I'm afraid I couldn't help myself and let myself down today. I was serving a family from Leeds in our local bookshop, and the lad had a Leeds quilted top on. I felt obliged to ask him in a rather gloating tone whether he was looking forward to championship football next year, ha ha. He looked...
"Player wanted to move, Leeds wanted to buy and a player who has never made a league appearance for BHA became an obsession with NSC, the club's dire fan forum. "
Pretty clear, through numerous statements, that our current aim as a club is to be Top 10. Which is far from 'just surviving every season'.
https://www.brightonandhovealbion.com/news/1311227/blooms-new-vision-makes-for-exciting-times-at-the-albion
I met a Leeds fan in the middle of the Lake District yesterday. He was quite realistic about their hopes, and just 'wanted to stay up' - so not particularly deluded in that respect.
I then said 'shame you won't have Ben White', to which his reply was that he reckoned they might well keep him...
That's very good of you to say this about us. I think we'll need just a few more players before we can really say we're a top four club, but we're getting there.