[Albion] A week until the Premier League kicks off (again) - how's your footballing mojo?

[Raleigh Chopper]

1.
It's all unknown, I don't like our fixtures and I watched 15 minutes of the German match on BT last night with no fans and it was terrible, you could clearly see that the players were not really up for it, it was like a competitive training session.
The season should have been stopped, there are far more things to sort out rather than football.

 

[dazzer6666]

How are you doing the screen outside, with regard to contrast/visibility? Asking for a friend.

Screen inside (just), facing through patio doors......

 

[Mellotron]

Screen inside (just), facing through patio doors......

That is my plan, to enable watching with family in garden.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I have to admit i've not missed the incessant fooball hype train. It can feel like a 24 hour a day foghorn of hyperbole and i've enjoyed that it's gone largely quiet.

 

[pasty]

1. Couldn't give a monkeys. No doubt this will increase on Wednesday next week when games start again, and will go up further on the 20th when we play, but right now? Me-h.

 

[Napper]

about a 6.

Be nice to be able to avoid all the bullcrap news.

 

[captain nobby]

gone

 

[A1X]

7. Getting there. Probably might not ever hit 10 though given so much of the rigmarole & ritual around football won't be there.

 

[vegster]

I have to admit i've not missed the incessant fooball hype train. It can feel like a 24 hour a day foghorn of hyperbole and i've enjoyed that it's gone largely quiet.

It's been hell for TalkSport though, some of the radio they have had to broadcast has been excruitiating, overlong interviews with Darts players and jockeys... All the stuff that is normally overlooked because very few care has been put in the spotlight and God its boring!

 

[Tim Over Whelmed]

6. I want to be excited but it still feels a long way away. I'm nervous about us, having seen us go into virtual free-fall and I just hope we can get three points against Arsenal and settle the nerves. I'm normally an 8+ type of person.

 

[Soton Seagull]

I went for 4. From a selfish point of view scrubbing the season removes the worry of us continuing our post Xmas freefall. Restarting, particuarly not being allowed to attend, feels a little bit artificial and I can't see where the win is for Brighton (quite literally probably unless we discover the opposition has a net that we are allowed to kick the ball in to!); at the moment we are staying up so at best nothng changes and we stay up; alternatively we risk going down with a whimper.

Perhaps the mojo will return when I hear the roar of the.... oh no there won't be one.

 

[albionfan37]

It’s at a 3 currently but I expect it to go up to a 8/9 nearer ko

 

[pasty]

Must admit I am to looking forward to Crodo's "most famous supporter" threads re-appearing

 

[Mackenzie]

4 at the moment. I expect I’ll perk up a bit though.

 

[Weststander]

This one. Strangely, my Albion mojo isn't that high. I don't know why this is.

Same for me. Punch drunk by very long winless runs under CH and now GP.

 

[nicko31]

250 deaths yesterday, that's an Ibrox, a Bradford, a Hilsborough and a Heysel. He shouldn't be starting while all this continues...

 

[Eddiespearritt]

My full expectation is that we'll be witnessing a depressing end to Albion's time in the Premier League - the fixtures are tough and even tougher with no supporters. The bigger teams, with more talent and more players, and more substitute options, will brush us aside. The non-issue of neutral venues doesn't disguise the fact that, without fans, quality will out.

Then the arguments can start about the compensation schemes and having missed Liverpool, Man City, Man United, Arsenal from a pre-paid season ticket and replacing them with Reading, Birmingham, Preston and Blackburn on grimy Tuesday nights in February, there will be a lot of people feeling a bit short changed.

The only benefit of viewing the restart as a full on negative, is that we can be really surprised when something better happens. PS: Jose Izquierdo is injured.

 

[The Oldman]

Just about 5 for me. Still think the season should have been canned. Every day so many deaths, difficult to get that excited about football.

 

[Eeyore]

Same for me. Punch drunk by very long winless runs under CH and now GP.

Yes, I am adjusting my thoughts to 'glass half full'. I'm anticipating Albion to quietly drift into the second division with a very anonymous exit.

Life downstairs isn't so bad anyway. I work on the principle that if I expect it then it's not so hard to take.

If it doesn't happen then there's more celebrate.

 

[Albion Dan]

The only thing keeping my mojo down is I'm pretty sure we're getting relegated.