nah not really.
Still Team Fence.
'Team Out'? is that what team you are on if you want him gone? 'Team Sack'? Hopefully not 'Team Jones'.
nah not really.
Still Team Fence.
What I think of Hyypia as a coach and our current form is irrelevant to my point.
We have no divine right to be in the playoffs, get promoted or even "do well" and, with the squad we had last season, even then we overachieved. And I seem to remember Oscar Garcia getting stick on here week in, week out. I'd love to go back and quote each and every person who said "I'd rather we lost 4-3 than win another boring 1-0 etc etc etc".
People just don't know how good they've got it in THE BIGGER PICTURE.
What a pompous load of shite! We all know our history but that doesn't mean we have to to grovellingly accept the substandard rubbish currently being served up . I havent met a single fan that expected a repeat of the last two seasons achievements but to be critical of a team in the bottom five after 12 games seemingly without the management team to turn things round does not make anybody a bad fan. To carry on with the same, clearly failing ,set up for another 6 weeks or so could be a disaster for the club. Never forget our past but always remember the future.
NSC makes me laugh; but it's not just NSC, is it? The Argus comments and even just listening to fans at matches... People have no idea. Moaning at Bloom, moaning about Hyypia, moaning about the price of pies or queue to buy a beer at our swish, brand new all seater stadium IN BRIGHTON. When I was a kid we went to the dilapidated Goldstone, the club was going out of business. We moved to Gillingham for ****s sake; I watched the worst game of football in my life (Doncaster 0-0) with Michael Mahoney-Johnson up front.
Fast forward, we're 19th in League One, we're playing at an athletics ground and untried new manager Gus Poyet has just been appointed. We are fighting to avoid relegation to league 2 and paying (fairly) similar prices to sit 50 yards from the pitch. In the rain. With no roof. The players were training on a university pitch.
We reach the playoffs two seasons running despite having a fraction of the budget of some clubs, and changing managers in the second season.
And people have the bloody nerve to talk about "worst Albion performance ever" losing 2-1 to a very good Middlesborough side, in the Championship. Spending £1m on a goalkeeper. Remember Mark Bloody Walton?!
I can only assume most Albion fans are JCL's, teenagers or have very short memories. With some of the abuse he gets, I wonder what's stopping Bloom from calling in all his debts, sticking two fingers up and letting and the club go down the toilet. THEN maybe people will get a sense of perspective.
There were so many people sitting on the fence it's now collapsed, most of them walked over to the OUT side of the garden a few others crawled over to IN section
NSC makes me laugh; but it's not just NSC, is it? The Argus comments and even just listening to fans at matches... People have no idea. Moaning at Bloom, moaning about Hyypia, moaning about the price of pies or queue to buy a beer at our swish, brand new all seater stadium IN BRIGHTON. When I was a kid we went to the dilapidated Goldstone, the club was going out of business. We moved to Gillingham for ****s sake; I watched the worst game of football in my life (Doncaster 0-0) with Michael Mahoney-Johnson up front.
Fast forward, we're 19th in League One, we're playing at an athletics ground and untried new manager Gus Poyet has just been appointed. We are fighting to avoid relegation to league 2 and paying (fairly) similar prices to sit 50 yards from the pitch. In the rain. With no roof. The players were training on a university pitch.
We reach the playoffs two seasons running despite having a fraction of the budget of some clubs, and changing managers in the second season.
And people have the bloody nerve to talk about "worst Albion performance ever" losing 2-1 to a very good Middlesborough side, in the Championship. Spending £1m on a goalkeeper. Remember Mark Bloody Walton?!
I can only assume most Albion fans are JCL's, teenagers or have very short memories. With some of the abuse he gets, I wonder what's stopping Bloom from calling in all his debts, sticking two fingers up and letting and the club go down the toilet. THEN maybe people will get a sense of perspective.
'Team Out'? is that what team you are on if you want him gone? 'Team Sack'? Hopefully not 'Team Jones'.
NSC makes me laugh; but it's not just NSC, is it? The Argus comments and even just listening to fans at matches... People have no idea. Moaning at Bloom, moaning about Hyypia, moaning about the price of pies or queue to buy a beer at our swish, brand new all seater stadium IN BRIGHTON. When I was a kid we went to the dilapidated Goldstone, the club was going out of business. We moved to Gillingham for ****s sake; I watched the worst game of football in my life (Doncaster 0-0) with Michael Mahoney-Johnson up front.
