[Albion] “The fight has gone out of Brighton”

Johnny RoastBeef said:

Do you imagine they only play football on match days?

At the moment we are having to play most matches defensively, chasing the ball whilst other teams let the ball do the work. And we are doing this whilst using fewer squad members than other teams.

Chris has tried to rotate the squad but we don't have the strength in depth to sustain the standard. At least this has come to light just before the transfer window opens. I expect a busy January for player recruitment.

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Johnny RoastBeef said:

Do you imagine they only play football on match days?

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Seagull1989 said:

If we were so terrible today and were going to lose anyway why not bring on Hünemeier , Baldock and Kayal. Get their match fitness up and give a rest to some of the other players.

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Stat Brother said:

I can only assume all the people in the 'footballers aren't allowed to be tired' camp, aren't still in the stadium at the final whistle.

Watching the players dragging themselves off the pitch looking dead on their feet, many of them knowing they've got to do it all again in 72 hours time, seems to be the very definition of tired.
For me when I'm dead dog tired, I'm not just physically tired either.

The game plan isn't set up to alleviate any of this either, piling more and more onto the players as they are asked defend and literally 'soak up pressure'.

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Sussex Nomad said:

So, today we didn't play Kayal, Baldock, Goldson, Huners, Knocky, and off the bench were March and Jose. There is also Sidwell and Leroy, both Prem experienced. There are seven players - plus two - that didn't start today, and we have no decent back up? What a load of old steaming bollocks.

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Stat Brother said:

Blimey have we got that desperate already?

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Sussex Nomad said:

Sorry, what do you mean?

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Stat Brother said:

I'd rather we played Liam Rosenior and not his father.

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Stat Brother said:

I'm curious as to why Dale Stephens 'needs' an energy gel midway through the half of most games.

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poidy said:

This tired argument absolutely grips my shit.

I work 45-50 hours a week, spend an additional 6 hours on top of that in the car commuting, and probably another 5 hours on top of that working from home. Not to mention running a household and all of the associated work that comes with that.

I can still manage (as 3000 others did) to turn up in good voice at Huddersfield on a freezing cold Saturday afternoon in December.

These players train 2 hours a day, 5 times a week, invariably with just one 90 minute game of football at the end of it.

Earning in excess of £20,000 a week for the privilege, I don’t think it’s asking too much for them to turn up and apply a little bit of endeavour and application.

Fatigue is nothing more than a kop out to mask what was at best an abject and gutless performance yesterday.



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poidy said:

This tired argument absolutely grips my shit.

I work 45-50 hours a week, spend an additional 6 hours on top of that in the car commuting, and probably another 5 hours on top of that working from home. Not to mention running a household and all of the associated work that comes with that.

I can still manage (as 3000 others did) to turn up in good voice at Huddersfield on a freezing cold Saturday afternoon in December.

These players train 2 hours a day, 5 times a week, invariably with just one 90 minute game of football at the end of it.

Earning in excess of £20,000 a week for the privilege, I don’t think it’s asking too much for them to turn up and apply a little bit of endeavour and application.

Fatigue is nothing more than a kop out to mask what was at best an abject and gutless performance yesterday.






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Stat Brother said:

You'd soon feel tired if for 2 hours of the 40 you were completely out of your depth, missing stuff, seeing your best wasn't good enough

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Stat Brother said:

You'd soon feel tired if for 2 hours of the 40 you were completely out of your depth, missing stuff, seeing your best wasn't good enough, knowing any mistake you make will massively impact on all your colleagues.
Not to mention the 30,000 people signing, booing and catcalling the slightest of errors.

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boik said:

I don’t know why everyone thinks that the Albion are any different from other teams. All teams have bad runs; htfc had just lost 4 in a row and are now seemingly world beaters. Spurs were in crisis and just won 5-1. It’s what happens over a season. No need to analyse the @&@@ out of it.

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Stat Brother said:

You'd soon feel tired if for 2 hours of the 40 you were completely out of your depth, missing stuff, seeing your best wasn't good enough, knowing any mistake you make will massively impact on all your colleagues.
Not to mention the 30,000 people signing, booing and catcalling the slightest of errors.

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Stat Brother said:

You'd soon feel tired if for 2 hours of the 40 you were completely out of your depth, missing stuff, seeing your best wasn't good enough, knowing any mistake you make will massively impact on all your colleagues.
Not to mention the 30,000 people signing, booing and catcalling the slightest of errors.

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poidy said:

No that just sounds like my average day at work.


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Sussex Nomad said:

Poor babies, let's wrap them up in cotton wool, oh, they already are.

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bn9 bha said:

Ahhhhh bless em , maybe professional football isn't for some of our players.

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