[Albion] Happier?

[TSB]

Christ, all the grief I got about starting a Hughton out thread a few weeks ago and now everyone is magically happy now he’s gone and we have someone else in. Classic NSC

I can assure you that not everyone is.

 

[Bwian]

Happier especially as the new man has already quoted 3 things that were wrong and needed fixing

‘Players enjoying their football’

‘Play football in a positive way’

‘It’s my job to get the players to believe that they can go in to every match and win’

If he can deliver that will be even happier

None of those three things were evident during last season. Muted goal celebrations from some told a hidden story.

Happy even if it all goes tits up.

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[Bwian]

Top work. I'm glad you pulled him up for that.

That said, you could argue that the fear of a possible duff appointment was there even before CH was sacked. I confess I have thought about it.

It could also be argued that it doesn't really matter how we feel about this. Personally, I feel that I know nothing about what will happen.

The close season is so confusing.

Still, I voted for the best possible feeling. Partly because Potter seems like a great fit, and parly because I have just eaten a Barnsley chop and had a smashing VAT of wine. [emoji38]ol:[emoji106]

Edited for you Doc.



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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

You need to be a surgeon to get the best from that.

No. just a good cook. Which I am

 

[Hastings gull]

Christ, all the grief I got about starting a Hughton out thread a few weeks ago and now everyone is magically happy now he’s gone and we have someone else in. Classic NSC

Yes, I see what you are saying. I watched with interest all the polls as the season unfolded. First of all, the vast majority was aghast at the thought of sacking CH, but then how it changed with every one of those disastrous home defeats, as most fans became increasingly cheesed off with the defensive tactics employed against teams lower in the league than ourselves.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Bottom line is I trust Bloom. I've said a lot over on another thread and article but one thing to add is I know that I'd have been cheesed off just watching us barely survive on pragmatic rearguard actions. Bloom is a fan and must have been through those emotions too, but he gets to vote with his wallet, and has done in emphatic fashion.

 

[GloryDays]

A bit happier but with trepidation, mostly fearing an I-told-you-so brigade if it doesn’t work.

If people are still going on about Ashley Barnes can you imagine what they’ll do with this?

 

[Bwian]

I am happier than I was before because I had reckoned that CH had run his race,

Now looking forward to a new era with GP and to ( perhaps expectantly ) seeing some fire from one or two, or a few, who were utilised in weird positions and some, who were for us major signings, who didn't even get a sniff, and who probably have been scratching their heads as to why they signed in the first place.

It is the start of a new chapter and I am looking forward to not necessarily expansive football, but football focusing on a variety of strategies other than backs to the wall which some of us at least had become resigned to !

Re: 'some utilised in weird positions', be prepared for some of that with Potter if that lengthy article on another thread is anything to go by. Only an odd game here and there and always for a purpose. Should be fun.

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[On the way]

Less happy. I didn't like (still don't) the sacking of Hughton. last summer we bulked up the squad (without improving the team) - I was expecting/hoping for two or three class signings that would go straight into the first team and improve it, and we would kick on with Chris; however, it was not to be. At least we've got our new man in pretty sharpish, which is good - and I will support him, the team and the club - but I'm still waiting until I see actual evidence that TB hasn't made a gigantic mistake before I get excited.
I'm hoping to get won over in the next few months. Right now though I'm more doubtful than elated.

This, however welcome Graham Potter and good luck, UTA

 

[West Upper Seagull]

If the question was how do you feel compared to Tuesday morning, then happier is a given, because Potter is a more interesting signing than the ones you mention. But it's how you feel compared to before Hughton was sacked, so those other managers don't come into it.

Top work. I'm glad you pulled him up for that.

Trig - if you read the poll question more carefully it says “How do you feel AFTER the sacking of Chris Hughton and the appointment of Graham Potter” - so having answered this specific question I think my response is justified (and it is you who has mis-read the question) so those other managers I mentioned do come into it.

And of course how could I have missed Pardew off the list - the biggest bullet dodge of them all !

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Trig - if you read the poll question more carefully it says “How do you feel AFTER the sacking of Chris Hughton and the appointment of Graham Potter” - so having answered this specific question I think my response is justified (and it is you who has mis-read the question) so those other managers I mentioned do come into it.

And of course how could I have missed Pardew off the list - the biggest bullet dodge of them all !

Selectively quoted me there, to be fair.

 

[Conkers]

I can assure you that not everyone is.

Well according to the poll, you are in the minority at least.

 

[CaptainDaveUK]

Still a bit unhappier. I would have preferred Hughton to stay. Appointing Potter is a huge gamble but hopefully it will pay off.

 

[Giraffe]

Very happy. I reached the end of the season with my Albion mojo at a low point. The Premier League has largely been what I expected with a massive difference between the haves and the have nots. However I thought we would compete well with the bottom half because of our greater spirit. First season this happened but something got lost this season and I can only put that down to the manager and the new recruits and perhaps the way Hughton tried to give them a go.

Anyway he just got more and more negative the worse the results got. The run we had in January was always going to be difficult and I expected that but then we hit the “easy” games at home and we just didn’t turn up. Still don’t know why, but I suspect it’s because Hughton or the players under Hughton found it difficult to shift back to a positive approach after several games of being told to defend all the time.

Either way he just didn’t deliver the brand of football I want to watch and therefore I agree with the change. I also like the fact that Bloom wants to progress. He clearly isn’t happy to tread water - just staying up every season until we eventually go down. He wants better than that however hard that may be.

I think we are still on a journey of progression, how far can we go? We certainly have the people at the top to take us a long way that’s for sure.

 

[Nobby]

Happier now that we have a manager.

However, sad, that so many of my fellow Brighton fans seem to have forgotten three and a half years of success and turned on a dignified man who did a great job.

Many will be the same fans who turn on the new manager, if it goes wrong early next season.

Good luck to Graham Potter, and hope you are a great success at my club.

 

[West Upper Seagull]

Selectively quoted me there, to be fair.

Sorry, couldn’t resist as I was challenging what i’d been ‘pulled up’ for !

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Sorry, couldn’t resist as I was challenging what i’d been ‘pulled up’ for !

Selective quotes are the best quotes. Fact.

 

[um bongo molongo]

Based on the poll, there are certainly some “noisy” posters who are in the unhappy camp as the poll seems a lot more positive than the balance of the discussion on multiple threads.

 

[Brandyaitch]

Task 1 - get something positive out of Locadia, Jahanbakhsh and Andone
2 - Introduce some of the U23 squad into the first team so that TB hasn't wasted millions on the academy
3 - we already have 2 new signings in Argentina and Romania

If he can get that lot to work we have 7 or 8 'new' first team players at no cost

 

[b.w.2.]

Ecstatic!


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