He comes in to his own when the club let him, usually after the rumour mill is grinding so loudly something needs to be said.
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[Albion] Andy Naylor should be renamed…
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Oh the irony...
Weststander
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There was a time when the Argus Albion correspondent was blue-and-white striped to the core.
Naylor's not an Albion fan. He lucked out in that The Athletic’s US owners lazily presumed that he'd expertly cover our neck of the EPL woods.
Oliver Kay, James Pearce, Rafa Honigstein and David Ornstein are levels above Naylor in their writing skill, they capture the attention and keep it.
The Stoke supporter is petty and just not very good.
Naylor's not an Albion fan. He lucked out in that The Athletic’s US owners lazily presumed that he'd expertly cover our neck of the EPL woods.
Oliver Kay, James Pearce, Rafa Honigstein and David Ornstein are levels above Naylor in their writing skill, they capture the attention and keep it.
The Stoke supporter is petty and just not very good.
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Weststander
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Didn't you spend half the summer trashing Naylor as a no-nothing bumpkin?
Albion in the north
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Hes a journalist and on Twitter a modern day Journo has to post clickbait. If he didnt say anything contencious then hardly anyone would reply.
Yes and nothing has changed about that. Oh yeah, except this summer everyone and their grandma came riding in on their white horses to tell me they had tattoeed his name on their arses and that he should get a statue somewhere. That changed, it seems.
Bloke needs attention. His job depends on it. And despite what I've been told, his EXCLUSIVE transfer news are not really EXCLUSIVE enough for him to keep him in his job, so he needs to be some kind of opinion machine as well.
Weststander
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A lot of that was really mocking Romano on his certainty that Cucu was ManC bound. The all seeing eye.
Nah, a lot of it was wishful thinking that Cucu wouldn't leave or the club wouldn't sell etc. This wishful thinking made people incapable of reading the actual content of Romanos tweets, while lifting Naylor as some kind of super-journo because he was saying pretty much nothing (the same 'nothing' that wishful people were hoping for) until his (actually exclusive) call that Cucurella wasn't a done deal for Chelsea (sure, Cucu went there like less than 12 hours later but still...)
Romano never claimed Cucu to Manchester City was a done deal. What he said, repeatedly, was that City & Cucurella had reached a personal agreement but that the clubs were far from each other in negotiations. Which is most likely exactly what happened.
Yes Chef
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I wish Naylor would go to Chelsea
Weststander
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And then he joined Chelsea and Romano didn’t have a clue, everyone found out at the same time.
Mansour’s lackey feeding Romano propaganda, did not give the full picture.
Exactly, come on @Swansman surely you would acknowledge this?
Terry Butcher Tribute Act
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...his match report today is one of his better ones!
Silverhatch
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He posted nonsense long before Twitter
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I had an Athletic subscription and cancelled it, I found Andy only engaged on his own terms, for example he seemed to frequently be absent from the “discuss the match with our dedicated journalist” threads that the Athletic used to run (and possibly still do)
Twitter is Twitter and I honestly advise anyone who values their mental health to avoid it, in the same way that randomly screaming at strangers in the park should be avoided. I’m not surprised he gets pelters on there, everyone gets pelters on there unless they carefully curate the list of those who can see their tweets into an echo chamber.
But yes. Andy seems to me to be a BHA specialist journalist who doesn’t particularly like BHA and holds their fans in barely concealed contempt.
Twitter is Twitter and I honestly advise anyone who values their mental health to avoid it, in the same way that randomly screaming at strangers in the park should be avoided. I’m not surprised he gets pelters on there, everyone gets pelters on there unless they carefully curate the list of those who can see their tweets into an echo chamber.
But yes. Andy seems to me to be a BHA specialist journalist who doesn’t particularly like BHA and holds their fans in barely concealed contempt.
Depends if you think Bruno was ‘vociferously’ booed.
Compared to Cucurella and Potter, didn’t feel like that at all. The rest of the report was ok.
For a bit of joy watch Ronald Collante's excellent
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Plenty of insights into some of the most entitled supporters in the country and the sheer joy of giving them a well deserved pasting.
However it doesn't hurt to sometimes hold up the mirror. Much as it hurts to lose so many from our back room, the likes of Bruno and Roberts may well return one day. I hope they will always feel welcome and appreciated and I hope the booing is out of everyone's system now.
Sitting in the Upper East it is hard to comment on the abuse that triggered Naylor, but when we left the ground around 45 minutes after kick off, there were a couple of youths loudly singing Chelsea are F'ing see you next Tuesdays, all the way down to the station. If a Chelsea fan had taken exception and decided to give them a slap, how many would have felt the need to step in and defend the young ladies in question?
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Plenty of insights into some of the most entitled supporters in the country and the sheer joy of giving them a well deserved pasting.
However it doesn't hurt to sometimes hold up the mirror. Much as it hurts to lose so many from our back room, the likes of Bruno and Roberts may well return one day. I hope they will always feel welcome and appreciated and I hope the booing is out of everyone's system now.
Sitting in the Upper East it is hard to comment on the abuse that triggered Naylor, but when we left the ground around 45 minutes after kick off, there were a couple of youths loudly singing Chelsea are F'ing see you next Tuesdays, all the way down to the station. If a Chelsea fan had taken exception and decided to give them a slap, how many would have felt the need to step in and defend the young ladies in question?
Justice
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I would hope any man regardless of who they supported would defend any female if they were getting attacked by a male.
Add this to the tiresome (and ever lengthening) list of people Albion fans don't think praise us enough. Naylor does a decent enough job, gets more right than he does wrong and sometimes gives a it back after generally suffering constant abuse from Brighton fans on Twitter. I often think that he's too "snippy" in his responses, but I'm also not on the end of hundreds of critical responses.
The comment yesterday about it being "sad" that Bruno was booed is a prime example. It is sad that a club legend is being booed on his return. It's hardly even that emotive, but people get so sensitive at anything they perceive to be anti-their-Brighton-narrative that they just have to have a pop. Now, it's their right to have their own narrative and fair play for being passionate about it (by golly do they voice it enough) but come on, stop being so sensitive.
If you don't like Naylor, block him, unfollow him, get your transfer news and opinion pieces elsewhere. No one is forcing anyone to read what he puts out.
The comment yesterday about it being "sad" that Bruno was booed is a prime example. It is sad that a club legend is being booed on his return. It's hardly even that emotive, but people get so sensitive at anything they perceive to be anti-their-Brighton-narrative that they just have to have a pop. Now, it's their right to have their own narrative and fair play for being passionate about it (by golly do they voice it enough) but come on, stop being so sensitive.
If you don't like Naylor, block him, unfollow him, get your transfer news and opinion pieces elsewhere. No one is forcing anyone to read what he puts out.
Thanks for posting Ronnie's video - great stuff!!