We are time-wasting flappers

[GOM]

From the local Peterborough rag today

'Defeat by the smooth-passing, well-organised, time-wasting League One leaders was no surprise or disgrace'

Brighton 3, Posh 1 - Seagulls were flapping - Peterborough United - Peterborough Today

Article not too bad but other fans still don't get it, (and a few of ours !)

 

[Notters]

To be fair, Ankergren did take a bloody long time with some of the goal kicks yesterday.

 

[Gus Poyet's inner FLAIR]

Are we not in fact smooth-passing, well-organised, time-wasting, big-spending, gay-loving, palace-hating, gus-busing League One leaders?

 

[Hotchilidog]

A pretty fair summation of the game. Gus will not be happy about how we let Peterborough rattle us in the last 20minutes. I think Posh are a decent side with plenty of talent. I'd certainly expect them to be in the playoffs and have a good chance of winning them.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Ankergren took an age with each goal kick in the second half. It seemed that the ball boys had been given instructions not to give him a new ball every time, so he had to round the netting to retrieve each time, sometimes reverting back to the other side of the box to take the kick.

 

[Scoffers]

To be fair, Ankergren did take a bloody long time with some of the goal kicks yesterday.

I know, it bloody well annoys me too. Must go to anger management classes

 

[Peter Grummit]

To be fair, Ankergren did take a bloody long time with some of the goal kicks yesterday.

If he took until yesterday, that would be time-wasting !

PG

 

[Notters]

If he took until yesterday, that would be time-wasting !

PG

 

[CHAPPERS]

I love stuff like this...

Posh...tore into them with skill, energy and pace.

Sadly they were 3-0 down before Tomlin struck.

 

[upthealbion1970]

And in both games we have played against posh they ended up with 10 men and 3 goals conceded. Rather be time wasting than down to 10 men

 

[Peter Grummit]

As well as telling Ferguson he'd be 'sacked in the morning' the sarky wag behind me in E block also added that he'd be 'phoning Daddy in the morning'.

PG

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I like this:

"Defeat by the smooth-passing, well-organised, time-wasting League One leaders was no surprise or disgrace. This is an outstanding Brighton side set for promotion under their own gifted young manager,"

 

[Acker79]

Ankergren frequently time wastes with goal kicks, unless we're behind. He has it perfected, walking the long way around to collect the ball and then go back across the front of the goal to take the kick, mixed in with boot cleaning, and ball boys are well in tune with it, standing to one side holding the ball rather than rolling it out.

It's why I never get upset when people accuse him of time wasting. I always assume they mean with his goal kicks.

 

[severnside gull]

Loved this comment on the press report

"Brighton might well have been flapping,but they certainly poo pooed on us!!"

 

[albionalbino]

I enjoy the way Ankergren, even on the softest of catches, will gather the ball then drop to his knees before going down and burying his face in the ground.
Then he takes a while to get up, before dropping the ball, does some pointing and maybe picks it up again.
Regular second half trickery...... if we're winning.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

What an odd report

Couple of questions:

- Why were the 250 Posh fans 'freezing'?

- RYAN BENNETT 6
Beaten at near post for first goal, but battled hard

- Why no mention that he was also beaten by his keeper (round the ear!) following the first goal?

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I can't help feeling they miss the point...yes, Peterborough dominated the final quarter of the game, and this is taken as some kind of indicator that they were unlucky...but frankly if it had been only one or two nil, we wouldn't have been playing the way we did, and I doubt they'd have had the space to knock it around like they tried to.

It's all very well saying you stuck some good performances in, but if you can only do that when the game is already gone, then it's not much use is it?

 

[Pavilionaire]

I like the quote "but they were hanging on for dear life in the final quarter of the match". Yeah, with a two goal advantage and ability to up a gear if really pushed! I'd be embarrassed to read that if I was a Posh fan. The reality is that the game was almost dead at half-time and totally dead when the Albion scored their third.

What's all the more embarrassing is that this was the second time we've found ourselves 3-0 up against Posh this season. Hanging on for dear life my arse!

 

[PHCgull]

I enjoy the way Ankergren, even on the softest of catches, will gather the ball then drop to his knees before going down and burying his face in the ground.
Then he takes a while to get up, before dropping the ball, does some pointing and maybe picks it up again.
Regular second half trickery...... if we're winning.

Although I like Ankergren and think he was excellent on saturday, especially in coming off his line, I DESPISE the way he falls on the floor everytime he catches the ball. It really looks pathetic in some instances.

I also thought it was POOR FORM to take the ball to the corner of the area and invite the posh forward to come right up to him before picking up the ball, when they had passed it back to us after the ball was put out for an injury...


there is of course, absolutely nothing wrong with "time wasting" when the ball is play, I love the resigned way opposition forwards are forced to chase down lost causes when their team is losing at withdean...

 

[8ace]

What an odd report

Couple of questions:

- Why were the 250 Posh fans 'freezing'?

- RYAN BENNETT 6
Beaten at near post for first goal, but battled hard

- Why no mention that he was also beaten by his keeper (round the ear!) following the first goal?

It does seem a strange report for a local newspaper.