If you are unhappy with the club right now. Why?

[Commander]

nonsense boss ? you know it's the truth
regards
DR

It's modern football mate. The Albion are no worse than anyone else. At least you can strand in the North these days without being thrown out, that's better than a lot of grounds in the top two divisions these days.

 

[Return of the Rev]

that's nonsense mate. Your gripe is with modern football generally, not with the albion. We're no worse than anyone else for this, not at our level anyway.

it was not like this at boro in 74 we was real fans not stake holders!

 

[Return of the Rev]

it's modern football mate. The albion are no worse than anyone else. At least you can strand in the north these days without being thrown out, that's better than a lot of grounds in the top two divisions these days.

thats my point

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEzWdMlKj_Q​

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

It's modern football mate. The Albion are no worse than anyone else. At least you can strand in the North these days without being thrown out, that's better than a lot of grounds in the top two divisions these days.

really, all i see on here last season were complaints about stewards enforcing sitting in your seat IN THE NORTH , enjoy the Amex experience .
regards
DR

 

[Commander]

really, all i see on here last season were complaints about stewards enforcing sitting in your seat IN THE NORTH , enjoy the Amex experience .
regards
DR

Nope, that was the season before when that prick Hebbard was in charge. Last season was fine, I don't think I sat down in my seat all season. It's much better now.

 

[chaileyjem]

In the past 2 years we've signed ex Spanish and England internationals.

We haven't signed any ex-Spanish internationals in the last 2 years.
We've only, in the history of the club, ever signed one . Vicente.

Bridge and Upson are the only ex-England internationals we've signed/ loaned in the last 20+ signings in the last 3 years.

 

[AlastairWatts]

Other: We just sold our best player.

exactly

 

[Iggle Piggle]

We haven't signed any ex-Spanish internationals in the last 2 years.
We've only, in the history of the club, ever signed one . Vicente.

Bridge and Upson are the only ex-England internationals we've signed/ loaned in the last 20+ signings in the last 3 years.

I agree with all that. My point is that is a calibre of signing we have stepped back from all for good reasons I understand. I can't say I'm surprised some people react with Chris o ' who? when players even my wife have heard of have signed in the recent past.

Some were also making the point that the current transfer model has been in place for a long while. It hasn't been. We were dramatically overspending as recently as 2 years ago in part attributable to the players mentioned above.

 

[portslade seagull]

Nope, that was the season before when that prick Hebbard was in charge. Last season was fine, I don't think I sat down in my seat all season. It's much better now.

Has Hebbard gone ? didn't realise that if he has

 

[algie]

Has Hebbard gone ? didn't realise that if he has

I didn't either

 

[Commander]

Has Hebbard gone ? didn't realise that if he has

Yep. Did you not notice the difference in stewarding last season?

 

[portslade seagull]

Yep. Did you not notice the difference in stewarding last season?

Well that passed me by, was it a secretive departure

 

[chaileyjem]

I agree with all that. My point is that is a calibre of signing we have stepped back from all for good reasons I understand. .

Stepped back - ? Most of our signings in last 12 months- Hughes, Upson, ward, Lopez , Andrews, Agustien, Lingard were from prem clubs or have prem experience or from top tier leagues.
Or Stephens (charlton's player of the year)

Or promising youth international youngsters (Walton)

And we now have 3 current England u21s ; Dunk, march, JFC.
So youth set up is part of overall picture.

We struggled in Jan transfer window. Clay ton and Grabban might have made difference and Rodriguez was a ( garcia ?) oddity but he was only ever back up.

But has quality really dropped ?
Dicker, Navarro, painter, el abd etc all now L1 or out of contract players were in Poyet champ squads.

 

[Commander]

Well that passed me by, was it a secretive departure

I think it was a bit, it wasn't announced, anyway.

 

[Commander]

exactly

You are unhappy that we have just sold a player we paid 2.5 million Euros for for £8 million?

 

[BrianWade4]

Good example. Let me console you.

FOR SEVEN ****ING MILLION POUNDS. There ya go! No more reasons to be unhappy.

This. Daylight robbery. Great mugging off Leicester

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It's the slow but sure erosion of quality in the squad that concerns me. We're nowadays expected to rejoice if we balance the FFP books FFS.

 

[Beach Hut]

The way the club are working is within FFP which is mandated to be enforced so we will be a lot better off than most other clubs. What is not clear is whether FFP will actually be enforced, if it isn't I am confident then club will change tack if required.

 

[Beach Hut]

It's the slow but sure erosion of quality in the squad that concerns me. We're nowadays expected to rejoice if we balance the FFP books FFS.

So you were clearly happy with players like Hawkins and Elder ?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The way the club are working is within FFP which is mandated to be enforced so we will be a lot better off than most other clubs. What is not clear is whether FFP will actually be enforced, if it isn't I am confident then club will change tack if required.

If FFP isn't enforced, I'd expect the club to sue bigtime. Else we'll have lost so much ground to clubs that just ignored it.