NSC - Totally Schizophrenic (And More Than a Bit Pathetic)

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

SCHIZOPHRENIC

In popular usage, “schizophrenic” (and the more slangy and now dated “schizoid") indicates “split between two attitudes.” This drives people with training in psychiatry crazy. “Schizo-” does indeed mean “split,” but it is used here to mean “split off from reality.” Someone with a Jekyll-and-Hyde personality is suffering from “multiple personality disorder” (or, more recently “dissociative identity disorder” ), not “schizophrenia."

McGhee wins two matches in succession and he's The Best Manager This Club ever had.

McGhee loses two matches in succession and he's Lost The Plot.

Neither is true of course.

If Butters was playing alongside Cullip today, QPR would almost certainly not have gone home with the points. If you take the best parts of Kerry Mayo and Dan Harding together, they might just about make up into a halfway decent defender. As it is, we were lumbered with both of them today - and they're not very good.

Adam El-Abd did a remarkably good job of subduing Furlong. AE-A looks and acts about ten years old than he actually is. Natural successor to Danny C.

Darren Currie - MoM - AGAIN! - and might as well give him the
Player Of The Season award now. Nobody will come anywhere near catching him for the title.

Albert Jarrett. Sooner Albert gets a proper run-out, sooner we'll see what he can actually do at this level. Tho, based on the glimpses we're allowed to get of him, I suspect it's PLENTY.

Leon Knight. Thought the team looked better balanced without him. Virgo and McPhee tho are not the answer to anything, reckon just like last time, this season will only take off when we get a Trevor Benjamin type figure in. Nobody currently on the books can fulfil that role.


Maybe time to RELAX again. The Albion scrub up well in this division. We'll do OK.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Tom

Disagree old boy.

McGhee made some basic and glaring errors today. This is a forum for people to get things off their chests and make comments.

If it is to become a forum where everyone just says how great we are all the time and we have a collective fondle and french kissing session we may as well close NSC down and all go to bed.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Tom

Disagree old boy.

McGhee made some basic and glaring errors today. This is a forum for people to get things off their chests and make comments.

If it is to become a forum where everyone just says how great we are all the time and we have a collective fondle and french kissing session we may as well close NSC down and all go to bed.

Sure thing Gareth. I'm not a great fan of the manager's Tinkerman-like tendencies either, but I can appreciate that having the luxury of selecting the team from the multiple options available is a fine and unusual problem for an Albion manager to have.

 

[London Irish]

Well said Tom, it was two decent performances this week - that's the key thing at this early stage of the season, McGhee has plenty of positives to work with, the results will come.

His two big calls of Mayo and McPhee worked today. QPR played well in the second half and deserved their equaliser when they passed the ball excellently right through our current first choice midfield.

The last 15 minutes was a lottery that we bought a lot of lottery tickets for. Sadly, they all Gareth's name on them.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

London Irish is moving in on you Tom, beware , he'll be sending you flowers soon.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

London Irish is moving in on you Tom, beware , he'll be sending you flowers soon.

Thanks for the tip Gareth (now THERE'S something I never thought I'd be saying...)

 

[Yorkie]

McGhee wins two matches in succession and he's The Best Manager This Club ever had.

McGhee loses two matches in succession and he's Lost The Plot.

Neither is true of course.


Maybe time to RELAX again. The Albion scrub up well in this division. We'll do OK.

Very true.


Football, lose two games in a row and you feel as though you are going to lose the next 10 - win two games in a row and you feel as though you are going to win the next 10..

 

[Wozza]

Thanks for the tip Gareth (now THERE'S something I never thought I'd be saying...)

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

In my job I am only ever as good as my last months sales figures. Its no good if I have 2 crap months in a row saying , yes but what about that cracking month in had in March 2002. Football management is the same.

 

[Titanic]

I disagree with your analogy Gareth...

League football is about developing individuals and blending a team together, and it takes time.

As long as we are showing improvement and commitment, and there are signs of potential for further development, then I think we are doing the right things.

Obviously if we had loads of money and were wasting it, then that would be different. But in the circumstance, I think MM is doing a great job.

Headless chicken or Keep the faith ?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I love Mark McGhee and I have a large photo of him above my bed.

 

[Beach Hut]

It's easy to feel losing two games in a row but we are in far better shape than two years ago.

I do really think we need to get a striker in if Mcghee does not think Knight is up for the job - and if he is a sub that must be his thinking.

 

[balloonboy]

I think he only put Knight on the bench to cut him down to size....

 

[Beach Hut]

I think he only put Knight on the bench to cut him down to size....

Bloody hell, he can't get much smaller

 

[Pevenseagull]

As long as we're:

Playing home games in the Brighton area
Still in with a chance of getting a proper ground
Getting our fair share of drama
&
In a league table on page 365 of Ceefax

I'm happy.

Don't really care much about how many managers or players we get through, where they go, whatever.... I'll have my (somewhat warped) selective memory of their time with the club good luck/ f*** em. I'm not going anywhere.

yours

content, if somewhat jaded,

P

 

[Thimble Keegan]

I understand what people are saying and we should not all be getting really depressed just yet but I have devised my own little "stay-up - o - meter" and we are falling behind the targets I think we need to meet.

Albion & England forever.

Thimble Keegan
Shrewsbury-Worthing BHA

 

[Easy 10]

If it is to become a forum where everyone just says how great we are all the time and we have a collective fondle and french kissing session we may as well close NSC down and all go to bed.

I think thats a GREAT idea. I've just put clean sheets on as well.

Come on then, who's up for a fondle and a frenchie ?

 

[Beach Hut]

I think thats a GREAT idea. I've just put clean sheets on as well.

Come on then, who's up for a fondle and a frenchie ?

Only if Ernest makes it a threesome

 

[timseagull]

I think thats a GREAT idea. I've just put clean sheets on as well.

Come on then, who's up for a fondle and a frenchie ?

Sorry, got to go to Sainsburys.

 

[The Large One]

In my job I am only ever as good as my last months sales figures. Its no good if I have 2 crap months in a row saying , yes but what about that cracking month in had in March 2002. Football management is the same.

Utterly wrong.

In the football context, only the most power-mad, deluded football chairmen think about running the club along those lines. Likewise, only glory-hunting fans think along those lines.

When asked 'which club do you support?', the answer can often bring about a sneer, or a stifled giggle, or a mournful look of sympathy. From the questioner's point of view, they are asking what sort of person you are. And your answer (to them) can be quite revealing.

Therefore, the status of your team at any given moment is far too often transferred into either (a) one's state of mind at that time - i.e. if you lost like we did yesterday, you tend to get a bit pissed off - a win brings the opposite feeling. Or (b) it is the perception by which others judge you i.e. you're a loser / gloryhunter / cheat / wanker etc.

All of which is total bollocks - but some people choose to accept this nonsense as gospel. The amount of personal grief and tragedy brought about by a defeat (albeit a defeat which should not have happened) can only lead me to believe that some people have no sense of humility.