MK Dons Vs Brighton and Hove Albion***Official Match Thread***

[Lord Bracknell]

h/t

 

[Marc1901]

It must be all the Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal fans they've got supporting MK today.

Not forgetting Fulham.

 

[HAILSHAM SEAGULL]

FFS, it aint half time yet, we will turn this around and win this 2-1.
People seem to think we have a divine right to never be behind. Put your trust in Gus and the boys

 

[Acker79]

What the hell? The ref is having a word with the mk dons player for leaving his studs in near murray's face, but MK are taking the free kick?

 

[Mackenzie]

Oh well, Gus to work his magic at half time.

 

[Icy Gull]

we are not allowed off days, we are Brighton...

Shall we pretend we are just unlucky or that the ref is biased?

 

[Smithy24]

we are not allowed off days, we are Brighton...

Super Brighton from the south...

 

[vulture]

lets hope for better second half

 

[Twinkle Toes]

That sounded dismal. Get 'em sorted Gus, ffs.

 

[Forster's Armband]

I would feel better if we had Noone or LuaLua on the bench. I trust Gus and the boys to do there best in the 2nd half though.

 

[Si Gull]

FFS, it aint half time yet, we will turn this around and win this 2-1.
People seem to think we have a divine right to never be behind. Put your trust in Gus and the boys

It's also unrealistic to expect to go the rest of the season without losing - IF we were to lose this game it's not a disaster and better than losing to Hudds or SCC.

 

[MrShaun15]

Shall we pretend we are just unlucky or that the ref is biased?

yes, lets do that

"stupid ref... obviously penalty, its pretty much 1-1"

 

[brunswick]

3 up front here with a passing midfield against us is a tad nieve imo.

 

[Notters]

f***ing dead here, worse atmosphere than the withdean.

 

[Forster's Armband]

Need to get Benno on the ball more.

 

[Notters]

Sorry, why isn't noone on the bench?!

 

[Twinkle Toes]

on a sunny day ............NO CHANCE but I will see if I can coax her in

Nice 1 hon. Oh, & tell her it's an EMERGENCY!

 

[Mackenzie]

f***ing dead here, worse atmosphere than the withdean.

Are the team playing as badly as it sounds on the commentary?

 

[Forster's Armband]

Sorry, why isn't noone on the bench?!

Took a knock v Plymouth. I imagine Gus could have pushed it but will save him for the Yeovil game.

 

[Acker79]

WTF?

It's fate, isn't it? When something becomes such an issue of contention it often blows up in the faces of someone. All the fans and gus going on about how great our football is, and how we're so great and running away with the division because we play great passing football like barcelona and arsenal, all because Steve Claridge said our style wouldn't work at a higher level.

One poster even emailed the bbc about claridge's comments.

Now we underperform today (so far), claridge will be able to sit smugly at his desk and point to our performance today. He won't acknowledge the performances v charlton, or peterborough, or portsmouth or watford or... whoever. He will back up his comment on the back of today's game "It's all well and good playing the ball around plymouth and bristol, but today they faced MK Dons, one of the better teams in league one, and they struggled, so how can you not see they will struggle in a better division?"

Fate often works this way when controversies abound. "So-and-So can't score away from home" followed by a hatrick for him, "The keeper may have good distribution, but he never saves penalties" followed by him saving two penalties, or whatever.

If we'd ignored Claridge's comments instead of bigging ourselves up (however deserved) the fates would be shining on us today, unfortunately they are not (yet).