Sussex Nomad
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Exactly! We just didn't step up to the plate. Simple as.
Go support Man U, you'd feel so much more comfortable. Maybe you do.
Exactly! We just didn't step up to the plate. Simple as.
Go support Man U, you'd feel so much more comfortable. Maybe you do.
Mate, you are so boring. Just let it lie instead of sitting on here.
Gus has admitted it is a learning curve for him as he's not managed at this level before. He's now seen the standard of player required to succeed at this level and already announced that there are going to be changes this summer and that he wants 5 or 6 new players. Taking into account, players who have been playing with injuries like Greer, Vincelot and Noone, then getting to where we have done, is an achievement in itself.I was going to do a similar thread as 13points from 13 games at the end of the season is poor, very poor if we hadn't come out flying from the blocks where would we be now (Amex affect maybe).
The honeymoon period is over so let's hope the management team learn't a lot this season and make the right decisions next year because our last 2 months were relegation form.
Chill out Cockney Red!
I seriously think we'll struggle next year compared to this unless we get some quality players in. We have no momentum.
Gus has admitted it is a learning curve for him as he's not managed at this level before. He's now seen the standard of player required to succeed at this level and already announced that there are going to be changes this summer and that he wants 5 or 6 new players. Taking into account, players who have been playing with injuries like Greer, Vincelot and Noone, then getting to where we have done, is an achievement in itself.
We, as fans, are inexperienced at this level. So how can we comment on how Gus and the team did? It is a learning curve for all of us.
I agree, i know some people will think we are being negative, but i see it as constructive because it is fact we fell away dramatically and the management team must surely look at it and themselves and stand tall if they are to blame for our demise. I personally feel Gus has over thought it, way too many unnecessary changes.
Hopefully we can put it down to general all-round inexperience and that we can learn by.
Roll on next season.
Your right we do not have Championship experience, but we do have a voice and i like to use it for motivation, i use the saying 'there's more than one way to skin a cat'!
Ps NO cat's have been skinned in this instance.
But it is negative, you can't get past that, it IS negative. Do you not trust the club to move forward? I seriously hate the negativity all season long because it is a case of que sera, whatever will be will be. But we aren't getting promoted and relegated. We have a set up and a Chairman that wants to move us forward and a manager that, despite his South American arrogance, knows what he is doing. We haven't had a manager like this since Mullers. He is also a big name in football that can bring us players we would never dream of. I would love to sometimes blurt out what a bunch of under performing wankers they have been some weeks, West Ham comes to mind more than any game, but you have to take the positives and negatives and add up where we are. The positives far outweigh the negatives and yet we still see the shite diatribe spewed out here by armchair managers. I trust my club, I wish a few more here could. Fortunately NSC isn't the word for Brighton and Hove Albion FC.
We were also chasing a play off, or should have been.
Barnsley: 1 point from 18 prior to today.
Birmingham: Came to us on a run of 3 draws.
Burnley: Won 1 of their previous 9 when we faced them
Middlesbrough: Failed to win in their previous five games, taking only 3 points.
Forest: 7 point from 15 prior to facing us.
Watford: 2 points from 9 before facing us.
West Ham: Won 2 of last 9 games before facing us, hadn't won at home in 7 or 8 games.
Taking form into consideration, Reading becomes the only game we should have expected to lose.
I am a very positive man, but you have to be realistic 13 points in 13 games is as near as relegation form as you like.
Yes we started fantastic was we being pulled on by last season and the fantastic new full to the brim stadium,bloody sure we were. However that said i have never said i do not trust the club.TB i back 100million percent Gus i back like any other manager, so if he and his management squad learn by there mistakes of recent the fans will stay happy TB will stay happy, we do not want to be flirting with DIV 1 with this stadium so early in it's infancy, that basically my point of view.
Gus did what he needed to do but the form needs to turn back and i am sure he will get it right.
Just thought I would highlight some play-off teams there. Oh, wait, they had bad runs too? NO! But they made the play-offs.....
Does that not make a mockery of the "we had a bad run, we are shit" theory? You CAN have a bad run and make the play-offs, your stats prove it.
You can, and I'm not saying we are shit. I'm simply saying we had a bad run at the end of the season where we didn't play as well as we can. I disagree that it is a major disappointment, but it did, for me, give the end of the season a flat feeling.
Thats why football isn't about stats and in the end of the day, they mean absolutely nothing.
I am a very positive man, but you have to be realistic 13 points in 13 games is as near as relegation form as you like.
Yes we started fantastic was we being pulled on by last season and the fantastic new full to the brim stadium,bloody sure we were. However that said i have never said i do not trust the club.TB i back 100million percent Gus i back like any other manager, so if he and his management squad learn by there mistakes of recent the fans will stay happy TB will stay happy, we do not want to be flirting with DIV 1 with this stadium so early in it's infancy, that basically my point of view.
Gus did what he needed to do but the form needs to turn back and i am sure he will get it right.