doogie004
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For r group of ten it's all
About results 5 not going tomorrow better things to do lost interest
About results 5 not going tomorrow better things to do lost interest
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Harty SOCKS it to Barber in the Worthing Herald
- Thread starter Ernest
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Pretty pink fairy
Banned
- Jan 30, 2008
- 31,981
yeah, it's moved into fantasy land and reached comical proportions mainly on the pitch, shame because as you rightly say it's all about the footballI'm with you on this, because for me, going to football has only EVER been about the football. They can keep all the razamajizz and pull the wool over the eyes of those foolish enough to wear it
regards
DR
oldboyroy
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Harty is spot on in many respects
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Game tomorrow apparently ...up the Albion
Will you be challenging Ian on his belief that we need an "English" manager (see my post above), despite "English" managers being outperformed in the club's recent history? While you're in his box on a comp
Or is it different when not posting in a UKIP thread?
Surely the best man should get the job, regardless of their race. I didn't think you'd jump at the chance to share a box with someone so far removed from your own beliefs.
Non-English managers also outperform English managers at other clubs too......including England!
So did the teams relegated....
You are far apart in your statistical analysis of our support.
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Harty. Spot on. There is a whole stadium full of knobhead traders from Hassocks and Cuckfield who only bought STs because they thought Brighton would go up to the PL tout suite. They now just don't bother going because its no fun watching us lose every other week. I know. I borrow one from one of these characters every so often. He has 4 STs. Him, his missus and his two sons. They probably bother going to about 6 games re season. They couldn't even be bothered to turn up for the St. Patrick day massacre.
Te proper support level for us is around 10k.
Te proper support level for us is around 10k.
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 27,894
I'm sure that Mr Hart can do you a very good deal on a pre paid funeral plan if you have not signed up already.
Funnily enough he did send me some paperwork earlier today that I signed, but didn't check the details, you've got me worried now.
Yeah. I'm sure Garcia or Poyet would have TRANSFORMED Coventry, Pompey and Wolves.
- Oct 17, 2008
- 10,707
He did transform struggling Brighton and Hove Albion, then 19th in League One under Russell Slade (of being English fame), and within a season and a half lead us to win the League One championship. I guess we'll never know.
Harty focuses on Barber, the easy target and he gets paid well for taking the flak, but the person ultimately choosing key senior personnel such as the football manager and the amount of the player transfer/wages budget is TB. With FFP and an understandable desire to reduce the amount he is personally having to subsidise the club each year, TB has made a strategic about-turn to lower player wage costs and on NOT re-spending all player sale monies. In other words using much of the one-off gains on the sale of assets to reduce operating losses, a false one-off position, as without the conveyor belt of quality players being produced/improved like Southampton, it cannot be repeated each season. Dunk is the sole remaining player who might be sought by PL clubs.
With a squad rapidly reducing in quality over each of the last few transfer windows, stemming from TB's strategy, results and goals have dried up. Opponents have no fear of the Albion's weak attack. The lack of goals and wins, especially at home, are the cause of fan disgruntlement and increasingly empty seats. All stemming from the route TB has chosen, of a drastic reining in of spending.
Barber's domains of marketing and income including squeezing more spending out of fans, make him unpopular, when the squad and their results are both dire. A few fans would be less unhappy if the price of beer, teas, pies and programmes were 20% cheaper, but results on the pitch are far greater driver of fan contentment. So, it will be interesting to see what TB does about squad quality over the next few months.
With a squad rapidly reducing in quality over each of the last few transfer windows, stemming from TB's strategy, results and goals have dried up. Opponents have no fear of the Albion's weak attack. The lack of goals and wins, especially at home, are the cause of fan disgruntlement and increasingly empty seats. All stemming from the route TB has chosen, of a drastic reining in of spending.
Barber's domains of marketing and income including squeezing more spending out of fans, make him unpopular, when the squad and their results are both dire. A few fans would be less unhappy if the price of beer, teas, pies and programmes were 20% cheaper, but results on the pitch are far greater driver of fan contentment. So, it will be interesting to see what TB does about squad quality over the next few months.
The Campanologist
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- Sep 1, 2014
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Absolutely what I took from it.
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Does he still lick windows?
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
Deluded old fart - past it.
I'm sure foreign managers with the two highest budgets in the Championship would have got promoted though.
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Harty has been behind BHAFC for years. Gulls eye, the Withdean years, the phone in. Legend.
He's never been afraid of calling it the way it is. He was one of the (very few) folk to realise that Adams had lost it during the second coming VERY early as I recall.He talks to EVERYONE at the club and knows the underswell of opinion very well and he's right to suspect we have a very large contingent of glory hunters in our support who will drift away very easily if this current dross continues. Well said Ian.
He's never been afraid of calling it the way it is. He was one of the (very few) folk to realise that Adams had lost it during the second coming VERY early as I recall.He talks to EVERYONE at the club and knows the underswell of opinion very well and he's right to suspect we have a very large contingent of glory hunters in our support who will drift away very easily if this current dross continues. Well said Ian.
Suspect that will be some of the golf club bores in hospitality.
fat old seagull
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Well while that is the period that the clubs playing stats picked up, agreed. It does bother me that whilst a number of Gus fans are keen to heap praise on him solely, is it purely by coincidence that upturn in playing performances coincided with Tony Bloom putting his hand so deeply into his pocket ?