A message to any BHA players who come on here...

[supaseagull]

I don't know if you realise this, but most ordinary football fans who spend their hard earned cash on travelling to crappy places to watch their local football team on a Tuesday night do NOT get paid "a couple of grand a week" to "live their dream" by playing professional football.

Most people are stuggling and facing the threat of unemployment, house respossession and debt but still manage to find the time and sometimes have to save hard to follow their club up & down the country in the hope that the team win or even just put in a performance worthy of the support that travelling fans deserve.

Last night you were not worthy of wearing a tesco's carrier bag, let alone a Brighton & Hove Albion shirt and that you not only let yourselves down, but also the whole of Sussex, Brighton & Hove and most importantly of all the hard working supporters who travelled to Walsall to watch one of the most inept performances of the season.

If you do not wish to have the honour of playing for a club with a proud tradition of employing players who play with their heart on their sleeve, then I suggest you put yourself on the transfer list or return to your parent club.

You may think this is harsh, but please remember that we as supporters pay your wages and we as fans, who will be around alot longer as supporters than you will as players, deserve better.

If you honestly care about the supporters then as a gesture of goodwill, club together and reimburse all of those BHA fans their admission prices for last night and promise that against Scunthorpe on saturday, you will play with the pride and passion we expect you to play with as a BHA player and that any supporter should expect for travelling the length & bredth of the country to watch the club they've supported all their life!

 

[Sweeney Todd]

I echo your sentiments, supaseagull.

We are missing a trick by not employing Charlie Oatway as Russell Slade's assistant. Had Oatway been in our dressing-room at 7.30 last night, we would not have rolled over and conceded the game before half-time.

 

[fosters headband]

I don't know if you realise this, but most ordinary football fans who spend their hard earned cash on travelling to crappy places to watch their local football team on a Tuesday night do NOT get paid "a couple of grand a week" to "live their dream" by playing professional football.

Most people are stuggling and facing the threat of unemployment, house respossession and debt but still manage to find the time and sometimes have to save hard to follow their club up & down the country in the hope that the team win or even just put in a performance worthy of the support that travelling fans deserve.

Last night you were not worthy of wearing a tesco's carrier bag, let alone a Brighton & Hove Albion shirt and that you not only let yourselves down, but also the whole of Sussex, Brighton & Hove and most importantly of all the hard working supporters who travelled to Walsall to watch one of the most inept performances of the season.

If you do not wish to have the honour of playing for a club with a proud tradition of employing players who play with their heart on their sleeve, then I suggest you put yourself on the transfer list or return to your parent club.

You may think this is harsh, but please remember that we as supporters pay your wages and we as fans, who will be around alot longer as supporters than you will as players, deserve better.

If you honestly care about the supporters then as a gesture of goodwill, club together and reimburse all of those BHA fans their admission prices for last night and promise that against Scunthorpe on saturday, you will play with the pride and passion we expect you to play with as a BHA player and that any supporter should expect for travelling the length & bredth of the country to watch the club they've supported all their life!

I think that post should be sent to the club and hung on the dressing room wall.

 

[British Bulldog]

Spot on with all of that, A lot of us made the effort last night why did'nt the players?

 

[Dave the OAP]

I think that post should be sent to the club and hung on the dressing room wall.

getting things in perspective, we have a team that is full of loanees and people who are probably not going to make it at any other club. So on the one hand the loanees ( with the best will in the world) have their own clubs to go back to and therefore relegation is of no concern to them, and conversely, those players who will not make it anywhere else you would have thought would be busting a gut to stay in this division.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

was it really that much of a lack of effort then?

I wasn't there so i don't know

 

[Southwick_Seagull]

was it really that much of a lack of effort then?

I wasn't there so i don't know

From a few, Others are simply not good enough or don't care enough

 

[Northstander]

Quality and absolutely spot on!!!!!

 

[Superphil]

I have to agree with the sentiments of this post, and putting it on the wall of the dressing room is a good idea.

Granny, your points are also relevent, however, I would maintain that any player, loan or otherwise, would be pretty much cut to the bone on reading this, and would want to make ammends. Don't forget, the loan players come to us to get practice and exposure, so as they can go back to their respective teams and get into their first team, or get a transfer elsewhere. Playing like this for us is not going to help them in that aim.

 

[withdeanwombat]

I think that post should be sent to the club and hung on the dressing room wall.

