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[Albion] 5 Live Sport Monday Night Club: Could Brighton make the Champions League?



















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Professor Plum

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It’s great to be ambitious and positive but I fear we’re setting ourselves up for a fall by thinking top 4 is within our grasp just yet. Despite our good start to the season and great performances against City, Spurs, 10-man Arsenal and Liverpool (first half), we’re still hamstrung by a weird inability to demolish teams like Ipswich and Wolves at home. There’s a big glut of clubs on the same points as us and every one of them is thinking they could finish top 4. I would put money on Liverpool, City, Arsenal and (uugh) Chelsea finishing above us. And you can’t rule out ManU, Tottenham, Villa, Newcastle getting their act together and having a serious go. I’m still hopeful of a lesser Euro place but CL seems a definite step too far this year for me I’m afraid.
 


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The discussion of Palace afterwards gave me flashbacks to Potter's first couple of seasons: 'Underlying numbers', 'Underperforming the xG', 'likelihood of regression to the mean'. Sent a shiver down my spine.

Sounds like they aren't as bad as we might like to hope, but all hope of their failure isn't lost. My memory of that time was that our slow build up left us always trying to score goals in incredibly tight spaces whilst leaving opponents big spaces in behind. Seems a facile thing to say, but scoring was a far more complex and difficult process for us than it was for our opponents. We managed to do it enough to keep ourselves up for two seasons whilst the squad was improved and we gradually became able to play the style more quickly more often.

Tony Bloom really held his nerve. He believes in the numbers. I wonder if Parish will have the same staying power and willingness to invest in the quality needed for steady improvement. He hasn't shown much in previous years to suggest that he will and if he's going to flip the approach yet again, he will have more of a chance of it working if he does it sooner rather than later. I hope he holds his nerve... up until its too late.
 








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Professor Plum said:
It’s great to be ambitious and positive but I fear we’re setting ourselves up for a fall by thinking top 4 is within our grasp just yet. Despite our good start to the season and great performances against City, Spurs, 10-man Arsenal and Liverpool (first half), we’re still hamstrung by a weird inability to demolish teams like Ipswich and Wolves at home. There’s a big glut of clubs on the same points as us and every one of them is thinking they could finish top 4. I would put money on Liverpool, City, Arsenal and (uugh) Chelsea finishing above us. And you can’t rule out ManU, Tottenham, Villa, Newcastle getting their act together and having a serious go. I’m still hopeful of a lesser Euro place but CL seems a definite step too far this year for me I’m afraid.
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Nah. 5th (coefficient looking very good for PL clubs atm) is absolutely within our grasp. Fab will probably solve the lesser teams conundrum given the speed he seems to be learning and adjusting, particularly with Joao Pedro and O’Riley fit. We have as good a chance as any other outside of City, Liverpool and Arsenal.
 




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Couldn't Be Hyypia said:
If Tony decides to back FH in January with say a right back and a top quality centre back ......
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I hope he doesn't. It would not be in keeping with the club's way of doing things - we don't just go out and buy, buy, buy - and I hope it stays that way, with this summer being more of a one-off than the shape of things to come. I still haven't got used to all our new signings yet - enough is enough!
For now anyway.
 




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I suppose I was thinking that if we're still somewhere near the top of the table, some judicious purchases might eb the thing that help keep us there as the season goes on.

I'm not advocating a spend - spend - spend approach, more a tactical reinforcement. And my thought is that it's probably defence where we need the cover.
 












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I listening to the podcast and didn't hear this. Is it me or did it not make the cut?


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So the podcast version is shorter than the bbc sounds one? Never knew that.
 


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