I thought the North Stand was our most vocal proper fans ! Might as well move back to Withdean
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[Albion] Does football need more De Zerbis or more Barbers?
- Thread starter Guinness Boy
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Weststander
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(Said from my sofa
) it sounded spine tingling over the radio. I was surprised huge numbers stayed after a closing defeat.ROSM
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I was surprised by the reaction. Having looked here and social media last 24 hrs I expected people to be grateful but not 'backing' him. The chant wasn't what I expected and the look at the directors box it wasn't what they expected either.
I thought his speech showed class.
I thought his speech showed class.
KZNSeagull
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- Nov 15, 2006
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If he wanted to stay he should not have been so critical in the media of the man who pays his wages. Maybe he’ll think before he speaks in his next job. Struck me as a bit of a loose cannon in his last few months here.
AZ Gull
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Weststander
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Not for the first time, it revealed that social media really is totally unrepresentative of the greater public.
Always a good example to use. Pre RDZ, Solly often faced much venom here if he missed a chance, hyperbolic and bitter “what exactly does EFL quality March offer? He’s shit”. Then at the next Amex game, all naturally, thousands would stand and sing his chant, as he warmed up as a sub.
Weststander
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Sofa in Arizona?
Dave the OAP
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At the end of the day there are hundreds of thousands of Paul Barber’s of this world and depending on your point of view and politics, you either laud them or not.
at the end of the day our club is run like a multi national business who has a single shareholder who in effect owns the club and he has a team like barber and the postmaster guy to run it like the business that it is.
On the other hand you have passionate artists who have visions of how the game should be played and as in RDZ they will develop a tremendous winning style of play that other teams will have to copy and because they have far more money than us, will get in better players to play it and clubs like ours will have to redefine ourselves and hope that a RDZ thinker is out there somewhere.
the trick is now to find someone and their team who will take us further than RDZ a has done, which is back into Europe, therefore a top 5 or 6 position. Can we do that in the next couple of seasons, I very much doubt if RDZ wanted new players to do that with him and the club obviously didn’t match his ambition/ costing etc. remember we have basically dismantled our scouting system with the loss of winstanly and the guy who went to Chelsea.
ok now we have done and dusted this season, I have thought since the away game at ROMA that the early and middle part of the season in Europe was the best it was going to get for the foreseeable future.
so to answer the other post, my mojo is very much that we have seen the best and this is a hell of a down at the moment.
still we have a tour of Japan to look forwards to and of course watching Pascal, Billy and Undav in the euros
at the end of the day our club is run like a multi national business who has a single shareholder who in effect owns the club and he has a team like barber and the postmaster guy to run it like the business that it is.
On the other hand you have passionate artists who have visions of how the game should be played and as in RDZ they will develop a tremendous winning style of play that other teams will have to copy and because they have far more money than us, will get in better players to play it and clubs like ours will have to redefine ourselves and hope that a RDZ thinker is out there somewhere.
the trick is now to find someone and their team who will take us further than RDZ a has done, which is back into Europe, therefore a top 5 or 6 position. Can we do that in the next couple of seasons, I very much doubt if RDZ wanted new players to do that with him and the club obviously didn’t match his ambition/ costing etc. remember we have basically dismantled our scouting system with the loss of winstanly and the guy who went to Chelsea.
ok now we have done and dusted this season, I have thought since the away game at ROMA that the early and middle part of the season in Europe was the best it was going to get for the foreseeable future.
so to answer the other post, my mojo is very much that we have seen the best and this is a hell of a down at the moment.
still we have a tour of Japan to look forwards to and of course watching Pascal, Billy and Undav in the euros
AZ Gull
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Was probably the most dissent I’ve seen toward Bloom / Barber for some time, maybe everThose who stayed behind in the North Stand were pretty clear what they wanted.
He didn't say he didn't want to, he said " we couldn't find a way forward"....and "I want to play my way".....sounds like had he been given those things, he would have stayed?
KZNSeagull
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Meaning his way and our way are no longer compatible. A mutual decision to leave in this case sounds like it actually was.
Justice
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How you can assume from that he wanted to go makes no sense...Sounds like he was in discussions about the way forward....surely someone who wanted to go would have just walked....
Boos on some reference to failing to agree a deal with RdZ and just generally chanting that they wanted him to stay
- Nov 15, 2006
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If he could run the show with TB paying the bills I am sure he would
Divisive question. Yeah let's have more people running a club badly cos thats worked an absolute treat at Brighton down the years. Of course once you get that side of things right then everyone wants to be entertained by the football side of things. And I think the North Stand were doing what any fan base would do in that circumstance and showing support for the man in front of them who has given us some of the best times. Not really the time to chant "we want you to stay (if you work to our model, sort out a Plan B, stop rotating goalkeepers and stop whinging)" Doesn't quite have the same ring to it and I think the long chant of Tony Bloom's Blue and White army from all sides of the ground told its own story.
