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Sweeney Todd

New member
Apr 24, 2008
1,636
Oxford/Lancing
We finished fourth in the Championship, with the best defensive record in the division, and having lost the fewest number of games. The construction of the Amex was completed: the stadium now has a capacity of 31,000. Work on the £15 million training complex, in Lancing, has begun. We had the highest average home attendance outside the Premier League.

That represents decent progress for a club that has had to rebuild virtually from scratch.

Setbacks are inevitable – in football, as in life – but if the fundamentals are in place then they can be weathered successfully and mistakes can become opportunities.
 




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Big_Unit

Active member
Sep 5, 2011
358
Hove
Please stop with your rational, sensible, accurate posts - this is not the place for it...

Sweeney Todd said:
We finished fourth in the Championship, with the best defensive record in the division, and having lost the fewest number of games. The construction of the Amex was completed: the stadium now has a capacity of 31,000. Work on the £15 million training complex, in Lancing, has begun. We had the highest average home attendance outside the Premier League.

That represents decent progress for a club that has had to rebuild virtually from scratch.

Setbacks are inevitable – in football, as in life – but if the fundamentals are in place then they can be weathered successfully and mistakes can become opportunities.
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glasfryn

glasfryn

cleaning up cat sick
Nov 29, 2005
20,261
somewhere in Eastbourne
Big_Unit said:
Please stop with your rational, sensible, accurate posts - this is not the place for it...
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this
but what a great post it is
 




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pork pie

New member
Dec 27, 2008
6,053
Pork pie land.
Sweeney Todd said:
We finished fourth in the Championship, with the best defensive record in the division, and having lost the fewest number of games. The construction of the Amex was completed: the stadium now has a capacity of 31,000. Work on the £15 million training complex, in Lancing, has begun. We had the highest average home attendance outside the Premier League.

That represents decent progress for a club that has had to rebuild virtually from scratch.

Setbacks are inevitable – in football, as in life – but if the fundamentals are in place then they can be weathered successfully and mistakes can become opportunities.
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Because of negative, boring, predictable, benign, over-passing, spineless football. You forgot to mention that the team did not have the balls to fight back to win from going a goal down for two seasons.

The "perspective" you should be looking at is the backing, financial and spiritual, Poyet has been given to achieve what he has by the Chairman.
 




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Finchley Seagull

New member
Feb 25, 2004
6,916
North London
pork pie said:
Because of negative, boring, predictable, benign, over-passing, spineless football. You forgot to mention that the team did not have the balls to fight back to win from going a goal down for two seasons.

The "perspective" you should be looking at is the backing, financial and spiritual, Poyet has been given to achieve what he has by the Chairman.
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Just because you spout bullshit over and over again, doesn't make it true. Most true fans don't believe Gus' tactics were perfect but we also know they were far from negative and boring most of the time, especially once we signed Ulloa but don't let the truth get in the way of your rants.
 


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martin tyler

Well-known member
Jan 25, 2013
5,844
pork pie said:
Because of negative, boring, predictable, benign, over-passing, spineless football. You forgot to mention that the team did not have the balls to fight back to win from going a goal down for two seasons.

The "perspective" you should be looking at is the backing, financial and spiritual, Poyet has been given to achieve what he has by the Chairman.
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Always 1 negative person
 


c0lz

c0lz

North East Stand.
Jan 26, 2010
2,203
Patcham/Brighton
Don't think many fans are complaining where we came in the league are they ?
Its how the way our manager handle himself since the play offs and this during this season.
 




GT49er

GT49er

Well-known member
Feb 1, 2009
46,720
Gloucester
Of course it's progress - the play-offs was just a setback, that's all. I wonder if Gus, when he's thought long and hard about it, will realise that too - and whether, if he does, it will be too late to mend fences and give it another go next season?
 


SeagullSongs

SeagullSongs

And it's all gone quiet..
Oct 10, 2011
6,937
Southampton
Not only did we have the highest average attendance in the Championship, but we had higher than Fulham, West Brom, Reading, Swansea, Wigan and QPR.

pork pie said:
Because of negative, boring, predictable, benign, over-passing, spineless football. You forgot to mention that the team did not have the balls to fight back to win from going a goal down for two seasons.

The "perspective" you should be looking at is the backing, financial and spiritual, Poyet has been given to achieve what he has by the Chairman.
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:tosser:
 










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Bra

Well-known member
Feb 21, 2009
1,366
patcham
Agree with op, but would add the current issue needs to be resolved soon so the club can keep moving forward.
 








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HawkTheSeagull

New member
Jan 31, 2012
9,122
Eastbourne
pork pie said:
Really? Has he told you that? He was quick enough to allow Poyet to speak with Reading wasn't he? Perhapse he was also fed-up with him?
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No, it's club policy to let players/staff speak to other clubs if they meet the fee that we want.

But keep dreaming in your own world of doom and gloom that its all bad - will someone please think of the children !!
 


kevo

kevo

Well-known member
Mar 8, 2008
9,094
pork pie said:
Because of negative, boring, predictable, benign, over-passing, spineless football.
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Agreed. The Blackpool game at the Amex, for example, was particularly boring. Only 6-1.

The football we have been playing has been fantastic. I just hope it continues under Gus's successor.
 




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DWF

Banned
Sep 28, 2011
79
Brighton need to get a decent youth set up. The way to be sustainable at this level is to produce your own talent.
 


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Deano's Invisible Pants

Well-known member
Mar 1, 2008
1,133
Glad to see that I'm not the only one whose glass is half full. My take is this:

1. The most important duty of the chairman is to appoint the right manager. Whether it's a similar minded successor to Gus (eg. Di Matteo), or a successful up and coming manager (eg. Rossler or Solskjaer), or someone we haven't even thought of, or even Gus Poyet....... I've every confidence in Tony Bloom to get it right. He did pretty well last time!

2. The manager will have a good core of players, with some freedom to sign new ones following the release of Vicente, Dicker and Painter, and the return of Hammond, Upson and Bridge. This time last year we were fretting about whether we would get Joe Mattock, but then we signed Bridge. If we don't get Bridge this time, we'll get another good left back. Oh, and we'll have Ulloa from the start!

And finally, for those who care about how we do against 'that lot', we may have lost to them in the play offs, but we are a better side than them. Catch one of their genuine fans in a moment of honesty, and they'll even admit that they were very surprised to beat us. We finished above them for the second consecutive year, and assuming Watford play to their best on Monday week, I'm pretty sure we'll do so again next year.

Chill out everyone and just enjoy the ride!
 


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