[Albion] If Graham Potter is re-appointed...

[BBassic]

I'm so very confused how GPott has garnered an almost cult-like following. It's bizarre.

 

[Insel affe]

I'm so very confused how GPott has garnered an almost cult-like following. It's bizarre.

If you see who is in the cult it all makes perfect sense.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I'm so very confused how GPott has garnered an almost cult-like following. It's bizarre.

 

[Springal]

The Palace we beat 4-1? Good day that. How did they get on in Europe?

However, if the relationship was RDZ was as bad as is being put about maybe we should have got in first with Glasner using our foolproof succession plans.

Fantastic, but we still finished below them.

I agree, we should have got rid of RDZ after Rome and got Glasner in hindsight as you can be sure he’d have been on our radar. Instead we let our manager ‘dial it in’ (when he wasn’t at the dentist) and coast along for a few months

 

[Muhammad - I’m hard - Bruce Lee]

Most Albion fans would completely back him should he return. After a decent run of form, and particularly after a decent season, he should have the backing of 99.9% of the fans.

You can put me in the 0.1% then.
Said it before and I'll say it again:
I do not think the club are considering Potter, but if they were to appoint him, my ticket would be listed every single game until the bastard fucks off again.
Nothing to do with coaching ability, it's all about principles

 

[Guinness Boy]

Fantastic, but we still finished below them.

I agree, we should have got rid of RDZ after Rome and got Glasner in hindsight as you can be sure he’d have been on our radar. Instead we let our manager ‘dial it in’ (when he wasn’t at the dentist) and coast along for a few months

I think we can be overly loyal to coaches sometimes. Of course two of them haven't repaid it and both had the same initials on their tracksuit.

 

[Han Solo]

The irony and lack of self awareness in this post is delicious!

Nah I'm well aware of my GB side - love a bit of polemics and heated discussions.

You are right that many want someone with a bit of passion, and that dares to aim high, over someone who tries to minimise expectations, and wants the crowd to keep their mouths shut.
Its way more fun, and I think more likely to achieve something special.

Yup, many want that. Someone who says "my players aren't good enough". Someone who says "our owner isn't good enough if we don't come top 6". Someone who says "we need to spend more money than we can afford on assets chosen by God - me". And others don't want it because unreal expectations helps no one. The "special achievement" will be that the deluded dreamer gets to leave the club and be replaced by someone who lives in reality and know that success in a relatively small club is something you work for - often for a long time -, not something you buy and get instantly.

As for the crowd keeping their mouths shut... its not generally a massive issue at the Amex is it? When things go well its "Albion, Albion, Albion", when there's a former coach or player it's "boo" and when encountered with what every Englishman apparently believes is the peak football experience - getting a corner kick - you'll hear some roars. Obviously could be something wrong on my TV, but sound seems to work well when I watch Nottingham, Villa or Newcastle. Odd.

 

[Han Solo]

Most Albion fans would completely back him should he return. After a decent run of form, and particularly after a decent season, he should have the backing of 99.9% of the fans.

Just curious if you actually believe in the bullshit you're saying or if you're trying to wind up people already doing all they can to get up-winded.

 

[Mustafa II]

Just curious if you actually believe in the bullshit you're saying or if you're trying to wind up people already doing all they can to get up-winded.

Been an Albion/football fan long enough to know how fickle fans are.

All Albion fans want is success, and they would get behind anyone if they were decent enough and not a total dickhead - Potter is a good manager and good bloke. Of course fans would back him if he returned to do a good job, apart from that weird/stubborn 0.01% who have an irrational hatred and don't really understand why.

 

[Krafty]

You can put me in the 0.1% then.
Said it before and I'll say it again:
I do not think the club are considering Potter, but if they were to appoint him, my ticket would be listed every single game until the bastard fucks off again.
Nothing to do with coaching ability, it's all about principles

Hope he stays for a long time then, as I’ll gladly take your ticket

I’m still going to support my club, doesn’t matter about the manager.

 

[BrickTamland]

Massive extremes on both sides of the fence here. Who’d of thought it? This is usually such a rational place…

It’s all a moot point. He won’t be coming back because that’s not how Tony operates.

Spend your energy on who it will actually be (there are other names out there…) than getting in a tiff over nothing.

 

[Flounce]

Massive extremes on both sides of the fence here. Who’d of thought it? This is usually such a rational place…

It’s all a moot point. He won’t be coming back because that’s not how Tony operates.

Spend your energy on who it will actually be (there are other names out there…) than getting in a tiff over nothing.

Where’s the fun in not trying to point score and throw in some insults whilst doing it?

You’re right though, he’s not coming back but who cares, get stuck in

I’ll wade back in in the unlikely event that he does get presented as Albion manager though!

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

 

[Baldseagull]

Nah I'm well aware of my GB side - love a bit of polemics and heated discussions.

Yup, many want that. Someone who says "my players aren't good enough". Someone who says "our owner isn't good enough if we don't come top 6". Someone who says "we need to spend more money than we can afford on assets chosen by God - me". And others don't want it because unreal expectations helps no one. The "special achievement" will be that the deluded dreamer gets to leave the club and be replaced by someone who lives in reality and know that success in a relatively small club is something you work for - often for a long time -, not something you buy and get instantly.

