[Football] An open letter from Graham Potter

[DavidinSouthampton]

Cheers Graham and good luck.

Pretty decent goodbye that.

Draws a line under it for me. He did a good stint with us.

Time now to wish him a short tenure with Chelsea before England come calling in December.

Agreed! I am finding the continuing vitriol and negativity a bit wearing. People need to move on.

But whatever you feel about it, surely people see the. Need to move on……. And with a capable coach finish the season aboveChelsea.

 

[Bish Bosh]

Bruno is Catalan, Potter a Brummie, Roberts a Geordie, Reid a Scot and Mcauley no idea but you may see where I'm going with this. All guys who have moved far from home for their careers and no doubt they'll move again. We shouldn't expect the same loyalty and identification that we have - it just doesn't work like that.

Thank whoever you want to thank that Tony Bloom was brought up in Brighton & Hove.

 

[Swansman]

Someone took a sneaky summer course in English

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Agreed! I am finding the continuing vitriol and negativity a bit wearing. People need to move on.

But whatever you feel about it, surely people see the. Need to move on……. And with a capable coach finish the season aboveChelsea.

Be interested if anyone on here knows any Southampton fans and how they took Pochettino’s departure. Can’t remember their league position at the time or how much of his team went with him.

As for finishing above Chelsea, it’ll make absolutely no odds to GP et al. They’re hardly going to think ‘Dang, we should have stayed with Brighton and Hove Albion’

 

[Teddy Maybank]

I work in a business where people work to short term contracts. Anything between 6 weeks upto a few years. If I was working on a longish gig and someone offered me a job paying 5 times as much to work for a more prestigious company with a higher standard of personnel, I would talk to my family first and then tell my contractor that while I love working for him and his company, I am going to, with regret, have to hand in my resignation.
Graham Potter was brilliant. During the long streaks without a home win, I grumbled. If the streak continued, he would have eventually been fired.
Let’s have some humility here. Thank him and the team for the very good times, lick our wounds, and carry on.

 

[Popeye]

While I am quite sure most of this is just him to trying to save face with Albion fans, it is appreciated what he done here and we move on. Nothing else to do but that.

 

[Goldstone Guy]

A class act. Thanks Graham and good luck.

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[Justice]

A class act. Thanks Graham and good luck.

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A class act who left us with no coaching staff, didn’t finish the project he kept bashing on about when we lost a few. Believed he had cracked it when we strung a few wins together apart from that..

 

[Jaxie]

Yea it’s disappointing that he managed to take two coaches with him that were here before he was. But he didn’t kidnap them, they could have chosen to stay! It’s a shame he went at this point in the season, it was looking so promising.

But I actually think Brighton will be better off than Potter in time. He will no doubt be sacked in 18 months, 2 years at the most. We’re a well run club that will carry on the upward trajectory I’m sure. Hopefully this will show as a minor blip.

No particular ill will to the man, he's done a good job. Hard to wish him well at Chelsea though.

 

[Kosh]

I’ve been giving this some serious thought throughout the day, and I still can’t quite get over the fact that this simply feels like insincere horse shit.

It’s all too easy to pen a letter, with those hints omission and regret, to a former lover when you know you’re bedding an absolute hottie...

It’s still a bit raw for me, I recognise life’s too short and yes I’ll get over it soon enough ... but to talk of integrity, just smacks of disrespect - what happened last week was grasping ... grasping with integrity... a slight oxymoron, no ?

 

[Kitcatt]

So - mixed views. I wonder what it'll be like on October 29th? If there's any wide-scale boo-ing you can bet that the media will have a field day, accusing little old Brighton of disrespecting the guy who took us so far.

There should be wide scale boo-ing. It has to be toxic. (Welcome back, jolly good show these past 3 years old chap, just won’t do)
Absolutely no way should these 6 guys be welcomed back. **** ‘em.
Anything to put off the opposition in my eyes is a good thing. I remember Dan Harding crumbling into a crying wreck on his return to Withdean, as the whole of the south stand let him know what they thought of him
I doubt Potter will care and be as pathetic as Harding but Cucurella, I am not so sure, so definitely worth a go with him.
Either way, it let’s us all vent some pent up anger and that’s a good thing in my book. Football = passion. And the BHA lads on the field will respond to that passion

Bring it on (especially as Potter is a bit sensitive to a little bit of boo-ing)

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Agreed! I am finding the continuing vitriol and negativity a bit wearing. People need to move on.

But whatever you feel about it, surely people see the. Need to move on……. And with a capable coach finish the season aboveChelsea.

Absolutely.

 

[Hamilton]

I think that’s the right letter to send. He did not have to send or approve anything (if written by a PR.) But, at the end of the day, I’ve moved on.

I know there are all sorts of theories about when this started and why. I’m not convinced by theories surrounding Cucurella and Potter. I think that had Tuchel won that CL game convincingly, there would have been no dismissal and no Potter moving on.

I think too many of us may be looking for narratives just to explain the pain. It hurts, but I’m not going to get angry. I’m going to get excited by the new manager.

