[Albion] Is This the Best Brighton Have Ever Been?

Giraffe · Nov 27, 2024

I thought RDZ was a bit Bielsa and was partly responsible for the dreadful injury crisis. What this is saying is they are running harder now. It's a worry.

We are clearly the best we have ever been though. Lets hope their legs don't fall off though.

Harry Wilson's tackle · Nov 27, 2024

HangletonGull said:
In my 33 years yes

I hadn't realized you were so young! :lolol:

Harry Wilson's tackle · Nov 27, 2024

Giraffe said:
I thought RDZ was a bit Bielsa and was partly responsible for the dreadful injury crisis. What this is saying is they are running harder now. It's a worry.

We are clearly the best we have ever been though. Lets hope their legs don't fall off though.

I was with you up to there.

My interpretation is we are training better and running smarter. Plus we have a new tranche of bloody fast young players.

(sorry to apparently keep picking on you. Somehow I suspect we own minds that will never meet :wink:

).

Giraffe · Nov 27, 2024

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
I was with you up to there.

My interpretation is we are training better and running smarter. Plus we have a new tranche of bloody fast young players.

(sorry to apparently keep picking on you. Somehow I suspect we own minds that will never meet ).

We're probably not that far apart. I'm certainly not saying we are Bielsa's Leeds. But we are clearly working the players very hard. Hopefully as you say the fact they are young (in the main) and we also have a far stronger squad (certainly in attack) should help. But you won't know until the end of the season as to whether this has worked out. We bloody look great though don't we, that much we can surely agree on!

goldstone · Nov 27, 2024

Probably YES, but there were some things I really enjoyed about playing in the lower divisions.

Machiavelli · Nov 27, 2024

Giraffe said:
We're probably not that far apart. I'm certainly not saying we are Bielsa's Leeds. But we are clearly working the players very hard. Hopefully as you say the fact they are young (in the main) and we also have a far stronger squad (certainly in attack) should help. But you won't know until the end of the season as to whether this has worked out. We bloody look great though don't we, that much we can surely agree on!

A couple of points on this:
1, there was a thread a while back on how there was very little intensity in training under RDZ, and it was the contrast between the match-day expectations and the laxer training that contributed to the injury situation last season.
2, this season we've got a far better squad, which means that there's more rotation in game, spreading the load more.

Harry Wilson's tackle · Nov 27, 2024

Giraffe said:
We're probably not that far apart. I'm certainly not saying we are Bielsa's Leeds. But we are clearly working the players very hard. Hopefully as you say the fact they are young (in the main) and we also have a far stronger squad (certainly in attack) should help. But you won't know until the end of the season as to whether this has worked out. We bloody look great though don't we, that much we can surely agree on!

Agreed!

Harry Wilson's tackle · Nov 27, 2024

Machiavelli said:
A couple of points on this:
1, there was a thread a while back on how there was very little intensity in training under RDZ, and it was the contrast between the match-day expectations and the laxer training that contributed to the injury situation last season.
2, this season we've got a far better squad, which means that there's more rotation in game, spreading the load more.

I think this goes to show that I have too-freely accepted what I have read on NSC as gospel, without any actual evidence of my own.

Bad scientist :lolol:

chickens · Nov 27, 2024

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
I think this goes to show that I have too-freely accepted what I have read on NSC as gospel, without any actual evidence of my own.

Bad scientist

I do it myself. I take it as generally accepted that Ferguson has been recovering from glandular fever, and then when I go to check that that actually happened, I find it’s been suggested on here. And I’ve parroted it like the mug punter I am.

Weststander · Nov 27, 2024

Squad and first team, yes.

But it'd be an interesting hypothetical match-up versus the peak 2022/23 first eleven, with that centre midfield of Caicedo, MacA, Gross.

beorhthelm · Nov 27, 2024

recency effect, overlooking end of 2023 season, with that midfield and the wingers.

Triggaaar · Nov 27, 2024

goldstone said:
Probably YES, but there were some things I really enjoyed about playing in the lower divisions.

I prefer playing in this league, especially if we have a chance in the cups or a chance of Europe. When in the lower Leagues, the only goal was promotion, and if that didn't happen it felt crap.

PILTDOWN MAN · Nov 27, 2024

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
"In Fabian Hürzeler, the youngest permanent manager in Premier League history,..."

Crikey. Who knew?

You mean the worst in the league surely

ConfusedGloryHunter · Nov 27, 2024

In my 127 years, yes.

darkwolf666 · Nov 27, 2024

Guinness Boy said:
For sure at the moment. Let's see if we can go the whole season, get back into Europe and do even better. Then it will be unequivocally so.

Of course, I tell my son it was just as much fun going to Port Vale, Barnsley, Darlington and Donny.

White lies are ok, aren't they?

Lever · Nov 27, 2024

By far the best since I starting following our great club in 1966.....

bluenitsuj · Nov 27, 2024

HangletonGull said:
In my 33 years yes

Glory hunter!

Brian Munich · Nov 27, 2024

22-23 was clearly the best at that point, so that’s the only comparison that needs to be made.

Notwithstanding that some players appear in both teams, the 22-23 best 11 versus this season’s best would be a hard one to call. 22-23 had the better midfield (for now) but this seaons’s attack is better and Bart is a better keeper than Steele and Sanchez.

The main difference between 22-23 and now is depth, though. On that basis this season’s squad is clearly the best we’ve ever had.

HangletonGull · Nov 27, 2024

bluenitsuj said:
Glory hunter!

Grandfather, me, brother, cousin , my partner and two daughters have all had or are season ticket holders since goldstone days definitely a jcl

Harry Wilson's tackle · Nov 27, 2024

chickens said:
I do it myself. I take it as generally accepted that Ferguson has been recovering from glandular fever, and then when I go to check that that actually happened, I find it’s been suggested on here. And I’ve parroted it like the mug punter I am.

I am almost convinced it was me that diagnosed it.

Never mind that I'm not a physician.

:shootself

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