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Normal business practice I suppose, but is it not a slightly dangerous assumption that we'll still be getting Premier League TV money the season after this one ?

I absolutely DESPISE this song now. As has been said, its been absolutely done to death. Not helped by the ponytailed latte-sucking advertising goons at William Hill adopting it for their shitty TV and radio ad campaigns, still wanging on and on and on with it well over a year after the Euros...

I literally got sunstroke earlier this season stuck in a non-moving queue crush on the slope to Falmer station for 50-odd minutes after a game. I've also taken an hour-long walk into Brighton, then got on a shuttle bus at the Steine which took just over an hour to crawl to the Uni - followed by...

Via public transport, or under your own steam ? I appreciate its a long drive, but at least you are in a comfortable environment and largely in conrol of your destiny. That is most certainly NOT the case if you are lumbered with the clown college of SASTA for occasions such as these.

So I have the choice of wrapping up and battling my arse over to the Amex and back on the evening of NYE, courtesy of whatever shitstorm SASTA decide to inflict on us, eventually getting back to Portslade f-knows when. Or I can pop down the local for the game. Then come home to recline on my...

You can hardly blame the 2nd one on anything.

This is unvotable.

Who said anything about thinking we're Villa or Everton (for the record, I'm bloody glad we're not!). Our success has been put in jeopardy because we've been completely raided by a PL rival, who have extracted a large chunk of the clever fellas who helped put us where we are. Now we're in the...

Thats certainly a glass half full attitude. But our applecart, which was chugging along very nicely, has now been suddenly and brutally upset. It will be very challenging to get this project back on track after whats happened. As you say time will tell, on the pitch and with recruitment.

I don't disagree with the cold logic of your post, and I know full well I am howling at the moon over this saga. But I'm too invested in BHA NOT to be annoyed (to put it mildly) at how this has played out. I can accept Potter moving on to bigger and better things for his career, and him taking...

Potter +2 did not almost dismantle Swansea's entire coaching staff. And we didn't go back to poach their recruitment team. And we didn't do it in the middle of the season, it was all done within a couple of weeks of the season having ended. I think thats a big difference, but its all a matter of...

I wish people would stop saying that. We haven't.

I could not agree more. My blood runs cold when I see babies / toddlers in proximity with large, powerful dogs (not just staffies). Its always blamed on the owners, and that may well often be the case. But its still an animal, and is still has powerful jaws that can do devastating, permanent...

Not quite - he'd quit Maccabi the previous month (insert tapping up theory here). He came to us along with his No2 and fitness coach. So not quite the mid-season rape / pillage that Beardo and his cohorts have inflicted on BHA. Oh, and that appointment was made in the middle of June.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only time Bloom has ever "poached" a manager from another club was Potter from Swansea, who were compensated. We didn't go back and dismantle almost their entire backroom - AND it was done about 2 weeks after the season had ended. Imagining is all well and good...

I don't recall us ever, within the space of a few weeks *mid-season* stripping a smaller club of their manager PLUS their entire backroom team, PLUS their recruitment team. You'd have to remind me when that happened.

Agreed. I hope the atmosphere at the Amex on Saturday is absolutely POISONOUS. Not necessarily just directed towards Potter, but towards Chelsea FC as a whole, and him included.

Whats the point of anything. Football doesn't have to be rational. My nose has been put out of joint by Chelsea systematically asset-stripping BHA of a huge chunk of the off-field talent we had assembled over a number of years. They have now likely set us back years. Thats pissed me off. Can I...

You're comparing apples with oranges though. Gerrard was sacked, Potter was poached. Thats a fairly fundamental difference. To the best of my knowledge BHA had no intention of sacking any of the coaching staff, or on top of that, getting rid of their recruitment team. The arrival of De Zerbi...

I'm more concerned about that bloke perched precariously on that whacking great hole in the roof !