The talent we've let go in recent seasons due to mis management

[Safeway]

Ah - sorry, my evidence is soley based on what I have read on here as 'fact'!

Schoolboy error!

IMHO, it's all very well bemoaning the fact that these players, Darius Henderson being another one, have gone on to better things but invariably they weren't actually very good for Brighton - I don't remember any real outcry when Iwelumo, CKR or Henderson left. Whether that's down to mis-management (which would have to levelled at Coppell as well as McGhee) or simply the fact they couldn't settle at Withdean is the real question.

Conversely, it's interesting how indifferently some of our so-called young stars have fared since leaving: Virgo, Harding, Hammond. Is that down to how WELL managed they were here?

 

[Zesh Rehman]

Joel Lynch, Paul Reid, Colin Kazim Richards, Leon Knight, Chris Iwelumo, Wayne Henderson (more the fans fault)

 

[CHAPPERS]

Steve Sidwell

 

[Zesh Rehman]

Steve Sidwell

was that mis management though?

 

[The Large One]

I love this re-writing of history.

It's GREAT!

 

[Zesh Rehman]

My turn

Mark McGhee

 

[SULLY COULDNT SHOOT]

Steve Sidwell

Don't know about this... gutted we didn't get him but wasn't just what Reading offered a lot better than we could?

 

[raymondbriggs]

Steve Sidwell

jest surely,we offered arsenal the same money as reading and offered the ginger one the same wages. relative club side at the time swung him(his choice)readings way

 

[Horsham Gull]

Dean Hammond

Gareth Barry? (ok not mis management but)

 

[Safeway]

Steve Sidwell

Was going to mention him but to be fair he, like Ingimarsson, was always head and shoulders above anyone else we had at the club and destined for bigger and better things. We were never going to hold on to them for long.

 

[CHAPPERS]

Okay maybe Steve Sidwell was pushing it a bit, it does strike me that we could have SNARED him if we had pushed the boat out a bit.

fyi the term mis-management is not limited to the manager. It's the club as a whole.

Wayne Gray (I reckon he would have signed for us).

 

[CHAPPERS]

Think we have mentioned all of them now? Bobby Zamora?

That's the spirit, Bobby Z is a good one.

 

[Simster]

Okay maybe Steve Sidwell was pushing it a bit, it does strike me that we could have SNARED him if we had pushed the boat out a bit.

We acted too late. I think Pardew went to Arsenal with an offer of £200k and we then matched it. We were heading for relegation in a 7,000 seat athletics track, they were in a 24,000 stadium and mid-table. From that point there was only ever going to be one winner.

 

[raymondbriggs]

That's the spirit, Bobby Z is a good one.

well in that f***ing spirit. was it mullers who chose robert codner ahead of ian wright?

 

[Publius Ovidius]

martin keown

rainer bonhoff

Roy Keane

Ian Wright

 

[Safeway]

And who selected to take Paul McCarthy on loan rather than Roy Keane?

 

[CHAPPERS]

Gareth Barry

 

[Guy Fawkes]

I swear on this website people make things up to suit their opinions. McGhee was never popular here with you lot.

Here's a McGhee quote, he knew exactly how good CKR could be that's why we brought him here:


Quote:
We brought him to Brighton because he had potential but he was impossible to work with. I can't say anything positive about the boy apart from he had potential and he has still got potential. How he is in the Turkey team I don't know but their manager has taken them to the last four so he knows what he's doing.

It's funny how McGhee considered CKR as unmanagable, Leon Knight was unmanagable, Mark McCammon was unmanagable, etc, etc, yet other managers never had the same problems with players that McGhee did.

Part of the problem i felt was that if McGhee ever fell out with or was questioned by a player, then that player was deemed unmanagable and had to go rather than McGhee being able to forgive or to be able to work with them again even if the player apologised for any outburst

It is also telling that the players he fell out with were our better players, those who may have been unhappy with the constant critism by McGhee such as his constant line of we have know strikers / players here - despite having CKR or Knight. - Also was skin colour an issue to McGhee as the players he deemed unmanagable were all black? or was that just coinsidence?

 

[Mendoza]

Bas Savage

 

[Mendoza]

George O Callaghan