Brighton & Hove Albion vs Middlesbrough ***** Official Match Thread *****

[RexCathedra]

I think it's all going to come down to the last day, and Barnsley. Does anyone know what happens when you play the theme from The Great Escape backwards?

 

[Jello Biafra]

My punt was 2-1 on the basis that we are at home, in pretty good form, have key players fit and are playing a team that have the capability to score but are playing away. Not very scientific I know but it's just part of the fun of being a football fan.

I was wondering if you actually bother attending games as surely it's a waste of time paying to watch 90 mins of indeterminable, unforeseeable and essentially random actions when you could just watch Final Score at 4:50.

Can you prove the outcome isn't the result of chance then? Publish your research in a peer-reviewed academic journal and claim your Nobel prize, if you can.

 

[The Truth]

I think it's all going to come down to the last day, and Barnsley. Does anyone know what happens when you play the theme from The Great Escape backwards?

As long as it has nothing in relation with playing stairways to heaven backwards. Then i'm happy.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

even bloody Watford looks a tough game now!

 

[Jello Biafra]

Yes

I shall remind you of that response a year from now when we're 6 points adrift of Southampton at the bottom of the Premiership, having been relegated 3 weeks before. Feel free to do the same to me with this response, when we're challenging for a place in Europe next year.

 

[brightn'ove]

I shall remind you of that response a year from now when we're 6 points adrift of Southampton at the bottom of the Premiership, having been relegated 3 weeks before. Feel free to do the same to me with this response, when we're challenging for a place in Europe next year.

Hooray for optimism! Swansea and Norwich sure are struggling down there in the bottom 3... Hold on.

 

[Seagull27]

I shall remind you of that response a year from now when we're 6 points adrift of Southampton at the bottom of the Premiership, having been relegated 3 weeks before. Feel free to do the same to me with this response, when we're challenging for a place in Europe next year.

Thing is, even if we were in that position, we'd still be in a better position than we currently are, with more money from parachute payments and a year in the Premiership behind us.

 

[GT49er]

even bloody Watford looks a tough game now!

Yes - we are all aware of how massive the Reading, West Ham and Brum games are..but isn't there always supposed to be a late runner who comes from nowhere and gatecrashes the play-offs? Watford for that, any one?

 

[perseus]

Yes - we are all aware of how massive the Reading, West Ham and Brum games are..but isn't there always supposed to be a late runner who comes from nowhere and gatecrashes the play-offs? Watford for that, any one?

Last year Forest did it by winning five out of the last seven games. Leicester have even blown this. Cardiff could do this.

I think we thought the north-east challenge from Boro was going to be a problem: Will Middlesbrough park the bus?

BBC SPORT | Football | Championship | Predictor

Packing the midfield causes problems.

 

[perseus]

Boro V Brighton Hove Albion (A) - New version

 

[brakespear]

I shall remind you of that response a year from now when we're 6 points adrift of Southampton at the bottom of the Premiership, having been relegated 3 weeks before. Feel free to do the same to me with this response, when we're challenging for a place in Europe next year.

page bookmarked

 

[LamieRobertson]

just back home...1/1 fair result..burnley away ...hmm..when did we last win there?

 

[El Turi]

just back home...1/1 fair result..burnley away ...hmm..when did we last win there?

2002-03, first game of the season and Hinshelwood's only win as manager.

 

[LamieRobertson]

2002-03, first game of the season and Hinshelwood's only win as manager.

ta...crazy result at portsmouth...who hav had som weird results recently

 

[perseus]

Why do teams seem to play well against us?

Why do teams seem to play well against us?

Boro V Brighton Hove Albion (A) - Their forum

Then they seem to get a boost !

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Congratulations to [MENTION=3779]seagullsovergrimsby[/MENTION] who helped himself to 54 posts in this thread, so far. [MENTION=12225]MacKenzie[/MENTION] sits second, with exactly half, 27 posts.

 

[pigbite]

Can you prove the outcome isn't the result of chance then? Publish your research in a peer-reviewed academic journal and claim your Nobel prize, if you can.

If by "chance" you mean, to quote the OED, "a possibility of something happening" then that is what my very unscientific guess was.

If you mean, to quote the OED again, "the occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause" then I would argue that that a football game is not absent of any obvious intent or cause. After all, the ball is not moving without any cause - it will have been kicked, punched, headed etc. etc. Of course the detail of who will affect the motion of the ball, how and when is completely indeterminable and that is exactly what I said in my original post.

With that in mind I would agree that to try and predict the outcome of a game with absolute certainty is impossible. You and I both know however that all that is really happening is pure speculation and no one takes it seriously (unless they are betting on it of course). It's just a shame that you seek to mock what fans have done for generations and will continue to do with some pseudo intellectualism hardly worthy of a spotty 6th former.

 

[perseus]

If by "chance" you mean, to quote the OED, "a possibility of something happening" then that is what my very unscientific guess was.

If you mean, to quote the OED again, "the occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause" then I would argue that that a football game is not absent of any obvious intent or cause. After all, the ball is not moving without any cause - it will have been kicked, punched, headed etc. etc. Of course the detail of who will affect the motion of the ball, how and when is completely indeterminable and that is exactly what I said in my original post.

With that in mind I would agree that to try and predict the outcome of a game with absolute certainty is impossible. You and I both know however that all that is really happening is pure speculation and no one takes it seriously (unless they are betting on it of course). It's just a shame that you seek to mock what fans have done for generations and will continue to do with some pseudo intellectualism hardly worthy of a spotty 6th former.

It was a banker certain 1-1 draw and lots of us predicted the result. Not me. BHA v Middlesbrough - Score Predictor 18% approx. Is that a record?