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[Albion] Do you think Uncle Tony is happy?
- Thread starter Home and Away
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I'm a 35-year-old childless chain-smoking hobo renting a dirty room in Malmö and I think I've aged better than Manchester United has after their last league victory.
Will be plenty of chances to finish above them, they are a few years of competent work from achieving anything, and they're not competent.
Home and Away
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- Sep 18, 2018
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What about Uncle Paulie? Is that creepy as well?
London Irish
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Is Adingra progressing? Is Verbruggen progressing? Is Dunk? Is Mitoma as good as last season? Pedro as good as last season? There’s a lot of misfiring parts that’s dragging our season to the midtable mediocrity
portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
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In part because our fan base is small minded and will always be grateful for surviving not thriving. To criticise and expect anything more like one trophy in 125 years is to invite, well, just watch…
Some players will progress and others won't. Same as in all teams and under all managers.
London Irish
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When it’s the big performers, fortune cookie cliches like that ain’t that comforting
Its the reality though.
Look at last season. How many players played better last season when we finished 11th, than in 22/23 when we finished 6th? Very very few.
MANY of our players have been a lot better than last year. Pervis, Veltman, Webster, Baleba, Lamptey, Mitoma, Welbeck. Arguably Verbruggen and Van Hecke.
SeagullDubai
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- May 13, 2016
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Yes he’s making money
Mike Small
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- Dec 26, 2008
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Bollocks would we. From where we’ve come to now is incredible and anyone laughing at us would be a fool. The football world were not happy when we sacked CH but these bold decisions have meant we are a solid PL team for the past 4 years at least.
I don’t think they’ll sack FH but I’d hope they are watching him closely and I would hope and am sure TB would get someone else in if FH had lost the plot or if we haven’t improved by the half way point next year. After those wins he would have hoped for more. As an owner, he would have hoped for more.
There's something very fun about a lad living in Dubai mocking the alleged greed of a lad running a football club in some rural Brightonian suburb connected to the world through two rusty draisines, as if there was no easier or more effective way for Tony to make money.
- Apr 5, 2014
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Last I heard he was £300 million, or something in that region, down.
This all going a bit.... Spursy/Arsenal fanish
The aim of the club is to be able to stand on its own two feet, which is pretty sane when it comes to the possibility that one day we may join the 15 clubs who have dropped since we moved upstairs.
HangletonGull
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- Apr 10, 2023
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Ridiculous comment, we need European football
Nobby
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- Sep 29, 2007
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Tony Bloom is an incredible mathematician and has set an algorithm and recruiting process that is the envy of the football world.
So
His analysis will be showing him that despite having most of his defenders out injured his team went on an incredible run.
And now
When all (nearly) of his defenders are out injured and his captain is playing injured and his two key attackers are out injured, his team are on a poor run.
So although yesterday’s result was dreadful, he would be looking at the xG and assessing if the performance should have been better based on all of the above.
This years management performance target would have been a European place, probably top seven.
So I think that any decision on the manager will be assessed on whether performances are worse than predicted - taking into account the huge injury list.
And I think that FH is still in massive credit.
If the performances remain below what has been predicted by the algorithm, then Bloom will act accordingly. If the injury list improves, and performances don’t, then I would imagine we could perhaps expect changes.
So
His analysis will be showing him that despite having most of his defenders out injured his team went on an incredible run.
And now
When all (nearly) of his defenders are out injured and his captain is playing injured and his two key attackers are out injured, his team are on a poor run.
So although yesterday’s result was dreadful, he would be looking at the xG and assessing if the performance should have been better based on all of the above.
This years management performance target would have been a European place, probably top seven.
So I think that any decision on the manager will be assessed on whether performances are worse than predicted - taking into account the huge injury list.
And I think that FH is still in massive credit.
If the performances remain below what has been predicted by the algorithm, then Bloom will act accordingly. If the injury list improves, and performances don’t, then I would imagine we could perhaps expect changes.
Lenny Rider
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- Sep 15, 2010
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If he wasn’t ‘happy’ we’d know about it by the fact that changes would be made, if he has to act he does, Poyet, Hypia, Hughton , RDZ, it’s all there in black and white, or should that be blue and white. 
People talk about ‘Spursy’ but it’s we’ve got a bit of that ourselves, four bad results yet it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that we go on and win the next 6 and still get into either the Europa League or Conference.
People talk about ‘Spursy’ but it’s we’ve got a bit of that ourselves, four bad results yet it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that we go on and win the next 6 and still get into either the Europa League or Conference.
- Apr 19, 2018
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We’re doing better than most clubs that have qualified for Europe without the kind of sustained astronomical spending of the traditional top clubs and even they struggle sometimes.
This is, I think, teams that have qualified for Europe the past five completed seasons, in bold are those who have done it more than once in that time. (Apologies for any errors, got stuff to do today!)
- Arsenal
- Aston Villa
- Chelsea
- Liverpool
- Manchester City
- Manchester United
- Tottenham Hotspur
- West Ham United
- Leicester City
- Brighton & Hove Albion
- Wolverhampton Wanderers
- Newcastle United
…and Villa are in talks with UEFA for breaching squad spending rules.
Obviously I’d like us in Europe again soon, but I also think we’re continuing to break the trends with how well we’re doing despite a disappointing few weeks.
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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Yeah, clubs our size should easily kick on from europa league to champions league to winning the league
Bold Seagull
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Yes I do, progress is rarely linear, he’s 20 and playing more than one position in the Premier League. I dare say he’d be playing better ar RB with a settled CB pairing, but he’s getting the minutes and the experience.