[Football] Chelsea or Fulham?

[A1X]

New one for Potter tonight

“It is where it’s at”

It is where it’s at
It is where it’s at
You stupid bastard
It is where it’s at

 

[GT49er]

I've manned up (sod you, the prats that want to present it that way) and happy that that was a great result. Woohoo!

 

[AmexRuislip]

 

[GT49er]

Perhaps Potter did us all a favour by seizing his chance with Chelsea.

We could have suffered his football for years, and with inertia, never have known about RDZ and how profoundly different possession football could be from Potterball.

Actually we were doing alright, very well in fact, and were perfectly happy. Do you get some sort of virtue points for pretending that we weren't - and do they make you feel better?

I'm very happy with where we are now, but I don't feel some sort of neediness to rewrite history.

 

[Eric the meek]

Actually we were doing alright, very well in fact, and were perfectly happy. Do you get some sort of virtue points for pretending that we weren't - and do they make you feel better?

I'm very happy with where we are now, but I don't feel some sort of neediness to rewrite history.

Actually, we were doing all right, but we're doing better now! In case you hadn't spotted it, RDZ is an upgrade on Potter, using the same set of players.

Far from rewriting history, I'm looking forward to the future we now have with RDZ.

 

[hampshirebrightonboy]

It is where it’s at
It is where it’s at
You stupid bastard
It is where it’s at

One for the future

 

[GT49er]

Actually, we were doing all right, but we're doing better now! In case you hadn't spotted it, RDZ is an os still our manager, and we were still in the top ten, would you have been grizzling, 'ooh, we need Roberto De Zerbi' - who I suspect, like me, you wuld never have heard of

Actually, we were doing all right, but we're doing better now! In case you hadn't spotted it, RDZ is an upgrade on Potter, using the same set of players.

Far from rewriting history, I'm looking forward to the future we now have with RDZ.

Yes, we're doing great. But we were also doing great after the Leicester match. If all that bollocks of Potter leaving for Chelsea hadn't happened, and Potter was still our manager and we were still in the top ten, would you have been grizzling we need a change of manager? Of coursr you wouldn't, unless yoi're a bigger prat rhan 99% of posters on NSC.
We are where we are -and it's good. No need to be a prat and re-write what could have been history. Regardless of how De Zerbi does, and where he takes us, Potter's Brighton was heading upwards too. Stupid to think otherwise.

 

[Dibdab]

Actually we were doing alright, very well in fact, and were perfectly happy. Do you get some sort of virtue points for pretending that we weren't - and do they make you feel better?

I'm very happy with where we are now, but I don't feel some sort of neediness to rewrite history.

We’d had a 10 or so good game run that happened to coincide with the introduction of Moises who Potter had decided to ignore for three months until that point. Before that we were utter boring toss for 10 or so games and never scored at home. Rinse and repeat the two previous years. I think what we are seeing is our squad was way better than what Potter was getting from it.

 

[Weststander]

Actually, we were doing all right, but we're doing better now! In case you hadn't spotted it, RDZ is an upgrade on Potter, using the same set of players.

Far from rewriting history, I'm looking forward to the future we now have with RDZ.

Do you know what …. I think you’re right.

RDZ is the accomplished, real deal. The football’s easier on the eye in a higher proportion of games, the Amex a sea of smiling faces.

Potter from The Emirates April 22 onwards finally got us playing quality, winning football. But just now is something else.

 

[Eric the meek]

Yes, we're doing great. But we were also doing great after the Leicester match. If all that bollocks of Potter leaving for Chelsea hadn't happened, and Potter was still our manager and we were still in the top ten, would you have been grizzling we need a change of manager? Of coursr you wouldn't, unless yoi're a bigger prat rhan 99% of posters on NSC.
We are where we are -and it's good. No need to be a prat and re-write what could have been history. Regardless of how De Zerbi does, and where he takes us, Potter's Brighton was heading upwards too. Stupid to think otherwise.

Grizzling? Prat? Are you always this aggressive?

For the record, I was never a 'Potter out' person. I thought Potter was the business, even though I wanted to see more, well, goals.

Now we've got RDZ, the goals are flowing, and with the benefit of hindsight, together with five months to compare them, I have come to realise that Potter actually wasn't the height of football management. Perhaps RDZ isn't either. But he's better. The football is intelligent, exciting and produces results.

You need to move on. We are improving. We have a new manager and the Potter era is over.

By the way, if I want to write about Potter, I will do so.

 

[Weststander]

Grizzling? Prat? Are you always this aggressive?

For the record, I was never a 'Potter out' person. I thought Potter was the business, even though I wanted to see more, well, goals.

