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El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
Helpful Moderator
Jul 5, 2003
39,714
Pattknull med Haksprut
100%. As I said, it's a 50/50 chance. But by your logic, there's never any evidence to support a managerial change as, unsurprisingly, we can't collect evidence from the future. Yet people change their managers with regularity, sometimes to good effect and sometimes not so. In this instance you're pessimistic about such changes and I'm optimistic. And I'm basing that optimism on what I see out on the pitch every single week which is awful football with an increasingly confused tactical plan from a man who hasn't really improved the players he's been given. So the right managerial appointment could see improvements in all or some of these areas which could lead to an improvement in results.

Or it may not. I guess we'll find out when he does eventually leave.

I also think Chris Hughton is a decent human being with integrity and honesty in every bone in a profession full of vanity, snideness, petty point scoring, deceipt, fraud and Neil Warnock.
 






El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
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Jul 5, 2003
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This has nothing to do with a couple of wins or a budget, but you obviously think it does?

So how much does he need to spend to stop playing with 10 men on our own 18 yard line?

How much does he need to switch from changing a winger for a winger on 75 minutes when his one dimensional tactics aren't working ..............again ?

He changed the tactics twice on Saturday.

As for the budget, it's got a lot to do with it, the research shows a clear correlation between player investment and success.
 


Papa Lazarou

Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
Jul 7, 2003
18,873
Worthing
So he’s not the best funded manager that Brighton have ever had? Not sure best funded in the Premier League was being suggested.

Point taken, but a comparison with the Championship is pretty ridiculous when you are in the Premier League surely?

I bet in terms of the 'stack' of teams our 1980-1983 team was FAR more costly and near the top of the pile in terms of salaries paid out to players.
 










Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
I bet in terms of the 'stack' of teams our 1980-1983 team was FAR more costly and near the top of the pile in terms of salaries paid out to players.

Correct, we had the highest paid player in the country at one point during that period.

With 10 year contracts. That was the start of slide into the debts which resulted in the loss of the Goldstone in 97.
 




DavidinSouthampton

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Jan 3, 2012
16,603
I also think Chris Hughton is a decent human being with integrity and honesty in every bone in a profession full of vanity, snideness, petty point scoring, deceipt, fraud and Neil Warnock.

Very much this. And as for Neil Warnock, who recently blew a gasket when Chelsea beat Cardiff with a blatantly offside goal in the last minute (am I remembering that correctly), does anyone remember his reaction when Cardiff did the same to us earlier in the season - very much "you win some, you lose some", and then Bamba was not booked for taking his shirt off during the celebrations. Warnock is a hypocrite, a bully and a thug.
 


sussex_guy2k2

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Jun 6, 2014
3,752
I also think Chris Hughton is a decent human being with integrity and honesty in every bone in a profession full of vanity, snideness, petty point scoring, deceipt, fraud and Neil Warnock.

Now that I don't disagree with. But I don't support him. I support the club and that's what this comes down to.
 


















El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
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Jul 5, 2003
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Very much this. And as for Neil Warnock, who recently blew a gasket when Chelsea beat Cardiff with a blatantly offside goal in the last minute (am I remembering that correctly), does anyone remember his reaction when Cardiff did the same to us earlier in the season - very much "you win some, you lose some", and then Bamba was not booked for taking his shirt off during the celebrations. Warnock is a hypocrite, a bully and a thug.

I think Warnock has topped that with his Emiliano Sala hypocrisy.
 








Gritt23

New member
Jul 7, 2003
14,902
Meopham, Kent.
You're thinking like a supporter of a League One side. We're in the Premier League now.

Plus the opposing logic could easily be applied. We could easily get a better manager who leads to a better form of football and to us establishing ourselves higher up the table for years to come, at which point some of you may be sitting there thinking "I can't believe I sat through the dross that Hughton used to serve up - it turned out to be a really good decision to change managers".

Ultimately, the outcome of such change would depend solely on who that manager is.

Name 3 better managers we've EVER had? I'll wait .....

By "thinking like a League One side" I take it you mean, ah but we can attract much better managers these days. Hmm, ask Man Utd how that's been going lately. And they can attract the very best, but they've had none since Fergie that I'd like to see replace CH, including their current guy.

As for the dreaming that we could be playing beautiful football higher up the League .... that comes down to TB. No-one is up there doing that with paying bigger transfer fees, and higher wages.

Maybe you are younger than me, and therefore don't remember, but much of what you say sends the words "Charlton Athletic" rushing through my brain. Or if that doesn't ring any bells, how about the old Aesop Fable of the animal with the fish in their mouth, but they think they see a bigger fish, in the water and go for that instead. But it's not a bigger fish, it was a reflection of the fish you had, but have now cast aside. Careful what you wish for my friend.
 


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