[Albion] The first crack in Graham Potter's calm demeanour?

[Icy Gull]

I covered this in the boo boys thread but his comments certainly didn't go down well with my son. At 15 and just starting to go away as well as home, and as a teen who is all over social media all the time, he is probably the sort of fan we need to be pleasing, rather than an old fart like me. Good performance or not he was as perplexed by the misses, by the substitutions and by our lack of options as he was about Potter's comments.

Not a great day at the office but no doubt plenty were pleased by the performance.

With you as his dad he will almost certainly have taken on board your thoughts and opinions over the last couple of years, so no surprise that he’s going to be jumping on something like that imo

Your final sentence confirms my thoughts too…my wife who is an avid armchair Albion watcher is a big Potter fan, can’t imagine why that would be

 

[dadams2k11]

Good on him for calling the boo boys out.

My eldest son was disappointed with ANOTHER draw. I simply said to him we are 8th in the Prem and not scoring. If we were scoring, we would be challenging City and Pool.

How some fans can not be happy with the way we are slow but surely improving as a club makes them appear entitled.

We are a very hard to beat team with a bottom 5 budget, sitting in 8th and can't score for toffee.

It's all about perspective.

Well done Graham and the players.

 

[dadams2k11]

I covered this in the boo boys thread but his comments certainly didn't go down well with my son. At 15 and just starting to go away as well as home, and as a teen who is all over social media all the time, he is probably the sort of fan we need to be pleasing, rather than an old fart like me. Good performance or not he was as perplexed by the misses, by the substitutions and by our lack of options as he was about Potter's comments.

Not a great day at the office but no doubt plenty were pleased by the performance.

Apple doesn't fall to far from the tree. [emoji3]

 

[Icy Gull]

we are 8th in the Prem and not scoring. If we were scoring, we would be challenging City and Pool.
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Don’t just don’t, can you even begin to imagine what that would be like?

 

[dadams2k11]

Don’t just don’t, can you even begin to imagine what that would be like?

I know but some fans don't want to see it, they want to moan and pick holes, and throw criticism at Potter and the team.

I think these sort of people have a lot of negativity in their lives and it projects on here.

I couldn't be happier with BHAFC and the direction we are going in. After all, Rome was not built in a day and only entitled fans want it all, right now.

 

[BNthree]

Strange that its only BHA fans he has had a go at... the bloke would walk a mile out of his way to avoid criticising referees, oppo players, managers, VAR etc usually.

Good observation that. Literally only people he’s ever criticised are Albion fans.

 

[dazzer6666]

Just to clarify your point here.............


It's OK for the manager ( earning thousands of pounds a week ) to vent his frustration " in the heat of the moment", but those who booed were " utter cretins" ( who actually PAY to watch the game ) for momentarily venting their frustration...?

OK then.

Yep, anyone thinking that performance was worthy of being booed needs t take along hard look at themselves IMO - or maybe my booing threshold is set to low

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Interesting criticism from a man who took Maupay off for Locadia, and man of the match off early.

TB

Because he was full of confidence and doing well?

We also have 9 games in 37 days with the next being Wednesday. It’s not like Locadia is going to start against West Ham is it?

 

[dazzer6666]

The young kid with blistering pace who was out for a year who’s recovery is clearly being carefully managed to hopefully prevent a relapse - that one?

....who'd also signalled to the bench somewhere around 55 mins what appeared to be a 'need to come off' gesture ?

The Maupay conundrum is interesting. He's obviously a player that thrives on confidence, but that is also obviously quite fragile in his case and he's somehow gone from starting the season full of it to it now being apparently shot to pieces - really difficult to know whether to leave him on and hope he scores or replace him as yesterday, but whatever the solution is, it's not Locadia and never will be - Potter will have his reasons no doubt but would much rather see Ferguson given a chance.

 

[usernamed]

With Potter on this 100%, great football, fantastic performance, just our usual struggles with end product.

I believe GP is getting the best out of the players that we have. Not his (or our existing players) fault that we haven’t strengthened the forward line and booing the football served up yesterday only shows the almighty stupidity of those doing the booing.

To see football like that at a stadium like the Amex, and be booing it, embarrasses us. It suggests our fans have no appreciation for football. We all want the team to score more (any) goals, but getting on the back of players who have just totally dominated a Premier League clash like we had seems insane. If I was GP I would be furious at those fans who attempted to turn a performance like that into a negative.


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[cjd]

Yep, anyone thinking that performance was worthy of being booed needs t take along hard look at themselves IMO - or maybe my booing threshold is set to low

Yep, and anyone thinking the booing was related just to this one single game really isn't worth me debating with IMO.....or maybe my debating skills are set too low.

