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[Albion] Cheer up! Have we all forgotten how much more fun the Championship is?
- Thread starter Tony Towner's Toe
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It was... until our first season in the Premier League.
I wouldn’t want to miss it. Rather stay up.
Super Steve Earle
Well-known member
In a friendly way, I disagree with everything in that post.
Milano
Well-known member
The big problem with the championship is that the target is to try to get back up to the same league where we get our arses kicked 3 games out of 4. There was something a bit mystical about the premier league when we were desperate to get there, I think that would not be the case with promotion again.
It would break my heart to go down as it would mean this squad being largely broken up rather than improved and we are so close to having a fantastic team.
It would break my heart to go down as it would mean this squad being largely broken up rather than improved and we are so close to having a fantastic team.
BBassic
I changed this.
- Jul 28, 2011
- 13,064
Yeah this is a struggle. I loved the Championship but I'm massively indifferent to the Premier League.
It's a greed driven advertising machine where the best we can hope for, barring even larger investment from a supremely generous man who's already sunk in more money than most of will make across several lifetimes, is to finish maybe in the top half. Or the top of the bottom half. Which is just dull. "Yay another season where we didn't go down but we didn't win anything either".
I'm moving back to Worthing in a few weeks and the idea of going along to Woodside Road is really appealing. Multiple divisions below anything that stinks of Premier League money, no VAR, no overpaid superstars running rings around us, beer on the terrace and a fifteen minute walk home.
Bombadier Botty
Complete Twaddle
- Jun 2, 2008
- 3,258
I posted similar last week. Anyone bigging up a return to the Championship are doing it for positive spin because the whole point of a lower league is to get to the top league unless these Championship advocates are targeting a mid table Championship finish. If people would prefer a lower league why not League One, some great fixtures to be had there and we’d surely win more than we’d lose (said tongue in cheek obviously, the implications for the club and TB)
Super Steve Earle
Well-known member
I loved The Championship when we were striving to get out of it in to the Premier League although I didn't like the crap refereeing decisions that went against us. Before anyone says they even out and we benefited from some, I don't remember those, only things like the Burnley handball where they scooped up the ball and ran up the other end to score. That's why I generally love VAR with all it's quirks. Now we are out of The Championship and dining at the Top Table of football, I can't see the fun in returning to a bloody hard slog of a league to try and regain what we lost. This and a financial hit for Tony and the club. Colour it how you like, the Championship would be a step down financially, football wise, and for me state of mind wise. I love all the coverage even we get, even if the pundits can't be arsed to research anything below the bottom line of we don't score enough goals. We are there, on MoTD, SSN and all the worldwide stuff that comes with it. The Championship was then, The Premier League is now and I have no wish to think about going back unless I have to.
scooter1
How soon is now?
There are differing opinions in this thread and bizarrely I agree with a lot of them. Deep down i want us to remain a Premier League club, and I enjoy dining out on our wins. However the overriding frustration at how few and far between these wins are, and watching a 'nearly' team is testing. I enjoy watching football, and have started watching games I have no interest in, simply to enjoy the spectacle of a game. At the end of the West Brom game, this was the first time I really thought 'we're going to go down' and sadly I still think this.. If we can hang onto the majority of this squad and hopefully come straight back up, maybe a season in the Championship might not be such a bad thing. But what do I know.....
I would hate to go down. I love the premier league and being part of it. The games against the big boys, especially now we are competitive is what I have waited for so many years.
It would be sickening to watch crap teams like Burnley and Palace enjoying those games knowing we have a better team than them/. If we had gone down in Hughtons second season I could have lived with it as we were rotten. This season we have thrown away so many points it would be gutting. If we can scrape a way to stay up I am convinced we could kick on next season.
It would be sickening to watch crap teams like Burnley and Palace enjoying those games knowing we have a better team than them/. If we had gone down in Hughtons second season I could have lived with it as we were rotten. This season we have thrown away so many points it would be gutting. If we can scrape a way to stay up I am convinced we could kick on next season.
Arthur
Well-known member
Anyone still missing The Championship after another season of taking points off some big clubs and securing our longest stint in the top division?
Yep. Miss the third and fourth division more.
What an odd bounce.
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
Icy Gull
Back on the rollercoaster
- Jul 5, 2003
- 72,015
I'll refrain from abuse. I tried it earlier on a decent poster and it didn't sit well.
I have followed the Albion since 1969. The 53rd anniversary of my first Goldstone game is weeks away. This is the hardest league in the world and one of the hardest five seasons in the history of football. There are some extraordinarily good sides, coached by the smartest managers that have ever walked the planet. Egregious cheating and on-pitch assaults are at a minimum thanks to VAR. Owing to COVID I have watched more football in the last 12 months than in any year. I can confidently say that I have never enjoyed watching Brighton more than I'm enjoying it now. This season has delivered the best football from the Albion I have ever seen. Some exquisite football that would have been unthinkable even 3 years ago, let alone 10, 30 or 53. Even if we get relegated.
