephens
Buckley?
March?
CMS?
Ulloa
Crofts?

Who else?

 

[Greavsey]

Who's contracts run beyond this close season? Have we got the basis of a side if most of those whose contracts expire are let go?

Ince
Stephens
Buckley?
March?
CMS?
Ulloa
Crofts?

Who else?

Not sure mate, but that list looks worryingly short - and no wonder if there is some unsettling nosises coming out of the squad if 75% of them are out of work at the end of the season.
Kemy?