[Albion] “It’s exciting to be a Brighton fan at the moment”

[banjo]

Especially when the commentator said if we were wearing sky blue you could mistake us as watching Man City.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Dicking around at the back is just about the first thing you get taught not to do in junior school football. It's all risk, minimal reward. Not a lot has changed since junior school football

I don't think you will win this argument. But kudos for keeping it going.

 

[Whitechapel]

Yes indeed. It's an utterly fatuous line of thinking

Unfortunately despite watching the game for decades and posting about it online for years some people actually don’t understand the game at all beyond the very basics.

That and the fact some people need to feel like they were always right means our style of football could lead us to the Europa League and people on here would moan that if we’d done things differently we might have made the Champions League.

There are people on this forum who think ‘drawing the press’ results in a sketch of a journalist, and sadly that’ll never change.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Hasn't it always been exciting to be a Brighton Fan

I think what he meant to say was 'It's pleasurable being a Brighton fan at the moment'

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

If you hoof the ball and their CBs win the ball and they score 20 seconds later, the just-hoof-it-strategy costs just as much as if you f*** up playing it from the back and they score 5 seconds later.

It seems Pep Guardiola, GP, Klopp, Arteta, De Zerbi and so forth have realised this, and there is a small chance that some or all of these might have more knowledge about the game than your junior school football coach.

I'm pretty sure that if you sat any proven EPL defender down and asked them (under cloak of anonymity) whether their preference is to clear their lines or dick around at the back, then the vast majority would opt for the former. It's what every defender always got taught all the way through their formative years until it's instinctive. Fair play to them tho for following orders to the contrary, even tho dicking around at the back clearly goes against the grain and few look comfortable doing it

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Simply magnificent.

Shame about Caciedo, but opportunity for Gilmour.

How good was Gross?

 

[WATFORD zero]

I'm pretty sure that if you sat any proven EPL defender down and asked them (under cloak of anonymity) whether their preference is to clear their lines or dick around at the back, then the vast majority would opt for the former. It's what every defender always got taught all the way through their formative years until it's instinctive. Fair play to them tho for following orders to the contrary, even tho dicking around at the back clearly goes against the grain and few look comfortable doing it

You know those astronauts who used to go into deep hibernation for years in those old sci fi movies to distant planets ?

That's you, that is

 

[Lever]

This is a very special time to be an Albion supporter and I really appreciate it.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

You know those astronauts who used to go into deep hibernation for years in those old sci fi movies to distant planets ?

That's you, that is

You mean the ones that come back from the future and openly mock the long-discredited historical fad for dicking around at the back?

That's me, that is

 

[Swansman]

I'm pretty sure that if you sat any proven EPL defender down and asked them (under cloak of anonymity) whether their preference is to clear their lines or dick around at the back, then the vast majority would opt for the former. It's what every defender always got taught all the way through their formative years until it's instinctive. Fair play to them tho for following orders to the contrary, even tho dicking around at the back clearly goes against the grain and few look comfortable doing it

Umm no, because most PL defenders didn't grow up playing in 1960s England.

Its not what every defender got taught that they should do. You think Ajax told a nine-year-old Veltman to just kick the ball as far as he could? They didn't.
You think Chelseas obscenely expensive academy with coaches from all over the world wanted a 8-year-old Levi Colwill to just kick the ball into the opposing half any time he got it? They didn't.

You are wrong. As always. Because there exists a world in which where you are not the centre of the universe, and in that world not everything works as it did for you back in 1967.

 

[Guinness Boy]

I'm pretty sure that if you sat any proven EPL defender down and asked them (under cloak of anonymity) whether their preference is to clear their lines or dick around at the back, then the vast majority would opt for the former. It's what every defender always got taught all the way through their formative years until it's instinctive. Fair play to them tho for following orders to the contrary, even tho dicking around at the back clearly goes against the grain and few look comfortable doing it

But it’s not dicking around. It has a purpose. The only purpose of hoofing it clear is to lose the ball.

