I miss Poyet...

[Meade's Ball]

I feel rather naughty by saying it, but yes i do miss him. He was the figurehead for a glory age and i suppose i associate our rise from the ashes with his brand of cultured football and newfound multicultural chinwaggery. Obviously he wasn't the sole force that enabled this uplifting, but he was the general face and voice of it, and a slight sadness still lurks within me that it came to such a horrid end. That sadness is reinforced by limp and leaden performances like we've recently seen, that last night was copied by a crowd rarely fully in song. It feels like we're without a fantasy mission and we've all come to a bit of a standstill. I trust in Oscar though, and hope that soon his identity will be seen in his statements and in our play, perhaps like it did in those 10 special minutes against Bolton when everything seemed right and exciting. Although i do still wonder a tad whether that little spell seemed liked the us i've thought of and seen over the last few years rather than the new us that we all have to get used to.

 

[LamieRobertson]

About this time last year 1/1 home draw against Birmingham...poor performance....1/1 home draw Ipswich..poor performance..Derby away scraped a 0/0 draw...Middlesbro home 0/1 defeat....followed by a defeat at Leicester...there followed one 1/0 win and three draws...i wonder if you were feeling the love for Poyet then mister OP

 

[Plastic-Fantastic]

About this time last year 1/1 home draw against Birmingham...poor performance....1/1 home draw Ipswich..poor performance..Derby away scraped a 0/0 draw...Middlesbro home 0/1 defeat....followed by a defeat at Leicester...there followed one 1/0 win and three draws...i wonder if you were feeling the love for Poyet then mister OP

Exactly

 

[T soprano]

It's a bit like DR WHO - you'll get used to the new doctor soon after a few more episodes the regeneration process always takes a bit of time

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Poyet is Chelsea, Leeds.....etc, he is certainly not Brighton. I think Oscar will prove to be a better long-term bet. Who is going to bet against TB

 

[T soprano]

About this time last year 1/1 home draw against Birmingham...poor performance....1/1 home draw Ipswich..poor performance..Derby away scraped a 0/0 draw...Middlesbro home 0/1 defeat....followed by a defeat at Leicester...there followed one 1/0 win and three draws...i wonder if you were feeling the love for Poyet then mister OP

Bloody hell you've actually starting speaking sense since I was last on here

 

[Albion Dan]

I miss Poyet. Like a hole in the head.

I see the goldfish are out in force. There were many many games where Poyet sides under us played utter turgid boring dross to inferior sides. And better ones.

Poyet also NEVER faced an injury crises like the one currently dealt to Oscar. Some supporters are an embarrassment.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Bloody hell you've actually starting speaking sense since I was last on here

love u

 

[Albion Dan]

About this time last year 1/1 home draw against Birmingham...

Didnt Birmingham beat us? And they were bottom without a win!

 

[Deleted member 2719]

About this time last year 1/1 home draw against Birmingham...poor performance....1/1 home draw Ipswich..poor performance..Derby away scraped a 0/0 draw...Middlesbro home 0/1 defeat....followed by a defeat at Leicester...there followed one 1/0 win and three draws...i wonder if you were feeling the love for Poyet then mister OP

He he , good work that man.
Now go away poyet lickers and turn up with with some fire in yer belly for Saturday.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Didnt Birmingham beat us? And they were bottom without a win!

erm ..well spotted..0/1 kinda rams the point home...and i quite liked us under poyet but with us hitting a bad patch....erm 2 patchy performances.. (people forget the come back aganst Bolton and 2 creditable draws against Reading/QPR)...they seem to forget it wasnt all sweetness and light under Mr Poyet

 

[HenryC]

About this time last year 1/1 home draw against Birmingham...poor performance....1/1 home draw Ipswich..poor performance..Derby away scraped a 0/0 draw...Middlesbro home 0/1 defeat....followed by a defeat at Leicester...there followed one 1/0 win and three draws...i wonder if you were feeling the love for Poyet then mister OP

The style has gone, the optimism had gone, the belief has gone... A year ago we were playing some beautiful cultured stuff... Last night we looked desperate and incompetent... At the end of the day I want to see great football...

 

[Albion Dan]

. A year ago we were playing some beautiful cultured stuff... ..

Exactly a year ago we really werent you know. ... and we were getting worse results than the last two matches.

