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[Albion] Knockaert and depression













Thunder Bolt

Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
Aug 18, 2009
65,429
Beside the seaside, beside the sea
Many footballers suffer with depression. Well done to Bruno & Chris for getting Knocky a counsellor. It's good he had their support.
 




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BN41Albion

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Oct 1, 2017
6,401
Wow, huge kudos, as you said. Just goes to show - it's so easy as a fan to slate footballers/sports people when they're not performing well on the pitch, but we don't know anything about what's going on in their lives/behind the scenes. Timely reminder with all the slating of a certain striker this week, I think .
 


Drumstick

Drumstick

NORTHSTANDER
Jul 19, 2003
6,958
Peacehaven
Can we PLEASE do some kind of fan display to show we support him and others going through depression?

Maybe pull in a depression related charity.

Honestly love the guy, first player for me since I was a young that’d I’d get on my shirt. And I haven’t done that for years!


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Codner pharmaceuticals

Codner pharmaceuticals

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Jun 17, 2009
1,342
Border Country
Looks like he is enjoying his football again this year - most improved player so far. Better decision making, mixing up quick passes and taking players on...looks like he could recreate his Championship form at this level.
 




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Milano

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Aug 15, 2012
3,338
Sussex but not by the sea
BN41Albion said:
Wow, huge kudos, as you said. Just goes to show - it's so easy as a fan to slate footballers/sports people when they're not performing well on the pitch, but we don't know anything about what's going on in their lives/behind the scenes. Timely reminder with all the slating of a certain striker this week, I think .
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Get a flipping grip. Depression is a serious illness. Having a shit game isn't. What would be MASSIVELY dangerous to the progress in this area over the last few years is to start to assume someone might have depression because they have a bad day at work, or even worse to allow that to become the latest 'acceptable' reason of having a bad day at work because it will then get abused and dilute from people with real problems.
 






Coxovi

Coxovi

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Nov 5, 2011
371
Suisse
As hard as that must have been for Knocky, it is an uplifting story that makes me proud of our club. Really like the view of Bruno the advisor and Hughton the godfather. Fits with my vision of how the club works. Thanks for sharing.
 


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BN41Albion

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Oct 1, 2017
6,401
Milano said:
Get a flipping grip. Depression is a serious illness. Having a shit game isn't. What would be MASSIVELY dangerous to the progress in this area over the last few years is to start to assume someone might have depression because they have a bad day at work, or even worse to allow that to become the latest 'acceptable' reason of having a bad day at work because it will then get abused and dilute from people with real problems.
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I really didn't mean that we should assume that someone might be suffering from depression because they had a bad game at all.
 




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Leegull

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Apr 7, 2016
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Well done Knocky.. Well done Bruno, Chris and the club... the more people that open up and talk about these issues the better for everybody. #together...
 


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Springal

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Feb 12, 2005
23,830
GOSBTS
Fair play to him, can’t be easy in a normal job let alone one with 30,000+ fans with high expectations for you to deliver.
 


Psychobilly freakout

Psychobilly freakout

HellBilly
Feb 23, 2009
22,984
Brighton factually.....
Milano said:
Get a flipping grip. Depression is a serious illness. Having a shit game isn't. What would be MASSIVELY dangerous to the progress in this area over the last few years is to start to assume someone might have depression because they have a bad day at work, or even worse to allow that to become the latest 'acceptable' reason of having a bad day at work because it will then get abused and dilute from people with real problems.
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Dude, calm down, there was nothing bad in his post, just a cautionary note, on we don’t know peoples circumstances and situations people go through.
 


LlcoolJ

LlcoolJ

Mama said knock you out.
Oct 14, 2009
12,982
Sheffield
Leegull said:
Well done Knocky.. Well done Bruno, Chris and the club... the more people that open up and talk about these issues the better for everybody. #together...
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Massively important. Was discussing this with my son earlier when he was asking about the Samaritans and what they did.

So many wasted lives to depression and so often because young men feel that they can't speak to anyone.

Well done to Bruno, Chris and the club, but mostly well done to AK for saying he needed help and now for being honest and talking about it.

Stuff like this will actually save lives.
 






father_and_son

father_and_son

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Jan 23, 2012
4,646
Under the Police Box
LlcoolJ said:
Massively important. Was discussing this with my son earlier when he was asking about the Samaritans and what they did.

So many wasted lives to depression and so often because young men feel that they can't speak to anyone.

Well done to Bruno, Chris and the club, but mostly well done to AK for saying he needed help and now for being honest and talking about it.

Stuff like this will actually save lives.
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This. Absolutely have the utmost respect for AK for telling someone and asking for help.
As someone just recently stepping out of an extremely dark period in life I can vouch for speaking up being the hardest thing but the best thing.

#together means so much.
 


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