Pub centre backs may prefer to hoof it but I’m pretty sure when you’re good enough to play professionally you want to play football, not whack it willy nilly. And, as a former pub centre back I used to love opponents just hoofing it. Guaranteed we’d get a throw and be able to start another attack or it was going to be a nice header to win instead of being out of position or dumped on my backside

 

[Popeye]

It really is. Not been a supporter as long as practically everyone else on here haha, so can't really say about bad times were in the past pre Bloom and such. However, in the short amount of time I have been a fan, this is the most excited that I have found myself. The sky's the limit with RDZ and TB in control I fully mean that. If you can't get excited now as an Albion fan, than you never will.

 

[Stat Brother]

Charlton had a feel of a pre-season game where they were slightly ahead of us in their preparations for the new season.

There was more than a touch of preseason friendly to today's opponents, as well.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

I'm pretty sure that if you sat any proven EPL defender down and asked them (under cloak of anonymity) whether their preference is to clear their lines or dick around at the back, then the vast majority would opt for the former. It's what every defender always got taught all the way through their formative years until it's instinctive. Fair play to them tho for following orders to the contrary, even tho dicking around at the back clearly goes against the grain and few look comfortable doing

I'm pretty sure that if you sat any proven EPL defender down and asked them (under cloak of anonymity) whether their preference is to clear their lines or dick around at the back, then the vast majority would opt for the former. It's what every defender always got taught all the way through their formative years until it's instinctive. Fair play to them tho for following orders to the contrary, even tho dicking around at the back clearly goes against the grain and few look comfortable doing it

You are Mickey Adams and I claim my fiver.

 

[Popeye]

There was more than a touch of preseason friendly to today's opponents, as well.

That and they suck ass.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

What I'm struggling to get my head around is how quickly the disappointment, and tbh gutting feeling, of losing Potter has turned completely on its head.

It genuinely feels like losing a pound and then almost immediately finding a fiver

Naaa this is losing £5 and finding a £50. Look how much we are scoring and how more direct we are.

 

[junior]

I'm pretty sure that if you sat any proven EPL defender down and asked them (under cloak of anonymity) whether their preference is to clear their lines or dick around at the back, then the vast majority would opt for the former. It's what every defender always got taught all the way through their formative years until it's instinctive. Fair play to them tho for following orders to the contrary, even tho dicking around at the back clearly goes against the grain and few look comfortable doing it

Rubbish.

So you think Dunk would prefer to be known as a hoof merchant? Or do you think he likes it when commentators compare him to a Man City defender?

 

[peterward]

I'm still a little bit annoyed about charlton....and not keeping a clean sheet

You can't keep a clean sheet when shit ref awards pen for a dive.

Bad ref not bad defending

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

There was more than a touch of preseason friendly to today's opponents, as well.

No they were just shite.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Umm no, because most PL defenders didn't grow up playing in 1960s England.

Its not what every defender got taught that they should do. You think Ajax told a nine-year-old Veltman to just kick the ball as far as he could? They didn't.
You think Chelseas obscenely expensive academy with coaches from all over the world wanted a 8-year-old Levi Colwill to just kick the ball into the opposing half any time he got it? They didn't.

You are wrong. As always. Because there exists a world in which where you are not the centre of the universe, and in that world not everything works as it did for you back in 1967.

You never witnessed the Albion at Withdean. This was early 2000's. Poyet literally taught T.Elphick and Adam El-Abd not to hoof, but to at least play the ball on the ground. It was pitifully painful to watch. They'd play the ball ever-so-tentatively sideways to each other, (in H block we used to openly take the piss "To YOU Tommy! To YOU Adam!"). After they'd done that half a dozen times to satisfy Poyet, clearly hating every uncomfortable minute, they'd pass it back to Ankergren, who would then of course hoof it upfield as far as he could. Total football right there!