[Albion] Austria pre-season friendly v FC Liefering - Sat. 13th July

Sussex Nomad said:

We actually tried to win games in the first half, not always pretty, granted, but the second half was plain for anyone that has any footballing nuance about them to see that we were scared, rabbits in headlights, bus parking and making sure we didn't lose. Did you miss that bit?

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Sussex Nomad said:

We actually tried to win games in the first half, not always pretty, granted, but the second half was plain for anyone that has any footballing nuance about them to see that we were scared, rabbits in headlights, bus parking and making sure we didn't lose. Did you miss that bit?

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One Teddy Maybank said:

I think you missed the style change, which started the rot.

Momentum is so important at this level, and the things that worked were changed. When we went back to them in April, we started picking up points.

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Stat Brother said:

Seemingly he'd rather go down trying, than shuffling off mustering barely a whimper.

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One Teddy Maybank said:

If we’re rock bottom at Christmas and losing entertaining games, do you think Bloom will act?


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Sussex Nomad said:

Am I wasting valuable typing time?

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One Teddy Maybank said:

You’re quoting reactions rather than a style change!

The bus parking at the end worked.....

It was just those dire two months.




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dazzer6666 said:

The bus parking was dire as well......it was just necessary (shouldn’t have been though)

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One Teddy Maybank said:

No the defensive tactics that were criticised, apparently worked for the first part of the season.

It just feels because we were so poor during February and March, a lot of supporters are writing the first part off IMO.


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Bwian said:

We were poor a lot more than February and March. We may have put three wins together but we really were quite poor.

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One Teddy Maybank said:

You’re quoting reactions rather than a style change!

The bus parking at the end worked.....

It was just those dire two months.




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drew said:

We got lucky, we still relied on Cardiff not beating Fulham or Palace at home.

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miffy6 said:

3 points on the board.

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drew said:

We got lucky, we still relied on Cardiff not beating Fulham or Palace at home.

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drew said:

I think the problem is some people view survival as the be all and end all where as others want to enjoy watching football and are prepared for defeats provided we give it a go. Judging by some posts, it's like it has to be one or the other, ie you play boring and get a point or you attack and you lose. You can attack and win games just as you can be boring and get a lucky goal and win.

At the end of the day you aren't going to change anyone's mindset as to what they prioritise.

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GT49er said:

I'm fed up with this 'we got lucky' stuff. If you want to take it to extremes, we got lucky when Willie Mackay shoved Emilio Salah on to a dodgy plane with a not properly licensed pilot and launched him into the night sky - if he'd scored four or five goals for Cardiff that could have meant us, and not them, heading for the Championship (in which case, would Hughton have kept his job as the best man to get a team up from the Championship?)

Fact is, we scraped home through our own efforts in getting enough points.

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drew said:

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GT49er said:

I'm fed up with this 'we got lucky' stuff. If you want to take it to extremes, we got lucky when Willie Mackay shoved Emilio Salah on to a dodgy plane with a not properly licensed pilot and launched him into the night sky - if he'd scored four or five goals for Cardiff that could have meant us, and not them, heading for the Championship (in which case, would Hughton have kept his job as the best man to get a team up from the Championship?)

Fact is, we scraped home through our own efforts in getting enough points.

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GT49er said:

I'm fed up with this 'we got lucky' stuff. If you want to take it to extremes, we got lucky when Willie Mackay shoved Emilio Salah on to a dodgy plane with a not properly licensed pilot and launched him into the night sky - if he'd scored four or five goals for Cardiff that could have meant us, and not them, heading for the Championship (in which case, would Hughton have kept his job as the best man to get a team up from the Championship?)

Fact is, we scraped home through our own efforts in getting enough points.

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