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LI makes much sense and very valid points. To some he seems to be patronising and condescending which is why he gets slated. That and for not being a 'proper' fan for supporting Brighton relatively late.

Quite! We saw a business opportunity and went for it. Kuipers (injury prone?) was creeping back to full fitness and the youngsters were not ready to take on the full duties. £20k is a drop in the ocean when you are looking at buying outfield players of the calibre we needed.

The way I see it. MA basically had a carte blanche to build a lower league team with players bought to fit into their specialist role. MM has had to reinfornce the team and without the financial prowess of other clubs it can be very much making square pegs fit in round holes....

That is going to court controversy, but a valid point all the same.

Are you allowing for inflation? :jester: I am not saying that McGhee is perfect. Perhaps I shouldn't have tried to compare the two - as that was the whole point of the thread. Easy and Mouldy. Very true, but the Zamora stuff is speculation. He oculd have been better or worse under McGhee...

1. Zamora was/is a once off (in a generation) for a club like Brighton. How many teams unearth a player like Bobby and they 'make it' (debatable) in the top division? Yes, Micky did well in unearthing him. What about palying Virgo? We got the exact same amount for both of them and Coppell (v...

Deoderant! Get your facts right! :p

Flatterer! :blush:

:down: Surprisingly not tired after a long drive from Devon. What I said is true though. You can't discount that, Algie. :p

There seems to be this fascination with the Adams era and how things would be very different with him. Adams was a decent manager, don't get me wrong - I was a big fan of his and gutted when he left us but he had one advantage over McGhee. Adams had Bobby Zamora! We were flying high and on the...