[Albion] Graham Potter tells Brighton fans: Stop shouting 'shoot'... it's putting off our players

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

There's about 10 000 cities in the world and in 9999 of them people believe they should help their football teams to victories rather than sit and wait for the entertainment.

But dont worry, the manager will be on his way soon enough.

In Brighton owners, managers and players come and go, the only thing that remains consistent is the fans and the dust in the trophy room.

Ohhhh look its Swansman slagging off Brighton fans and talking out of his arse again.

We pay our money and are entitled to voice our opinions, you seem to think you can come on here and just slag off people who fought for the very existence of this club when you probably couldn't spot Brighton on a map. So reign it in a bit eh because it shows you really don't understand football fans and how we work. We might moan now but we will be there next week trying to get behind the team, if only they could give us something to get behind.

Oh and just to prove you are totally wrong about Brighton fans look at the ovation Neal Maupay was given when he was subbed off, he'd missed a penalty and was clearly dejected, but we were singing his name, to let him know we still love him.

 

[Justice]

I'd really like someone to do a study on the decibel levels in football grounds, over a season, and how they relate to on-field performance.

I would happily wager that most grounds are pretty quiet overall barring spikes for goals / contentious decisions / a bit of panto.

I don’t think you need the study we know what the results would be. People are living in a fantasy land if they think a run of games with one goal and no wins is going to get the crowd up. We go home £40+ lighter and the useless players are £40k richer funny old world.

 

[portslade seagull]

You're right. Same as the other rubbish teams.

https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/clubs/backward_pass

Not sure what your stating here. All those other rubbish teams score goals for fun, we however

 

[Originunknown]

There's about 10 000 cities in the world and in 9999 of them people believe they should help their football teams to victories rather than sit and wait for the entertainment.

But dont worry, the manager will be on his way soon enough.

In Brighton owners, managers and players come and go, the only thing that remains consistent is the fans and the dust in the trophy room.

See 00/01, 01/02 and 10/11 for recent trophies which won't be that dusty, magical seasons in their own rights.

 

[Swansman]

Well, that's sort of the point. People who spend all day on Insta dripping in money or hanging around night clubs in Brighton getting into trouble tend not to be well loved.

Players like Wardy, Nelson and Keeley in the late 80s, Johnny Byrne, any of the players who truly tried to keep the team in the league like Storer, Mayo and Reinalt or those like Zamora, Cullip or Watson who ran out of Portakabins, over a running track and out in front of 6000 people they couldn't hear and still won trophies? Definitely loved.

Your average fan these days has absolutely zero in common with the players and most clubs who are renowned for their intimidating atmosphere are either doing it all for their own ego (Newcastle) or a shadow of their intimidating past (Millwall for example).

So your obsession with results is a consequence of needing the thrill of a win to forget that your club is buried beneath some retail park or leisure center?

First it was a history lesson and now it's this nonsense. Maybe he's trying the Ferguson tactic of taking flak publically to distract from the failings of the team?

Or maybe he's just in need of a history lesson of where his career was going before we bafflingly decided to appoint him as manager.

First a history lesson and now a reading lesson... will separate the literate from the illiterate.

His career was going very well by the way, getting praise from pretty much every direction.

 

[pure_white]

Whilst I appreciate anyone can twist the words and its open to some interpretation, some is also crystal clear and it looks very desperate when you consider WTF do you expect fans to do sit quietly and clap?

 

[doogie004]

Has Potter failed ? Blimey.
He's kept Albion in the Premier League. For three years now.
That might be failure for some - perhaps even Bloom might have run out of patience - but then Dyche (relegation probably x 2 ) and Howe (relegation) must also be top level failures let alone all the managers who couldn't keep their teams out of the bottom three or stay in the PL for longer than a season or two.

Hughton got sacked for keeping Brighton in the prem for two seasons


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[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

See 00/01, 01/02 and 10/11 for recent trophies which won't be that dusty, magical seasons in their own rights.

Although it's depressing, calling 00/01 'recent' is the same as someone in the that season calling 1980 a recent season.

 

[Originunknown]

Although it's depressing, calling 00/01 'recent' is the same as someone in the that season calling 1980 a recent season.