As for the crowd keeping their mouths shut... its not generally a massive issue at the Amex is it? When things go well its "Albion, Albion, Albion", when there's a former coach or player it's "boo" and when encountered with what every Englishman apparently believes is the peak football experience - getting a corner kick - you'll hear some roars. Obviously could be something wrong on my TV, but sound seems to work well when I watch Nottingham, Villa or Newcastle. Odd.

The Amex is too quiet, you are right, and maybe I did Potter a disservice, he did actually get the Amex rocking once, by bringing his Billion quid squad down for a drubbing.
You seemed to have learned a bit from Potter, in alienation. It doesn't matter so much from you, no one gives a shit about you, but I don't want a head coach that alienates us, the people that buy the tickets, buy the shit from the club shop, and cheer a corner award.

 

[Han Solo]

It's noticeable that both Mustafa and Swansman never go to Brighton games (unless Mustafa was lying about giving up his ST on his old profile). Spending all day on the internet isn't quite the same as 3000 away fans, the coaches and the players going potty together at The City Ground.

Really hope to go to a game this season If you just let me live in your basement everything would be easier.

Been an Albion/football fan long enough to know how fickle fans are.

All Albion fans want is success, and they would get behind anyone if they were decent enough and not a total dickhead - Potter is a good manager and good bloke. Of course fans would back him if he returned to do a good job, apart from that weird/stubborn 0.01% who have an irrational hatred and don't really understand why.

Sure most fans are fickle but I'm sure there would be far more than 0.01% carrying some sort of Hiroo Onoda-mentality.

But yeah I'm going to follow @BrickTamland on this and put a snooze on Potter (!) until it stops being wild speculation. Its an awful lot of debate about someone who is probably no more than 5% likely to end up our next manager.

 

[Justice]

Have the Potter fans considered a situation where we haven’t won for the first six games of the season and only scored two goals.

All those on the fence about Potter would now be firmly off it and Bloom once again has to consider searching for a new manager. Over a year out of the game with a PL full of young ambitious managers with new ideas and tactics I can see Potter struggling.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Really hope to go to a game this season If you just let me live in your basement everything would be easier.

Sure most fans are fickle but I'm sure there would be far more than 0.01% carrying some sort of Hiroo Onoda-mentality.

But yeah I'm going to follow @BrickTamland on this and put a snooze on Potter (!) until it stops being wild speculation. Its an awful lot of debate about someone who is probably no more than 5% likely to end up our next manager.

The engagement numbers have been fantastic though, in a period where we'd normally just be discussing Nigel Farage, a transfer rumour started by someone who googled a player for five minutes and what everyone had for dinner. My bonus alone will be worth almost half a Mars Bar and I suspect Bozza will be thanking GPotty personally when he pays the mortgage off.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Potter in comparison did NOTHING wrong, but rather the opposite.

Mwahahahaha! Delusion level off the scale.

 

[Baldseagull]

Have the Potter fans considered a situation where we haven’t won for the first six games of the season and only scored two goals.

All those on the fence about Potter would now be firmly off it and Bloom once again has to consider searching for a new manager. Over a year out of the game with a PL full of young ambitious managers with new ideas and tactics I can see Potter struggling.

I am sure they have, and two of them would relish us turning on him, so they could tell us it was all our fault for not being supportive when it continues. If only we all just watched the game on the telly, alone, with a pizza and a spliff.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Nah, I don't think its a small proportion. I have no doubt that the eg the Twitter brain trust don't like Potter. The ca "70-30" polls are probably correct.

People who identify with Roberto De Zerbi, like you and THPP and a fair lot of others, didn't really like Potter to begin with because he's "soft", "yes man" etc. I don't think anyone has missed out on that your modus operandi in discussions and so forth are personal attacks, bullying, ridiculing, belittling and seeing yourself as a genius who can't be wrong. Thats pretty similar to RDZ. And FINALLY you, THPP and so forth found a manager who thinks he knows better than Tony does - just like you guys.

That type of personality is also the type of personality that dominates the social media landscape - people who build their persona and identity around being the "insatiable tough angry guy" and while you're right a signifcant proportion hate Potter, this "significant proportion" looks even bigger at platforms where the loudest and the angriest also talk the most.

Its fine. Not all personalities fit everyone. Some will identify more with tough-know-it-all-narcissists like Mourinho, Conte, De Zerbi and so forth, others will identify more with soft-I-want-to-thank-everyone-around-me like Klopp, Potter, Ranieri and so forth. Thats how it is.

But in the end, Tony knows that competence over time will override the strongest emotions in any direction. If results are good enough, most Potter-types will be willing to accept a 45-year-old lad who ran a fan page about himself and spends a lot of time in the mirror to fix his hair to make it "cool". And if the results are good enough, most De Zerbi types will be willing to accept someone looking and behaving like their former geography teacher.

I mean, lets face it. If we hire Rose West (ok slight exaggeration but you get the point) and win the league people would want her to stay another year. Nothing specific to Brighton - would be same in every club.

Surprised to read “soft” and “Potter” in the same sentence, particularly from you Swanny