Indeed, it feels like a crossroads game.
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"morale down" orlandi
- Thread starter sydney
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Indeed, it feels like a crossroads game.
100% agreed.
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Ipswich will smash us three nil. And we can all naval gaze.
portslade seagull
Well-known member
Agree as well, can't see us winning this just see a high/long ball battering which is Mccarthys trait
sydney
tinky ****in winky
- Thread starter
- #26
agree re statement of intent.......harley , sparrow , vincelot , painter out if anyone wants....... quality ,utility full-back , buy........quality cb loan , adgestein out on loan ,he may as well get game time somewhere....jfc back and some fucker who can finish and play ALONGSIDE smudger.........this one up front bollocks has died a death and the whole league has sussed the way we play.
seagullsovergrimsby
#cpfctinpotclub
kevtherev
Well-known member
When you lose the players in the dressing room and they don't believe in what you are telling them, then it's time to get your coat i'm afraid. Why should we lose 3 or 4 of our best players, when just replacing the cause of the problem would be the solution.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
I'm not surprised he said that, it seems to me that people are losing faith in Poyet and that must effect everyone.
I've personally spent quite a lot of time each game recently analysing this very thing. I decided that were I in charge atm what would I do, how would I approach things, to decide where our problems lie and came up with one simple observation:
Last season we appeared to lack a degree of on pitch leadership something that can come under many guises.
Players that set by example and never give up - CMS
Players that wow the crowd and inspire others to up their tempo - Buckley, Noone, Lua-Lua
Players that were born to lead others - in the mold of Cullip, Nobby etc. (I've personally left out an example from the current set up as I truly don't believe we have one and therein lies the problem.)
Poyet clearly felt in some part that he agreed with my assesment and attempted to address this particular issue I think by giving us more steel in the midfield with the arrivals of Crofts and Hammond - both ex captains of club and in Hammond recent ex captain of Southampton in their promotion season.
In doing so he clearly felt that we lacked pure influence and leadership. But then why has he not stopped to evaluate his current club captain Gordon Greer? In his first two seasons Greer appeared to be exactly what we had been lacking - sterling grit, excellent organisational abilities and the ability to lead by example with straight forward no nonsence defending. The first season in the Championship meant that Greer was at times tested with the step up in pace, and enhanced technical abilities of the strikers he was facing, but still he seemed to rise to the challenge and grew as the season progressed.
This season I feel we have seen a very different player. His performance levels have just not been to the same high standard. One stand out example that opitimises his recent malaise for me was the last minute equaliser away at Wolves. In times gone by had we gone 2-3 up with less than two minutes to play away from home I would have expected and witnessed a captain who knew that it is in these situations that he earns his corn. Dragging people into position, defending with an all or nothing approach, shouting at players to make it their ball and generally commanding the situation. For whatever reason I feel that Mr Greer just simply hasn't done this. It was his man free at the far post, he wasn't even goal side if memory serves, there were no players on the posts covering, and generally we appeared disorganised and chaotic.
Ever since then when we've conceded i've looked to Greer in matches to watch his body language and he consistently does two things, performs a Schmeicel-esque blame game with pointing and arguing with other players, followed by a slow disconsolate trudge back to his starting position.
Body language says an awful lot about sportsmen and right now from the captain down this team look 'beaten' before they've started.
In general the buck stops with Poyet, but on the pitch the buck stops with the Captain. I'll forgive lack of technical ability but as a fan i'll never forgive a lack of effort and perspicacity so come on Gordon get back your mojo and start ordering people around a bit more and turn this ship around!
Last season we appeared to lack a degree of on pitch leadership something that can come under many guises.
Players that set by example and never give up - CMS
Players that wow the crowd and inspire others to up their tempo - Buckley, Noone, Lua-Lua
Players that were born to lead others - in the mold of Cullip, Nobby etc. (I've personally left out an example from the current set up as I truly don't believe we have one and therein lies the problem.)
Poyet clearly felt in some part that he agreed with my assesment and attempted to address this particular issue I think by giving us more steel in the midfield with the arrivals of Crofts and Hammond - both ex captains of club and in Hammond recent ex captain of Southampton in their promotion season.
In doing so he clearly felt that we lacked pure influence and leadership. But then why has he not stopped to evaluate his current club captain Gordon Greer? In his first two seasons Greer appeared to be exactly what we had been lacking - sterling grit, excellent organisational abilities and the ability to lead by example with straight forward no nonsence defending. The first season in the Championship meant that Greer was at times tested with the step up in pace, and enhanced technical abilities of the strikers he was facing, but still he seemed to rise to the challenge and grew as the season progressed.
