Rotherham United vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

[Northstandfan]

I agree with you. Murphy is a case in point, and without him having a decent left-back behind him he hasn't been firing on all cylinders, so the service to Hemed and Wilson is halved. Hopefully KLL will not be tainted by the malaise and can come in and start from where he left off. We can but hope.

Murphy was not firing on all cylinders when bong was behind him, he was s**t and still is. Bong was forever trying gee him up to get him to move forward so he could play the ball forward for him to run on too like they do KLL. Most of the time he was next to or behind Bong.
Most of the games this season Murphy has looked totally knackered after 20 minutes of doing very little. I hope KLL get match fit quickly and comes back playing as he did before the injury, god knows we need him to.

 

[jamie the seagull]

Are you saying we are now relegation material?

That was not my quote but one I was replying too...
Appears I deleted the 1st quote part...

 

[Aveacarlin']

That was not my quote but one I was replying too...
Appears I deleted the 1st quote part...

Apologies mate

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Christ, we ban a Palace fan for just saying a couple of home truths after our own fans bought them up in the first place.

What a sensitive bunch we are. Again, embarrassing.

Palace fans are only allowed to post on palace threads.

Albion threads are explicitly off limits.

This is the matchday thread. No palace welcome at all.

 

[perseus]

PS: fed up with the very late introduction of Lualua. 66 minutes should be the latest. How can he get into the game with less than dozen touches if he starts later on?

 

[Aveacarlin']

PS: fed up with the very late introduction of Lualua. 66 minutes should be the latest. How can he get into the game with less than dozen touches if he starts later on?

Can't be fully match fit yet

 

[BensGrandad]

Can't be fully match fit yet

If he is not fit he shouldn't be on the bench as we have had a couple of DS games he could have played in to get the fitness.

 

[wangeye]

Are we safe yet? If we lose every game now could we go down?

 

[Icy Gull]

Are we safe yet? If we lose every game now could we go down?

........

 

[TomandJerry]

Are we safe yet? If we lose every game now could we go down?

Ridiculous

 

[Springal]

Rotherham United vs Brighton & Hove Albion *** Official Match Thread ***

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[Aveacarlin']

If he is not fit he shouldn't be on the bench as we have had a couple of DS games he could have played in to get the fitness.

That's a fair point.

 

[fleet]

After the second goal went in I went offline to avoid overreaction - trouble is I don't feel any better about it this morning. Not a tired team, not that many major injury problems, but just not good enough on the night. A real worry now is how to turn this around and get a winning mentality back.

 

[Eric Youngs Contact Lense]

Anxiety is the challenge for us, and that comes from wanting something so much, that when it slips further away, you start making different decisions in your haste to get it back. The game has changed for us, and it is very similar to what we saw last year, and what we have seen with other teams - Derby last season were a case in point. The good thing for me is that we are not at the Amex on Saturday - our crowd (no different to many others in my opinion) can feed the anxiety and the players become even more desperate to please.
It is painful at the moment, but the players need to calm down, as do we! The season will not be decided by our December January form, as it wont be by our August to November form.

 

[warmleyseagull]

Anxiety is the challenge for us, and that comes from wanting something so much, that when it slips further away, you start making different decisions in your haste to get it back. The game has changed for us, and it is very similar to what we saw last year, and what we have seen with other teams - Derby last season were a case in point. The good thing for me is that we are not at the Amex on Saturday - our crowd (no different to many others in my opinion) can feed the anxiety and the players become even more desperate to please.
It is painful at the moment, but the players need to calm down, as do we! The season will not be decided by our December January form, as it wont be by our August to November form.

Great post. An island of measured common sense in a sea of OTT posts. So much of sport is in the head, that is why it is so unpredictable and why we as supporters have to handle the roller coasters of performance and results.

Once things start to go wrong there is a tendency to overcompensate, to worry about making mistakes at the back, snatching at chances, shooting too early, losing confidence in team mates. There are signs of all of these with Albion presently. Injuries were a cause of the decline initially but it has gone further than that now.

 

[sussex_guy2k2]

Did they dominate us as much as the highlights suggested?

 

[Aveacarlin']

Did they dominate us as much as the highlights suggested?

The BBC match report suggests Rotherham were much the better side.

 

[maltaseagull]

grow up hardly fickle I've been saying it for years and I'm right. Look how many goals come from his side

I am grown up. I can also use punctuation.

 

[Jesus Gul]

Mix it up at Blackburn. Red kit instead of the lumo yellow. Worth a try? Psychological innit

Cmon the Reds