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That list is slightly misleading and there is some context needed to understand why a lot of them haven't played that much this season. Kayal and Hemed have been injured, with Kayal back at Brighton getting treatment. Hemed was injured came back to their first team and broke down on his first...

Because just comparing the number of games played between 2 seasons doesn't take into account the quality of the opposition played. For example this season we've already faced all the big 6 away from home, normally you'd expect that run of games to be spread across the season. As...

We are not just talking about last season, in Hughton's 4 and a half years in charge he gave just 1 minute of league football to a youth player. We cannot possibly know if they would have been good enough as he never gave them a chance to prove it. Sometimes you just have to take the risk and...

No-one has claimed Hughton has never played young players, that's your hyperbole to try and prove your laboured point. The evidence is overwhelming that he never played them for Brighton. Save for James Tilley coming on in the 89th min of a dead rubber against Middlesborough on the final day...

Connolly and Alzate could have been capable of stepping up last season, we will never know because Hughton never gave them a chance. There is no way Connolly's 24 mins of playing time at Luton in anyway prepared him for stepping up to the PL. Sometimes a manager just has to take a chance on a...

No, it's only a 3 game ban for a straight red for violent conduct. Red cards for anything else, or 2 yellow cards are just 1 game bans.

The stats I've posted are against the same opponents, hence only 11 games as we didn't play Villa or Norwich last season. No-one wants to sit through 38 nil-nil draws. :moo:

True, but we did let in some poor goals last season (think games like Burnley and Bournemouth at home) and it stands to reason that a more attacking setup will lead to us being more exposed at the back, most people accepted this it was the biggest risk of our new setup at the start of the...

The OP is right the numbers don't lie. Taking out Villa and Norwich games as we didn't play them last season, and just looking at the other 11 games and comparing them to last season we are 2 points better off. We've scored 4 more goals (11 compared to 7) and let in 16, which is the same...