[Albion] Appalling Quality All Round - Dreadful

[pb21]

When was the last time we won a ‘must win game’? I really can’t remember.

28th December 2019, not that long ago.

 

[TottonSeagull]

28th December 2019, not that long ago.

Nope, that wasn’t a must win! That was just a win.

 

[Deadly Danson]

We don't always agree but this is bang on.

Potter started well here but it is quite clear why Swansea finished 10th in the Championship last season. Because, when the likes of Ashworth weren't watching they were clearly shithouse. With this team, playing this way, we'll go down and not go back up.

Except....hold the phone.....if I was a Watford fan I'd be saying the same thing. That own goal was comical and they were woeful with the exception of the goal we gifted them.

And Palace fans would be saying the same thing today, West Ham definitely would too last week and certainly Newcastle fans aren't impressed even with their points total. I just dont think there's much quality down the lower half of the table and there's precious little between the bottom 10. Every team bar Norwich are a couple of wins away from feeling pretty safe and a bad run away from dropping like a stone. The only good thing is we are at least picking up points albeit one at a time and are showing some fight at least but really anyone below Burnley can go if things go bad. The downside is we are heading towards a tough run of games.

 

[Guinness Boy]

28th December 2019, not that long ago.

So basically we've not won this decade......

 

[nickjhs]

I watched a French match the other night someone not to good against Monaco the shite teams who were at home fans never gave up the atmosphere until the final whistle. The Amex died on 7m 47 seconds

Yep, watching it in bed on the laptop (4am in Aus), my partner dozing, half listening, said "I thought this was a home game" all she could hear were the Watford fans.

 

[BN41Albion]

Laughably bad. Got to a point towards the end of the first half where I gave up hope and just enjoyed the game for comedy value. Absolute pony in all aspects from both teams. Mad to think how much those on the pitch were paid just this week to produce that utter shyte

 

[Guinness Boy]

Yep, watching it in bed on the laptop (4am in Aus), my partner dozing, half listening, said "I thought this was a home game" all she could hear were the Watford fans.

I'm not surprised. We were one down after less than 20 mins thanks to yet another idiotic self-inflicted goal. That would suck the atmosphere out of a stadium like the proverbial golf ball through a garden hose.

 

[nickjhs]

I just dont think there's much quality down the lower half of the table and there's precious little between the bottom 10. .

There is plenty of quality, its just in effect we have a league system that goes something like this Premier League, Premier Championship, Championship. With the Premier Championship sides vying for a place in the PL by playing against those sides.

 

[Weststander]

We’re certainly NOT on track to:

“Staying in the Premier League isn't enough. What we want to do is to be a top 10 Premier League club."

A bottom 6 squad, bottom 6 results, it’s touch and go as to whether we’ll be playing league football against Rotherham next season.

 

[pb21]

Nope, that wasn’t a must win! That was just a win.

That felt almost just as much of a 'must win' as today.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

there's hyperbole and there's this thread!

 

[BN41Albion]

Yep, watching it in bed on the laptop (4am in Aus), my partner dozing, half listening, said "I thought this was a home game" all she could hear were the Watford fans.

Today was a game you absolutely cannot blame the fans. Everyone was really up for it before the game and at the beginning of the game. And then we produced yet another completely abject display. Didn't even look like having a shot, let alone testing the keeper or scoring. Atmsophere died but the passion didn't - everyone around me was just totally pissed off and gutted that, yet again, as has been the case so often for so long now in the prem stretching over two seasons, we didn't turn up at all in such a big game.

And to be fair, the Watford fans were decent for a bit but quiet as **** too most of the game just as pissed off as us . most fun I had all day at the game was the train back to brighton an hour or so after the game - loads of friendly banter/chanting with the remaining watford fans about how shit we both were/are

 

[nickjhs]

Atmsophere died but the passion didn't -

Yeah fair enough. The commentators were saying that in a game like this with so much at stake it was almost better to be the away side as the nervousness of the home crowd was palpable and this passed onto the pitch adding to the pressure. Which is why The Greyhound tried to get the crowd going.

 

[BN41Albion]

I watched a French match the other night someone not to good against Monaco the shite teams who were at home fans never gave up the atmosphere until the final whistle. The Amex died on 7m 47 seconds

I've been to loads of games in France as I lived there quite a long time. The atmosphere at most games there is absolute shyte bar a few hundred ultras who don't react to what's going on on the pitch.

Whether it translates in songs being sung or how pissed off fans are at what they're witnessing during games here, the passion here is infinitely better than the vast majority of games i went to in France

 

[HantsSeagull]

i have been pro potter all season but that was just awful. When i saw the team i assumed 5 3 2 and then when the game started it was clearly 4 5 1 or 4 3 3. Regardless it was Murray up front alone. Just schoolboy error stuff. Losing faith. Look like relegation fodder.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Good fun in the pub pre match and banter on the train. All went downhill the moment we entered the ground.

Sounds like a routine Saturday home game for me

 

[BN41Albion]

Sounds like a routine Saturday home game for me

People moan about the decline in atmsophere at the Amex over recent time, but what have we really had to celebrate over the last season and 2/3rds? In that time we've struggled to create chances for the most part , let alone score and win games - bar the odd game. Whatever division you're in our stats in that time is going to affect the atmosphere

 

[Neville's Breakfast]

It all seemed to go wrong with the performance and result against Sheffield Wednesday. Maybe there is some merit to the idea of picking a team to win cup matches, if only to keep league form intact.

 

[Albion100]

We don't have any quality

 

[southstandandy]

I know I'm stating the obvious but realisticaly we probably need 4 wins from our remaining 12 games, and we've won 1 of the last 11.

Are we really going to get 4 wins in these last dozen games? Tonight my feeling is that I can't see where the next win is coming from (unless we draw all 12 games)? I know football is a funny old game but to get 12 points from our remaining fixtures currently is going to require a miracle of Lazarus-esque proportions.