I can't be bothered to go into this is any more detail, and I appreciate there are many on NSC who will say I'm deluded, a licker, and someone who knows nothing about the passion of football, the quest for glory and the difference between a winner like Micky Adams and a sad loser like Porter. I stood on the terrace at Home Park with my son, and with something in my eye, when we won our first promotion only a few years after staring oblivion in the face. So it saddens me to see, among the genuine and honestly expressed opinions, comments that are dismissive and abusive about our manager, our players and even the owner. Occasionally it gets to me and I lash out.
So, no, I don't feel fragile because we have lost 3 on the bounce and are in a relegation scrap. Not at all. I'm proud to be a Brighton supporter, and am enjoying the season immensely
Great post.
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Big clubs we’ve beaten in the Premier League:
Arsenal (3 times)
Liverpool
Manchester City
Manchester United (2 times)
Tottenham Hotspur (2 times)
Last season we were comfortably one of the best teams to watch.
We are living the dream, all those years in the lower divisions were to get where we are now, yet you would rather be down there. Pretty sure that’s more odd than a thread bounce.
This summer I am enjoying seeing if we sell one or two players for top dollar, whether we bring anybody in, and where our youngsters will be playing next season and how many of them might break through to the first team. I'm also looking forward to a season where a few more things 'click' and that Xg (or is it xG?) gap comes down - maybe with a better contribution from midfield rather than worrying and complaining if Uncle Tony doesn't lash out £40M on a brand new shiny striker.
If we'd gone down, I would be enjoying seeing if we sell one or two players for top dollar, whether we bring anybody in, and where our youngsters will be playing next season and how many of them might break through to the first team (possibly two or three more than we might this season). I would also be looking forward to a season where a few more things 'click' and that Xg (or is it xG?) gap comes down - maybe with a better contribution from midfield rather than worrying and complaining if Uncle Tony doesn't lash out £20M on a brand new shiny striker!
In other words, the world - or my world anyway - wouldn't end. I'm glad we stayed up, I didn't ever want us to be relegated. If we had gone down though, I would still be excited about the new season (and FWIW I think we would bounce straight back up).
If we'd gone down, I would be enjoying seeing if we sell one or two players for top dollar, whether we bring anybody in, and where our youngsters will be playing next season and how many of them might break through to the first team (possibly two or three more than we might this season). I would also be looking forward to a season where a few more things 'click' and that Xg (or is it xG?) gap comes down - maybe with a better contribution from midfield rather than worrying and complaining if Uncle Tony doesn't lash out £20M on a brand new shiny striker!
In other words, the world - or my world anyway - wouldn't end. I'm glad we stayed up, I didn't ever want us to be relegated. If we had gone down though, I would still be excited about the new season (and FWIW I think we would bounce straight back up).
B-right-on
Living the dream
Anyone still missing The Championship after another season of taking points off some big clubs and securing our longest stint in the top division?
No I'm not.
Loving the PL ride (mostly) and the excitement that comes with it.
Would not swop it for the Championship at all.
I know what you mean. Great days. Driving blindly to some far flung dump and paying on the gate. Watching you being escorted out of the ground by stewards
However. Although it can be amazing fun driving a Ford Cortina at insane speed down a country lane....driving one of those electric buggers, a Jag, like my neighbour has got, 0-90 in 5 seconds.....well.....they are both good......but.....
I'll refrain from abuse. I tried it earlier on a decent poster and it didn't sit well.
I have followed the Albion since 1969. The 53rd anniversary of my first Goldstone game is weeks away. This is the hardest league in the world and one of the hardest five seasons in the history of football. There are some extraordinarily good sides, coached by the smartest managers that have ever walked the planet. Egregious cheating and on-pitch assaults are at a minimum thanks to VAR. Owing to COVID I have watched more football in the last 12 months than in any year. I can confidently say that I have never enjoyed watching Brighton more than I'm enjoying it now. This season has delivered the best football from the Albion I have ever seen. Some exquisite football that would have been unthinkable even 3 years ago, let alone 10, 30 or 53. Even if we get relegated.
I can't be bothered to go into this is any more detail, and I appreciate there are many on NSC who will say I'm deluded, a licker, and someone who knows nothing about the passion of football, the quest for glory and the difference between a winner like Micky Adams and a sad loser like Porter. I stood on the terrace at Home Park with my son, and with something in my eye, when we won our first promotion only a few years after staring oblivion in the face. So it saddens me to see, among the genuine and honestly expressed opinions, comments that are dismissive and abusive about our manager, our players and even the owner. Occasionally it gets to me and I lash out.
So, no, I don't feel fragile because we have lost 3 on the bounce and are in a relegation scrap. Not at all. I'm proud to be a Brighton supporter, and am enjoying the season immensely
Can’t believe it’s taken me four months to find this post. You, sir, you win the Internet.
oldboyroy
Well-known member
Spot on mate.......whatever some say the premier league today is light years ahead of the 1st division back in the 80s. Yes, the football was more physical back then but today it's against world class players and 10 times faster. This is the best Albion side ever in my opinion and will only get better.