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Why cant he just except we can get on without mcghee instead of making cheap jibes bigging him up and saying how crap wilkins is, when wendy is doing a great job
stop putting down players, trying to pull the team apart you TOSSER
Stop trying to use your opinion as fact
Gatting shines for Seagulls
By Andy Naylor
IT has taken a year and he is still a long way from the finished article but Joe Gatting is gradually realising his goal-scoring potential.
Former manager Mark McGhee, his options limited, threw Gatting in at the deep end in the Championship last season.
It was a big ask and it remains a big ask for a 19-year-old to lead the line in League One.
Dean Wilkins' hands are also tied for the time being, especially now that Alex Revell is ruled out by long-term damage.
The only other out-and-out strikers in a squad ravaged by injuries and illness are Jake Robinson, the unproven Nathan Elder and out-of-favour Maheta Molango.
Supporters find it hard to appreciate hold-up target men like Gatting unless they are scoring regularly, so the fans have not really warmed to him yet.
They soon will if he continues his current streak. He has now bagged all of Albion's three goals in the last six games since Christmas.
He netted in the home defeats last month against Yeovil and Carlisle. This time he earned the Seagulls an overdue, precious and richly deserved victory.
Sam Rents was the set-piece provider once more five minutes into the second half.
His corner was flicked on by captain Dean Hammond for Gatting to clip in at the far post from close range.
It was the kind of poacher's effort which made Gatting so prolific at youth team level and it ended a collective goal drought of more than six hours, stretching back to the Carlisle match.
It would be unfair and unrealistic to regard Gatting as the answer in the short-term to Albion's problems.
He could, however, in the long run develop into the type of dependable servant his dad Steve used to be in the Seagulls' defence.
Whether the same can be said of Wayne Henderson is doubtful. The keeper paid the price for his late slip at Bournemouth and partial culpability for Millwall's winner at Withdean in the previous game.
Michel Kuipers, so popular with some supporters, celebrated his first start since November with Albion's first clean sheet in the League since October.
Take nothing away from the big Dutchman. His handling was exemplary and his kicking weakness was excused on this occasion by the fierce wind blowing into his face in the first half.
But so well did his team-mates defend in front of him that Kuipers was never called upon to demonstrate his attributes as a shot-stopper.
Henderson must be cursing his luck as he contemplates his future. The fact of the matter is he will never win over his detractors among the fans.
He will realise as well that his position as Republic of Ireland No. 2 behind Shay Given could be damaged beyond repair if he cannot get into a League One team for a prolonged period.
Albion desperately need to sign players, not lose them, but the departure of Henderson during what is left of the January transfer window, or the loan period from early February through to late March, cannot be ruled out.
Chesterfield, considering they were previously unbeaten at home in the League for three months, were woeful and Albion could easily have won more comfortably.
Even in a first half of dogged defending against the elements they came closest to scoring.
Dean Cox reminded us of his audacious talent with two speculative volleys from long range in a matter of minutes. The first dipped on to the top of the crossbar, the second just over it.
Once Gatting had scored Albion went close to a second. Rents, his left-back spot under renewed threat with the arrival of Zoumana Bakayogo, hit the far post with another inswinging corner and, from the rebound, poked just wide after barging his way goalwards.
Robinson's drought continued. Michael Jordan robbed him when he tried to round Chesterfield's young keeper and he blazed high and wide when well-placed from a typically incisive Cox pass.
Robinson has been lively enough in the last two matches to suggest he is a goal away from another scoring burst.
So what pleased Wilkins more, ending the scoring or clean sheet famine?
"I'd have to say both because that has been our failing, both ends of the pitch.
"Between both penalty areas we are probably as good a side as any in the League on our day, in terms of getting the ball from back to front with some good movement and good quality passing, but where we have fallen down is in both penalty areas.
"We have leaked goals and failed to score goals so I will take a 1-0 every day of the week."
Wilkins is too cute to let one victory paper over the cracks. He has a squad of inexperienced prospects and fantastic servants whose best days are behind them, with nothing in-between.
That is a situation which has to be addressed between now and the start of next season but Wilkins needs help from chairman and Dick Knight and the Board. Twentysomethings with a track record do not come cheap.
ALBION (4-4-2): Michel Kuipers (GK), Gary Hart (RB), Joel Lynch (CB), Guy Butters (CB), Sam Rents (LB), Tommy Fraser (RM), Adam El-Abd (CM), Dean Hammond (CM), Dean Cox (LM), Joe Gatting (CF), Jake Robinson (CF). Subs: Nathan Elder (for Gatting, 83), Wayne Henderson, Alex Frutos, Richard Carpenter, Tommy Elphick.
CHESTERFIELD (4-4-2): Michael Jordan (GK), Phil Picken (RB), Ruben Hazel (CB), Aaron Downes (CB), Gareth Davies (LB), Adam Smith (RM), Mark Allott (CM), Derek Niven (CM), Peter Holmes (LM), Paul Shaw (CF), Caleb Folan (CF). Subs: Paul Hall (for Davies, 64), Colin Larkin (for Shaw, 86), Kyle Critchell (for Niven, 86), Barry Roche, Janos Kovacs.
stop putting down players, trying to pull the team apart you TOSSER
Stop trying to use your opinion as fact
Gatting shines for Seagulls
By Andy Naylor
IT has taken a year and he is still a long way from the finished article but Joe Gatting is gradually realising his goal-scoring potential.
