[Albion] Are big-spending Brighton onto something special?
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GingerBeerMan
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- Dec 29, 2011
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A lot of salty Chelsea fans in the comments. It's incredible how they can consider their club the victims after watching them spend £200m to pick apart our club from top to bottom.
Shame we weren’t their bogey team in the FA Cup semi final last year
The recent run - winning FIVE of the last six PL games - is a bit of a statistical anomaly, tbh. We have deserved to win most of those games - but we are not 'better' than them to that extent.
- Feb 22, 2014
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Excellent!
We’ve never finished above them in the league (unless my memory is failing me) so it’s difficult to claim that we are the better than them.
- Mar 23, 2023
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(In a small voice if we exclude the last game of last season because RDZ left/sacked and our players had the motivation of a slug drinking itself to death in a cup of ale) we have won the last 5 matches against them so arguably we are better than them.
As I see it, Brighton are one of maybe five clubs (the others being City, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool) where there's 20+ "I could see that lad winning the PL one day"-players.
That is certainly a very interesting position. Even if two or three of the best talents would move next summer, we could still be in a position to challenge for Champions League qualification (not this season though, we're going to have bad runs with this young squad).
That is certainly a very interesting position. Even if two or three of the best talents would move next summer, we could still be in a position to challenge for Champions League qualification (not this season though, we're going to have bad runs with this young squad).
- Mar 23, 2023
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In my own bitter way I would love us to win a decent trophy before any of the big boys who left us last year (caicedo, Ali Mac, trossard, Sanchez being my main hopes) for no other reason than I’m petty.
It would be quite a stretch to omit that game from the record, but still include the one where we walked through Ralf Rangick's disinterested side at will, destroyed them 4-0, and Ronaldo stood there on the halfway line, laughing.
Well I'm looking forward to this little burst of media hype doing a sharp about turn after Saturday's game when the narrative will switch to "has the youngest coach been found out?"
Please don't spoil my fun
Nobby Cybergoat
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- Jul 19, 2021
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We probably deserved to at least draw the one we lost, and in the season before that run started, suffered one ridiculous loss in the penalty after full time, hit the post 5 times, how is that not a pen on Connolly match.
I reckon we've got the wood on them, but I take the point of the fella saying we've not finished above them. We have an excellent chance to do so this year
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Going to take a bit of getting used to seeing 'big-spending' and 'Brighton' in the same sentence 
Thanks for posting. Very interesting.
- Mar 23, 2023
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Feel free to say the ralf one in a small voice as well
Remember this feeling when we get to the part of the season when we can't score any goals at all. It will happen.
Withdean South Stand
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- Mar 2, 2014
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Absolutely not - that day will take some serious beating. I don't care how bad they were, we were unbelievable.Feel free to say the ralf one in a small voice as well