[Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Brentford *** Official Match Thread ***

[Littlemo]

I'm hoping that the incoming assistant head coach - Daniel Niedzkowski - will make a difference to things. Having been head of the German Football Association's coaches training programme, he hopefully has some tactical nouse (sp.?) that will pay dividends...

I think this is a really good move by the club. I think that maybe at the moment Fab is a bit more inexperienced for the job than maybe we thought he might be, but I like that we are trying to sort that out and help him, not just getting rid.

We do need experience with the volume of younger players we have though. They need coaches and brought through, so this should help with that as well.

 

[dolphins]

Having seen the highlights back, it was definitely one of those games.
Flekken did his groin by over-stretching to save a nasty deflection which was going in.
O'Riley's strike took a deflection to take it just wide.

We're just shit out of luck at the moment.
Swings and round abouts though, as we had heaps of good luck across the first 7 or 8 games.

We're about where we should be.

How I see things too - and thought was demonstrated last night with the number of attempts (Enciso for example) which on another day (or for a luckier team!) would have gone in. The sooner the training ground gets rid of the black cat that strolls around in front of the players, the ladders the players have to walk under, the fragile mirrors, etc., the better.

 

[Justice]

A lot of people have remarked on a potteresque performance.

I didn't see it like that.
My recollections of Potter, is a much slower build up, trying to pass through packed defences,

That wasn't what I saw.
We were far more attacking than we were in the Potter home draw period.

Last night was the first game where we were decent in both halves of teh game.
Certainly not as good in the second, but we were still the better team in terms of the game.

Enciso puts one of his two big chances away in the first half, we would have done them by 3 or 4.
But having moaned at the rest of the squad for not shooting, I'm not going to criticise him.

Positives:
Solly
Clean Sheet
Intensity
O'Riley
Decent Atmosphere for large periods.
Solly
Brentford singing Shall we sing a song for you, in one of the few quieter moments in the first half.
North stand singing Solly, Solly March to Ayari whilst hew was warming up.
No obvious injuries
Solly

I think it can be described as Potter-esque in how the game unfolded rather than the tactical approach per se. It was Potter-esque in that we dominated possession, missed loads of chances, failed to score and ran out of ideas.

I think we were decent first half, that's when we created the vast majority of our chances. The second half I don't think we were particularly decent. We just weren't as bad as we can be. We kept going but created very little. The debutante goalkeeper who came on mid match didn't have a save worth the name to make.

It just felt like a reworking of the movie we saw many times under Potter.

Once the opposition manager makes a change FH is done for it’s happened so many times. If people want to hold out expecting this fella to be a genius then fair play. From Russell Martin to Gary O’Neil they both out foxed him, Christ even the rookie RVN managed it.
I don’t blame Fab the jobs to big for him he needed more experience before heading to the PL.
Christ knows how far down the list he was 9th or 10th? Or was he on the potential for the future list and it all became a bit desperate?