[Albion] Can you name the Brighton opening day lineups over the last decade?

[Mr Bridger]

Why?

Because the manager picked him and that’s what he gets paid to do.

 

[seagulls4ever]

Because the manager picked him and that’s what he gets paid to do.

I don't think he ever started a game for us on the opening day of a league season.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Remember smith vaguely just because he signed from palace, but thornhill absolutely forgot about him completely.

To be fair, his performances for us were an absolute catastrophe. He wasn't the playmaker we needed and he disappeared from football completely. At least Arron Davies hung around for a while, he was the other we nabbed on loan from Forest at that time, but Thornhill was really, really bad. We did have some garbage players in those days!

But looking at the team which started for Hyypia against Wednesday, you have to feel sorry for him. That team was a catastrophe, and I think it's understandable why Bloom didn't want to sack him. He needed a strong window to try and repair the damage of the previous one but it didn't happen.

 

[seagulls4ever]

I think it's understandable why Bloom didn't want to sack him.

Thankfully he fell on his sword. If he hadn't, and Bloom stuck with him, then I'm reasonably confident we would have gone down, and who knows where we would be today.

 

[Jesus Gul]

62/110!

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

88.

Weirdly the ones who came to me late were Gross, Baldock and AK

 

[Marshy]

I could defo name the Doncaster Amex opener 11... other than that no chance

 

[Biscuit]

88. If I had a bit longer than seven minutes I think I'd have done a bit better. For some reason I cold not recall Izzy Brown, yet Kishishev and McLeod.. no problem! Weird!

 

[El Turi]

106 although I had 10 minutes for some reason. I need to get a life I think. Forgot about Thomson, Thornhill, Kishishev and Aaron Hughes.

 

[Frankie]

Superb quiz it's a pity i couldn't do it justice with a score of 67 , strangely i completely missed out on the later games i actually got Thornhill and Fenelon which i will put down as a moral victory .

 

[hans kraay fan club]

90.

Great quiz this one, but as others have said - needs to be a bit longer, to give you time to actually consider each season, rather than just belting random names down.

 

[JJ McClure]

86. Turns out that I can't remember much from the pre Amex era.