[Albion] Imagine What We Could 'Of' Had...

[jcdenton08]

And another chance for the Potter and RDZ evangelist to take their arguments for a spin.

Everyone's a winner

Yeah, but he doesn’t actually believe it. It’s just a bit of Christmas fun, gave everyone a good laugh in a quiet time on the board while we spend Christmas with loved ones.

He only worked himself into a shoot with comments which question his actual beliefs, in some of the replies.

I’m sure it was funnier when he was drunk, but it’s a nice little troll thread and it has my backing.

 

[Zeberdi]

You might have overdone your Scottish whiskey this year i think.

I dunno, HS on the whacky backy, THPP on the Whiskey, one a RDZ babe another a Potter babe, both trolling out of boredom I suspect and having a jolly good wind up - this thread is Boxing Day gold.

 

[Ike and Tina Burner]

Cool story. You can write a fan fiction about a world where Pascal Gross and Alexis Mac Allister decide who is a great manager for Brighton.

In the non-fictional world, the people who actually works for the club decided that Roberto wasn't great enough to keep his job, so he had to leave it. Your argument kind of loses power when this tearful fanboyism (I actually couldn't ever reach this level) meets the reality where I shared the "get rid"-corner with no other than Tony Bloom.

Let's be real, he was given the boot because he went off message a few times and was obviously bitter about some of the squad building descisions. This is Bloom's club and it's his way or no way (which is fair enough). We both know there is absolutely no chance Bloom would have sacked him had he not ventured off the reservation too much. Finishing midtable and reaching the Europa last 16 was completely acceptable with the squad we had, before even mentioning the injuries.
Your talentless hack of a PE teacher had 2 worse seasons with a much better group and Bloom kept the faith.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Let's be real, he was given the boot because he went off message a few times and was obviously bitter about some of the squad building descisions. This is Bloom's club and it's his way or no way (which is fair enough). We both know there is absolutely no chance Bloom would have sacked him had he not ventured off the reservation too much. Finishing midtable and reaching the Europa last 16 was completely acceptable with the squad we had, before even mentioning the injuries.
Your talentless hack of a PE teacher had 2 worse seasons with a much better group and Bloom kept the faith.

Almost, although I would have gone with talentless, charisma-free hack of a PE teacher who’s barely worked since.

 

[warmleyseagull]

Didn't exactly help us in January 2024 when RDZ had an injury list as long as his arm and had secured our place in the last 16 of a major European competition

Maybe th

Didn't exactly help us in January 2024 when RDZ had an injury list as long as his arm and had secured our place in the last 16 of a major European competition

Maybe TB learnt the lesson and realised need for larger squad. RDZ never gave him the chance

Didn't exactly help us in January 2024 when RDZ had an injury list as long as his arm and had secured our place in the last 16 of a major European competition

 

[GT49er]

You might have overdone your Scottish whiskey this year i think.

Whiskey? I doubt it. He's Scottish, not Irish.

 

[GT49er]

Not before getting us to the last 16 of the Europa League. That’s the standard now. It was 13th in the top flight,

(Under Potter)

then 9th,

(Under Potter)

(and then finally 6th

(in a season when the new manager came in to take over a team firing on all cylindars; the Potter/de Zerbi season)

with a decent European campaign to follow.

(Up until we met the wrong team, and played them with the wrong tactics)

Meanwhile Potter was getting himself sacked from a billion pound spending big six team in less time and with a lower win ratio.

Same fate as befell the current England manager and the highly rated (over-rated IMHO) Pochettino.........










.......and your point is? What, precisely? Potter was shit, and RDZ single-handedly saved the cub from reverting to playing at Gillingham MkII? TB and PB are actually shit because they fired a genius manager who could have taken us to unimaginable heights if he'd been allowed to take over complete control of the club, or at least the recruitment side with no financial restrictions?
Hope Hurzeler does well - not entirely convinced yet - but all this, 'If only we'd given in to de Zerbi, he was god incarnate, and we'd be heading for the Champions League by now if we'd given in to his every whim' is, frankly, sickening sycophancy. Grow up!
Potter did good - but not perfect; de Zerbi was good - but not god almighty either. It's not a binary choice as to who was good and who was bad between Potter and de Zerbi - it never was, apart from a few idiots.

 

[Guinness Boy]

(Under Potter)

(Under Potter)

(in a season when the new manager came in to take over a team firing on all cylindars; the Potter/de Zerbi season)

(Up until we met the wrong team, and played them with the wrong tactics)

Same fate as befell the current England manager and the highly rated (over-rated IMHO) Pochettino.........










.......and your point is? What, precisely? Potter was shit, and RDZ single-handedly saved the cub from reverting to playing at Gillingham MkII? TB and PB are actually shit because they fired a genius manager who could have taken us to unimaginable heights if he'd been allowed to take over complete control of the club, or at least the recruitment side with no financial restrictions?
Hope Hurzeler does well - not entirely convinced yet - but all this, 'If only we'd given in to de Zerbi, he was god incarnate, and we'd be heading for the Champions League by now if we'd given in to his every whim' is, frankly, sickening sycophancy. Grow up!
Potter did good - but not perfect; de Zerbi was good - but not god almighty either. It's not a binary choice as to who was good and who was bad between Potter and de Zerbi - it never was, apart from a few idiots.

Wrong. 13th was Mike Bailey. Potter managed to finish below that arch bore twice.

 

[pocketseagull]

He really did not.
He had the same view on splashing unlimited amouts of cash as some fans, but that isn't the same thing.

He massively raised our standing as a club. We turned from a twitter joke - Brighton & XG Albion - to a top 6 side. RDZ was seen as an innovator changing the game and he was doing it with us. Incredible.

 

[Brian Fantana]

I absolutely wouldn't. Man is a complete knob and has shown that at Marseille with his requests for and defence of those investigated for rape and sexual abuse.

Out of interest, how many more times are you going to make the same point on this thread?

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

In answer to the question, i believe that De Zerbi, with a plethora of wingers available to him, would have us higher in the table than we are now. But perhaps not that much higher, unless he added a bit more variety to his game.

The main reason for our dire form in the second half of the season was lack of adequate cover in key positions, out wide especially. But that didn't mean he was perfect, he still occasionally did weird, costly things (Roma selection, Luton away). He was too gobby for our own good and if he had a problem with us signing young players with a view to develop and sell, then it was never going to work out.

Most of the people really laying into him on here though have an agenda, mainly because they still have a bizarre hard-on for the guy who left over 2 years ago and destroyed his reputation in the process.