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[Albion] My one annoyance from yesterday...
- Thread starter Bozza
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Brain dead MUG SHEEP
There's plenty of opportunities to wear the yellow. Trips to Man City, Chelsea, Huddersfield, Leicester, Newcastle, Everton, West Brom, Palace, probably Spurs as well, thats nearly half the league. So WHY wear yellow when we don't need to. I can't believe its the team preferring it to the stripes, its not like we struggle at home in them. We wore bloody yellow at Arsenal as well, ffs. And Bournemouth I think ?
Hastings gull
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- Nov 23, 2013
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Yes, from a sales point of view, you are right - there are plenty of opportunities, but it could be that the team just like the colour. I don't know -just surmising. but it does seem odd.
Saint Lennard
Prawn Sarnie Casual
It may be a psychological thing as we play one way at home and another away. It’s the sort of thing a sports psychologist would encourage.
Mo Gosfield
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- Aug 11, 2010
- 6,284
But he does it over and over again. He just hasn't got the touch or finesse, particularly with his right foot. He cannot cross for toffee. The only ball from Knocky that works is the ball he whips in with pace with his left foot e.g at Swansea that found Murray. Most of the time he gets those wrong as well, continually over hitting the ball.
While we are on the subject of Knocky, the flouncing and diving yesterday was embarrassing. He needs to concentrate on the basics. Get rid of the ball quickly after beating the first man, stop giving the ball away so cheaply and simply stop overplaying. You cannot do it at this level. And please please cut out this play acting. It does him no favours at all.
I really do hate the toilet colours................except against.......................that team just to the north...................oh, I get it now.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
You would hope that those “refusing to gamble” errors will have been a learning lesson to our attackers, a lesson that will have been learnt before Tuesday.
GloryDays
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My one annoyance from yesterday was the kit.
Even if it was for “marketing decisions” (scum) the chance to drill home our brand to a US and AUS audience with our club colours would have been a far more sensible decision. Moreover, we’ve been wanting this for decades, at times only a dream, but to finally play at Old Trafford in the top flight and see our team represent us after all this waiting for us to then wear a one time, knock off, yellow piece of tripe over the clubs identity will never be reasoned with me.
Aside from that, what a performance. Shame about the luck but can’t fault the effort. Well done.
NB I see this has been covered but wanted to air my grievances.
Even if it was for “marketing decisions” (scum) the chance to drill home our brand to a US and AUS audience with our club colours would have been a far more sensible decision. Moreover, we’ve been wanting this for decades, at times only a dream, but to finally play at Old Trafford in the top flight and see our team represent us after all this waiting for us to then wear a one time, knock off, yellow piece of tripe over the clubs identity will never be reasoned with me.
Aside from that, what a performance. Shame about the luck but can’t fault the effort. Well done.
NB I see this has been covered but wanted to air my grievances.
My guess would be the contract with Nike requires us to use it a minimum number of times......
Nixonator
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Thanks for winding me up again, I'd only just made peace with it.
GT49er
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Time it was changed, then. Might have been justified when we were in the Championship losing £30M a year - no need for it now we're in the PL!
How many fans were actually wearing the yellow at OT yesterday - and how many wore the stripes? Maybe this is something which can be brought up at the next fans' forum - clearly, a lot of people aren't happy with it.
severnside gull
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Murray has no pace and Gross plays from deep . We almos NEVER "take a chance"/attack balls across the goal area.
Wherever have scored in those circumstances it has usually been from a ball cut back deeper for the player coming into the penalty box rather than straight for the non-existant man in the goal area
Wherever have scored in those circumstances it has usually been from a ball cut back deeper for the player coming into the penalty box rather than straight for the non-existant man in the goal area
el punal
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Too true about a new striker. If either Glenda or Tomer are out, for whatever reason, we're stuffed. The fact that we're 9th and with 16 points at this point of the season shows what a great team effort it's been. It's also fortunate that there are a few teams in the Premier League at present who are absolute crap and we've taken advantage of, namely West Ham and Swansea as examples.
Wardy's twin
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- Oct 21, 2014
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Very few in my part so mainly blue and white shirts added to which are the blue hats & coats with logo shirts and blue & white scarves for those who don't like wearing shirts.
GloryDays
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I would suspect Nike don’t care. Home or away it’s all Nike anyway. I’d think it’s the club trying to push the away kit. Sad.
It’d be nice to see an away end just in stripes. I’m not calling for a boycot but perhaps a game in which we all wear the stripes to hammer home he sentiment that blue and white is thicker than yellow (or black). Especially at a game where there is no need for the players to be wearing it. Queue our next televised game against a team that wears red. Liverpool for instance.
Also, perhaps to be totally ironic, all wear (any) yellow shirt at a home game, not necessarily the kit. I wonder how the hierarchy would take that. Probably just as bemused as we were yesteray.
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
The referee. Utd were playing in white shorts, so there could've been a problem with close offsides.
There was a game a few years ago where the ref wouldn't accept our stripes or away kit, and we had to play in Leicester's away kit.
GT49er
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Which would have clashed with our blue ones? What an absolute nonsense if that's the case.
Return of the Rev
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I think the striker we never bought would be the one getting on these,fantastic start but imagine with the big money striker we might have turned those 4 draws into wins and a defeat into a draw would give us another 9 points! If we get the right man in the future things are looking good
Things I hated about yesterday
- getting hassled by endless scarf sellers outside
- endless body searches (ok probably in the circumstances it had to be
done)
- piss poor catering in the upper tier and nowhere to stand downstairs
(I asked for a bottle of water and was given/paid for a glass of water ffs)
- the ludicrously small access to the stand and steep steps.
Oh, and losing when we deserved a draw at least.
- getting hassled by endless scarf sellers outside
- endless body searches (ok probably in the circumstances it had to be
done)
- piss poor catering in the upper tier and nowhere to stand downstairs
(I asked for a bottle of water and was given/paid for a glass of water ffs)
- the ludicrously small access to the stand and steep steps.
Oh, and losing when we deserved a draw at least.