Nathan Wanker Jones

[B.M.F]

Spot on HJ

 

[Gritt23]

I just couldn't understand his reaction at all.

Yes - he was celebrating like mad in the goalnet, facing us and screaming.
Yes - he over-reacted to a nothing challenge from Whing then walked away from it with the ref, moaning and moaning until the ref decided he did need to book Whing for the challenge.

We are not talking Paul Ince playing against West Sham, we are talking a popular ex-player who will get applauded on and may even get a "give us a wave" song. He didn't even leave on bad terms ... I just didn't understand his actions at the end at all, and explained that to him at the time - albeit, I may have worded it slightly differently.

 

[mona]

Spot on HJ

Yes , spot on.
So the away day experience should now involve being abused by megaphone-wielding locals for being a homosexual (this made me laugh in fact) and then being abused by a former player and Brighton absentee landlord.
If you dare to question this, you are a precious bobble-hat wearing berk. I always liked Nathan Jones as a player and am now a p**** for questionning his right to abuse fans of his former club.
No wonder our support is dwindling.
Lets all stay at home and tell it how it is.

 

[Hungry Joe]

Yes , spot on.
Lets all stay at home and tell it how it is.

I'm not telling it how it us, I'm not that presumptuous. I'm just giving my opinion, based on what has been reported here by those who were there. If your thinly-veiled dig at me implies I'm an armchair supporter then it's you who are presumptuous. You know nothing about me other than I have a different opinion to you on this matter, don't get so beat-up over it.

 

[mona]

I'm not telling it how it us, I'm not that presumptuous. I'm just giving my opinion, based on what has been reported here by those who were there. If your thinly-veiled dig at me implies I'm an armchair supporter then it's you who are presumptuous. You know nothing about me other than I have a different opinion to you on this matter, don't get so beat-up over it.

I certainly never said you were an armchair fan and I hope you didn't think I was being personal. I felt several posters on this thread, including you, were too keen to dismiss some comments as being an over-reaction. The point about this incident is that it came out of the blue from a player who has been popular with most fans. It wasn't an enthusiastic goal/victory celebration but an aggressive up yours confrontation with the visiting fans behind the goal. He ran 30 yards to give it. That's why the views of those who witnessed it deserve some credence.

In the long run it doesn't matter but he can't complain when he gets a load of abuse if he plays against the Albion again. I'm not normally precious about this sort of thing and like a bit of needle with certain players. Scott McGleish has been hated by some, not me particularly, for one gesture. Our fans had every right to be angry about Nathan Jones.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

1) Nathan Jones is no Brighton legend, nor is he one of our many rejects either. He was a reasonable player in his time, and his time passed, whereby he became surplus to requirements, no different to hundreds of professional footballers each year.

2) Why is anyone surprised at him giving it the large one on this occasion? Every time Yeovil have played us (and beaten us) he's celebrated with a fervour entirely disproportionate to the magnitude of the result.

3) I have no problem with him celebrating as such, he's an opposing player after all, therefore is free to do as he wishes. If one of our players rubbed a defeat in the faces of another team's fans, we'd all be laughing away. So long as he doesn't then whinge about the negative reception he gets next time he plays down here, it's just something we have to deal with.

 

[bristolseagull]

My god, 5 pages on how an ex albion player celebrated a goal, jesus f***ing christ, i think we have more important things to worry about

 

[Pevenseagull]

If I were playing against an old club and their supporters had mouthed off at me I'd get GG Allin on 'em: Shit and chuck

f*** it

players are shit

AND

UNFORTUNATELY


Too many of the supporters are SHIT PEOPLE

language
moaning
haircuts
lives

f*** 'em

SHIT entertainment
SHIT sport
SHIT people
SHIT




SHIT



roll on the cricket season

proper sport

for


PROPER PEOPLE

 

[Jesus Gul]

But Nathan did give us the best chant of recent times (IMO)

Oh Posh Spice is anorexic, she is a bag of bones.....

Bless him. Seem to remember taking a dislike to him when he played for Southend at Withdean before he joined us - either on account of haircut, him scoring, or his crowd baiting or combo of the three.

 

[fosters headband]

None of Brighton's challenges came anywhere near the one Jones got sent off for at Bristol Rovers. The bloke is an arsehole, a hypocrite and a property racketeer.

Not your landlord by any chance Mona?
Three posts with reference to his owning property in Brighton and none of them very complimentry!

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

He's a pin head - nuff sed.

 

[Dave the OAP]

p**** .

a what?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

prune?

 

[Superphil]

I must be deaf. I didn't hear a single abusive comment aimed at Nathan "Hoogstraaten" Jones. However, he has every right to run up to the visiting fans at the final whistle, wave his fists at them and gloat at the result.

Sir, I think you are probably not deaf, but you obviously weren't standding in the area we were.

 

[ATFC Seagull]

If Brighton had won the game, a thread about Jones over-celebrating a goal might have got a couple of posts. We've had a very bad few days on and off the pitch, and he's a handy scapegoat. He gets a bit of stick, then he gets to celebrate if they win, that's the way it should be.

And where did this 'Nathan Jones legend' thing come from anyway? Clubs used to have five legends a generation, now it's about a dozen a season. A couple of half-decent substitute appearances with step-overs, and legend status is yours.

I don't think anyone's suggesting he's some sort of scapegoat. It wasn't over-celebrating, I couldn't have cared less if he'd run the length of the pitch to celebrate, he is, as you say, a Yeovil player now. But he was deliberately winding up our supporters on a pretty large scale.

As for the legend thing, I'm pretty sure if you've been following the Albion regularly for 20-30 odd years players like Jones might blur into insignificance, but you have to remember that isn't the case for a lot of us. I'm 22, my memories of the Goldstone (started going at age 6-7) include Kurt Nogan being pretty fantastic, and a lot of other great Albion players who were coming towards the end of their careers and weren't the same (Chapman, Foster, Crumplin etc). We also had a pretty bad time in the last few years, and the least said about Gillingham the better (Hart and maybe Rod Thomas aside!).

The Micky Adams era (when I was aged 13-15, something like that) was mine, and lots of others, first taste of the Albion ever really achieving anything, and being old enough to properly appreciate it. Nathan Jones had a MUCH larger part in that team than you give credit for, and was always a character, was seen about town in Brighton, and spent a good 4-5 years with the club, only relegated to the bench towards the end.

 

[Mendoza]

I have a photo of me out with Nathan Jones and Bobby Zamora, having a laugh enjoying a drink. I really liked him as a player and was one of my favourite players of all time.

but now, he has disgraced himself, and the photo seems a bit wrong.

its almost like when you found out that santa wasnt real

 

[unnameable]

Let's face it, Nathan Jones is to intellectualism what Pol Pot was to human rights in Cambodia. It's hardly surprising that he behaves like the numbskull that he is. It's a shame that he won't be returning to Withdean again this season.

 

[mona]

Let's face it, Nathan Jones is to intellectualism what Pol Pot was to human rights in Cambodia. It's hardly surprising that he behaves like the numbskull that he is. It's a shame that he won't be returning to Withdean again this season.

With his fluent Spanish, he was the cunning linguist of the old Albion team.

 

[unnameable]

It is easy to underestimate how stupid most footballers are. Bas Savage's mental capacity was shown by the colour of his hair on Boxing Day. By dying his hair with red-and-blue stripes, he managed to piss off both Albion and Millwall fans.

 

[Mendoza]