[Football] Coincidental (?) Potterish Things

[Baldrick]

With Brighton playing better than Chelsea and higher in the league:

It is what is is

 

[Stat Brother]

With Brighton playing better than Chelsea and higher in the league:

It is what is is

Just need City to finish the job we started.

 

[e77]

Thank you. You are like talking to a puddle of water - making a lot of conclusions based on what may be temporary conditions. Tomorrow things may dry up, and the things you now assume may be a thing of the past.

RDZ has managed the team for less than a dozen league games and people have already reached the conclusion that under him there will always be plenty of goals, that it will now be fun to watch the home games (after all, Brighton has won one home game since he took over, so this is clearly based on some fact-based reality than some fickle perception founded in the pleasure of the new) and that Graham Potter was shite all along because he couldn't make a much worse team reach the same results that the much better team is doing now and at the end of GPs tenure.

No doubt will there be tough times again, and no doubt will these conclusions stated with firm confidence be rocked by their foundations, with "RDZ in/out threads" all over the place and a bunch of made up hindsights where some will reach the conclusion, with firm confidence, that he wasn't really ever all that good. It happens to every coach, everywhere, and people will learn nothing from it and this footy equivalent of Madonna-whore complex will go on for eternity.

I think it is a reasonable assumption to conclude RDZ teams are likely to score more goals than Potter ones but they might concede more silly goals.

From a Brighton perspective this is an academic conversation now. However it took Potter a while to get his ideas across to the players at Brighton which he was able to do because of a patient chairman, an - on balance - daily patient set of fans and a receptive squad. At Chelsea the first and third are very much live questions and the third isn't going his way.

Argue with as many Brighton fans as you like but it won't help Potter in his current role.