Now we've got RDZ, the goals are flowing, and with the benefit of hindsight, together with five months to compare them, I have come to realise that Potter actually wasn't the height of football management. Perhaps RDZ isn't either. But he's better. The football is intelligent, exciting and produces results.

You need to move on. We are improving. We have a new manager and the Potter era is over.

By the way, if I want to write about Potter, I will do so.

Put it this way. Stoney silence on the park n ride buses going home during 3 seasons of rarely winning at home. Sometimes analysis with fellow supporters on where it’s going wrong, TB often blamed for not buying strikers.

These days everyone’s buzzing.

 

[Greg Bobkin]

#TeamsLikeBrightonFromTwoSeasonsAgo

 

[Eric the meek]

Put it this way. Stoney silence on the park n ride buses going home during 3 seasons of rarely winning at home. Sometimes analysis with fellow supporters on where it’s going wrong, TB often blamed for not buying strikers.

These days everyone’s buzzing.

We never really played badly. We competed against most teams. I was never one calling for a new striker, because I could see we were creating chances. It was just the final ball, final product missing. Towards the end, Potter did seem to fix this.

Now take a look at this report:

'Chelsea reporter says Blues feel like Graham Potter’s toothless Brighton from years past'

Chelsea reporter says Blues feel like Graham Potter's toothless Brighton from years past

Chelsea played out a 0-0 draw with Fulham at Stamford Bridge on Friday night as the Blues failed to score a goal again in a Premier League match with a Chelsea reporter saying the London club feel like Graham Potter's old Brighton side.

www.caughtoffside.com

(I appreciate Potter has just had 8 new signings dumped on him).

 

[BadFish]

Chelsea boss Graham Potter to BBC Sport: "There was a lot of excitement and positivity from the start, a good atmosphere. The spirit of the players was really good. They worked hard for each other against an organised team.

"They've been together a while. We’re a different stage of that – players coming back from injury and new players. We needed time to settle everything down. We were missing the connection, fluidity and confidence that comes from knowing each other.

"The decision we took in the window you can see the profile in terms of age. We feel we have a very strong group of players. We have to gel and become a really good team. That’s where the work is.

"It’s working together. When players have been injured they have not been on the training pitch. We have new players with us. It's about getting ideas across and woring with the group.

"Sometimes you have to look at the whole package. Young players, nice mix of them both. For us it’s about improving and

"New players are adapting to a new country and a new league. It’s not straightforward. When the price tag is what it is questions will be asked, it's the nature of the business."

To be fair it's a fair point.

 

[BadFish]

Yes, we're doing great. But we were also doing great after the Leicester match. If all that bollocks of Potter leaving for Chelsea hadn't happened, and Potter was still our manager and we were still in the top ten, would you have been grizzling we need a change of manager? Of coursr you wouldn't, unless yoi're a bigger prat rhan 99% of posters on NSC.
We are where we are -and it's good. No need to be a prat and re-write what could have been history. Regardless of how De Zerbi does, and where he takes us, Potter's Brighton was heading upwards too. Stupid to think otherwise.

The argument you are having (unnecessarily aggressively, of course) is nothing to do with rewriting history. The crux of it is that some posters are convinced that what happened at the end of last season and beginning of this represented Potter solving our goal scoring problems, others see it as an anomaly in the pattern of lacking goals. Most sit somewhere in-between.

No revisionism no rewriting history just the need for a longer purple patch to prove the goal scoring problem that Potterball was solved.

The fact that he is having the same problem at Chelsea suggests that maybe (maybe) goal scoring problems are an unwanted feature of potterball. Will he solve it? Only time will tell.

 

[BadFish]

This is really a win win situation for me. Either he fails at Chelsea bringing with it the obvious joy. Or he succeeds and many Chelsea fans are shown up for being the shortsighted halfwits they appear.

I must say I am moving towards the latter as my preference.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Fulham deserve huge credit for that performance. They more than matched Chelsea for energy and workrate and they carried a threat going forward. Marco Silva has done a remarkable job.

 

[BrightonCottager]

I'm not entirely sober having watched that in the Eddy with other Fulham in Brighton (& Tuaca was there and Walham Green on the table next to us) but thanks for the over whelming vote.

 

[Justice]

Yeah same line..when asked about having too many players..Not us directly but he said if he wanted an easy life he'd have stayed at previous clubs.

No respect for the man that gave him a chance in the PL.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

I mean, I voted Fulham but that’s the next best thing, surely?

Potter still can’t break down organised teams and never will be able to.

Well he could, if he studied De Zerbi's methods and accepted that his style is inferior.
I suspect he may be too much of a narcissist, to do that though.