In all honesty can you blame Coppell

[Goring Gull]

For wanting a move to Reading, who have a few quid to spend, potentially in the Premiership next year, decent stadium, Comnpared to no cash a tin pot athletics track home, and a stadium that may or may not happen.

Sad but true, if you wre Stevie what would you do?

 

[Bozza]

I'd be looking at houses in Berkshire before you could say "en-suite bathroom".

It's a job. He's been offered a better one. He'd be stupid not to go.

 

[Bozza]

I just hope Danny Cullip is not offered a new job sometime soon...

 

[Gary Nelson]

Iv thought that Coppell didnt want to manage in the Prem again due to all the stress involved. Ok Reading are not there yet but they stand a bloody good chance of getting there

 

[tedebear]

Is there no loyalty in football anymore - call me old fashioned or naive but how can someone sleep straight at night dumping a club mid season - I don't like it.... I don't like the fact that he even went up there for an interview mid season....he's doing so well for us and seemed to enjoy it!?!

 

[Italiaseagull]

No I don't blame Coppell, I blame Archer, Belotti, Stanley, Brighton & Hove City Council, The FA and anyone else who has f***ed about with this club of ours!

How come any other club can get planning permition and build a stadium within months, yet it's been 6 years odd since we left the Goldstone and we are no closer now than we were back then?

 

[BrightonBird]

Is there no loyalty in football anymore - call me old fashioned or naive but how can someone sleep straight at night dumping a club mid season - I don't like it.... I don't like the fact that he even went up there for an interview mid season....he's doing so well for us and seemed to enjoy it!?!

Your naive - as am I!

Before you know it, we'll only have Mayo and OGH left at the club. ArseReading would have brought all our other players.

 

[SK1NT]

Is there no loyalty in football anymore - call me old fashioned or naive but how can someone sleep straight at night dumping a club mid season - I don't like it....

spot on! yes its a better job!buts it nots all about how much more you can get from a club! being a football manager isnt just about the job, ur carrying the hopes and dreams of so many fans, young and old. Thats why there should be loyalty, finish what good you've started steve! ul be upsetting so many fans!

 

[tedebear]

glad you two agree with me - anyhow - this is all rather dissapointing - I'm just going to sit back and attempt to ignore the speculation and see what happens.....

 

[tinx]

I've been offered better jobs than wher I am now nut I enjoy my job, plenty of time on NSC and good people to work with. I have been offered better money in a nicer office but the atmosphere around the job here is great and I am happy.

Why can't SC tihnk the same way. Probably as he is a palace scummer

 

[CHAPPERS]

Football for the old skool managers (like what coppell really is) should be about loyalty, its not as much about business as it would seem.

If coppell leaves then i have no faith in anyone anymore.
Finish the job Steve, get us back into the first.

 

[Goring Gull]

No I don't blame Coppell, I blame Archer, Belotti, Stanley, Brighton & Hove City Council, The FA and anyone else who has f***ed about with this club of ours!

How come any other club can get planning permition and build a stadium within months, yet it's been 6 years odd since we left the Goldstone and we are no closer now than we were back then?

It's because it's Brighton. We are not a fashionable trendy club, not in the Premiership therefore the council don't want us as we don't fit in with this City by the Sea trendy London media wanker type image.

The Londoners come down whack up house prices and want to live in a nice area therefore the last thing they want is a whacking great footbal stadium in their back yard. They moan council think hey they bring all the money into the City don't want to upset them... No new stadium.

Life sucks, but hey this is Brighton greatest City in the country etc etc.

 

[Icy Gull]

Crewe have a manager who understands loyalty and can work on a shoestring- Dario Grady.
Shame we can't find a manager like him.

Coppell disappoints me, he went through all that shit and remained loyal to Palace and at the first whiff of a better job whilst he here he's gone.

 

[Soton Seagull]

Even though he hasn't gone yet, I am feeling really gutted. Can't blame him. Nice stadium and opiles of cash. He is a man of integrity and will make the right decision for himself and his family. If he goes, I for one wish him well and thank him for the work he has done. He has given us back our selfrespect after the Hinsh debacle. There will be a lot of Judas Palace nonsense type abuse directed at him. I will just try and remember a manager as good as Mickey Adams IMHO.

 

[jonnyboylennon]

Even though he hasn't gone yet, I am feeling really gutted. Can't blame him. Nice stadium and opiles of cash. He is a man of integrity and will make the right decision for himself and his family. If he goes, I for one wish him well and thank him for the work he has done. He has given us back our selfrespect after the Hinsh debacle. There will be a lot of Judas Palace nonsense type abuse directed at him. I will just try and remember a manager as good as Mickey Adams IMHO.

He is still leaving us mid season, which could possibly f*** our whole promotion campaign up.

What about players like Leon? he was obviously persuaded by Coppell to come. there is NO loyalty.

At the end of the day, if he leaves now what has he acheived really? f*** all, thats what.

He was at the helm when we went down. We were nearly saved, but we failed. He now WONT be in charge when (if?) we go up. Which means he is nobody, a f***ing money grabbing dirty scouse bastard.

no, I dont blame him either really, but i am so pissed off.

Especially with Madjeski. What a complete CHISLA

 

[Row Z Creased Shirt]

In my current mood I shall have to be uncharitable and say yes I can blame him.

Is he happy here or not? Since SC arrived things have actually improved at the club, we are giving ourselves every chance of promotion with a good start to the season, we are getting ever closer to a positive decision on Falmer. everyone is bouyant and looking forward to the future, but the first sniff of a new job and it's see you later.

Not only is he letting us down, he is letting the team that he has put together and regrouped in the most trying of circumstances. It has to be unsettling for the players to have a new manager every 12months. Is the Reading job really that good? Apologies to our berkshire buddies, but in terms of profile and stature they are not much bigger than ourselves. Just because they already have a big ground, and we don't have ours yet? Pah rubbish!

If he wasn't so bloody good at his job I wouldn't be this upset, but hopefully I'll calm down and take a more measured perspective later on, but for now I am fuming

 

[Josky]

Completely agree with those sentiments Row Z

Just think what a battering the player's confidence must be taken.

No wonder no one wants to move here when they see what's happening.

 

[Normandy seagull]

I thought he was meant to be high on morals

 

[Gwylan]

It's because it's Brighton. We are not a fashionable trendy club, not in the Premiership therefore the council don't want us as we don't fit in with this City by the Sea trendy London media wanker type image.

The Londoners come down whack up house prices and want to live in a nice area therefore the last thing they want is a whacking great footbal stadium in their back yard. They moan council think hey they bring all the money into the City don't want to upset them... No new stadium.

Hmm... if any team is fashionable and trendy, it's surely Brighton.

Nor do I swallow this idea that it's incomers from London who don't the stadium, they mainly settle in Dyke Road/Kemp Town/Queen's Park/Hanover areas; bet there aren't many in Falmer. Remember, most people in Brighton are behind the idea of a stadium.

I seem to remember a survey from last year that suggested that homes near to football grounds actually increased their price at a higher rate than the average. Anyone else recall this or did I dream it?

To go back to the original post, I don't think it's true to say that all other clubs have had an easy ride in getting their new grounds. Trying tell that to Arsenal or Everton...or Barnet for that matter.

 

[jonnyboylennon]

Or, indeed, Wimbledon.