Turned a corner or papering over the cracks?

[BBassic]

One of our worst performances but I'll take the points.

I'll make these same points again:

Too many long balls to a teeny man up front
Too much sending the ball back
Too much of sending the ball back only to waste possession on a long ****ing ball

Firmly think if we get the ball down and play it the system will work.

 

[T soprano]

Oh good make sure Bolton win by 2 so when we draw or beat Blackburn we can go above Wigan.

Sami to stay in

Blackburn will beat us as well

 

[LamieRobertson]

We definitely haven't turned a corner but with any luck we've actually looked in the mirror and put on the indicators.

Nicely put

 

[London Irish]

The language of Bozza's poll I think is not quite fair to Sami. Course we haven't turned a corner (that suggests we've solved our problems) but we made some progress tonight.

 

[jessiejames]

Following good displays against SPURS and Bmoth with out the results to day we get a result We might not have turned the corner but we can see it just up ahead, a good result saturday and then we will have turned the corner

We were poor against Spurs though.

 

[LamieRobertson]

The language of Bozza's poll I think is not quite fair to Sami. Course we haven't turned a corner (that suggests we've solved our problems) but we made some progress tonight.

Three points for the first time in two months is to be enjoyed...the inquest can start tomorrow,,,good night

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

Funny game football.

Remember Wigan at home last season? Probably one of our best home performances under Oscar. We absolutely battered them but got sucker punched and lost.

Not quite the exact reverse tonight but we were certainly lucky to get 3 points. Poor for 70 odd minutes truth be told.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Great start, early goal, we should have gone onto bury an abject Wigan but in the end we clung onto the win, the second half performance attacking wise was abysmal and the worst this season

'Wigan Abject' from the fool.

I think Wigan were incredibly difficult opponents not allowing us to play our passing game when we wanted. Some good play here and there, but we hung on and I'm proud of the lads, and Walton for a steady league debut. I have faith that this is the start of things.

'Wigan incredibly difficult opponents' from anyone with even a semblance of any knowledge of football what so ever. Sami in! (But E.Bennett more so). Well done on the 3 points boys.

 

[Prettyboyshaw]

Decent first 25 seemed to know the formation they were playing looked more confident and stuck to it, after that shambles back to losing the ball Baldock miles away getting long balls lumped up and midfield gone missing.

Walton looks good and defence more solid just a shame our midfield is dire...bring back Ince send back Gardner get fit Stevens.

Hope it was the pressure of breaking the bad run and getting the win but doubt it. CRACKS

 

[The Fifth Column]

All things considered i was reasonably content at half time, 45 minutes later i was pleased with the win but still utterly convinced that Hyppia is a poor manager. The second half was dreadful, we were overrun in midfield and playing with no discernible shape, system or formation. I felt sorry for Baldock stranded up top on his own plowing a forlorn furrow. It was plain for anybody to see that the team is certainly trying hard but clearly unsure what formation or system they are actually playing.

 

[T soprano]

All things considered i was reasonably content at half time, 45 minutes later i was pleased with the win but still utterly convinced that Hyppia is a poor manager. The second half was dreadful, we were overrun in midfield and playing with no discernible shape, system or formation. I felt sorry for Baldock stranded up top on his own plowing a forlorn furrow. It was plain for anybody to see that the team is certainly trying hard but clearly unsure what formation or system they are actually playing.

Well said

 

[Acker79]

The performance wasn't great, but you don't often end long winless runs with classic performances. They are scrappy, desperate performances that claw a win you may not really deserve. It gets the monkey off the players'/manager's back, it gives them a bit of confidence and progress is made, the team starts to improve, etc. Or they complacently think it's sorted and then start another winless run.

We'll only know if it is papering over the cracks or a turning of the corner after another few games (or more).

 

[The Brighton Buzz]

Thought the second half was woeful and it seemed as though Sami was waiting for the equaliser before making a substitution. If he genuinely couldn't see we were being completely overrun in midfield long before Ince came on, I really do worry...

This exactly as we saw it. In the second half it looked as if they would score on every attack through the midfield. JFC, Gardener and Texiera were light in the tackle and were not picking up runners. It was crying out for Ince and I think Sami got lucky in the fact that they didn't score in that second half period. Ince definately made a massive difference getting closer to their players in midfield, but JFC or Gardener needed replacing as well as we had no creativity at all. There were one or two plusses tonight though. Back to using wingers. Elliott Bennett got game time and will get better. An accomplished game from Walton who looks the real deal. Nothing spectacular to do but what he did do was prove his distribution and handling is better than any other goalkeepers that have been on show for us this season. Why we have wasted another loan on another keeper I don't know. For me he did enough to keep his place at any other club, he would do, but this year we seem to be making some really strange decisions regarding personnell being brought into the club. The one place we need to address is a striker but have done nothing. If we sign one now there will be two loan players that can't even be named in the matchday squad. What a waste of wages and time.The club is being run on a firefighting basis and Burke couldn't pick a player if he tried. My mum could come up with better players than he has and she knows nothing about football. Lets hope this is a start of a good run as by tonights results Birmingham and Bolton under new managers had more convincing wins than us.

 

[brightonmark1234]

ask again in 5 games time

 

[Bwian]

Piss poor like we have been all season. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded, Wigan were the better side tonight.

Wigan were the better side and they were shite. Did their goalkeeper have anything to do all night apart from picking the ball out of the net?

How can somebody who was such a great player be so shit as a manager? Still utterly clueless. His post match interviews are being released as a remedy for insomniacs.

 

[Rich Suvner]

I have no faith in Sami and want him out. That simple really. Watching him slumped in his chair, looking like a sulky teenager, I just thought is this the leader who will inspire us to great things. No. And tactically he has shown he is frankly pretty inept. Let's stop wasting time, this is not the man who will get us out of this division (in t right direction)

 

[British Bulldog]

Nice to see the team dig in and grind out a much needed win and although it wasn't pretty it's still 3 points. It's still going to take a lot more than that to convince me, and by the looks of it many other's that Hyypia is the right man for the Albion though.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Although I am pleased we have three points added to our cause which unfortunately is one I fear of staving off relegation. A goal from a loan player many on here have been crying out is a waste of space, and want him to return to his parent club in the first minute has not convinced me we have turned a corner. Again we have been second best devoid of imagination, inspiration, and leadership..... Now this is gonna piss a few people off, but I support the Albion and will even if we go down or go bust..... Here is the curve ball, I would have happily seen us get beat last night if I knew Sami would be gone in the morning.....

Kick away, and give me as many thumbs down as you like.

It's what I think and I am sure I am not alone.

 

[Silk]

We were, again, utterly awful. I don't think our defence is bad, nor are some of our forward players. But our midfield just did not compete with Wigan's and I think that is where some of our problems lie. We turned in another directionless, tactically inept and weak willed performance, and it was awful to watch. The manager has to go. There is no sign of things improving, had Wigan not been inept up front we'd have lost, they outplayed us for long periods.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Two pretty poor teams- fair result last night would have been a draw.