I don’t want to boo Potter. I want to focus on us and to just beat Chelsea.

At the end of the day, had Potter kept winning, he would have gone somewhere to some club. That’s life and inevitable.

Thanks for the good times Graham, but you are yesterday’s news.


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[Cowfold Seagull]

Bruno is Catalan, Potter a Brummie, Roberts a Geordie, Reid a Scot and Mcauley no idea but you may see where I'm going with this. All guys who have moved far from home for their careers and no doubt they'll move again. We shouldn't expect the same loyalty and identification that we have - it just doesn't work like that.

Thank whoever you want to thank that Tony Bloom was brought up in Brighton & Hove.

Agree with everything that you represent, from your post, to your avatar, to your location.

PS . . . My bus is better than your bus!

 

[JonnyCLately]

GP has made some of the most memorable moments in my short (Rugby guy sucked into BHAFC by kids demanding Man Utd tops for school football, led to Amex visits, season tickets perpetual lurking here and being overly emotional for a middle aged man about a sport I'd never really been bothered about until ten years ago)tenure - having watched a few games at the Goldstone/Withdean and then regularly from Poyet side Championship it's hard not to look at this golden time (trying to tell my 9 year old that we aren't Premier league stalwarts) with blue tinted glasses. The highs; the standard of football is off the charts, bringing unknowns and past its into the side to play intergalactic passing football and hold our own in the toughest league in the country. Let's just accept that GP has raised our stock, our squad, our profile, our expectations and with that comes attention from the big boys - another few years churning players and staff and we will be the perennial Premier league team we'd always wanted to be (I Know JonnyCLately etc) - wish GP well and lets pick the season back up with a draw for attracting quality that we would only have dreamed of under Houghton

Good luck to him bar twice a season - prove to the world how bloody good you are and that our team here is no flash in the pan

 

[El Presidente]

The words from Graham Potter were IMO sincere and heartfelt.

FWIW I’ve seen the best football under Graham Potter of the 50 years I’ve been watching the Albion.

He’s a measured, intelligent, progressive individual with a social conscience (remember him sleeping out last year to highlight the plight of homelessness) and has given some us incredible memories over the last three years.

I wish him good health, good fortune and a successful career. It’s great to see an Englishman embracing education and using it as a means of improving his professional standing.

At the same time, and by all means accuse me of pettiness and a mean spirit, all of those good wishes for his career do not apply at Chelsea. May it go spectacularly tits up at the club where the owner, who knows nothing about football, appointed himself as sporting director, spent £1/4 bn on recruitment that had no logic or strategy, then having sacked the chief executive who was held as one of the best in the business, Petr Cech, who along with Tuchel was willing to face the media during the government restrictions on the club when the suits went missing, and Tuchel himself who may be a ‘difficult’ individual to deal with, still did deliver in terms of finals, trophies and a top four finish (and he has read ‘The Manual’). So Boehly is swapping managers to deflect from him own hubris. For the foreseeable future I’ll be cheering on their opponents, even if it is Palace.

 

[zefarelly]

Yea it’s disappointing that he managed to take two coaches with him that were here before he was. But he didn’t kidnap them, they could have chosen to stay! It’s a shame he went at this point in the season, it was looking so promising.

But I actually think Brighton will be better off than Potter in time. He will no doubt be sacked in 18 months, 2 years at the most. We’re a well run club that will carry on the upward trajectory I’m sure. Hopefully this will show as a minor blip.

No particular ill will to the man, he's done a good job. Hard to wish him well at Chelsea though.

Spot on.

For all the 'emotional intelligence' waffle he kept his well hidden, which is probably why I never warmed to him.

TBH a new manager/coach will come with baggage and may well have ousted some of the existing team so it's neither here nor there taking a team, just proves he's not the messiah and can't do it all on his own.

The timing however is extremely poor form, unprofessional, disrespectful and most disruptive. Not something I care for in anyone at any level, and for that reason I expect karma to bite back.

Hopefully starting on 29th OCtober.

 

[albionalbino]

I'm looking forward to his homecoming party on the 29th.

 

[faoileán]

Spot on.

For all the 'emotional intelligence' waffle he kept his well hidden, which is probably why I never warmed to him.

TBH a new manager/coach will come with baggage and may well have ousted some of the existing team so it's neither here nor there taking a team, just proves he's not the messiah and can't do it all on his own.

The timing however is extremely poor form, unprofessional, disrespectful and most disruptive. Not something I care for in anyone at any level, and for that reason I expect karma to bite back.

Hopefully starting on 29th OCtober.

"The timing however is extremely poor form, unprofessional, disrespectful and most disruptive". I 100% agree; a lot of people on here are falling over themselves to seem mature and reasonable about Potter unceremoniously dumping us, but supporting a football club is about passion and blind faith, and I'm not willing to just say "that's alright Graham, you toddle off to Chelsea having completely shafted us".

 

[NotABrightonFan]

To be fair, you were booing his team 12 months ago. I don't think he owes you anything!