I wasn't there,but from what I've read the post should be sent to the club and the players should be hung on the dressing room wall.

 

[Porky]

Well done supaseagull. An excellent. concise and literate post.

 

[Mendoza]

Yesterday was a disgrace, the first half easily the worst performance of the season.

What made it worse is that this was a Tuesday game because of the weather, a game that was called off late on a Saturday morning, and a load of fans had already made the trek to Walsall for no reason.

It was the second time some fans had gone there, wasting their hard earned money, time off friends, family and work, and they put in a shit performance like that.

No passion, no desire, and just general all round shit football

 

[Dave the OAP]

Playing like this for us is not going to help them in that aim.

agreed, however they have a cast iron excuse......"well if I am good enough to play for Charlton ( as an example) I was surrounded by muppetts at Brighton , therefore it just didn't work out "

 

[Seagulltonian]

Must be the winner of "The most sensible Post of the Season" Award

I think this season boils down to the fact we have had so many loanees in the team, and therefore the team hasn't really gelled at all.

 

[Seagulltonian]

I don't know if you realise this, but most ordinary football fans who spend their hard earned cash on travelling to crappy places to watch their local football team on a Tuesday night do NOT get paid "a couple of grand a week" to "live their dream" by playing professional football.

Most people are stuggling and facing the threat of unemployment, house respossession and debt but still manage to find the time and sometimes have to save hard to follow their club up & down the country in the hope that the team win or even just put in a performance worthy of the support that travelling fans deserve.

Last night you were not worthy of wearing a tesco's carrier bag, let alone a Brighton & Hove Albion shirt and that you not only let yourselves down, but also the whole of Sussex, Brighton & Hove and most importantly of all the hard working supporters who travelled to Walsall to watch one of the most inept performances of the season.

If you do not wish to have the honour of playing for a club with a proud tradition of employing players who play with their heart on their sleeve, then I suggest you put yourself on the transfer list or return to your parent club.

You may think this is harsh, but please remember that we as supporters pay your wages and we as fans, who will be around alot longer as supporters than you will as players, deserve better.

If you honestly care about the supporters then as a gesture of goodwill, club together and reimburse all of those BHA fans their admission prices for last night and promise that against Scunthorpe on saturday, you will play with the pride and passion we expect you to play with as a BHA player and that any supporter should expect for travelling the length & bredth of the country to watch the club they've supported all their life!

Must be the winner of "The most sensible Post of the Season" Award

I think this season boils down to the fact we have had so many loanees in the team, and therefore the team hasn't really gelled at all.

 

[jrmeag1]

Spot on Seagultonian, the amount of players we have used this season is crazy, and over the next 10 games you can see slade chopping and changing it again.

 

[macky]

shame none of the players will have the balls
to come on here and give us a answer

 

[Mendoza]

I think this season boils down to the fact we have had so many loanees in the team, and therefore the team hasn't really gelled at all.

The same will happen again next season as most fans want a complete clear out, we will then have another season of loads of new players trying to gel with each other, meaning it will be hard to improve on an already shocking season

 

[NMH]

Moreover;

You are not just doing a bog-standard job of work, daily grind for a few quid paypacket.
This is the 'beautiful game' you have chosen. With it, comes more than what most managers will tell you about the match-of-the-moment - you have the unique opportunity to impress thousands, even millions, every minute!
Brian Clough took a Nothing-ham Forest side from mudwading journeymen cloggers, to the European Cup Winning Team!! What did he do that was so special, with these average workmanlike never-have-never-will-be players? He just might have instilled the belief that there is NO ceiling on what they could do, or how far they could go as individuals and as a team.
Was it just him pulling the strings? NO - it took for them to UNDERSTAND and get their own heads and arses into gear! No-one in ANY profession gets anywhere by waiting for luck and recognition to come their way - we all have to move to greet it, work to get the attention, and build a landing strip for fortune to arrive on.
Build that foundation, lay out the landing strip - it's not just about the club and fans you play for now, but the ones you might hope to play for. It's all there for YOU, and it comes with a LOT of reward if YOU get it, and do it right.

Don't just play up for the team,. not just for the club, not for the fans - but ultimately for YOU.

It's a part of the bargain, in football - and in life.

 

[csider]

Do they give a shit though, even if it was put on the dressing room wall. Sure most of them would say....you get on and play then.

Arrogant tosspots.