LamieRobertson
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Too right about preseason games long as you avoid a thrashing against a minnow ..and it would be the same if we had won them
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[Albion] Fulham V Brighton And Hove Albion bigger boys 15.00 K.O The EBB Stadium
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Too right about preseason games long as you avoid a thrashing against a minnow ..and it would be the same if we had won them
symyjym
Banned
Cheers for reporting back with your first hand overview. It's certainly going to be harder for Potter to change our style and philosophy, whilst competing in the Prem, than Eddie Howe setting up his shop from League One. If we can get to double figures before the start of December we will be doing okay because generally the bottom teams struggle to reach that benchmark. These preseason games don't really tell us much apart from there is lots of work to be done for the Watford game which will be fascinating, and I can't wait to see who we are.
symyjym
Banned
I was joking. He looked a lot more serious though, and seemed irritated by being questioned. Mind you they were all stupid questions like; is the team brilliant yet?
Charge of the Light Brigade? Well they attacked from the off.
Indeed they did; I was thinking about the end result really!
Ecosse Exile
New member
Thats a fair point, however i think Locadia will be competing with Trossard for the left of the 3 at least until Izquierdo is back, leaving just Andone and Murray for the striker role and still no competition for Gross unless Potter thinks Alzate is ready.
Albion Dan
Banned
We were pretty bad at Newcastke away and Wolves at home but some how managed to win both. The stats said we were in the bottom three for chances created up to xmas. The warning signs were there.
The problem for me is that we've heard this for three summer transfer windows now.
The prices being bandied about now will no doubt look cheap next summer. It's the disproportionate income from being in the Premier League to The Championship.
All this means we miss out on signings.
We all know that we have been able to survive for two seasons now without a good Premier League striker, no disrespect to Glenn but he should have been a back up. We have been very lucky he hasn't had a bad injury.
Ulloa aside, our striker signings in the Amex era have been pretty poor. Surely we can find a decent striker. That's without the massive need for a central midfielder and a right back.
So I can understand some having frustrations.
GT49er
Well-known member
I think Alzate is a DM, so that's unlikely.
Ecosse Exile
New member
Is he? Haha, genuinely thought he was a 10, my bad.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
It's a bit of a thankless task because some players cover 2 positions, but
CF( 3 needed )
Murray
Andone
(Locadia)
ALM(2)
Trossard
Locadia
[Izzy]
ACM(2)
Groß
(Alireza)
ARM(2)
March
Alireza
So we are potentially 2 players short - but then we consider Izzy will need to be added into the squad in January, and we are already getting hints about Taylor Richards (ACM). And we have Alzate as mentioned.
It'll be Potter's choice what positions we go for up front - I guess 1 CF, but clearly may be wrong.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
He has played marginally more games at ACM than CM - hardly anything in it though.
Robinjakarta
Well-known member
I and others said as much on this board, but many didn't like it. they were indeed there.
el punal
Well-known member
Indeed they did; I was thinking about the end result really!
Yep! Lost 6-0. Started off well. Light weight in attack and in the end couldn’t defend with shots coming in from all directions.
Ecosse Exile
New member
I agree there are a few who can play in more than one position, you can add Trossard to the ACM role too i believe so perhaps that position is covered better than i thought but whichever way we shuffle it, we are still a couple light besides a right back.
Jam The Man
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HUGE proportionI wouldn't even say it's anything like a huge proportion on here, let alone in reality. The same old names on here repeat the same old negativity, whilst in real life most Albion fans are pretty rational folk. All clubs have their fair share of irrational fans, us included - some id say far more than us proportion wise too - but it's absolutely nothing like a 'huge proportion'.
Fair play. I posted this when drunk, so I’ll retract ‘huge’
- Jun 27, 2012
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Hemed, Murray and Baldock got us promoted, were all vfm and Murray is a good premier league striker who has scored 25 goals.
Locadia might or might not come good but you’d find it pretty easy to find multiple clubs with far poorer striker records than us over the past 6 years or so .
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Three weeks today we will be dissecting an opening day win ...happy days 
Three weeks today we will be dissecting an opening day win ...happy days
Not with this squad we won't.
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
Not with this squad we won't.
Shhh.....i’m trying to be positive
They are third from bottom at the mo
Shhh.....i’m trying to be positive
They are third from bottom at the mo
If it helps we're currently 4th in the last Champions League qualifying position -
Which is nice.