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May 27, 2014
1,638
Littlehampton
...replacing Upson with Dunk = cheap option = worse option
..,replacing Ulloa with O'Grady = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Barnes with Baldock = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Bridcutt with Holla = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Buckley with Calderon = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Ward with Bennett = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Kuszczak with Stockdale = more expensive option = worse option

We're going down. Bloom, Barber and Burke to blame, nobody else.

Can't wait for Orient away...
 

Yoda

English & European
...replacing Upson with Dunk = cheap option = worse option
..,replacing Ulloa with O'Grady = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Barnes with Baldock = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Bridcutt with Holla = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Buckley with Calderon = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Ward with Bennett = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Kuszczak with Stockdale = more expensive option = worse option

We're going down. Bloom, Barber and Burke to blame, nobody else.

Can't wait for Orient away...

Are we getting demoted an extra division then? Last I looked Orient are bottom of league 1.
 

Eeyore

Lord Donkey of Queen's Park
NSC Licker Extraordinaire
Apr 5, 2014
23,291
Looks like it's chucking out time.
 




lovelyboy

Active member
Nov 17, 2005
221
...replacing Upson with Dunk = cheap option = worse option
..,replacing Ulloa with O'Grady = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Barnes with Baldock = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Bridcutt with Holla = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Buckley with Calderon = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Ward with Bennett = cheap option = worse option
...replacing Kuszczak with Stockdale = more expensive option = worse option

We're going down. Bloom, Barber and Burke to blame, nobody else.

Can't wait for Orient away...

Spot on fella, aboalute horror show last two years. WTF IS GOING ON?
 

Luke93

STAND OR FALL
Jun 23, 2013
5,028
Shoreham
Poyet in 2012/13 could pick:

......................TK
Bruno - Upson - Greer - Bridge
....Bridcutt - Vicente - Lopez
....Buckley - Ulloa - Barnes

Oscar in 2013/14 could pick:

....................TK
Bruno - Upson - Greer - Ward
..Andrews - Stephens - Lopez
......March - Ulloa - Barnes

Hughton / Hyppia could pick:

............Stockdale
Bruno - Dunk - Greer - Bennett
............Holla - Ince
......March - Tex - LuaLua
........... O'Grady

We've been going backwards since Poyet left. Squad has been stripped of quality and hasn't been replaced properly. Our options this year are piss poor. Only one LB. Defence includes an ageing Greer, Bruno and Calderon. Our strikers are a shadow of Poyet's era. I'd take Barnes over any of our current lot, and I'd never thought I'd say that.

There's also a LONG list of failed signings, which actually makes you question our recriutment team.

Kemy - useless
Toko - pointless
McCourt - doesn't get a game
Al Habsi - waste of time
Colunga - never worked out
Baldock - paid too much, but still has time to prove worth
stockdale - not worth a million pounds
Gardner - Useless
O'Grady - not a failure, but no Ulloa replacement (which is what we should have found)

Ulloa + Buckley + Bridcutt + Barnes money = at least 12M. Goes to show we had our chance in 2012/13 and blew it.
 

Acker79

Well-known member
NSC Licker Extraordinaire
Nov 15, 2008
31,743
Brighton
Was baldock cheaper than Barnes? When you factor in the transfer fee as well as wages, I'd be surprised if we're not paying more.
 


kevtherev

Well-known member
Feb 28, 2008
10,443
Tunbridge Wells
Bridge-Ward-Bennett....just one example of a position of the pitch, that has just got worse over the last three seasons. The club say every transfer window they won't bring people in just for the sake of it. It has to add quality to the squad, yet this is the exact opposite to what has happened in reality. I challenge anyone to name 1 position on the pitch were we are stronger than we were even 12 months ago.
 

spanish flair

Well-known member
Jan 30, 2014
2,349
Brighton
Poyet in 2012/13 could pick:

......................TK
Bruno - Upson - Greer - Bridge
....Bridcutt - Vicente - Lopez
....Buckley - Ulloa - Barnes

Oscar in 2013/14 could pick:

....................TK
Bruno - Upson - Greer - Ward
..Andrews - Stephens - Lopez
......March - Ulloa - Barnes

Hughton / Hyppia could pick:

............Stockdale
Bruno - Dunk - Greer - Bennett
............Holla - Ince
......March - Tex - LuaLua
........... O'Grady

We've been going backwards since Poyet left. Squad has been stripped of quality and hasn't been replaced properly. Our options this year are piss poor. Only one LB. Defence includes an ageing Greer, Bruno and Calderon. Our strikers are a shadow of Poyet's era. I'd take Barnes over any of our current lot, and I'd never thought I'd say that.

There's also a LONG list of failed signings, which actually makes you question our recriutment team.

Kemy - useless
Toko - pointless
McCourt - doesn't get a game
Al Habsi - waste of time
Colunga - never worked out
Baldock - paid too much, but still has time to prove worth
stockdale - not worth a million pounds
Gardner - Useless
O'Grady - not a failure, but no Ulloa replacement (which is what we should have found)

Ulloa + Buckley + Bridcutt + Barnes money = at least 12M. Goes to show we had our chance in 2012/13 and blew it.

Add to that list during that period

Obika = Waste of wages
Lita = Waste of wages
Rodriguez = Useless
Chicksen = One of the few we paid a fee for with little return

A real waste of the player budget during that period.
 


BensGrandad

New member
Jul 13, 2003
72,015
Haywards Heath
We are now suffering the after affects of putting all our eggs in 1 basket for promotion under Gus. We have suffered financially since then and as a result so has the strengthening of the team. We need to avoid relegation this year have a clear out and rebuild in the summer by not renewing old players contracts.
 

HAILSHAM SEAGULL

Well-known member
Nov 9, 2009
10,346
Anybody know the phone number of The Samaritans.....they could have a block booking with all the doom and gloom merchants on this tread
 

brighton_tom

Well-known member
Jul 23, 2008
4,718
Whatever happens we need a complete rebuilding of the squad in the summer. Currently there is only 4 or 5 players that id want here next season.
 

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