Fast forward, we're 19th in League One, we're playing at an athletics ground and untried new manager Gus Poyet has just been appointed. We are fighting to avoid relegation to league 2 and paying (fairly) similar prices to sit 50 yards from the pitch. In the rain. With no roof. The players were training on a university pitch.
We reach the playoffs two seasons running despite having a fraction of the budget of some clubs, and changing managers in the second season.
And people have the bloody nerve to talk about "worst Albion performance ever" losing 2-1 to a very good Middlesborough side, in the Championship. Spending £1m on a goalkeeper. Remember Mark Bloody Walton?!
I can only assume most Albion fans are JCL's, teenagers or have very short memories. With some of the abuse he gets, I wonder what's stopping Bloom from calling in all his debts, sticking two fingers up and letting and the club go down the toilet. THEN maybe people will get a sense of perspective.
I want an ENGLISH manager who understands ENGLISH football and has managed in ENGLAND preferably at Championship level. That is probably too much to ask.
Why?
Because our recent flirtation with foreign managers has not been a success (yes I know, playoffs two seasons in succession, but we've bottled when we got there) and as a result we've had too many managerial changes which in unsettling for the club and has meant two successive summers without a manager in place.
NSC makes me laugh; but it's not just NSC, is it? The Argus comments and even just listening to fans at matches... People have no idea. Moaning at Bloom, moaning about Hyypia, moaning about the price of pies or queue to buy a beer at our swish, brand new all seater stadium IN BRIGHTON. When I was a kid we went to the dilapidated Goldstone, the club was going out of business. We moved to Gillingham for ****s sake; I watched the worst game of football in my life (Doncaster 0-0) with Michael Mahoney-Johnson up front.
Fast forward, we're 19th in League One, we're playing at an athletics ground and untried new manager Gus Poyet has just been appointed. We are fighting to avoid relegation to league 2 and paying (fairly) similar prices to sit 50 yards from the pitch. In the rain. With no roof. The players were training on a university pitch.
We reach the playoffs two seasons running despite having a fraction of the budget of some clubs, and changing managers in the second season.
And people have the bloody nerve to talk about "worst Albion performance ever" losing 2-1 to a very good Middlesborough side, in the Championship. Spending £1m on a goalkeeper. Remember Mark Bloody Walton?!
I can only assume most Albion fans are JCL's, teenagers or have very short memories. With some of the abuse he gets, I wonder what's stopping Bloom from calling in all his debts, sticking two fingers up and letting and the club go down the toilet. THEN maybe people will get a sense of perspective.
Come on, you can't keep on harping on about the bad old days. It has zero relevance to the set-up today, the revenues, budgets and squad. We have been within 180 minutes of the Premier League twice rather more recently than Gillingham.
I actually agree with you about that Doncaster game at Gillingham, it is by far and away the worst game of professional football I have ever seen, let alone Albion performance. Clearly anyone who says that about Boro is a JCL. And Donny is a valid point of reference, but only in a nostalgic way these days.
You say people have 'no idea'...but if we're honest, you have no idea whether or not Hyypia will be a success for us in the Championship. You don't know, and you can't know - any more than those who say he never will be and should go. At the moment the evidence is suggesting he is struggling to make an impact, but he could yet turn it around. However he needs to turn it around quickly, because by any standards relegation would be a massive failure.
If we're right down near the bottom in a couple of months, if not sooner, there will be huge pressure to make a change from the board. Not even from the fans calling for his head, but from the idea that they would vote with their feet and League One crowds would be down to 15,000 or less. And it appears in our model at the moment the crowds are hugely important financially.
What I think of Hyypia as a coach and our current form is irrelevant to my point.
We have no divine right to be in the playoffs, get promoted or even "do well" and, with the squad we had last season, even then we overachieved. And I seem to remember Oscar Garcia getting stick on here week in, week out. I'd love to go back and quote each and every person who said "I'd rather we lost 4-3 than win another boring 1-0 etc etc etc".
People just don't know how good they've got it in THE BIGGER PICTURE.
Another Team Fence here. Although if I watch too many more games with us passing the ball along the edge of the penalty area without any hope of penetration then that might change