[Albion] Tony Bloom at the Holbrook Club 26/02

schmunk · Feb 28, 2020

Lethargic said:
"How do we attract youngsters to the club? Difficult with young players as there are travel time restrictions which vary by age. Basically we recruit in Sussex but we have the sea on one side and recruitment is limited there."

This seems to lack ambition why have we written off the Channel could be some uncovered talent out there - #AshworthOut!

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el punal · Feb 28, 2020

Jim D said:
I think Palace have cornered the market on divers.......

More like diving bell - ends.

Lethargic · Feb 28, 2020

schmunk said:

Exactly imaging if we found the next Billy the Fish.

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Blackadder · Feb 28, 2020

Pondicherry said:
And finally coming back to biggest mistake. Mentioned Hypia. TB said circumstances conspired against SH. When they recruited him they spent a lot of time trying to work out who had made Bayer Leverkusen a success. Was it SH or his assistant at the time. It was not clear and they may have got this wrong. Also losing Sammy Lee did not help. This could have made the difference. Anyway he said in the end his biggest mistake / regret was the way Poyet left. He felt very let down by Poyet and the circumstances surrounding his leaving (which he did not go into detail on). He felt the whole thing should have been handled better (by both sides I think).

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A dozen of us popped over from Mid Sussex Seagulls. Thanks for the invite NWSS, it was an enjoyable evening. :drink:

It was very noticeable that TB continually referred to Sami Hyppia as "Sami" and Gus Poyet as "Poyet", You could sense that there was no love lost there at all.

BNthree · Feb 28, 2020

Pondicherry said:
Why is the atmosphere at the Amex declining? TB says the club spend a lot of time thinking about how to improve the atmosphere. He is not sure about a dedicated singing section as wants multiple areas being vociferous. He said fans can take the lead on ideas and the club will consider. So i guess get organised with ideas and e-mail Tony or PB and they will listen.

Think the trouble is the decision makers at the club seem to have a different idea about "atmosphere" than most of us on NSC would have. They're thinking fanzone, ring of fire playing, goal music, family friendly etc. We're thinking 20,000 people singing in unison!

BNthree · Feb 28, 2020

Lethargic said:
"How do we attract youngsters to the club? Difficult with young players as there are travel time restrictions which vary by age. Basically we recruit in Sussex but we have the sea on one side and recruitment is limited there."

Currently they have young ones from Portsmouth to Hastings and all the way up to the outskirts of London at the academy, but like he says nearly half the catchment area is the sea which does limit how many kids they'll find!

BluesRockDJ · Feb 28, 2020

el punal said:
Thanks, very informative. I wonder who’s the ‘soup and sandwich’ club? Brentford maybe?

Doubt it, he was in with the fans behind the goal.

el punal · Feb 28, 2020

BluesRockDJ said:
Doubt it, he was in with the fans behind the goal.

Yes, I know. I wonder why he wasn’t in the directors box?

Not Andy Naylor · Feb 28, 2020

el punal said:
Thanks, very informative. I wonder who’s the ‘soup and sandwich’ club? Brentford maybe?

Based on what gets served to the media, I'd guess at Charlton. Although it's a little better now that they've changed owners.

Thompson720 · Feb 28, 2020

Echoing sentiments of fellow posters, thank you for posting, very interesting!

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AmexRuislip · Feb 28, 2020

Thank you for taking time to post :thumbsup:

el punal · Feb 28, 2020

Not Andy Naylor said:
Based on what gets served to the media, I'd guess at Charlton. Although it's a little better now that they've changed owners.

No more Belgian waffles then?

August West · Feb 28, 2020

Informative post, thanks. Now all we need is to stay in the PL.

Weststander · Feb 28, 2020

Thanks for posting.

This was telling, putting to bed the Poyet lie forever that TB’s budget restraints forced his hand in not giving Muzza a new contract. There’s something narcissistic about Poyet, wanting our top scorer to move on for free, why FFS?

“Someone mentioned letting Murray go. TB said it was a Poyet decision. He could have overruled but it would have been a choice between keeping either Murray or Poyet. We had the funds to keep Murray if we had wanted to. Steve Cook was another regret. Would not happen now”.

Uter · Feb 29, 2020

Lethargic said:
Exactly imaging if we found the next Billy the Fish.

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Man Utd beat us to his signature

stingray · Feb 29, 2020

Uter said:
Man Utd beat us to his signature
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no sweat. got enough centre backs on the books

Cowfold Seagull · Feb 29, 2020

el punal said:
No more Belgian waffles then?

Very good, l saw what you did there . . . even if nobody else did. :smile:

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