Just WHY are B'muff top of our league?

[Brighton TID]

There current team cost £4.1 million. They made that back in commision on the Southampton Lalana sale.

So they've bought success?

 

[Geriatric Seagull]

Better manager( that wouldn't be difficult), better players, better organised on the field, actually win games ~ that do for starters?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

So they've bought success?

4.1m pails in comparison to the money we have spent since getting promoted doesn't it?

 

[carteater]

Blimey! Who the fark are we then? Real Ma-fugging-drid? Most of your quote above was probably used about us by countless clubs during our Withdean tenure under Poyet.

this, other teams must've been confused as to why 'little old brighton' from an athletics track were top of the league, same as some on here seem to be confused as to why 'little old bournemouth' from a small stadium are top of the league, I'm sure many had comments like that about blackpool when they were promoted as well.

 

[Eeyore]

So they've bought success?

I'm guessing that with the estimated £3 million they sold Grabban for, which they used to buy Callum Wilson with, they've been making pretty good use of Football Ebay.

 

[BensGrandad]

Makes it even more remarkable considering they lost Grabban, their top scorer (?). We loose our top scorer and what happens? Nuffink.

Replaced him with 2 high value transfers Kermorgent and Wilson both costing more than we have spent in total on players coming in.

 

[GloryDays]

Probably a number of things. Stability helps, and a decent manager, and they're not arrogant like we are - they're just going about their business.

Their 2 leading centre halves have, for whatever reason, been sold by us so they probably feel like they have something to prove.

Good luck to them.

 

[spanish flair]

Well a team like that must have paid a fortune to have two young centre backs like the ones they have, what a great scouting network they, as a club must have.

 

[wigman]

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I ask you this question, even though I did actually think they were our best opponents at the Amex last season.

Is it their hungry young intellegent manager (apologies in advance for being unavoidably patronising)?
Is it their scouting network giving them an edge?
Have they got loads of dosh to buy promotion?
Is it their formation, perhaps?
Is it just sheer luck of unfathomable proportions?

At this particular point in time, why are they the best team in the Championship, little old B'muff, for facks sacks, in their small but nice stadium with the pay and display car park next door (again, really patronising and uncalled for, sorry)?

Why, NSC, oh why?

They are on an excellent run so fair play to them, but they will not be there and the end of the season.
I am more concerned about our league position and not theirs, however I would swap managers.

 

[carteater]

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I would swap managers.

I wouldn't, although i think he's a very good manager, there's something about him i don't like.

 

[El Turi]

There current team cost £4.1 million. They made that back in commision on the Southampton Lalana sale.

Wilson and Rantie combined cost more than £4.1 million. They've also got players on big wages so they should be challenging at the top considering the money they've spent.

 

[wigman]

I wouldn't, although i think he's a very good manager, there's something about him i don't like.

I would take him over the Fin any day.

 

[skipper734]

Every Dog has it's day.

 

[BensGrandad]

Wilson and Rantie combined cost more than £4.1 million. They've also got players on big wages so they should be challenging at the top considering the money they've spent.

What did Surman and Lee Camp cost?

 

[Icy Gull]

They have a very good manager who found that life elsewhere did not suit him so returned to a club in deep shit and in a few short seasons, with good backing from their sugar daddy, they sit at the top of the Championship. Good for them. The bit that I am very jealous of is that they have a manager who loves the club, is very ambitious and wants to fulfil his ambition at Bournemouth. How good would it have been for us to have had a manager like that over the last few seasons? I suggest would have reached the promised land by now.

I have always thought of Bournemouth as tinpot, even when we were at Gillingham and Withdean. They really are living the dream.

 

[HastingsSeagull]

They have a good settled CB pairing! If only we had young, English CBs like Steve Cook and Tommy Elphick

ooooooops

 

[BensGrandad]

They have a good settled CB pairing! If only we had young, English CBs like Steve Cook and Tommy Elphick

ooooooops

How many more times they are not as good as we have and would only be back up if still here.

 

[spanish flair]

How many more times they are not as good as we have and would only be back up if still here.

In your opinion of course.

Did one of their centre backs score for us?

 

[BensGrandad]

Yes but nobody could possibly think that either is as good as Dunk or Greer an international and experienced centre back.

 

[BensGrandad]

In your opinion of course.

Also our manager and recruitment team who sold them and stuck with Dunk and Greer.