portslade seagull
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Agree, there again was just no urgency in the play today. What FH and the team need to understand is just because you pass it around at the back to big up the possession it makes for a pretty poor watch.
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[Albion] Something needs to be done about the home form
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BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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On the contrary, the atmosphere was good today imo considering how shit we were/the game was
BN41Albion
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- Oct 1, 2017
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That's absolute bollocks - atmosphere was decent this afternoon, from before they scored, and second half especially the North kept backing the lads
You are so fecking dull with your moaning about atmosphere and linking it to home form. Utter shyte
um bongo molongo
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Have better players? Salah is out of contract I suppose
I don’t understand why we play so slowly, especially in the first half of games. There’s rarely any urgency.
We shouldn't expend all that energy passing the ball round the back before trying to launch an attack. Just get Dunk to have a word with their captain so that when one of their attacks breaks down, we'll just stand around while they get back into their defensive positions until they give us a wave to say they're ready.
Alternatively, we could just quickly try a sweeping 60 yard pass (a la prime Dunk) behind their lines and run after it very fast. It works only too well against us...............................
Alternatively, we could just quickly try a sweeping 60 yard pass (a la prime Dunk) behind their lines and run after it very fast. It works only too well against us...............................
It takes my boy and I about six hours in the car there and back plus the faff of finding parking and subsequently getting to/from the ground and everything else for home games, so it's a full day gone. I make the choice to do this because we love our club and we generally enjoy watching our games regardless of the outcome.
We'd both been really looking forward to today, we missed the Arsenal game as I couldn't face doing it again after the Brentford game and needed some time off. My god, it's becoming a struggle to get the enthusiasm to do it anymore- just saying that makes me feel awful but it's true, and I've never felt like it before. The way we play is not enjoyable to watch, the atmosphere is poor, we're surrounded by people who glare at those who try to sing and don't make a peep to support the team. It's nice we get to spend time together and everything but the negatives are outweighing the positives. I don't expect us to win every game or anything and the result doesn't totally dictate the overall experience, but there's not much of what we love about going to the football going on at the minute.
All kind of irrelevant as it's mostly personal circumstances and I know we're lucky in that others don't have the luxury of the choice of going to games and all that, I'm just feeling a bit depressed and pensive at the minute so thought I'd share.
We'd both been really looking forward to today, we missed the Arsenal game as I couldn't face doing it again after the Brentford game and needed some time off. My god, it's becoming a struggle to get the enthusiasm to do it anymore- just saying that makes me feel awful but it's true, and I've never felt like it before. The way we play is not enjoyable to watch, the atmosphere is poor, we're surrounded by people who glare at those who try to sing and don't make a peep to support the team. It's nice we get to spend time together and everything but the negatives are outweighing the positives. I don't expect us to win every game or anything and the result doesn't totally dictate the overall experience, but there's not much of what we love about going to the football going on at the minute.
All kind of irrelevant as it's mostly personal circumstances and I know we're lucky in that others don't have the luxury of the choice of going to games and all that, I'm just feeling a bit depressed and pensive at the minute so thought I'd share.
Milano
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That is complete bullshit.
The team sucked the life out of the fans today, with the main culprit in the first half being our captain. We had zero intensity in the first half and that was mainly due to the fact of the snail pace play starting from our back line. As a crowd we were ok for a while, but the showing on the pitch was PATHETIC and killed the crowd.
With regard to the thread title. You might have a point, I wonder if Fab and the boys have realised this? Maybe you should get in touch
My Mrs keeps asking why I’m doing so many aways recently and the answer is because they’re fun. Forest next week. We’ll probably get the backlash from their 5-0 dicking but we know that before we leave. Train arrangements have been made, cans will be drunk, there’ll be a proper atmosphere in the away end and the early kick off means a few beers in a great drinking city afterwards.
Yesterday the fun stopped the second I scanned my ticket on the turnstile.
What does not accepting it involve/require us to do ?
Yeah I don’t mean the lack of singing, I thought it was actually really good yesterday. The North was really getting behind them for most of the game. But it’s the groans and the moans and the general ‘here we go again’ feeling around the place when we are huffing and puffing trying to break a team down. It feels like we’ve all seen this before and are resigned to what is happening, and I think the players feel it too.
I think that is rewriting history somewhat there. Withdraw was a fortress because it was such a crap stadium, not because it was some cauldron of white hot noise from a hardcore home support. Do you not remember constant threads on here about how the atmosphere was so crap? We used to claim that it was because there was no roof, and if we could just have a temporary roof put in we would become Galatasaray.
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Not moan about inept and pathetic performances I guess?
Certain posters play the bed wetting card about any criticism of an Albion performance.
You can tell within 10 minutes which Albion have turned up for home games. Not a FH thing, going back to 2019.
Then you have missed out on some of the greatest ever games following the Albion. There has been a lot of dross as well, as there is with any non-glory hunting football club, but some of the games at the Amex over the last few seasons have been right up there.
It's odd, isn't it? Yesterday I felt fine at half time thinking we always seem to have one good half in us. We had a crap first half and were unlucky to be a goal down, and I thought if we do our usual decent 45 minutes now we'll win this comfortably, but it never came.
People do need to calm down a bit though. We've just won two on the spin and we've only lost two at home this season. This team is going to take at least a season or two to gel, and FH is going to take time to get anywhere near the level we need to actually win something. And the second he does get to that level, he'll get poached anyway.
Silverhatch
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They play direct, quick long ball (“vertical” - to quote fab) football.