jasetheace
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[Albion] Are you OK with TB’s long term ambitions for the Albion?
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Duffy already is.
el punal
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Some fair points here. Our first season in the Premier League was always going to produce “negative”, safety first football. A case of needs must in order to survive. Well we’ve done that with a bit to spare. My view on it is that when Chris Hughton came to the Albion his task was to ensure that the club did not get relegated to League One, we didn’t. He rebuilt the team in the summer for a tilt at promotion which, of course, we achieved second time around. I would like to think the same strategy is used for our tenure in the Premier League - here’s hoping!
Not Andy Naylor
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What a magnificent, sprawling epic of an album Get Happy was. If my memory doesn't deceive me, EC and Nick Lowe crammed so many tracks onto it that there were serious doubts as to whether it would play loud enough because the grooves were so close together (and before the pedants start, yes I'm aware that there is only one groove on each side of a vinyl album but you know what I mean).
AmexRuislip
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What TB has done for his/our club, is every fans dream, an owner/fan to have basically bank rolled the club, to get it to a standard, where others can only admire what has been done.
I agree with a lot of what's been said on here about, us as a club, that has fought it's way up through the 'pecking order' to the PL.
I want us to stay in the PL, playing reasonably attractive footy, whilst still commanding a certain respect.
As [MENTION=616]Guinness Boy[/MENTION] has already said.....if we stagnate then Championship will do us no harm.
I've got lots of footy supporting mates, in and around social and work areas, who support the likes of QPR, Brentford, Wycombe Wandrerers etc...
who all have said over one thing and another about how well the Albion have done, not really jealousy, but a kind of admiration.
They're not 'can I have your shirt' fans, but all weather fans
I agree with a lot of what's been said on here about, us as a club, that has fought it's way up through the 'pecking order' to the PL.
I want us to stay in the PL, playing reasonably attractive footy, whilst still commanding a certain respect.
As [MENTION=616]Guinness Boy[/MENTION] has already said.....if we stagnate then Championship will do us no harm.
I've got lots of footy supporting mates, in and around social and work areas, who support the likes of QPR, Brentford, Wycombe Wandrerers etc...
who all have said over one thing and another about how well the Albion have done, not really jealousy, but a kind of admiration.
They're not 'can I have your shirt' fans, but all weather fans
Spanish Seagulls
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Forever means approx 4 seasons in football.
Hampster Gull
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For a few years, absolutely. Forever....no. It’s a sport for me, at some point you push onwards
Perkino
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At the start of the season I would have said my aim was to stay up for 3 seasons and then turn into a premier league certainty like Everton, West Brom, Southampton, Stoke and the like. Considering all of those sides have spent time in the relegation zone and sacked their managers during this season I now realise how fooled I had been about these clubs being at another level to us.
Tony is correct there are 2 levels. The 6 who will fight for a top 4 finish and then the remaining 14 teams
Tony is correct there are 2 levels. The 6 who will fight for a top 4 finish and then the remaining 14 teams
Nixonator
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but when he talked of 'forever' was it not based on the first goal of any club outside the top 6 being survival, or words to that effect?
He obviously believes that the top 6 is now locked down and that not even another Man City type spending spree could allow a club to break into it consistently. I imagine he believes the only next step is another breakaway before anyone else could challenge their monopoly.
With that said, he is lumping us in with the other 13 clubs in the PL which is not excluding the possibility of incrementally improving and having a season like Burnley, which has to be the realistic dream, anything else is pie in the sky to suggest from a businessman even if he is a fan at heart.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
That's the media for you. Brighton players clapped Man City onto the pitch before the game, then lined up for the usual handshakes. Toure didn't get any special treatment until after the game finished.
He came back onto the pitch to applause from all the Man City fans and one or two Brighton. Completely separate times.
Forget the billion years....Think a Billion pounds would help.
seagulls4ever
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Your representation of the situation has changed slightly since the 'TB fans forum' thread, where you said this:
It seems to me that TB is simply being pragmatic since the main aim of most PL teams is to stay up. We'd require some serious investment to become a team which could think otherwise.
However, from what I've seen since TB took over the club, there's been incremental improvements to the club each year (if not on the pitch, then off it). Based on what I've seen from the club so far, I'd expect that to be the case going forward as well. But I don't think TB's ever going to chuck obscene amounts of money around - he's said he wants the club to be self sustainable. Instead, he's trying to improve the club in a more careful and prudent way with the long-term in mind - investments in things like the academy and in the scouting department. If they can be done well, then they can become an additional source of income for the club. Unlikely to get value like Gross again any time soon - but he must be worth 10x what we paid for him.
seagulls4ever
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I didn't see it but I'm glad you've clarified the situation. Absolutely no reason why we should have given Toure a 'guard of honour', and it would have been pretty tinpot to have done so.
He would have loved it though - if you can recall, he considered leaving City a few years ago when he felt his birthday wasn't appropriately acknowledged.
Aveacarlin'
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Yes. I'm good with it. It's completely realistic. The bedwetting community on here probably won't be though.
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seagulls4ever
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Here's what CG said about a Sky Sports interview after the game last week:
http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?363942-Tony-Bloom-Feet-on-the-ground
All sounds very sensible to me.
http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?363942-Tony-Bloom-Feet-on-the-ground
All sounds very sensible to me.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
Tony is just calming down the expectation so we don't lose our minds.
Good post.
I reckon the recruitment team will come up with more great value signings from overseas, who'll succeed in the PL.
In contrast to Everton and Leicester, for example, who will lazily keep blowing £100m's in fees and wages on allegedly 'finished' articles, and coming a cropper. No doubt Allardyce is aiming to sign Yaya Toure on huge wages, wages out of our league.
LowKarate
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That is completely unacceptable! After 5 years, we should roll the dice, splurge big and probably bankrupt ourselves.
No, wait.. that's how to destroy the club and take us back to League One.
On reflection, I am completely, utterly 110%ly supportive of Tony's plan.
Bill Shankly's 'bastion of invincibility' Liverpool was not built rashly.
No, wait.. that's how to destroy the club and take us back to League One.
On reflection, I am completely, utterly 110%ly supportive of Tony's plan.
Bill Shankly's 'bastion of invincibility' Liverpool was not built rashly.
Billy the Fish
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If they get to 10 then fair play to them. I think it's going to be harder for them than people imagine. Jeff Shi is just playing to the gallery.