[Albion] Is This the Best Brighton Have Ever Been?

[Southy]

I can't say whether this is the best ever team, although I think the squad overall is our best-ever. However this era is obviously the best. For us old lags (since 1966 for me) it's breathtakingly, unbelievably brilliant. It wasn't so long ago that we used to refer to the Mullery era and those four seasons we spent hanging onto our 1st division status by the skin of our teeth as the 'Glory Years'. And standing with a few thousand other deluded souls on the terraces of Priestfield at the foot of the fourth division I really did think they would never return. Certainly not in my lifetime.

However I would argue that the gap between the Albion now and the Albion at the start of the Amex era is as big as the gap between 2011 and 1997. Our progress has been stratospheric. When we moved into the Amex we would have been happy just to become an established Championship club, let alone a club who are being talked about as possible Champions' League qualifiers. (A remote possibility perhaps but still a possibility). We've got top internationals and our players are coveted by the Big Six clubs. We've come a long way from singing "Dale Stevens we want you to stay!"

And Craig Noone going crazy about playing Liverpool away in the cup...

 

[zefarelly]

Where RDZ added to potter was picking Mitoma straightaway. Also Solly. The rest was basically already in place.

And telling them to shoot if they felt like it.

 

[zefarelly]

All those years of playing 'my best Albion 11' have gone out the window. For the past 3 years my best Albion 11 is that week's team sheet.

With the added bonus of 5 bonus players . . . . I don't think we've started a best 11 for a while, but we have the option to go full on 70's glam roller disco if required. . . And it usually works.