This season I feel we have seen a very different player. His performance levels have just not been to the same high standard. One stand out example that opitimises his recent malaise for me was the last minute equaliser away at Wolves. In times gone by had we gone 2-3 up with less than two minutes to play away from home I would have expected and witnessed a captain who knew that it is in these situations that he earns his corn. Dragging people into position, defending with an all or nothing approach, shouting at players to make it their ball and generally commanding the situation. For whatever reason I feel that Mr Greer just simply hasn't done this. It was his man free at the far post, he wasn't even goal side if memory serves, there were no players on the posts covering, and generally we appeared disorganised and chaotic.
Ever since then when we've conceded i've looked to Greer in matches to watch his body language and he consistently does two things, performs a Schmeicel-esque blame game with pointing and arguing with other players, followed by a slow disconsolate trudge back to his starting position.
Body language says an awful lot about sportsmen and right now from the captain down this team look 'beaten' before they've started.
In general the buck stops with Poyet, but on the pitch the buck stops with the Captain. I'll forgive lack of technical ability but as a fan i'll never forgive a lack of effort and perspicacity so come on Gordon get back your mojo and start ordering people around a bit more and turn this ship around!
seagullwedgee
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- Aug 9, 2005
- 3,068
Perspicacity.
Discuss.
Discuss.
Goldstone Rapper
Rediffusion PlayerofYear
I don't think taking drugs on the eve of a League match is a particularly wise way to solve this.
Tony Meolas Loan Spell
Slut Faced Whores
Chesney Christ
New member
WOW. This is an INCREDIBLE revelation. A poorly performing side are feeling bad about it. Well, this is UNPRECENTED. And you're right.... we NEED to find the scapegoat in all this.
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Perspicacity
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Perspicaciousness illustrated by Susan Barrett Price as one of a set of inspirational cards.
Perspicacity (also called perspicaciousness and perspicuity) is a penetrating discernment - a clarity of vision or intellect which provides a deep understanding and insight.[1]
In the 17th century, René Descartes devised systematic rules for clear thinking in his work Regulæ ad directionem ingenii (Rules for the direction of natural intelligence). In Descartes' scheme, intelligence consisted of two faculties: perspicacity, which provided an understanding or intuition of distinct detail; and sagacity, which enabled reasoning about the details in order to make deductions. Rule 9 was De Perspicacitate Intuitionis (On the Perspicacity of Intuition).[2] He summarised the rule as
Oportet ingenii aciem ad res minimas et maxime faciles totam convertere, atque in illis diutius immorari, donec assuescamus veritatem distincte et perspicue intueri.
We should totally focus the vision of the natural intelligence on the smallest and easiest things, and we should dwell on them for a long time, so long, until we have become accustomed to intuiting the truth distinctly and perspicuously.
In his study of the elements of wisdom, the modern psychometrician Robert Sternberg identified perspicacity as one of its six components or dimensions; the other five being reasoning, sagacity, learning, judgement and the expeditious use of information.[3] In his analysis, perspicacity was described as
...has intuition; can offer solutions that are on the side of right and truth; is able to see through things — read between the lines; has the ability to understand and interpret his or her environment.
—Robert J. Sternberg , Wisdom: its nature, origins, and development
In an article dated October 7, 1966, the journal Science discussed NASA scientist-astronaut program recruitment efforts:
To quote an Academy brochure, the quality most needed by a scientist-astronaut is "perspicacity." He must, the brochure says, be able to quickly pick out, from among the thousands of things he sees, those that are significant, and to synthesize observations and develop and test working hypotheses.[4]
Being perspicacious about other people, rather than having false illusions, is a sign of good mental health.[5] The quality is needed in psychotherapists who engage in person-to-person dialogue and counselling of the mentally ill.[6]
The artist René Magritte illustrated the quality in his 1936 painting Perspicacity. The picture shows an artist at work who studies his subject intently: it is an egg. But the painting which he is creating is not of an egg; it is an adult bird in flight.[7]
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StonehamPark
#Brighton-Nil
Today is the day we turn it around.
BHA will come out all guns blazing for an all or nothing performance.
4 - 1 to the Albion!!!
BHA will come out all guns blazing for an all or nothing performance.
4 - 1 to the Albion!!!
Chesney Christ
New member
no need for that is there .......others have had their say but oh no ,no you ........you'll just be a cock won't you....you have about as much perspicacity as a cauliflower...
the bbc obviously thought it was worth reporting.
Its the fact you are trying to make a huge thing out of nothing, and coming up with ridiculous imaginary scapegoats.
If we play well, morale is good. If we play badly, morale is bad. Why are you trying to make some huge conspiracy out of it? Non-story.
sydney
tinky ****in winky
- Thread starter
- #40
the fact that we really appear to be struggling at the moment , cannot score for luv or money, a number of players struggling for form and now a player states in the media that team morale is low.........i was asking who posters on here thought was responsible for team morale.......i don't see any conspiracy or story there to be honest,more like a simple question.