Hold your horses

[Stoo82]

Ambishus is he

Its Ambitious

PAH!!

 

[Ninja Elephant]

I don't care about the reality of anything, I'm excited and I'm not going to change. :yahoo:

 

[Altered State]

We got into this discussion when relegation was a real possibility last season. A few of us were posting along the lines of 'we can still do this, not over yet by a long way'. Mostly the response was (paraphrasing) 'face it, we're down, Slade's not making any difference, why can't you just accept that fact?'

We all know what happened in the end.

So what exactly is real about being 'realistic' for next season? For what it's worth, given the better management we can expect, and some better players (and I know Tony Bloom is talking about running the club as a business, so I'm not expecting a £20m budget or anything) I'll go on record now predicting we will be in the play-offs next season.

If we don't go up, we will the following season and then start at Falmer in the Championship.

I know football can bite. Nothing is certain and I like uncertainty. I might be totally wrong. I start every season expecting great things - mostly we fall way short, and sometimes we actually do reach the stars

 

[NMH]

We just HAD to finish in the playoffs, according to popular conjectures this time last year.
It just didn't go as simply as some had hoped.

 

[NF9]

We just HAD to finish in the playoffs, according to popular conjectures this time last year.
It just didn't go as simply as some had hoped.

Were a totally different club now though....

 

[Altered State]

Yes well to be honest I was one of them. I thought we'd build on the strong finish the previous season once we had Mickey Adams back. Oh well, no-one knew the Adams we were getting was a different version:-(

We are a totally different club now, which is why I think we'll have added confidence, and that makes a difference. Let's GO!

 

[NMH]

Were a totally different club now though....

Oh yes, a few games post-Adams' reducing the team to a clueless shambles, we survive the drop and jettison half the roster. Totally different club, just like we will be at this time every year.

But I don't see your point here

 

[NMH]

Yes well to be honest I was one of them. I thought we'd build on the strong finish the previous season once we had Mickey Adams back. Oh well, no-one knew the Adams we were getting was a different version:-(

We are a totally different club now, which is why I think we'll have added confidence, and that makes a difference. Let's GO!

We are, aren't we.
Describe the difference, and how it gives you more confidence.
What is going to be the playing squad, for instance?

You don't know, do you?

No, you don't. No-one does yet, as next season is just a twinkle in Slade's eye - and he won't know for sure who will sign and who won't.

 

[Mackenzie]

Across NSC I'm seeing people who (again) are insistent about our imminent success in the next season, placing goal-scoring numbers on the strikers we are going to need, and with obviously high expectations.

Since when has football fallen into place like your imagination wanted it to?
That sort of thing does happen for Manure supporters, and that is why their fans support them - that sense of security in dreams delivered.
Do you always want to harbour that feeling of the almost-ran, the disappointed suitor to the always-unattained throne?

Football is not so cut and dried, surely last season must have imparted a lesson on you Albion supporters?

Ffs, dream of mid-table achievement, don't put it on Slade to win the league just because he managed to get us scraping our barnacles off the bottom before a horrible sinking. We'd soon be staring sadly at fixtures in the bottom level of the league, but for an amazing turnaround. Keep celebrating that, and look at a season competing a game-at-a-time in League 1 with some hope. We might win a few more matches, we might see some good defending by our lads, and we might see some goals scored.
Expecting Brighton to suddenly own the division is over-stretching the imagination. One game at a time, and don't get miserable if there are better teams out there deserving to take all the points from us.

Hope is great, but the expectations are going to end in a lot more whingeing from the worst whingers.

It's nice to live the dream sometimes NMH....I've spent all of my life following this team, usually in division 3.....it's bound to go tits up (it always does) but just for a few minutes let me bask in the glow of the Bloom.

 

[Rookie]

why not dream of finishing top 2 or at least getting to the play offs? All clubs want success and have high hopes in the close/pre season so why should we be any different.

 

[Icy Gull]

Playing decent football and winning more than losing at home will suit me fine

 

[NMH]

why not dream of finishing top 2 or at least getting to the play offs? All clubs want success and have high hopes in the close/pre season so why should we be any different.

Who's not dreaming of that?

It's not the dreams, it's the expectations - statements about the numerical scoring record of strikers, insistence that we will finish in the top 6.

Are we going to be the Spu...... I mean, the laughing stock of League 1?

 

[B.W.]

NMH - you are a 'glass helf empty' kind of guy...

