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[Albion] Rumours of Unrest - received wisdom, or a reality?



brighton_tom

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Jul 23, 2008
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Even if true, player fall outs with each other or a manager happen at every club, are often exaggerated by fans/journalists, and are almost always quickly forgotten about by those players/managers and resolved, while fans who heard a rumour spend weeks discussing it. Stories of a disagreement on the training pitch gets to a fan, who tells his mate, who puts it on the internet.. and it quickly turns into a possible Eastender plot!
 




Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...
Mar 18, 2010
30,665
Hove
As I’ve posted previously there was a fall out with the manager involving Lewis Dunk and Danny Welbeck over the treatment of Evan Ferguson.

I’m not going to reveal my source, whether you believe me makes little difference to be honest, I was then accused of being ‘Dave’ (which I had absolutely no knowledge of prior to posting’)
There are disagreements all the time in football teams, training ground bust-ups, dressing room shouting matches etc, that largely go unreported. Now there may well have been a heated discussion with Welbeck and Dunk as senior players with the manager that got back to you from a ‘source’, but whether this amounted to a fall out when both players when fit are playing I very much doubt.
 


Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...
Mar 18, 2010
30,665
Hove
Even if true, player fall outs with each other or a manager happen at every club, are often exaggerated by fans/journalists, and are almost always quickly forgotten about by those players/managers and resolved, while fans who heard a rumour spend weeks discussing it. Stories of a disagreement on the training pitch gets to a fan, who tells his mate, who puts it on the internet.. and it quickly turns into a possible Eastender plot!
If you’d have posted 45secs earlier it would have saved me the bother!!
 




Greg Bobkin

Silver Seagull
May 22, 2012
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My SAUCE is very REVEALING.
 




GrizzlingGammon

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Dec 15, 2018
2,087
As I’ve posted previously there was a fall out with the manager involving Lewis Dunk and Danny Welbeck over the treatment of Evan Ferguson.

I’m not going to reveal my source, whether you believe me makes little difference to be honest, I was then accused of being ‘Dave’ (which I had absolutely no knowledge of prior to posting’)
Reveal your sauce or shut up, Dave.
 










Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
72,478
Living In a Box
Nothing is ever true till the sauce of the cup money is revealed
 






Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park
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Apr 5, 2014
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As I’ve posted previously there was a fall out with the manager involving Lewis Dunk and Danny Welbeck over the treatment of Evan Ferguson.

I’m not going to reveal my source, whether you believe me makes little difference to be honest, I was then accused of being ‘Dave’ (which I had absolutely no knowledge of prior to posting’)
Something that you shouldn't be posting here. For two reasons, you cannot verify it yourself or the nature of the actual conversation. And also that this rumour gets spread and manipulated by those who cannot help themselves. You could also alert the club to a leak. Remember the team sheet thing ?

In the past I have been told stuff, on one occasion by a 'senior' NSCer that has been proven to be true. I was recently told something that is happening at the club that, if shared, may be neither here nor there. I still wouldn't share it. There is also the added advantage of meaning I am trusted enough to hear all the gossip.

As far as I am concerned, any revealing of internal happenings, even if true, is all very 'look at me'.
 




Albion my Albion

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Feb 6, 2016
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My Dad won't let me go to the Goldstone on my own. I said to him "I'm 4 now". He said, it's not your age, it's just that I resent paying 25p for you to watch that rubbish. Go buy yourself some penny chews.

A post from 25 years ago. Not much has changed.
 




Goldstone1976

We got Calde back, then lost him again. Calde in!!
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Apr 30, 2013
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Something that you shouldn't be posting here. For two reasons, you cannot verify it yourself or the nature of the actual conversation. And also that this rumour gets spread and manipulated by those who cannot help themselves. You could also alert the club to a leak. Remember the team sheet thing ?

In the past I have been told stuff, on one occasion by a 'senior' NSCer that has been proven to be true. I was recently told something that is happening at the club that, if shared, may be neither here nor there. I still wouldn't share it. There is also the added advantage of meaning I am trusted enough to hear all the gossip.

As far as I am concerned, any revealing of internal happenings, even if true, is all very 'look at me'.
Whereas, saying “I’ve been told stuff, but I’m not going to tell you” isn’t ’look at me’?
 




Jam The Man

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Jul 5, 2003
8,261
South East North Lancing
It’s tricky being genuinely in the know.

I was plied with so much info from three different sources during CKR’s stint with us and one of them put so much pressure on me to post damaging titbits online, it actually caused me to resent the whole episode for a while.

I did post something once and got heavily criticised for it so I chose to never reveal any ITK stories again as it just wasn’t worth the stress.

When CKR left it was a huge relief.

I came to the conclusion that as a fan you just have to hope that behind the scenes issues regarding the playing matters of the club get resolved sensibly, and to never expect transparency as it’s not going to happen all that often.
 










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