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Hughton isn't going to change how he plays i'm afraid.

That counter attacking football, strong defence (all those clean sheets), pace down the flanks is our natural game and the one Hughton used in the Champ. Didn't get to play teams like Man City at home much to be fair and we won't again either.

Not easy but not designed to prevent attack. But agreed not pretty.

2 good analyses of our tactics on Saturday. The Guardian "one can only play with the ball for so long" https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2017/aug/13/hopeful-brighton-faith-industry-organisation And here's Naylor in the Argus "The weakness is pace through the middle "...

PS: i think i just meant that Hughton is a very experienced coach. Its tough to argue with him about it, not that its wrong to do so. Certainly didn't want to infer that he's not flawed and apols if you thought i was aggressive. Not my intention !

Ha ! Hughton didn't say that though did he. He said it was tough, difficult blah blah but "no hope that we'd win the game". He's far too classy to admit to that in public for starters and it was still on the cards, even if very remote, on the 70th minute. but hey.

Of course you can criticise Hughton. Feel free. He's used to it. Just pointing out he will defend his approach , with aplomb. He's been a successful coach for 20 years. And i said several times during and after that i'm not sure i'm ready for 18 more home games like that so agreed it was tough...

Agreed on that. But not inevitable. Took City 70 mins to break us down and then we conceded thanks to two poor mistakes.

It wasn't inevitable . It was a unfortunate mistake. Nothing to do with tactics.

Hughton set his team up to win the game. He always does. And the tactics weren't far off. We had several chances on the counter (Duffy's shot, Propper's shot). Who knows what might have happened if we'd snatched one. We defended pretty well for 70 minutes with those 2 banks of four working...