 

[Creaky]

But we were 5th in the league!

 

[Woodchip]

I missed Poyet when I threw an imaginary punch towards him. The man who heated Galilieo pizzas from the window seat, the man who convinced a (former global) superstar to join our motley bunch, the man who turned us in to a stubborn team from a shrinking violet, an organisation that could sell homosexuality to Uganda. He had a chance to grasp untold lands for our little club. He could have done it, but his porkly filled press reputation made him a fat man and we couldn't feed him.

He may have not moved on, but we have. Oscar should not be judged over a handful of games.

Meade's Ball, is that you?

 

[Bwian]

The style has gone, the optimism had gone, the belief has gone... A year ago we were playing some beautiful cultured stuff... Last night we looked desperate and incompetent... At the end of the day I want to see great football...

Then you clearly missed a lot of games with Poyet in charge. Did you enjoy the Bristol game last season where we couldn't manage one shot on target? That was beautiful cultured stuff alright. How about the FA Cup ties against Wrexham, Stoke, Liverpool, Woking? Really cultured stuff. I'm sure if you've attended most of the games that Poyet was in charge you'd know that some times he was actually not very good with his team selections and tactics but you know that really don't you?

Move On FFS and get behind the team.

 

[Bwian]

But we were 5th in the league!

But we didn't stay there.

 

[Scoffers]

Gus who?

I've moved on.

This

 

[Greg Bobkin]

I bet he doesn't miss us...

 

[Mo Gosfield]

The style has gone, the optimism had gone, the belief has gone... A year ago we were playing some beautiful cultured stuff... Last night we looked desperate and incompetent... At the end of the day I want to see great football...

Well your optimism and belief may have gone....mine hasn't.
There are a lot of posters on here who don't seem to acknowledge that there was football going on at BHA before Gus Poyet arrived. Years and years of it and at times it was pretty good. There are posters on here lauding Gus as the greatest BHA manager ever and nigh on irreplaceable.
He had two bites at the cherry at getting us promoted from the Championship. He underperformed in the first season ( 10th ) and blew it in the second. The first full season up was characterised by a succession of peaks and troughs. Winning runs followed by winless runs. We came out the traps full of confidence, like world beaters but we couldn't sustain it. Dogged by a blind devotion to one style of play, he was totally reliant on us taking the lead in games. Then, the players could knock the ball around slowly at the back and bore the opposition to death, by starving them of the ball. Not beautiful cultured stuff at times, just plain boring.
When we fell behind we couldn't react, couldn't chase the game. It was inevitable, too often.
Sometimes the players clicked, particularly last season, when we were stronger. The confidence flowed and so did the football. After Christmas, we were the best team in the division. We had the best back six. Solid keeper with top experience. Best LB by a country mile. Good centre-halves. One played and scored in the last World Cup. Best holding midfielder by a country mile. Then in came Ulloa and scored almost a goal a game. We should have gone up automatically but the managers innate caution resulted in many missed opportunities and a ridiculous 18 draws. We were as good as Cardiff and better than Hull. We made the play-offs. We were the form team and should have won the first leg at Selhurst. The manager settled for a draw and they lost their talisman ( Murray )
It was ours to win. Gus blew it because he put himself above the fans and team. The players knew he wasn't focussed, so is it any surprise they weren't. He couldn't knuckle down and devote himself totally to BHA. He threw a hissy fit and threw months of hard work and tens of millions of pounds out the window.
Thats his legacy. Ultimately, he wasn't good enough and he wasn't professional enough. For me, the jury is still out as to whether he can manage above the Championship and I believe a lot of Chairmen and owners out there are maybe thinking the same. Where is the rush for his services? He has been linked to a lot of clubs in the press but that is just presstalk.
I enjoyed a lot of Gus' tenure. The quick turnround and Div 1 title were no mean feat. The Championship was a mixture of joy and frustration and ultimately, missed opportunity.
Do I miss him...no. Would I want him back...no. Do I believe in Oscar...yes. Why?
Because I trust and believe in TB's judgement and share his vision and long-term goal. He hasn't invested all this just to chuck it away with a hasty and wrong choice as replacement for Gus. Because I believe what Spanish journo's write about OG, about his potential and standing in the game. If its good enough for them to talk about him as a future Barca manager, then thats good enough for me.
He will ultimately outperform Gus and achieve more.