Just how bad is it in the dressing room at the moment?

[Icy Gull]

El Abd is such a gentleman...off the pitch, we will miss him both on and off the pitch. I found that article quite touching.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Ooops sorry OP but this couldnt have come at a worse time?

El-Abd backs Albion to make play-offs

2:30pm Tuesday 21st January 2014 in Sport By Andy Naylor

Adam El-Abd Adam El-Abd has predicted Albion will make the Championship play-offs again.

And he has hailed the cosmopolitan mix in the dressing room as the best he has been involved in.

El-Abd played a key role after Christmas last season, deputising for a chunk of games when captain Gordon Greer was injured.

History will not repeat itself from a personal perspective this season following the long-serving central defender’s move to League One strugglers Bristol City last week in search of regular football.

But El-Abd believes another top six finish is plausible for the Seagulls without him.

He told The Argus: “I am sure they will get into the play-offs and you never know, with a little bit of luck, maybe beyond that.

“It’s been the best dressing room I have ever been involved in. I love every single one of the lads in there and that is a real sad point for me because I don’t think I will get a dressing room like that again."

 

[BensGrandad]

AEA showed that irrespective of his current employers he is still a seagull at heart.

 

[portslade seagull]

AEA showed that irrespective of his current employers he is still a seagull at heart.

Think he still wishes he was here, hopefully will comeback in some youth training capacity at Lancing

 

[British Bulldog]

AEA showed that irrespective of his current employers he is still a seagull at heart.

He'll always be one of us, Big shame he left but hopefully he'll be back in some capacity in the future.

 

[smillie's garden]

What the visitors' dressing room? That was a huge dump; I hear they're still shifting it 9 months later:

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[The_Viper]

Sooooo, my notion doesn't sound too stupid now.

NJ seeming frustrated, Andrews, Kemy. So I ask again, how bad is it in the back rooms?

 

[Ex-Staffs Gull]

Sooooo, my notion doesn't sound too stupid now.

NJ seeming frustrated, Andrews, Kemy. So I ask again, how bad is it in the back rooms?

Seeiously, we just got a draw away at Burnley, we lost away at Watford. Yes we have fallen a bit behind but dont equate frustration and a slight dip in form as 'we are about to self implode'

 

[BensGrandad]

We need the players to have the hump cos they are not picked as it may make them buck their ideas up.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

2 wins against doncaster and leeds and this supposed 'unhappy dressing room' will be a lot more jovial.

 

[Deleted member 22389]

Lot of stuff coming out in The Argus last week about the players not being happy due to lack of signings. Is it really that? Players unhappy because they are not being picked.

May be the players just don't understand the system they are expected to play and are getting frustrated by it and can't say anything, because the players we have are a damn sight better than this. If players don't understand the system that is then down to communication.

Let's be honest there have a been quite a few games at The Amex this season where we didn't appear to have any shape whatsoever. Just players running round and round.

 

[Stat Brother]

I can make a case that it adds more weight to Tony Adams point:-

A teams not a team until you have at least 7 players prepared to fight the opposition in the tunnel.

Or in this case, 7 players to keep the rest in order.
Taking 3 first teamers out of the fighting squad (Barnes El Abd & Crofts) has given the pipsqueaks a sense of entitlement.

https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?243256-You-need-7&highlight=Alan+Davies

 

[dougdeep]

Sooooo, my notion doesn't sound too stupid now.

Yes, yes it does.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Sooooo, my notion doesn't sound too stupid now.

NJ seeming frustrated, Andrews, Kemy. So I ask again, how bad is it in the back rooms?

You haven't listened though have you. "How bad is it in the back rooms"! And the cherry on the top? A little smugness where it really isn't deserved.

Is it possible that this is a dip in form during which no-one would be happy?

 

[The_Viper]

Yet more posters talking about problems in the dressing room originating from the last few months, worth a bump I thought.