BensGrandad
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Isnt 80% of the entertainment value down to getting a result.
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[Albion] The Mike Bailey Principle
- Thread starter Perry Milkins
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Isnt 80% of the entertainment value down to getting a result.
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Maybe for some but we had some entertaining matches over the years getting draws, i remember coming out thinking, ok we got a draw but we had peppered their goal.
Of course results are important but how many wins can you get away with that are just hard to watch.
I wouldn't want us getting the old Arsenal tag of 'boring, boring Brighton.' just because we want to hang in there for the big time.
Fortunately for the club many fans seem to put up with it nowadays.
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Drew
Exactly, no live matches back then and still the gates plummeted!
Great thread. Currently I believe we have so much more to give and perhaps a little tinkering to do but the game has moved on from the old days.
The oldens these days are checking there heart as much as watching the game. As my mum used to say when in a tense situation “ I’m not going to grow any taller “
The oldens these days are checking there heart as much as watching the game. As my mum used to say when in a tense situation “ I’m not going to grow any taller “
Cheshire Cat
The most curious thing..
We are not good enough, and can' afford it.
GT49er
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There is a similarity between the Mike Bailey days and now - in both cases we were surviving in a tough division with some bigger and better teams, and were getting some success through wonderfully organised defending. Not pretty - and, tbh, our last three 'one-nil-to-the-Albion's haven't been exactly entertaining, apart from the three points (altough I suppose the traditional hanging on for dear life for the last twenty minutes is exciting in its horrid way!). The difference now is that we have a Chairman and a large number of fans who remember the mistake we made in getting rid of Bailey to get a 'name' in - and won't jump into doing it again. We've learned better.
And OK, I'll 'fess up. I was never calling for Bailey to go, but I was quite pleased and excited when Melia was brought in. Sorry......................
And OK, I'll 'fess up. I was never calling for Bailey to go, but I was quite pleased and excited when Melia was brought in. Sorry......................
- Jun 27, 2012
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Crowds were high in div 3/2 but few 30+ turn outs and there was a blip back up in that first season in div 1 and yes decline after that.
From 76 - 83
Average per season
15, 20, 25, 22, 24, 19, 18, 14 (thousand)
Via : http://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/league/bha.htm
Kalimantan Gull
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I really really want to see Brighton playing entertaining football in the premier league. But to do that we have to get through this first 2 or 3 seasons and then build from that base.
Walk before you can run, otherwise you'll fall over and have to get back up again from the championship, and we'll have to do the first two-three years of struggling all over again. I don't think its worth the gamble when patience is whats required. I believe we're building something fantastic at Brighton, I don't want to yo yo
- Jun 27, 2012
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They were plummeting everywhere. In 81/82 we had a average of 18k but still the thirteenth biggest crowd in country.
Last season 30,400 - the 14th biggest crowd...
If the Amex was a bit bigger, we may have been a bit higher.
I'll never forgive Derek Chapman for not making it 45,000, with much longer train platforms at Falmer. But that's another thread.
Publius Ovidius
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I seem to remember there was a rush for people going to see the stiffs too
Not Andy Naylor
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I don't think it was up to him!
Perry Milkins
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Wasn't Melia on the staff anyway, perhaps as a scout?
I will admit to being bitterly disappointed. Also cringed at his publicity stunts during the cup run and when he was booted out. Didn't he appear in the North Stand versus massive?
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Drew
Haven't read the whole thread so apologies if it has been mentioned. On another thread someone blamed the sacking of Bailey as the reason the club almost went into terminal decline which seems odd bearing in mind, now I might be wrong here, that it was the club that gave players ludicrous 10 year contracts that were not sustainable. Having to support those contracts on the back of falling attendances no doubt contributed to the demise of Bailey. However, was it not the case that the problem was not sacking Bailey but in a cheap appointment of someone who had no worthwhile managerial experience and, as it seemed, was just a puppet for the senior members of the team?
Perry Milkins
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Harsh but seems very fair. That was the talk in the town at the time.
- Jun 27, 2012
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Blimey - 3 games of winning 1-0 in a row and we've turned into Arsenal and Mike Bailey.
Only a few weeks ago our defence had gone awry and we were generously giving teams 2-0 leads and throwing caution to the wind getting back into the game.
Presumably when we play Man United again we'll be peak Albion, all imperious and scoring half a dozen. Well probably.
or perhaps its all a bit early to judge...
Only a few weeks ago our defence had gone awry and we were generously giving teams 2-0 leads and throwing caution to the wind getting back into the game.
Presumably when we play Man United again we'll be peak Albion, all imperious and scoring half a dozen. Well probably.
or perhaps its all a bit early to judge...
GT49er
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You may be right - I don't know; I was living in Scotland at the time and my only sources of information on the Albion were newspapers (Scottish editions!) and the radio, plus the occasional visit to the Goldstone when I came south to visit my parents in Sussex - no internet back then, either!
From afar, and with minimal information, I was delighted that a 'name' like the great Liverpool player Jimmy Melia was coming to manage little ole' Brighton to greater heights (and Cup Finals!) And yes, I felt the same way when that other former Liverpool great, Sami Hyypia, arrived.......
Leekbrookgull
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Where did the Jimmy Melia appointment actually arise from,as his track record was all most non extant at the time?
GT49er
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Same ethos as the Mullery appointment, wasn't it? - recently retired big name successful player from a big successful club.