[Albion] "If Newcastle beat West Ham, they'll be one point behind Arsenal and Chelsea, and two points behind Manchester City"

Cheeky Monkey said:

Can’t stand 5Live. Grey radio.

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Terry Butcher Tribute Act said:

I think this season more than any other we've gone under hyped. But there's a few good reasons for this. We haven't got a standout player to hype beyond Welbeck, nobody quote knows our style, and the league is very tight. Win the next couple though and I'm sure we'll be all over it again.

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Giraffe said:

Funnily enough I needed started a thread about being “under the radar”. I agree that the media like us but I still don’t think anyone seriously thinks we are top four material. Whereas our watch us and think we are massively on with a chance. Are the pundits all just “small” club blind?

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Giraffe said:

Funnily enough I needed started a thread about being “under the radar”.

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Wozza said:

The problem is the undercurrent of Big Six Bias in all major media orgs (and beyond).

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Triggaaar said:

Our season has been weird. Quite a few of our games could have gone against us: Manure, Spurs, City, Bournemouth, Newcastle; and on the other hand, Wolves, Forest and Ipswich could have gone in our favour. Arsenal could have gone either way.

We're generally taking our chances, but there's a lot of room for improvement in our overall game. I feel we'll need to improve our overall game a fair bit if we're to finish top 7 (because I don't expect our play in the final third to stay at the current level).

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Mellotron said:

Ugh - trying not to look at our next run of fixtures and stop myself thinking we can really make hay. The number of times we've been in this moment and come out with a spectacularly low number of points against the lower sides after marquee wins against bigger sides.

Soton H
Fulham A
Leicester A
Palace H
West Ham A
Brentford H

Surely, surely?!

(Sorry, I don't know why I do it to myself....)

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Professor Plum said:

You can call it bias but it’s simply a commercial decision, surely? There’s a very good reason why most of the media give disproportionate attention to the big 6 + Newcastle and possibly Villa. They have far more fans, especially armchair fans, than Brighton. And far more enemies. The ManU fans want to read the positive stuff (new manager, potential new signings) while even more people, their enemies, me included, flock to the bad stuff (manager under pressure, star signings not performing, fans up in arms). An article about Man Utd, good or bad, will get many times more clicks than an item about plucky little Brighton playing nice football.

There is no obligation on the mainstream media to give equal attention to all 20 PL sides. They are commercial operations, fighting each other for clicks and finite advertising revenue.

Our desire to see articles about Albion isn’t because we learn anything new there. NSC will always be the place to come for hard news about the club and players. At heart, most football fans are babies. We want our egos stroked. We want the pleasure of getting attention, and being publicly praised for playing nicely and being the good boys in a wicked world.

If we build it, they will come. And all that.

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Han Solo said:

Indeed.

Writing about us rather than eg City is like sending live reports from smoothly sailing yawl at the same time as Kanye West is screaming on top of a a burning oil tanker. The former is certainly more pleasant, but people want to see Kanye West dying in a fire, not Danny Welbeck fishing up another cod.

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