Swimboy64
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- Oct 19, 2022
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This is exactly how I started to feel about 3/4 months ago.I’m still going but get bored stiff.I remember my dad doing exactly the same after 60 years of watching the Albion.Just not for me anymore I guess
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[Albion] Anyone else feeling FLAT ?
- Thread starter Kosh
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This is the first season in a long long time where there doesn't seem any possibility of changing divisions*. In the football league we always seemed to be going either up or down, or nearly missing either way, and since getting into the top flight the spectre of relegation has been a constant presence. Until this season where it all seems strangely calm, even comfortable.
(*Edit to add, last season had a different kind of excitement, with the new manager & style; it felt like a promotion season, qualifying for Europe for the first time)
For me, I'm loving it, but it's all about Europe this year. I was genuinely worried we might struggle to cope with the extra games, like so many teams have in the past, but they've stepped up so impressively that there is no jeopardy left in the league whatsoever.
It means I can just shrug of results like Wolves (and even Sheffield Utd and Burnley to some extent), whereas in the past that would have ruined my weekend (/Monday night), but I can certainly see how some might experience that as boring.
(*Edit to add, last season had a different kind of excitement, with the new manager & style; it felt like a promotion season, qualifying for Europe for the first time)
For me, I'm loving it, but it's all about Europe this year. I was genuinely worried we might struggle to cope with the extra games, like so many teams have in the past, but they've stepped up so impressively that there is no jeopardy left in the league whatsoever.
It means I can just shrug of results like Wolves (and even Sheffield Utd and Burnley to some extent), whereas in the past that would have ruined my weekend (/Monday night), but I can certainly see how some might experience that as boring.
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Javeaseagull
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- Feb 22, 2014
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I think I know how Kosh feels because for some time I have been less enthusiastic about the game. I said to a mate a little while ago that I wasn’t watching as much football and I put it down to VAR. Like a lot of things it’s probably a combination of getting older, Brightons assumed position of top 10 being safe but it’s also that I don’t enjoy watching other teams as much as I used to. I think I compare them unfavourably with Brighton which is the only time I get pleasure from football now. The other night against Wolves lots of people are moaning but I thought that both teams played well. We played well and did everything but score and Wolves played well and achieved a good result for them. It’s probably age and being sated with success. I keep reminding myself that this is the best period I can remember of watching the Albion.
I'm a bit 'meh' because of our injuries, and lack of wingers; it feels like we're treading water until the injured players return, and are unlikely to finish as high as last season - against Wolves, we were back to 70% possession and no goals, which we constantly complained about under Graham Potter.
Of course, this might be a horrible sense of spoilt 'entitlement', given how far we have come as a club; I too was in the North Stand (north-west corner by the floodlight) at the old Goldstone Ground, as a school-boy, watching us play the likes of Port Vale, Rotherham, and Walsall, on a freezing-cold winter's day in front of 7,000 people.
But for the last couple of months, I have felt a bit flat. My problem, I know, because objectively, this is the best the Albion have ever been in terms of League position, flair players, and playing in Europe for the first time.
Of course, this might be a horrible sense of spoilt 'entitlement', given how far we have come as a club; I too was in the North Stand (north-west corner by the floodlight) at the old Goldstone Ground, as a school-boy, watching us play the likes of Port Vale, Rotherham, and Walsall, on a freezing-cold winter's day in front of 7,000 people.
But for the last couple of months, I have felt a bit flat. My problem, I know, because objectively, this is the best the Albion have ever been in terms of League position, flair players, and playing in Europe for the first time.
oneillco
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- Feb 13, 2013
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Anyone who has followed a club for more than a decade knows that it's roller-coaster ride and you don't appreciate the peaks if you haven't had the troughs. Having said that, the last decade of following Albion has been a walk in the park compared to the previous 20 years. Personally, 8th in the Prem and Europa League last 16, with the prospect of our most exciting players returning soon (Mitoma, Fati, Adingra) fills me with excitement.
When I compare sitting watching a 0-0 draw versus Leyton Orient, on a cold January evening at the Withdean, and watching us go 7th in the Premier League above Man United. The game on Monday was dull. But the game before we trounced Spurs.
It’s a funny old game, but I’m still buzzing to be a supporter.
It’s a funny old game, but I’m still buzzing to be a supporter.