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

[elwheelio]

Any worse. What sad entitlement.

Did you see those loses against the likes of Cardiff & Bournemouth under Hughton? You haven’t lived. Have a word with yourself.

Just because that was bad, it doesn't make this good.

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Fulham keeper MOM

 

[-gully-]

Sliding into the Toss Potter group. Propper for Mac Allister was utter gash. Dead balls are still woeful, striking practice obviously isn’t working.

 

[Ethelwulf]

Lovely football yes but some would like to see us actually, you know, win a few more games.

Pretty football means jack shit if you end up getting relegated ffs

How are we being short sighted? It's been the same since the beginning of last season, especially so since 2020

The guy is a cock mate impossible to reason with

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

OK 7 wins in 43 overall if you prefer.

Is that right? Wow.

 

[nicko31]

Any reason we didn't get Adam L on tonight?

 

[Reddleman]

I don’t think anyone can defend Potter after tonight. With 15/20 minutes to go it was inevitable that if we don’t make attacking changes we do not win the game. If we had brought Lallana and maybe Connolly or Tau then still don’t win the game then fair enough but to not make an attacking sub and try and win the game, well it’s ****ing laughable.


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I will defend him. We were carving them open, we had had two or three absolute golden opportunities in the second half. Changes could have disrupted our rhythm. Change for change sake is armchair football. If we weren’t creating anything then I would agree.

We battered them tonight and their keeper got man of the match.

 

[Hamilton]

The system is creating more than enough chances. The players are missing them. You could say bring on different strikers, but those on the bench are even less likely to score than those on the pitch.

Wrong.

The system is not delivering results. I'm sure we'd all agree.

A Potter goal is like the one at Leeds - walk it into the net. That doesn't bring results.

 

[The Fits]

And how many goals exactly have Conolly, Zequiri, Tau or Lallana scored?

And how many goals has Trossard scored? Isn't he now the most wasteful player in the entire league or something?
What harm would making a change do?
Connolly would've loved a run out out there.

 

[Hugo Rune]

The central argument now is between those who blame Potter and those who blame the players.

Some blame the recruitment team for not finding a natural striker to replace Murray.

 

[BNthree]

Potter is the manager, he has to take responsibility for it.

Exactly this. If a department head at my work was in charge of a department performing this badly they'd have been moved on by now. He is the one in charge, it is up to him to make the team successful.

 

[Eeyore]

I don’t think anyone can defend Potter after tonight. With 15/20 minutes to go it was inevitable that if we don’t make attacking changes we do not win the game. If we had brought Lallana and maybe Connolly or Tau then still don’t win the game then fair enough but to not make an attacking sub and try and win the game, well it’s ****ing laughable.


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Tonight confirmed to me that we have a very good manager.

The substitution thing is easy to criticise when the person doing so can fantasise the end result.

As a layman I was looking between 70 and 80 minutes thinking that there wasn't really a change I would make. They were creating openings. The keeper was thwarting us.

t's easy to say this and that would have changed things when you don't know the end product.

The squad is a survival team that plays good football. Sadly, if they do go down, they will be a genuine loss to this league.

I've learnt over the years that the manager isn't always the problem. It's hard for fans to accept because it makes it harder for them to feel better when there is no silver bullet.

 

[Weststander]

Potter is the manager, he has to take responsibility for it.

If he came out and said that we've been practicing finishing for hours every day but its not improving, I'd have some sympathy.

Its our biggest weakness he has to solve it and the only way is practice, practice, practice.

There’s only so much you can do with the quality at hand. Maupay is a goal every 4 games striker at that fee, that’s okay but he’ll never have finishing quality of the best in the EPL. Trossard, gifted dribbler, awful in front of goal.

That’s what you get with a Brighton budget.

Sidwell full of praise for our attacking and very honest about Maupay and Trossard blowing it.

No one can hang that on GP.

 

[Algernon]

At least we've got Moises to look forward to.
"Moises!"
"Moises??"

 

[Albion Dan]

That terrible nonsense substitution tonight says it all about Potter for me.

Dunk has saved us 2 points there.

And he probably deliberated with Billy Reid for 10 mins before making that one.

 

[Nicky and the Dots]

Don't worry you are too good to go down. Fulham are not a bad side. Not losing was key.

 

[boik]

Any reason we didn't get Adam L on tonight?

He's scored 1 goal in 3 years. We were creating more than enough chances.

It's the same after every poor result. The players that weren't playing would have made the difference apparently.

 

[drummerboy10]

Yep. Did everything right... again.

So many chances. If only we had signed a striker in the summer, we would be looking up rather than down.

Not every chance falls to a forward. Plenty of players missed opportunities tonight, again! I’m sick of people thinking if we’d signed a striker we’d be a lot higher! It’s not always the case.

 

[The Fits]

Some blame the recruitment team for not finding a natural striker to replace Murray.

Good point. Murray is a very hard player to replace.
Between they and Potter they sanctioned the 20 million pound signing of Maupay mind...