Former manager Mark McGhee, his options limited, threw Gatting in at the deep end in the Championship last season.
It was a big ask and it remains a big ask for a 19-year-old to lead the line in League One.
Dean Wilkins' hands are also tied for the time being, especially now that Alex Revell is ruled out by long-term damage.
The only other out-and-out strikers in a squad ravaged by injuries and illness are Jake Robinson, the unproven Nathan Elder and out-of-favour Maheta Molango.
Supporters find it hard to appreciate hold-up target men like Gatting unless they are scoring regularly, so the fans have not really warmed to him yet.
They soon will if he continues his current streak. He has now bagged all of Albion's three goals in the last six games since Christmas.
He netted in the home defeats last month against Yeovil and Carlisle. This time he earned the Seagulls an overdue, precious and richly deserved victory.
Sam Rents was the set-piece provider once more five minutes into the second half.
His corner was flicked on by captain Dean Hammond for Gatting to clip in at the far post from close range.
It was the kind of poacher's effort which made Gatting so prolific at youth team level and it ended a collective goal drought of more than six hours, stretching back to the Carlisle match.
It would be unfair and unrealistic to regard Gatting as the answer in the short-term to Albion's problems.
He could, however, in the long run develop into the type of dependable servant his dad Steve used to be in the Seagulls' defence.
Whether the same can be said of Wayne Henderson is doubtful. The keeper paid the price for his late slip at Bournemouth and partial culpability for Millwall's winner at Withdean in the previous game.
Michel Kuipers, so popular with some supporters, celebrated his first start since November with Albion's first clean sheet in the League since October.
Take nothing away from the big Dutchman. His handling was exemplary and his kicking weakness was excused on this occasion by the fierce wind blowing into his face in the first half.
But so well did his team-mates defend in front of him that Kuipers was never called upon to demonstrate his attributes as a shot-stopper.
Henderson must be cursing his luck as he contemplates his future. The fact of the matter is he will never win over his detractors among the fans.
He will realise as well that his position as Republic of Ireland No. 2 behind Shay Given could be damaged beyond repair if he cannot get into a League One team for a prolonged period.
Albion desperately need to sign players, not lose them, but the departure of Henderson during what is left of the January transfer window, or the loan period from early February through to late March, cannot be ruled out.
Chesterfield, considering they were previously unbeaten at home in the League for three months, were woeful and Albion could easily have won more comfortably.
Even in a first half of dogged defending against the elements they came closest to scoring.
Dean Cox reminded us of his audacious talent with two speculative volleys from long range in a matter of minutes. The first dipped on to the top of the crossbar, the second just over it.
Once Gatting had scored Albion went close to a second. Rents, his left-back spot under renewed threat with the arrival of Zoumana Bakayogo, hit the far post with another inswinging corner and, from the rebound, poked just wide after barging his way goalwards.
Robinson's drought continued. Michael Jordan robbed him when he tried to round Chesterfield's young keeper and he blazed high and wide when well-placed from a typically incisive Cox pass.
Robinson has been lively enough in the last two matches to suggest he is a goal away from another scoring burst.
So what pleased Wilkins more, ending the scoring or clean sheet famine?
"I'd have to say both because that has been our failing, both ends of the pitch.
"Between both penalty areas we are probably as good a side as any in the League on our day, in terms of getting the ball from back to front with some good movement and good quality passing, but where we have fallen down is in both penalty areas.
"We have leaked goals and failed to score goals so I will take a 1-0 every day of the week."
Wilkins is too cute to let one victory paper over the cracks. He has a squad of inexperienced prospects and fantastic servants whose best days are behind them, with nothing in-between.
That is a situation which has to be addressed between now and the start of next season but Wilkins needs help from chairman and Dick Knight and the Board. Twentysomethings with a track record do not come cheap.
ALBION (4-4-2): Michel Kuipers (GK), Gary Hart (RB), Joel Lynch (CB), Guy Butters (CB), Sam Rents (LB), Tommy Fraser (RM), Adam El-Abd (CM), Dean Hammond (CM), Dean Cox (LM), Joe Gatting (CF), Jake Robinson (CF). Subs: Nathan Elder (for Gatting, 83), Wayne Henderson, Alex Frutos, Richard Carpenter, Tommy Elphick.
CHESTERFIELD (4-4-2): Michael Jordan (GK), Phil Picken (RB), Ruben Hazel (CB), Aaron Downes (CB), Gareth Davies (LB), Adam Smith (RM), Mark Allott (CM), Derek Niven (CM), Peter Holmes (LM), Paul Shaw (CF), Caleb Folan (CF). Subs: Paul Hall (for Davies, 64), Colin Larkin (for Shaw, 86), Kyle Critchell (for Niven, 86), Barry Roche, Janos Kovacs.
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