Anyway....have a nice day. It's good to talk.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

As Lineker has just said on Match of the Day, :

Thankyou to the two people left, still watching M of D following two goal less games.

Support s want to see goals, not football played like a game of tedious chess.

If you think yesterday's game was like tedious chess then I can't believe you watched it. We opened them up time and time again, we created loads of chances and played some fantastic football at pace.

 

[dazzer6666]

Yep, and anyone thinking the booing was related just to this one single game really isn't worth me debating with IMO.....or maybe my debating skills are set too low.

Anyway....have a nice day. It's good to talk.

...you too (agree incidentally - it's been building for weeks, I just didn't think last night was the time after an otherwise decent performance that had addressed a lot of the issues seen v Norwich, Newcastle and Villa)

 

[cjd]

If you think yesterday's game was like tedious chess then I can't believe you watched it. We opened them up time and time again, we created loads of chances and played some fantastic football at pace.

I bow to your knowledge as an experienced journalist and writer.

I still think the Guardian article put it in much the same manner, but more articulately.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Strange that its only BHA fans he has had a go at... the bloke would walk a mile out of his way to avoid criticising referees, oppo players, managers, VAR etc usually.

Criticism of referees and/or VAR brings no good except a £15000 fine from the FA.
Criticism of opposition players or managers comes across as sour grapes.
Neither helps us, nor has any control of how he manages our team.

He was asked a leading question, to which he had to give a response. Some fans don’t like it. Tough.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

With Potter on this 100%, great football, fantastic performance, just our usual struggles with end product.

I believe GP is getting the best out of the players that we have. Not his (or our existing players) fault that we haven’t strengthened the forward line and booing the football served up yesterday only shows the almighty stupidity of those doing the booing.

To see football like that at a stadium like the Amex, and be booing it, embarrasses us. It suggests our fans have no appreciation for football. We all want the team to score more (any) goals, but getting on the back of players who have just totally dominated a Premier League clash like we had seems insane. If I was GP I would be furious at those fans who attempted to turn a performance like that into a negative.


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This, absolutely. Potter has done a fantastic job at the Albion and will be in demand at the end of the season, if not before. Until yesterday, I believed, based on information from someone close to him, that only an offer from a huge club would tempt him away. Now I'm not so sure, and there may be one or two players who are also wondering how they can be booed after a performance like that. Well, in fact I know there are.

In 1982, the supporters effectively got rid of the manager who took us to our highest league position before this season, but Mike Bailey's football, although it got results, was hard to watch. That isn't the case now. We are currently seeing the best football most of us have watched since the days of Ward and Lawrenson, achieved on a budget much lower than those of the teams around us. And we're eighth!

In a way I'm glad that Potter called the fans out rather than kept it inside him, because it gives people a chance to show him and the players a bit of love at the next few home games. It's not his fault that Neal Maupay couldn't hit a cow's backside with any one of a selection of stringed instruments. He has to work with what he has been given, and the temptation to go somewhere he is given more if what he's doing isn't appreciated night be growing.

 

[raymondo]

GP did bite back before, when Dan Burn was given a rough ride...'anyone who criticises Dan Burn just doesn't understand football'. He was proven correct IMO as Burn has given more good performances than poor since then.
Re the booing, I would never do that to my team personally, but... I understand it a little. To me its a rather blunt and crude way of saying:
- why can't we score goals when we dominate teams (Potter himself agrees it's a results business)
- why couldn't we send the opposing fans (the shits) away with their tails between their legs
- why bring on Locadia before Sarmiento?
- (20 mins later...) why is Locadia even on the bench?
- are we going to have to go through purgatory the last 10 mins of every game we dominate? Sanchez saved us a point. We KNOW those last minute frights or goals against are coming... that's why our stress builds up as we miss chance after chance...by the end of the game we're at the end of our tether.

They don't get access to ask GP (or anyone) these questions so, even though they love the club and express this support by buying season tickets, a small number of them boo to let off steam.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

He needs to man up. Yes, 8th is great. But he's assembled the most expensive Brighton side ever, our twenty million pound striker is missing open goals, and we are 8 games without a win.

There's no excuse for booing but there's none for that dummy spit either.

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Be all nice and phlegmatic? Like Steve Bruce?

Bollocks to that. What he said was fair comment.

I saw the great defender of booing, Das Reich, post in defence of booing yesterday.

I know who I'd rather trust with footballing matters, including post match comments.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

£15m Cucurella, £20m Webster, £20m Maupay, £2m Lamptey, £16m Trossard, £8m+ Moder, £1m Veltman

For him to have the audacity to mock our history because a handful of fans booed is pretty shocking imho. How many of our managers have a side as good as this?

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How many did he want?

 

[Motogull]

If he thinks that we are 'booey' fans, that tells me he'll never leave us for certain clubs.