We should ALL be optimistic for the new season... new chairman, a supporter WITH financial clout, an excellent new manager who the players and fans 'love', the deadwood FINALLY cleared-out, the hope that better players will come in... my glass is half full...

I'm hoping for the playoff's, and your negativity WILL NOT change that...

 

[Altered State]

YAY BW! Clink ... cheers ... two full glasses

 

[B.W.]

YAY BW! Clink ... cheers ... two full glasses

The realistic optimistic backlash starts here!

 

[Altered State]

We are, aren't we.
Describe the difference, and how it gives you more confidence.
What is going to be the playing squad, for instance?

You don't know, do you?

No, you don't. No-one does yet, as next season is just a twinkle in Slade's eye - and he won't know for sure who will sign and who won't.

Clearly I don't know who's going to be in the squad. Did I ever say I did?

The confidence I'm talking about is the confidence that comes from knowing that money is being put into the club - the stadium, and the squad that will be built to bring (relative) success, when spend wisely. The confidence that comes from having a manager who kept us up when certain posters on here gave up weeks before the season was over, showing positive signs of getting not only the squad sorted out, the backroom stuff sorted out, and the ATTITUDE sorted out.

Next season is twinkle in all our eyes, including Tony Bloom and Russell Slade. If I KNEW what was going to happen in the close season and in the playing season I wouldn't be interested in football.

What I do know is I prefer to feel good rather than feel bad. The future doesn't exist yet so we're all making up stories. It's just that I prefer stories that make me feel good, with a realistic expectation that maybe - just maybe - they'll come true.

What goes on in your head is up to you, NMH. You'll never be able to make me feel bad though, about the Seagulls or anything else. Why do you want to feel bad about next season anyway?

 

[B.W.]

Clearly I don't know who's going to be in the squad. Did I ever say I did?

The confidence I'm talking about is the confidence that comes from knowing that money is being put into the club - the stadium, and the squad that will be built to bring (relative) success, when spend wisely. The confidence that comes from having a manager who kept us up when certain posters on here gave up weeks before the season was over, showing positive signs of getting not only the squad sorted out, the backroom stuff sorted out, and the ATTITUDE sorted out.

Next season is twinkle in all our eyes, including Tony Bloom and Russell Slade. If I KNEW what was going to happen in the close season and in the playing season I wouldn't be interested in football.

What I do know is I prefer to feel good rather than feel bad. The future doesn't exist yet so we're all making up stories. It's just that I prefer stories that make me feel good, with a realistic expectation that maybe - just maybe - they'll come true.

What goes on in your head is up to you, NMH. You'll never be able to make me feel bad though, about the Seagulls or anything else. Why do you want to feel bad about next season anyway?

Now, that is a TOP post... nice work AS

 

[NMH]

Clearly I don't know who's going to be in the squad. Did I ever say I did?

The confidence I'm talking about is the confidence that comes from knowing that money is being put into the club - the stadium, and the squad that will be built to bring (relative) success, when spend wisely. The confidence that comes from having a manager who kept us up when certain posters on here gave up weeks before the season was over, showing positive signs of getting not only the squad sorted out, the backroom stuff sorted out, and the ATTITUDE sorted out.

Next season is twinkle in all our eyes, including Tony Bloom and Russell Slade. If I KNEW what was going to happen in the close season and in the playing season I wouldn't be interested in football.

What I do know is I prefer to feel good rather than feel bad. The future doesn't exist yet so we're all making up stories. It's just that I prefer stories that make me feel good, with a realistic expectation that maybe - just maybe - they'll come true.

What goes on in your head is up to you, NMH. You'll never be able to make me feel bad though, about the Seagulls or anything else. Why do you want to feel bad about next season anyway?

Who said I want to feel BAD about next season?
I'm simply talking about this "we have to look at getting 25-goal-a-season strikers" and the same as last flop of a season "we have to finish above 7th with Adams".
I hope we, and Russell Slade will do great, and I certainly have more faith in someone who speaks reality.
Since HE has been speaking reality, perhaps some fans can do the same?

The big money is going into building Falmer - it might go over budget might it not? These ventures often do. So, I can't see us either spending huge on big-time-charlies, or attracting the cream of the playing crop until we are moving in to our new stadium. Then perhaps we'll buy back Zamora and get players of that quality.
I just expect us to (like someone with a real perspective said above)win more games and play better football.
I'm also hoping we don't get in the Yeovil 'teachers pets' or another lot of mercenaries just looking for a place to get a paypacket for a few months.

Talking it up as if we are going to run the division is going to see some get moaning and disillusioned, not that that is anything new here.