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[Albion] AFC Bournemouth vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***
- Thread starter Dick Head
- Start date
I was joking...
...but I don't really know why he's even on the bench then 
. Better put an academy player on the bench instead, I reckon.
On balance, so do I… but I think Bloom & Barber should assess whether he’s in it for the long(ish) term.
Seagull58
In the Algarve
If de Zerbi doesn't walk he should be given next season with a full, fit squad (to start with).
NorthStandSeagull
Active member
Talk about talking bollocks! Read your reply back.
Since when was football won on being a “big” club a few years back? To think paqueta walks into any team is deranged and worrying. Bowens been the only player really carry the scoring burden for them and he’s hardly an England regular! And for the stadium it’s the withdean on steroids, soulless bowl with a running track and fans being miles away from the pitch.
I personally feel RDZ has talked us into our current form just as much as his words took us to the heights last season. Then it was all about belief and how we could beat anyone, this season right from the start has been need to rotate, the mythical 3 games a week, tiredness, lack of signings. Psychology and words create reality.
A thousand likes!!!!!
No chance. You learn most about people in the hardest times. He hasn’t got the balls he suggests he has.
Football fans, eh? We start the season magnificently, results-wise...have our European tour for the fist time ever and RDZ/TB are the new Messiahs.
Long-term injuries to key players and we started to struggle, but still held our own - for far longer than I thought possible.
Fati didn't work - he may as well been smoking one, but it was a gamble that didn't pay off.
Of course RDZ is frustrated, as are the players and we, the fans, but we have no God-given right to light-up the PL season after season.
Yes, I'm disappointed with how this one is ending, but jeez....I'm nowhere near despondent, and nor should any of you be.
I'm happy to admit that if next season starts the way this one is finishing, I'm prepared to think again, but let's not jump to conclusions already.
Keep the faith.
Long-term injuries to key players and we started to struggle, but still held our own - for far longer than I thought possible.
Fati didn't work - he may as well been smoking one, but it was a gamble that didn't pay off.
Of course RDZ is frustrated, as are the players and we, the fans, but we have no God-given right to light-up the PL season after season.
Yes, I'm disappointed with how this one is ending, but jeez....I'm nowhere near despondent, and nor should any of you be.
I'm happy to admit that if next season starts the way this one is finishing, I'm prepared to think again, but let's not jump to conclusions already.
Keep the faith.
- Aug 24, 2020
- 5,430
Comment on the BBC Have Your Say:
'Well done Bournemouth.
As for Brighton, that was abject. Yes there are injuries, but the team still has some great players. Seems RDZ has plan A, but no plan B or C. Now it seems everyone has worked out "RDZ ball". Life was too easy for Bournemouth today.'
If - if - all the above is true, couple it with the cold hard evidence of our long term decline in form, then RDZ has a shelf life, and the implication for next season is not good.
'Well done Bournemouth.
As for Brighton, that was abject. Yes there are injuries, but the team still has some great players. Seems RDZ has plan A, but no plan B or C. Now it seems everyone has worked out "RDZ ball". Life was too easy for Bournemouth today.'
If - if - all the above is true, couple it with the cold hard evidence of our long term decline in form, then RDZ has a shelf life, and the implication for next season is not good.
Goberpiles
Active member
- Feb 25, 2017
- 605
Not hard to see how we are struggling 1 goal in 8 games scored by us, 2 were own goals against awful sides, if we didn’t have a good start we would be in serious trouble right now.
Credit your positivity but your post reads as if we’ve had a few bad weeks and fans are over reacting.
But the reality is we’ve been dire for ages. Even in Europe, other than the Marseille and Ajax home games where we played well, the other 4 group games the performance levels were poor, despite good results. Roma away we were shocking. Roma at home we beat a team who knew they barely had to try as they were already through. We limped out the FA cup at Wolves with nothing more than a whimper.
This is not a recent issue, we are in a massive rut and have been for 6 months or more now.
Garry Nelson's Left Foot
Well-known member
I disagree. I think they are the absolute fundametals that every player regardless of level should bring to the table.
Lack of cohesion, tactics etc absolutely put at the door of the manager. Can't be arsed to run or get knocked off the ball by a slight breeze, lazy passing, poor decision making are all on the player.
I'm not on the anti RDZ band wagon but I was beginning to wonder when for an hour we looked so bereft of any cohesion or ideas. Then we upped our game(a bit) and started to look like a bit like our old selves just low on confidence. If mid game they can switch like that then that to me is nothing to do with the manager but all to do with the players.
They've checked out of the season. Why they've done that I'll leave to all the RDZ haters to go over. The truth of their claims will come out in the wash.
- Oct 20, 2022
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Actually some of them haven’t apart from exercises in training - I suspect the many changes we’ve made this season due to injuries and bringing in so many young players to fill gaps and constantly using players out of position has completely undermined the coherency of the squad which has spilled out onto the pitch at times.
Unlike many others, I think this is a season specific, temporary problem - offloading some squad bloaters in the summer, buying another decent winger, defensive Midfielder and another FB (that can play right and left ideally) and doing so early on in the window so they have summer training to settle in, will go a long way IMO to building us up again for 24/25.
The key will also be not selling important players but giving them decent incentives to stay.
As Paul Barber said last week, the Club is well run with everyone aligned as to ambition and targets but when things aren’t going so well, it’s that alignment that helps you recover.
Washie
Well-known member
Managers don't care on a stadium being soulless, only fans do. They will also finish much higher than us, so that better squad can be disputed. Last season they also won a Trophy. They also spend more on wages.
Who knows what will be said behind the Albion closed doors, between manager and players or between manager and directors. However, I would love to know what TB and PB are really thinking after this game that has come at the end of a truly awful run of form. I really don’t think de Zerbi helps himself or the team by his histrionics on the touch line and I wonder whether his tactical stubbornness and ‘passion’ is seen by his employers as a weakness or a strength.
I fell into the ‘I never loved him’ minority and my gut feeling is that he is a busted flush. I may be entirely wrong about that, but I just cannot see a long term relationship developing between the Albion and de Zerbi.
Who knows? We shall find out before too long.
I fell into the ‘I never loved him’ minority and my gut feeling is that he is a busted flush. I may be entirely wrong about that, but I just cannot see a long term relationship developing between the Albion and de Zerbi.
Who knows? We shall find out before too long.
US Seagull
Well-known member
If De Zerbi doesn't walk, I think they'll be more than a few here willing to drive him today.