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Unnecessary games, we can now concentrate on bringing that striker and winger in and kick on from the excellent start we have made in the league this season.
COYS!!!
COYS!!!
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We were never going to win the league cup.... Blessing in disguise...
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A game against a top premiership team may have given us the funds to pay for that striker.
Also the momentum is now lost.
Also the momentum is now lost.
Disagree with the amount of decent teams already exited we could have had a decent run and played some of the big boys. Hate the fact we play reserve teams in both cups we should be going for it, smaller teams have won the league cup or made the final.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
yeah, but it was good to give the fringe players some game time. Still I'd rather lose today than on Saturday.Unnecessary games, we can now concentrate on bringing that striker and winger in and kick on from the excellent start we have made in the league this season.
COYS!!!
Exactly. No point dwelling on that result, and let's take positives.
>Good game for JFC
>A good run out for our squad players
>More evidence COG needs to go
>At least one less game to worrying about, enables more focus on Brighton's priority (the Championship)
>Good game for JFC
>A good run out for our squad players
>More evidence COG needs to go
>At least one less game to worrying about, enables more focus on Brighton's priority (the Championship)
Bring back Bryan wade!!
I wanna caravan for me ma
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I hear what you are saying but it's a long old season (46 games) what's more important attempting to go deep in the league cup and making your key performers play an additional 5-6 games (not including international fixtures for some) or giving the league our best shot in a bid to reach the promised land (worth an estimated £120 million to the club)
I know where my priorities lie.
Just proves that the fringe players aren't good enough.
From a purely personal perspective I would take winning the league or FA cup above promotion.
Promotion doesn't really tickle my fancy, love the Championship hate the Premier League. From a financial point of view and for Tony Bloom great if it happens, but as long as we stay up i'd be happier watching good quality Championship football then going into that monstrosity which is the Premier League.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
No more cup football until January
This is not a good thing.
However, the next 7 days in the transfer window are far more important than this result.
This is not a good thing.
However, the next 7 days in the transfer window are far more important than this result.
Return of the Rev
Well-known member
Cant stand the thought of Albion teams not taking cup games seriously,mugs off the 400
Just ask if we can opt out of cup games in future
Just ask if we can opt out of cup games in futureNot bothered in the slightest. Just look at the run we went on with Hyypia, didn't help our league form at all, in fact if we'd progressed further we could well have got relegated. League is the key and tonight has made it clear what we need, a quality striker before the start of September.
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
No not at all. It was far from our strongest side that we fielded tonight. Obviously no one likes to lose, but Walsall are flying high at the moment, and it's no disgrace to lose against them, after all plenty of Championship sides have been beaten by League 1 and League 2 already in this competition.
It's on to Saturday now, and our pursuit of 3 more league points, as someone else said in this thread we weren't going to win the League Cup anyway.
portlock seagull
Why? Why us?
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Albion fans have been making excuses, sorry, saying the same thing for early League cup exits for 5 decades now. Makes you wonder, what's the point in BHA bothering to enter? Our record is, Appalling.
Note the capital A...
Note the capital A...
Cowfold Seagull
Fan of the 17 bus
Agreed, plus of course if we had fielded our strongest side, we most probably would have won anyway.
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The other issue for me is that 75% of Premier League teams field their fringe squad players and kids anyhow so the kudos that may have gone with winning the league cup say 15-20 years ago is heavily diluted now in my opinion.
RexCathedra
Aurea Mediocritas
Quality Championship strikers aren't available for that kind of money.
A full stadium with an average spend of £200-280 per fan?
100% of teams! That's a big issue with football and the Premier League. Finishing 4th or 17th is much much bigger than winning any silverwear whether that be the FA Cup or League Cup. Football and sport should be about glory not about scraping 35 points together to stay in a league where players are paying £60k per annum for a PA who stocks their fridge and promotes their fragrances!
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I agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment but the fact is that these days it's just a romantic notion. Football is a business first and a sport second these days whereas when we were growing up it was all about the glory and the FA Cup final was THE main sporting event on the calendar. The fact is that now it's all about the £ (wrongly in my opinion). However we have to accept that's the way it will be going forward and as a football purist would I rather go to the Amex to see us play Derby County (Tom Ince, Chris Martin, Jonny Russell) or Arsenal (Alexis Sanchez, Santi Cazorla, Olivier Giroud)... It's the Prem quality, technique and panache all the way for me.