sussex_guy2k2
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- Jun 6, 2014
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Until the home win over West Ham on 3rd February, there was three months of gloom and moaning about CH, which also resurfaced for 2 months after the Arsenal win. A typical argument was that Bmuff and Hudd have a good go each each match, some saying they'd prefer that over their perception of CH's football.
A couple of key things this season; we miss Gross, plus several opponents have gone mad spending £100m plus on quality, making those matches far harder than they would've been otherwise. West Ham, Fulham, Wolves and Everton have spent like there's no tomorrow. At the moment, our sensible money approach means that we're unable to match these clubs in midfield and creativity. CH has had to go about gaining points with a pragmatic approach.
I don't live in Brighton and I had zero expectations last year, so maybe I just didn't get that same feel. I certainly never felt the doom and gloom. But I also didn't see anywhere near as much negativity from the team in the home performances I saw last year
I agree we miss Gross, although I think that Gross did relies on us being higher up the pitch - without movement and pace around him, he struggles to really influence games. But maybe CH feels that, without his creativity, we don't have enough of a link to Murray to justify pushing the team higher up the pitch...