[Albion] Who the f*ck is Fabian Hurzeler?

Harry Wilson's tackle said:

It is not about him.

It is about the process.

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

It is not about him.

It is about the process.

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MTSeagulls said:

The yellow card thing for Brighton managers/coaches has been weird the last two seasons.
You have managers like Arteta, Guardiola, Silva, Dyche and Klopp in the past, who are constantly in the ears of the 4th official or outside the technical area, then ours only have to look in a funny way sometimes to get a card.
Obviously sometimes RDZ did deserve it but don't know about Hurzeler.
It's like refs want to mark the cards of the Johnny Come Lately foreigner but the old guard can't be touched.

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Poskettspurpose said:

In the pantheon of unnecessary threads this is right up there. No disrespect but after the last 24hrs of unnecessary threads I want to see this sink like an anvil in the Mariana Trench.

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MTSeagulls said:

The yellow card thing for Brighton managers/coaches has been weird the last two seasons.
You have managers like Arteta, Guardiola, Silva, Dyche and Klopp in the past, who are constantly in the ears of the 4th official or outside the technical area, then ours only have to look in a funny way sometimes to get a card.
Obviously sometimes RDZ did deserve it but don't know about Hurzeler.
It's like refs want to mark the cards of the Johnny Come Lately foreigner but the old guard can't be touched.

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AmexRuislip said:

I agree, there's enough bollox been thrown around on here after Sundays result.
happens and we can all move, without reading trash threads about what ifs.

All IMO of course

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Han Solo said:

The Hurz cards certainly seem weird at least on TV.

But maybe he's a more discrete type of card collector. He just whispers "I'm gonna murder your labrador" to the fourth official once per game and thats it.

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Sid and the Sharknados said:

That makes him sound like the Robert Fripp of football management.

Which would be a cool comparison if it withstood any sort of contact with reality.

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Poskettspurpose said:

In the pantheon of unnecessary threads this is right up there. No disrespect but after the last 24hrs of unnecessary threads I want to see this sink like an anvil in the Mariana Trench.

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Poskettspurpose said:

In the pantheon of unnecessary threads this is right up there. No disrespect but after the last 24hrs of unnecessary threads I want to see this sink like an anvil in the Mariana Trench.

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Han Solo said:

Just struck me a few moments ago, when contemplating about the "archetypes" of managers we've had. Potter and De Zerbi were very distinctly different and appealed to different sorts of people and whatnot.

I started to think of a little list of their personality traits and how they differ and so forth, but when I came to Fabian Hurzeler its just... nothing. Nothing I'm annoyed about, nothing I particularly appreciate, nothing that stands out as odd or unusual. Its just...

Maybe two months ago I was talking football at a party and got a bunch of questions that I seriously struggled to answer. "What kind of football does he play?", "how's his personality", "is he interesting?" and I really struggled to give any sort of answers. I thought it was down to being stoned and wasted but now I realise I just don't have any answers.

Every time they show him in a game, he sits with a neutral face expression. Win, lose or draw. Then 30 seconds later he gets a yellow card for God knows what. Its like he once per game at a random moment tells the fourth official the worst word he can think of or something. Either way its entirely schizo and doesn't help me understand the lad.

The football... what is it? I don't know. I try to see patterns and stuff and I see a little bit but I'm not really sure how its supposed to work or look. It just.. is.

Am I a bad person for not engaging myself more in getting to know our manager more properly or does anyone else share the whole "its some guy coaching some guys in an undefined manner" vibe?

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Han Solo said:

This thread is 100% unrelated to the result yesterday. We could have won 5-0, I still wouldn't have a clue who he actually is.

I'm genuinely interested in whether people have been able to form av perspective on Fab, because I've actually completely failed to. Any really good articles or something around?

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Han Solo said:

Just struck me a few moments ago, when contemplating about the "archetypes" of managers we've had. Potter and De Zerbi were very distinctly different and appealed to different sorts of people and whatnot.

I started to think of a little list of their personality traits and how they differ and so forth, but when I came to Fabian Hurzeler its just... nothing. Nothing I'm annoyed about, nothing I particularly appreciate, nothing that stands out as odd or unusual. Its just...

Maybe two months ago I was talking football at a party and got a bunch of questions that I seriously struggled to answer. "What kind of football does he play?", "how's his personality", "is he interesting?" and I really struggled to give any sort of answers. I thought it was down to being stoned and wasted but now I realise I just don't have any answers.

Every time they show him in a game, he sits with a neutral face expression. Win, lose or draw. Then 30 seconds later he gets a yellow card for God knows what. Its like he once per game at a random moment tells the fourth official the worst word he can think of or something. Either way its entirely schizo and doesn't help me understand the lad.

The football... what is it? I don't know. I try to see patterns and stuff and I see a little bit but I'm not really sure how its supposed to work or look. It just.. is.

Am I a bad person for not engaging myself more in getting to know our manager more properly or does anyone else share the whole "its some guy coaching some guys in an undefined manner" vibe?

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Rodney Thomas said:

Sounds like a shit party!

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