jessiejames
Never late in a V8
One problem I see with Potter is the team can't gel. We need a more settled team.
Did they? Don’t think that’s ever been said unless you can prove it of course.The reason I say Big Sam is because many of the Potter out people wanted him in to replace Potter. So it's not the assumption that he is the only alternative.
It will be interesting to see what happens with Sheffield Utd now. Its amazing what a win does sometimes. I would take any win now lucky or not.I don't feel comfortable thinking this way, I was just saying that as you said Fulham are on the same type of fun as us, so the chances are that they will draw the 2 games in hand. Knowing our luck though they will probably get 2 wins now.
It will be interesting to see how the Fulham fans react if they are still below us once they have played the same amount of games, they will see that as a missed opportunity.
What wE need is a couple of lucky wins.
Overall I'm Potter in. But I'd agree with you .... WTF do we keep seeing useless Jahanbaksh play?
One problem I see with Potter is the team can't gel. We need a more settled team.
Did they? Don’t think that’s ever been said unless you can prove it of course.
Ings? He was playing - and even scoring - during Southampton's awful run at the beginning of last season
Needed the rest of the team to get better - and they did.
There's a couple of issues here.
Tactically inflexible. Yet, Potter's barely altered our tactics this season. We're a very predictable side.
Didn't have any faith in younsters - bar Aaron Connolly, youth haven't featured that much. Alzate barely gets a start, Gross has had more starts this season. White was on loan for most of the season - talking of Connolly, questions are constantly asked about whether he should be on loan or not. Nonetheless, he was forced to use Sanchez - who was also on loan to more senior teams in the past, and rumours are we're after that United number 3 keeper. I'd be surprised if we don't take up the opportunity to get experience in goal. And that's not a dig on Potter either, I would much rather have experience between the posts than most positions. However, there's not a lot of 'youth products' in our side.
There are certainly plenty of merit in your other points. The problem, however, is that the Hughton's teams had structure and a fair amount of discipline. The spectacle is absolutely dire, horrific and I agreed with his sacking. My biggest problem with Potter is that, despite what we are persistently told - he is not that tactically adaptable, teams are changed fairly regularly and defensive vulnerabilities continue to persist.
There is a clear long term ambition on what needs to be the "Brighton way", the problem is, this ought to be evolution and not revolution. The pretty football is not yielding results, so we need to give something and i'm not suggesting a return to back-to-walls defending, but there certainly needs to be something changing in order to yield some results that can mean we move forward.
Potter hasn't shown that, which is why I'm a sceptic of him. I don't think he has the experience to adapt.
Uh oh that simp account that blew in with Potter will be flapping about now
Obviously I meant at the time LFC loaned Ings to Stains, as I'm sure every poster benchmarking our transfer business does.
The discussion I was having was about whether we could afford a striker who could make a difference this season. Whether or not we should have made a bid back in 2018 when Southampton loaned Ings seems irrelevant to whether we could afford someone guaranteed to be of the same calibre now.
Unfortunately we sacked one of the best managers to get us up again if we did go down, this is how bad Potter has been with frequent talk of going down. We had a few murmurs under CH but nothing of this Calibre.Would rather go down with Potter at the helm then get in big Sam or a Hughes
Fingers crossed he can turn it round like I keep saying most important game for him as a manager v Fulham
The reason I say Big Sam is because many of the Potter out people wanted him in to replace Potter. So it's not the assumption that he is the only alternative.
No they didn’t suits the agenda I presume.Did they? Did they really?!
I don't see a problem
We have proven we can play great football on a smaller budget,the only difference is man city operate at the top end of the league whilst we operate at the bottom and no new manager is going to change that at this point with the resources we have currently but potter,ashworth and bloom are laying the foundations so we can progress up the table and with tau and moder and maybe a striker in January I believe we will be better placed than others around us when it comes to a relegation battle.
Liecsters team has been years in development and they have had an exceptional goalscorer in vardy.we are at the beginning of our journey under ashworth and potter.
Southampton is a club we are trying to replicate in terms of the academy but again they are far ahead of us on that one and yes they are doing fantastic this season because they chose to stand by their manager when things were not looking great,which is something we should be aware of.
I may be missing your point, but I don't think you can accuse Potter of being "forced" to play Sanchez. He made the decision (which a lot on here thought was pretty brave). Compare to Hughton - remember the game at Fulham a couple of years ago (Ryan had been at the Asian Cup, but was picked for a game that took place just a few days after he got back - in snow! - and he promptly let in 4 against one of the worst teams in the league).
I was addressing the point that was being made that Potter was modelling Brighton on what Guardiola has been doing - and that Potter was a student of Guardiola's approach - the problem is that the players currently are not good enough - and are unlikely to ever be good enough given the budget that the club has available for that 'approach' to be properly implemented.
I disagree with your view that Potter has Brighton better placed for a relegation battle than the other teams at the bottom of the table. Bloom and Ashworth can do all they want to progress up the table but you can't do that from the Championship. You say that Brighton are playing 'great football' - I would suggest that it is pretty and very inconsistent football - how many home games have Brighton won over the past twelve months? - how many games is it now without a win at home? - That is not the type of form that you need to stave off relegation.
As for Tau and Moder - I would not be expecting them to contribute a lot when t comes to battling relegation. Tau looks a decent player but he has scored 9 goals in a season and a half in Belgium and with all due respect to the Belgian league it is not approaching the standard of the PL. He wasn't exactly impressive against Newport and on a number of occasions was easily pushed off the ball by Newport defenders. There is a bigger question mark over Moder - the Polish league is weaker than the Belgian league and of the 4 goals he has scored this season - 3 were from penalties. Now Moder may develop into a good PL player over time - he is only 21 - but Tau is 26 and the only reason why he finally got his work permit was because of Brexit, not because he had finally met the previous work permit requirements. I think it is expecting a lot of two unproven players to expect them to prove to be the difference over the coming months. If Brighton manage to sign a striker who could provide 10/12 goals between now and the end of the season then that would be massive - but goalscorers like that do not grow on trees and half the teams in the PL are looking for one.
And just to point out - I am not in favour of sacking Potter - I think it would be the wrong thing to do - but Potter needs to get the team out of the funk it is in - and another draw at Newport didn't help. Many on here tout Potter's inventiveness and adaptability - I don't see it and I think his reputation is bloated - and it doesn't appear to be having any impact on the pitch. The time has come to prove himself and get some wins - because the longer the funk goes on the harder and harder it will be to get out of it.
Lamptey’s absence is very significant, not just for his own playing merits, but we are then more than one dimensional going forward.