Knotty
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It was all about what happens on the pitch at Portsmouth and Wigan. They were both in the Premier League and they both won the FA Cup.
What happened next ...?
Anybody Else Starting To Actually RESENT The Club For Their Lack Of Focus On The Pitch?
- Thread starter Tom Hark Preston Park
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It was all about what happens on the pitch at Portsmouth and Wigan. They were both in the Premier League and they both won the FA Cup.
What happened next ...?
- Jun 27, 2012
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This is actually what Paul Barber's programme notes said in the Watford programme.
He didn't use that many asterisks mind.
Shouldn't you be rehearsing for your forthcoming tour with JoBoxers, Matt Bianco and Bronski Beat?
BHAFC are 20/1, 6th favourites to win the Championship next season
- Jun 27, 2012
- 13,982
I don't see the lovely Jimi Somerville that much but i often bump into that Rev Richard Coles round my way. He's quite tall.
He's quite wry on Twitter too, not that I'm a STALKER.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
I think we are only 6th favourite because none of the teams currently in the playoffs are listed, nor are the 3 teams coming down from the PL.
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Like Southampton then. Blimey we'll never get into the Champions league with that attitude.
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Bravo
Other teams have been promoted doing it the right way or come ****ing close Derby, Boro, Burnley...
Knotty
Well-known member
So Derby and Boro have never spent millions on a new stadium, then? And Burnley will be back in the Championship next season.
- Jan 3, 2012
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Wasn't aware of that. I'm not on the scheme.
Moshe Gariani
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- Mar 10, 2005
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Sounds about right that 12 teams will be more fancied than us and 11 less so. We could not be more "mid-table" in our likely profile for 2015/16 if we tried.
Perfectly comfortable with that. Just hope 2015/16 is a season where we do better than that mid-point of likely outcomes and flirt with the possibility of promotion again.
kjgood
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Resent the club because we have had one bad year on the playing field? no not at all. You need to accept that there has to be a long term plan to build a sustainable future for the club (Business). We all would like to be winning every week of course we would, but you have to accept that a football club is a business and needs to be built in stages.
Whether the right managers have been chosen to run the playing side of the club is open to personal interpretation, to me it would appear not in the case of Sami, but thats just my personal view. I suggest a good manager has a winning vision in his head and then fits the right players into that vision. What makes a good manager is finding the right players to fit the vision, Sami didnt do that. Chris has had to pick up the tools that he was left with and he obviously has a differing vision to Sami. In theory none of the players that were brought in were bad players they just didnt fit in with the vision. What we need now is a period of stability, get the players that are going gone, and the players that are coming in, get them in early.
What B&HA PLC looks like now is nothing like it looked like during the Withdean years and pre that. Then we had no future, now we have. Have patience.
Whether the right managers have been chosen to run the playing side of the club is open to personal interpretation, to me it would appear not in the case of Sami, but thats just my personal view. I suggest a good manager has a winning vision in his head and then fits the right players into that vision. What makes a good manager is finding the right players to fit the vision, Sami didnt do that. Chris has had to pick up the tools that he was left with and he obviously has a differing vision to Sami. In theory none of the players that were brought in were bad players they just didnt fit in with the vision. What we need now is a period of stability, get the players that are going gone, and the players that are coming in, get them in early.
What B&HA PLC looks like now is nothing like it looked like during the Withdean years and pre that. Then we had no future, now we have. Have patience.
Promoted Andy Carroll to the Newcastle first team.............Lots of goals and sold on for 32 Million or thereabouts
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Great post. You are of course completely correct. I probably shouldn't have talked about resentment in the thread title, frustration would have been a better choice of word. Still firmly believe that 'B&HA PLC' took their eye horribly off the ball this season. It was indeed 'one bad year on the playing field' but we've all seen far far worse.
Oh well, season 2014/15 major moan over, and the number of views/posts suggests it was a thread well worth doing. Onwards and - hopefully - upwards.
symyjym
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Great post. You are of course completely correct. I probably shouldn't have talked about resentment in the thread title, frustration would have been a better choice of word. Still firmly believe that 'B&HA PLC' took their eye horribly off the ball this season. It was indeed 'one bad year on the playing field' but we've all seen far far worse.
Oh well, season 2014/15 major moan over, and the number of views/posts suggests it was a thread well worth doing. Onwards and - hopefully - upwards.
I would say that the club took their eye "horribly off the ball" in the 2014 January transfer window. That started the domino effect and we didn’t recover. Instead of adding to the squad with Oscar we have had to go through a total rebuild with a demoralised and quickly patched up squad.
But yeah using resent was a little unfortunate
Cautious style is an issue, yes, but I think also people look at the likes of Colunga, Rodriguez, Baldock and CMS over the last two seasons and see strikers being played on the wing. Why would you come here knowing that you're not going to play anywhere near your best position?
Ulloa, Murray and Barnes are exceptional cases of strikers we accomodated and improved (although only because Barnes was an intelligent enough football to adapt to left-wing).
Unless you're a specific type of striker i.e. a big, strong, target man with good hold up play and more than a passing whiff of goalscoring nous, we will ruin you.
GreersElbow
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Whitehawk are doing well, why don't you pack your bags and move there?
Lincoln Imp
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- Feb 2, 2009
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Who are you talking to?
