David Stockdale: "We're not in a relegation fight"

[spanish flair]

He may be saying that. He may very well be saying that.

But he has said it in a way that suggests arrogance and complacency.

Confidence in his team mates is all well and good, but to suggest that we will pull clear if we play like we did against Millwall - well, that's a little bit stupid, isn't it? He must know that a massive improvement is needed, and if he thinks that we haven't noticed this too, well, he is deluded and thick.

It's a tad annoying to see what is happening, but to hear everyone in the club suggesting that all is well, and nothing needs to change.

This is the part that I find unbelievably worrying and frightening. And this attitude will lose the guys at the top any respect or credibility they currently have.

 

[inland seagull]

Mandy Rice Davies has just died, so I suppose he would say that wouldn't he?

 

[peterward]

No. The usual "we're in a bad place but we think we have what it takes to get out of it" type stuff. Denial of being in a relegation scrap and referring to this run as a "bad spell" is stretching it all a bit.

And after the soothing waters of your "calm down Tuesday" thread, its full on back to the blood boiling battlefronts of Saturday.


OUT

 

[Working class pride]

Mandy Rice Davies has just died, so I suppose he would say that wouldn't he?

Yes seems very apt.

 

[peterward]

Treating us like idiots, why not say we're in a relegation battle so we're going to get stuck in and give 110% ?

just shut up, pay your money, take your seat and do as your told

 

[kevtherev]

That's exactly the attitude that is the reason we are in the shite...It seems everyone at the club is deluded, from the chairman,manager,right through to the players...club is dreaming, but it's our nightmare and we are heading straight for relegation.

 

[Northstander]

FAO of Brighton and Hove Abion

Definition of promotion and relegation courtesy of Wiki:


In sports leagues, promotion and relegation is a process where teams are transferred between two divisions based on their performance for the completed season. The best-ranked teams in the lower division are promoted to the division above, and the worst-ranked teams in the higher division are relegated to the division below.

In some leagues, play-offs or qualifying rounds are also used to determine rankings. This process can continue through several levels, with teams being exchanged between levels 1 and 2, levels 2 and 3, levels 3 and 4, and so on.

During the season, teams that are high enough in the table that they would qualify for promotion are sometimes said to be in the promotion zone, and those at the bottom are in the relegation zone (or, colloquially, the drop zone).

 

[perseus]

Fulham weren't in a relegation fight last season. A relegation non-fight.

 

[BINNEYS BOOTS]

Could someone please gently take the newspaper from him, turn it the right way up and give it back to him?

 

[Beach Hut]

One of our previous players quoted "procrastination is the thief of time" so perhaps wind the clock forward to the inevitable outcome given current attitudes and thought processes.

 

[albie_noobs]

Could someone please gently take the newspaper from him, turn it the right way up and give it back to him?

 

[WhingForPresident]

What a load of SHIT.

Are Bloom and Barber taking tips from the North Korean regime?

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Now Gordon tells us that ALL the players are behind Sami, and that they believe he is the Messiah...or something.

http://www.seagulls.co.uk/news/article/brighton-hove-albion-gordon-greer-sami-hyypia-2155387.aspx

 

[Seasider78]

 

[Surf's Up]

Now Gordon tells us that ALL the players are behind Sami, and that they believe he is the Messiah...or something.

http://www.seagulls.co.uk/news/article/brighton-hove-albion-gordon-greer-sami-hyypia-2155387.aspx

Smacks either of Jonestown or its a conspiracy of incompetence. Or both.

 

[somerset]

Today's complete-and-utter-bollocks quote from the Amex comes from David Stockdale...

1. “We’re not in a relegation fight." - yes, yes we are.

2. "I firmly believe that. If we keep playing and getting in the positions we did on Friday, with the talent we’ve got we’ll come through it." - we were utter toilet on Friday. More of the same is an express journey to relegation central.

3. “Everyone goes through bad spells and hopefully our good spell will come from now till the end of the season." - a bad spell? A bad spell? Really?

"Utter toilet" .... <chuckle>.... just about as colourful and accurate a description as any I have seen so far this season.

 

[Silent Bob]

Stockdale showing the kind of judgement and decision making that has firmly established him as our third best keeper.

 

[jay d]

Whats the odds that every other team who are in a relegation fight , past and present, have players come out and say exactly the same sort of thing.
he's hardly going to come out and say, sorry guys me and the rest of the team feel that we could be destined to lge 1. Unfortunately we are really strugling at the moment and we just don't think that the way we are playing we can stay up. Is he ?

 

[murraymints4brighton]

The club is just a big load of corporate, nonsensical ramblings now. It's so beyond belief what these players are saying I wouldn't be surprised if it is some kind of media spin forced upon them by the suits.

 

[Silent Bob]

Whats the odds that every other team who are in a relegation fight , past and present, have players come out and say exactly the same sort of thing.
he's hardly going to come out and say, sorry guys me and the rest of the team feel that we could be destined to lge 1. Unfortunately we are really strugling at the moment and we just don't think that the way we are playing we can stay up. Is he ?

You'd think he couldn't come out and say that, but given what he has come out and said you never know. What a shame that those are literally the only two possible things to say in this situation.