[Albion] Anyone else feeling FLAT ?

[Swimboy64]

Got to your stage about 5yrs ago tbh, after years of getting way too emotional about football. Just couldn't be bothered with it anymore. Great to see Albion doing well, and I will watch them on TV occasionally, but spend my Saturdays and evenings doing far more enjoyable things these days.
Went to the B'mouth game earlier in the year and was bored stiff - even though Albion won 4-1 (? I think)

This is exactly how I started to feel about 3/4 months ago.I’m still going but get bored stiff.I remember my dad doing exactly the same after 60 years of watching the Albion.Just not for me anymore I guess

 

[Robdinho]

This is the first season in a long long time where there doesn't seem any possibility of changing divisions*. In the football league we always seemed to be going either up or down, or nearly missing either way, and since getting into the top flight the spectre of relegation has been a constant presence. Until this season where it all seems strangely calm, even comfortable.

(*Edit to add, last season had a different kind of excitement, with the new manager & style; it felt like a promotion season, qualifying for Europe for the first time)

For me, I'm loving it, but it's all about Europe this year. I was genuinely worried we might struggle to cope with the extra games, like so many teams have in the past, but they've stepped up so impressively that there is no jeopardy left in the league whatsoever.

It means I can just shrug of results like Wolves (and even Sheffield Utd and Burnley to some extent), whereas in the past that would have ruined my weekend (/Monday night), but I can certainly see how some might experience that as boring.

 

[Javeaseagull]

I think I know how Kosh feels because for some time I have been less enthusiastic about the game. I said to a mate a little while ago that I wasn’t watching as much football and I put it down to VAR. Like a lot of things it’s probably a combination of getting older, Brightons assumed position of top 10 being safe but it’s also that I don’t enjoy watching other teams as much as I used to. I think I compare them unfavourably with Brighton which is the only time I get pleasure from football now. The other night against Wolves lots of people are moaning but I thought that both teams played well. We played well and did everything but score and Wolves played well and achieved a good result for them. It’s probably age and being sated with success. I keep reminding myself that this is the best period I can remember of watching the Albion.

 

[Peteinblack]

I'm a bit 'meh' because of our injuries, and lack of wingers; it feels like we're treading water until the injured players return, and are unlikely to finish as high as last season - against Wolves, we were back to 70% possession and no goals, which we constantly complained about under Graham Potter.

Of course, this might be a horrible sense of spoilt 'entitlement', given how far we have come as a club; I too was in the North Stand (north-west corner by the floodlight) at the old Goldstone Ground, as a school-boy, watching us play the likes of Port Vale, Rotherham, and Walsall, on a freezing-cold winter's day in front of 7,000 people.

But for the last couple of months, I have felt a bit flat. My problem, I know, because objectively, this is the best the Albion have ever been in terms of League position, flair players, and playing in Europe for the first time.

 

[oneillco]

I'm feeling flat, I was flat before the match, flat during it, flat after it... I am a little worried I'm giving way less of a toss these days... I rarely get excited when we win, draw or on the other side of the coin get too bothered when we lose... Maybe I've mellowed...? or maybe I'm finding top level football, VAR, the vast amounts of sickening money/corruption ruining the game all too much.

I've most definitely lost my footballing highs and lows.

In truth I suspect my heart isn't really in it anymore, and I never thought I'd feel like this - especially now, with the club financially secure, the football the best in my lifetime etc. I guess, for whatever reason, I'm jaded. I really only bother for my son who is at the stage of football dominating all his waking thoughts...

Last nights game sums up my emotions really, meh, meh and meh... beyond that, I no longer get excited by new signings expecting them to leave if they prove successful and the subject of supporter vitriol if they don't set the world alight... which all seems counter intuitive in the extreme... I'm less engaged than ever, and (as I say) I can't place why ?

I think this will be the first year I fail to see us 'live' as the Newcastle experience really is SHIT, although technically I saw us in preseason... But I've no desire to see us play, which given our potential to actually win something is (again) at odds with my usual disposition.

I keep wondering if it's more to do with the 'invisible' ceiling we've reached and the sneaking suspicion that 6-10th is the best it will ever be, with a sobering revolving door of talent coming and going as the money clubs circle... Maybe, maybe not...

Then again - perhaps I'm being over analytical and this lack of fire is more about me, and my jaded 40 something view of the world, and far less about the Albion per say... hmmmmm.

Anyone else feel like they're staring into the dying embers of a once roaring fire ?

Kosh

Anyone who has followed a club for more than a decade knows that it's roller-coaster ride and you don't appreciate the peaks if you haven't had the troughs. Having said that, the last decade of following Albion has been a walk in the park compared to the previous 20 years. Personally, 8th in the Prem and Europa League last 16, with the prospect of our most exciting players returning soon (Mitoma, Fati, Adingra) fills me with excitement.

 

[Hovegull]

When I compare sitting watching a 0-0 draw versus Leyton Orient, on a cold January evening at the Withdean, and watching us go 7th in the Premier League above Man United. The game on Monday was dull. But the game before we trounced Spurs.
It’s a funny old game, but I’m still buzzing to be a supporter.