Missing out on goal difference

[The Wookiee]

Are we the first team to miss out on promotion to premier league on goal difference ?

 

[jessiejames]

If only we did not concede The 3rd goal at home to Boro.

 

[The Wookiee]

If only we did not concede The 3rd goal at home to Boro.

So many if only's !!!

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

If only we did not concede The 3rd goal at home to Boro.

And any 3 of all the other goals we conceded . . . . leave it . . . this way madness lies . . .

 

[BUTTERBALL]

First time in 18 years that 89 points haven't gained automatic promotion. Exceptionally unlucky.

 

[Seasider78]

First time in 18 years that 89 points haven't gained automatic promotion. Exceptionally unlucky.

Just heard that on TV picked the wrong season to be good!!

 

[GT49er]

Are we the first team to miss out on promotion to premier league on goal difference ?

Not happened since Sky invented football in the 1990s, I don't think.

 

[Durlston]

If only we did not concede The 3rd goal at home to Boro.

As Liam Brady put it "If my grandma had balls, she'd be my grandad".

 

[jimhigham]

I think it's the sheer closeness and the way we have found ourselves on the wrong side of the dotted line that has me so upset. I can't remember feeling quite so low about a result for some years. Probably on a par with losing to Palace in the playoffs.

 

[Murray 17]

I think our points tally is linked to the fact that the bottom 3 are so far adrift. In most seasons at least one of them have a chance going into the final game - this year they've been dismal.

 

[warmleyseagull]

GD has not been required as far back as 2000. Only four teams - Fulham 2001, Burnley 2014 and 2016, and Albion 2016 have lost as few as five games. The other three all achieved auto....

 

[warmleyseagull]

If only we did not concede The 3rd goal at home to Boro.

Strange isn't it and they would have been thrilled to win 1-0 at Amex. Though Boro would have played different team and a different way had they needed a win.

Recall that a few seasons ago Preston got a PO spot by scoring a sixth goal against Cardiff.

 

[moggy]

Surely it was the Cardiff game away that done for us ?

 

[Captain Sensible]

If it was goals scored....things would be very different.
We wouldn't have made the 1991 play offs if it was goal difference back then.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Bolton and Wolves away were the key games for me... 4 points dropped.
2 due to the ref. 2 down to us.

 

[DataPoint]

One of the unluckiest seasons for Brighton in history!

Last time 2nd & 3rd finished level on points - 1993 - West Ham & Pompy.

One team were really unlucky in 1978 - failed to go automatically on goal average - Brighton of course!

 

[Icy Gull]

We need to do what Leicester did, should we fail in the playoffs, and smash the division next season, removing all the ifs and buts.

 

[GingerBeerMan]

Surely it was the Cardiff game away that done for us ?

The funny thing is if we had got a late consolation goal vs Boro to make it 3-1 NSC would still have been super depressed that evening, but not realising that consolation goal would ultimately see us promoted.

 

[scousefan]

I agree there are many what ifs. For me it will be watching Middlesborough's several recent extra time goals and Burnley's late equaliser against us.

It's all a total contrast to three years ago (with Poyet) when we were also quite close. That year if we had beaten Hull in the first game of the season we would potentially have gone up. That year was the opposite to this one - all the points totals at the top were low. We were a close fourth on just 75 points. Cardiff were dominant with 87 points and Hull went up with only 79 points. At the bottom, Peterborough went down with a record high total of 54 points. A good Wolves team were also relegated on 51 points.

If we don't go up 85 points should surely be enough next year...

 

[jimhigham]

It's the day after and I don't feel any better. When does my Albion mojo come back?