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Greatest respect, Baldseagull, but wasn't flair? The man beat at least 17 players in a mazy run and stopped on the goal-line to celebrate before he knocked the ball into the net. Only the great Robin Friday would have been as ballsy. I'd suggest he was the absolute definition.

Oh, man. One of the old guard. Best wishes to his loved ones.

Bit harsh, sir. Just expressing an opinion - I don't speak, as has been thrown at others on here, in certainties. It's just my impression of the selection, which I believe I'm entitled to on a chat site? I'd be very happy to be proved wrong, as I said. It's not like I've said he's useless, that...

Must reserve judgement until we've seen how the game turns out of course, but on first reaction, it does feel like a team picked with other priorities in mind, even allowing for the injuries. I'll be delighted if he proves me wrong, of course, but Peupion couldn't get in a Cheltenham team that...

Fair enough. In Dunk we have what appears to be essentially a one-club man and I hope he stands as an exception for the rest of his career. I assume we've had offers – I seem to remember Newcastle enquired when we were in the Championship? I'd be curious to see if, for example he goes to the...

Indeed. But another possibility is that you only last a few months in/running the first team, get shoved out of the picture when a new man comes in and doesn't share the vision of his predecessor, can't find another club due to the ludicrous money you're on, and waste a year or more of a career...

Maybe I'm out of touch, trueblue. But for me it's a pretty thin argument for people who are already earning extremely well. I'd hope other stuff matters too, in any walk of life.

Is that why they're in football, though, jc? Cucurella seemed to be desperate to go anywhere he could, so long as it was one of the wealthy powerhouses. Look how that's turned out. With a failure on their CVs, the range of 'passion projects' as you nicely name them that will be available to them...

Of course. People are headhunted in every industry. But at what point do you start to think you're in the right place? I've been in the position myself where I could have gone to bigger outfits for more money, but other considerations including work/life balance, corporate culture etc, and...

I accept the inevitability of this. But it does make you wonder if there's one of them, a single one of the staff below, say, Bloom and Barber (and maybe not even Barber) who would see the positives in staying where they are and trying to win something with Brighton? The culture of the club, the...

So, let's recap... He's a forward who's a winger and a midfielder. He's definitely not coming, though a medical has been done and he's signing for West Ham. Or was, until his two agents fell out. He's an exciting signing, who'll most certainly be a let-down, coming from a Scandinavian club...

@dazzer6666 Thanks for uploading that. It's an absolute belting watch and has further brightened an already sunny Sunday morning!:ascarf:

Too many Palace game threads to keep up with them all today, understandably. So I'm just going to say that the sun is (was) in the sky, the lark on the wing, the hat on the side of one's head, and today everything is for the best in this best of all possible worlds. Yes I'm already out getting...

Helpful and positive response. Cheers.

Not going to trawl through 81 pages to search for this, so forgive if fixtures (one for the newbies there...) He's given an interview, yesterday, to a Miami-based newspaper that follows the big clubs in Argentina quite closely. In it, he essentially confirms he's coming to Brighton, and even...

I'll second some of them on here, from the old L2/L1 days, and though they're in the Prem now, add Luton to that same list. Total sh•thole of a town, bizarre entrance between people's bathrooms, horrible, horrible fans chanting the names of our hated board at the time, and I recall a...

Last night was right up there. I'd add to this distinguished list the disbelieving bedlam after Nelson ran from about Chiswick, beat 43 players and buried it at Brentford, the equaliser at Millwall in the play-offs after they'd scored early and were piling on the pressure at The Den, and the...

He was absolutely outstanding last night, and noticeably voted the best player on the pitch in the BBC website, giving the lie to the idea that fans don't know what they're watching. Then I saw a stat on TNT or something - I forget the channels here but was watching it staying at a mate's later...

I'm sure he's fine - he always dreamed of playing for Chelsea, remember? Or was that Liverpool? Or Arsenal? I forget...

I do wonder if players ever examine their own decision-making later, or simply don't give a damn, knowing there will always be somebody else prepared to pay them handsomely if they're even halfway decent these days. Completely different levels, of course, but I remember John Keeley saying, later...