[Football] Massive in meltdown

[Triggaaar]

The owner certainly poured a lot of money into the kitty in that transfer window, so I'm not surprised they thought they could have the pick of the Championship's best. Unfortunately for them, he's just a rich daddy's boy with little business or football knowledge, and they ended up buying a load of overpaid crap in the summer window and then threw good money after bad by buying Rhodes in January. This is what happens when you get an outsider in who thinks that promotion is acheived simply by throwing money around. They could've done some serious damage if they had someone in charge of recruitment with even half the nous of Winstanley. As it is, they've now got a crippling wage bill from a squad of aging players with no re-sale value, which will probably see them with FFP problems.

Shame.

 

[Weststander]

True, and with the MASSIVE luck they had against us playing against 10 men in the first leg and with our top 4 scorers out injured or suspended for both legs of the semi, not to mention the equaliser at the Amex that should've been dissallowed, you wouldn't have ruled out a dodgy penalty or flukey deflection getting them promoted.

Getting to that final may well have done them more harm than good, as the owner possibly didn't realise how much luck they'd needed to beat a team they finished 15 points behind in the league.

They narrowily scrapped past a team with 4 key injuries mid-match plus the unjust ban of DS.

Karma in the final. Thank you so much Hull.

 

[Brian Munich]

They narrowily scrapped past a team with 4 key injuries mid-match plus the unjust ban of DS.

Karma in the final. Thank you so much Hull.

That wasn't Karma, so much as Hull just being the deserved winner of the final due to having a far stronger team. Karma came in two halves the following season when we defied the odds and beat them with 10 men and then when Huddersfield beat them in the play off semi at Hillsborough on penalties.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Threads like this make lovely reading a couple of years on

https://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/topic/243858-brighton-though/

and this one

https://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/topic/241770-brighton-fans/?tab=comments#comment-6738922

Sample quotes :

They will struggle next season. Very confident we will finish higher.

The most tinpot of tinpot teams
They are the reason the word tinpot was invented
No matter how much they expand their sea world shamu stadium
Or how many plastic flags they force fans to wave pre match
They will always be little Brighton
A championship club at best

Won't be an issue next year they will be no where near same end of table as us. They have blew their opportunity and they know it hence the synchronised flounce

Wednesday though ....