Depends how old you are, doesn't feel like that long ago to me. Same century

 

[Springal]

Hughton got sacked for keeping Brighton in the prem for two seasons


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Yes but Hughton did nothing to address having one of the oldest squads in the league. Ignored the academy. And had lost the dressing room. Potter may well be doing the last, but he's certainly given Tony more than his money - and that's without the £32M of failures signed on Hughton watch

 

[chaileyjem]

Hughton got sacked for keeping Brighton in the prem for two seasons

Harshly if you'd asked me. I'd have given him another season.

 

[Swansman]

Ohhhh look its Swansman slagging off Brighton fans and talking out of his arse again.

We pay our money and are entitled to voice our opinions, you seem to think you can come on here and just slag off people who fought for the very existence of this club when you probably couldn't spot Brighton on a map. So reign it in a bit eh because it shows you really don't understand football fans and how we work. We might moan now but we will be there next week trying to get behind the team, if only they could give us something to get behind.

Oh and just to prove you are totally wrong about Brighton fans look at the ovation Neal Maupay was given when he was subbed off, he'd missed a penalty and was clearly dejected, but we were singing his name, to let him know we still love him.

Paying money is voluntary.

I'm frustrated as well and want the team to do well. So when people twist and turn everything about the club into the most negative angle they can invent, they create additional unnecessary negativity that doesnt help. I'm sure some of you will get behind the team if this if that while some will do it regardless if this if that.

It was a fantastic thing from those who showed Maupay support, it will help him and the team.

 

[MJsGhost]

Although it's depressing, calling 00/01 'recent' is the same as someone in the that season calling 1980 a recent season.

To carry on an interesting tangent, I find it mind-blowing to think that when I was a nipper in the 80s, the music my parents listened to (60s stuff) was only 20 years before - at the time it seemed like the OLDEST stuff in the world, from a time long forgotten.

To me now, music from the 90s seems like yesterday and it was THIRTY years ago. It's the equivalent of my parents listening to 50s music

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

it shows you really don't understand football fans and how we work.

Can you add me to that camp. For example, this thread.

Comments by our manager (who you would assume we would want to do well), completely twisted to turn into a negative which people seem desperate to take personally.

Football fans are weird.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Maybe I'll leave it...

 

[Guinness Boy]

So your obsession with results is a consequence of needing the thrill of a win to forget that your club is buried beneath some retail park or leisure center?

I'm trying to work out if that's the worst thing you've ever posted on here. Or if that was the sex dungeon. Or the ones where you talked about carrying a knife and wanting to kill people. Or the anti-sematic conspiracy theory links maybe? But you carry on insulting people if it fills your day.

 

[SAC]

This "argument" always makes me chuckle.

We have players on £30K A WEEK and upwards who are paid those ridiculous sums to perform and provide us, the fans, with entertainment. That is what we pay our hard earned cash for.

When we have a manager who seems incapable of giving us entertainment and performance it's the fans fault for not making enough noise.

You couldn't make it up.

Not that it is completely relevant to the discussion but the average wage is now £50,601 according to the latest accounts! £30k was pre PL days.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

To carry on an interesting tangent, I find it mind-blowing to think that when I was a nipper in the 80s, the music my parents listened to (60s stuff) was only 20 years before - at the time it seemed like the OLDEST stuff in the world, from a time long forgotten.

To me now, music from the 90s seems like yesterday and it was THIRTY years ago. It's the equivalent of my parents listening to 50s music

I love a thread derailment. I will take that even further. Both Mrs T and I love some music from the late 70s and early 80s that could have been made yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyS4IizIu0E

In contrast in 1980, music from 42 years earlier, 1938 . . . . doesn't bare thinking about.

 

[MJsGhost]

I love a thread derailment. I will take that even further. Both Mrs T and I love some music from the late 70s and early 80s that could have been made yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyS4IizIu0E

In contrast in 1980, music from 42 years earlier, 1938 . . . . doesn't bare thinking about.

The day the Beatles released St Pepper's is closer to Queen Victoria being alive than to today.

 

[Justice]

Not that it is completely relevant to the discussion but the average wage is now £50,601 according to the latest accounts! £30k was pre PL days.

I was reading something the other day that mentioned Wolves have a lower wage bill than us, if it’s true then fair play to them they have a team of decent hardworking players. Don’t score to many like us but don’t seem to have the dramatic loss of form every couple of months.