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** Brighton & Hove Albion v Watford ** Official Thread
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Sorry, I'm gormless.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
player on now loud and clear
KZNSeagull
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Player on now
SULLY COULDNT SHOOT
Loyal2Family+Albion!
So this is Gonzos chance..... hope he gives us a third option. Can only assume Vicente has a knock or is a bit tired
HawkTheSeagull
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Reading can go up tonight and Pompey and Coventry can be relegated as well tonight. Swindon can be promoted to League 1 as well.
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
just noticed Assulin is the only loan player involved tonight
Ralphingtonpuss
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2-0 to the Albion tonight
Come on you seagulls!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come on you seagulls!!!!!!!!!!!!
GT49er
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Bobby, of course!
SULLY COULDNT SHOOT
Loyal2Family+Albion!
Albion Albion!
GT49er
Well-known member
Shouldn't we have a merge? - don't like this two official threads business!
severnside gull
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the other thread seems more positively inclined so if all the moaners could stay on here........................................... 
GreersElbow
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Sounds like a very promising start....
GreersElbow
New member
well I spoke too soon.
brightn'ove
cringe
SULLY COULDNT SHOOT
Loyal2Family+Albion!
oh oh oh... what is it with us and goalkeepers!
Ralphingtonpuss
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Can we put all three keepers in goal?
GT49er
Well-known member
the other thread seems more positively inclined so if all the moaners could stay on here...........................................
I'm off to the other one then
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BBC Sport - Brighton 2-2 Watford
Report on the booing from the moaners.
The season is not over. My target at the beginning of the season was 70 points and one of the biggest tests comes with the visit of Chris Hughton's Birmingham City who may try and make us play the long ball game.
How to make the opposition play the long ball game | Tactics | FourFourTwo Performance
The diagram shows why we have to have a striker who can come deep and collect the ball with his back to the goal. He does not have on to the ball if he cannot lay it of straight away. Macca can do this as well. If we had a decent central midfielder he can run with the ball out of defence (if the opposition is pressing the wide men).
I do not particularly want to do the Official Match Threads. I am often too busy and I'd sooner somebody else did them. However, if you want to learn the coding for the badges, cut and paste:
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Report on the booing from the moaners.
The season is not over. My target at the beginning of the season was 70 points and one of the biggest tests comes with the visit of Chris Hughton's Birmingham City who may try and make us play the long ball game.
How to make the opposition play the long ball game | Tactics | FourFourTwo Performance
The diagram shows why we have to have a striker who can come deep and collect the ball with his back to the goal. He does not have on to the ball if he cannot lay it of straight away. Macca can do this as well. If we had a decent central midfielder he can run with the ball out of defence (if the opposition is pressing the wide men).
I do not particularly want to do the Official Match Threads. I am often too busy and I'd sooner somebody else did them. However, if you want to learn the coding for the badges, cut and paste:
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Championship 2011-12
Saturday 21 April 2012 3:00 pm
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Brighton & Hove Albion v Birmingham City
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Interesting site - any more that explain tactics? After all this time, I really need to improve my knowledge of the modern game!
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Lots of links on that site. How Hughton will try to stop Kazenga: Hughton: Dealing with a quick winger | Tactics | FourFourTwo Performance
They will try to stop the service to him. (We will pass to Vicente instead!). Conclusion: we have to have more than one outlet. One one side we could play a wide winger and an interiore on the other side.
You have to think a bit as the original link showed a 4-2-4 formation. There are not normally so many gaps in midfield.
Wiki has lots of stuff. It is all very simplified though. Formation (association football) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barcelona move laterally across the field as a coordinated unit. I am highly in favour of 4-3-3 but I like the staggered (lob-sided) system. But this means the central midfielder (the defensive midfielder Busquets with Barcelona) has to be more than just an ordinary midfielder.
Wiki is getting updated and better. Total football is slightly out of fashion as players have shown an inability to adapt at all levels. Total football with a few specialised players. The principle remains the same. Basically, the forward has to be able to defend and vice-versa.
I think Gus Poyet may try for a squad of 25 players which means two players for every position, so if there ar einjuries the reserve can move seamlessly into the system.
But as players have to adapt, so do managers with certain opposition. As an advocate of 4-3-3, I do not mind stringing two banks of four in away match and playing on the counter attack like Southampton, Reading, West Ham and pick up undeserved wins against teams who lump the ball into the channels and play the percentage game (where English football went wrong).
Maybe the supporters will have to get used to at the top Championship level and above the gung-ho approach does not work.
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