[Albion] Mr.Angry In The Crowd

Blue Valkyrie said:

Fan reactions are always way worse when we lose after 'expecting to win'.

This season we have as evidence the Sheff Utd and Bournemouth games. Meltdowns.

On the ( double-edged ) bright side we are now not in a situation were we can 'expect to win' any of the remaining games.

The Watford game is realistically a *must win* but we can't in honesty 'expect to win' it.

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Perry Milkins said:

If you are the DKM I used to know then 'terrible abuse' would have been something along the lines of "Get a hold of yourself Maybank, you dreadful chap!"

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AmexRuislip said:

All this shouting, effing and jeffing at the players, all because we are not doing well at the moment.
Pales into insignificance, compared to the Albions near extinction at Hereford a while ago.
FFS grow up

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el punal said:

Indeed it was a thing of beauty. One of the best Premier League away performances too under Chris Hughton. I went to twelve away games that season and never saw a win. Bad fan me! I went to Bournemouth on Tuesday night and, again, we didn’t win. From now on I’m going to be a “homey boy”!

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Horton's halftime iceberg said:

I then felt bad as the team were playing so poor in the second half and I apologised to him for having a pop saying I was just pissed off myself at the game. He was okay and said he liked the way Potter played but felt the players should be able to do their own things at time, saying Liverpool and Man City would never be so rigged as to not clear there lines sometimes. He said our goal v Villa came by clearing the ball up field.

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Brovion said:

Yes, agreed, and getting relegated from the PL would not NEARLY be the worst thing that's ever happened to Brighton and Hove Albion FC.

However we can't go on using 1997 and Hereford as the point of reference for absolutely everything.

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All this shouting, effing and jeffing at the players, all because we are not doing well at the moment.
Pales into insignificance, compared to the Albions bottle cap fiasco a while ago.
FFS grow up

Dick Knights Mumm said:

a tad strong .......

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kevo said:

Mark Walton, probably. Never was a favourite with the fans.

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Papa Lazarou said:

I think the problem with the current 'discontent' is there are a large % of our fanbase that either don't understand or really don't support the changes in our playing style that Potter has introduced.

The pass it out from the back IS trilling (in the widest possible meaning in the word) and does raise the heart rate at times, but it's done for a reason. However, there has been a slow creep towards people getting incandescent with rage as SOON as we try it, even without any cockups. That doesn't help the players settle, and GP has mentioned it already.

My concern is that the Potterball experiment could be ended by the negative reaction to aspects of the playing style, and of course direct abuse of specific players in that system.

The only time I've seen footage of GP angry was at Östersund where the fans had been criticising the players - he was livid. I hope this doesn't happen here.

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