Positives from last night

[Dave the OAP]

errm

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I have removed my rose tinted spectacles and have looked at what we have done this season.

Some excellent results. West ham/Sunderland/ etc etc, but then I have looked at some of our results where we were expecting to get something. I cant actually remember 1 game this year where we actually dominated a game.

Lets be honest with ourselves.......of the team we have played in the last few weeks, Plymouth, Reading, Wigan...how many of our current squad would get into their sides? I humbly suggest none of them.

In the Argus, one reading fan suggested that we were an average div 1 side who had been "found out". harsh but fair.

I am not one of the one minute extatic, next in the depths of depression, but I cannot see the way out of this.

Where is the next point coming from?

Now the positives, Watford are the team I recon are in freefall as we are.

My bottom three are still Rotherham, Forest and Watford for the drop

 

[Brighton till i die]

errm

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TOO f***ing true fella!!

we were f***ing awful - what a painful game to try and sit through.

 

[Ding Dong !]

I tend to agree with you. Cannot see where the next point is coming from, will get beat at Coventry and Preston. It's definately back to the walls stuff from here in.

Up front, no conviction whatsoever. Never looked like scoring.

Midfield...where was it ??


Pessimistic I know but I think long nights in Scunthorpe on a damp Tuesday January evening are ahead of us next season

 

[Blackadder]

Listening to Harty last night. MM hinted at getting some loan players this week.

We need some fresh blood to cover our injuries. A few grand to ensure Championship football has to be worth the gamble!

 

[n1 gull]

I think its all gone wrong since he's moved away from the 5 man defence. Hinsh, Virgo and Butters were superb when playing together.
Then put Reid and Harding as wing backs.
Oatway, Chippy (Nicolas), Hart and then Big Mc and Leon upfront.

Last night our midfield was absolutely woeful.

I hope we don't go down, but........

 

[Bluejuice]

We're f***ed and we know we are
We're f***ed and we know we are...

 

[Blackadder]

Last night our midfield was absolutely woeful.

We didn't have a midfield last night!

 

[Rambo]

In my mind, there is no doubt that the loss of form has co-incided with Kuipers injury. The players had confidence in him, the keepers that have come in have not had the same respect.

There is however, nothing we can do about that now, and must move forward, last night was awful, watching it with a couple of non-albion mates, they commented on numerous occasions on how poor BOTH teams were.

We must now win at Coventry, this is crunch time lads, we must beat a team lower than us. We couldnt do it last time we were in this division and it cost us our place there.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

The worst thing is that we've looked so desperate recently ... we simply don't have the players to play 4-4-2 it seems, and have resorted to thumping it long every time we get it. Unless we change back to 3-5-2 (and I'm still yet to figure out why McGhee ditched it), I can't see us doing more than getting one lucky win, maybe a draw or two. Which will see us go down.

 

[withdeanwombat]

We were positively awful.

Reading were also dire,so the 73 people watching on Sky had a great night.

The defence was so deep in the first half I thought wewere defending the new stadium at Upper Beeding,and McCamman would be pushed to get a game in the Brighton league.

Only when it got desperate (more desperate ) in the second half,when Knight went wide and Virgo and McPhee linked up front,did Albion look to have any clue.

It remains a simple game.Defend well,work the ball out wide,ball in middle,ball in net.A nine man defence lumping the ball up towards unsupported "strikers" is a recipe for... well... Albion v Reading.

 

[Seagullible]

Must be the only fan who still believes we'll be fine. Was pretty bad last night but seen a lot worse and everyone agreed 4 games ago that 2 more wins would do it. I can see us beating Leicester, Covernty and Rotherham and suspect we'll also get a couple of draws.
I await to be flamed for this but we were in a lot worse state 2 years ago and their was more optomism. We've not had any luck or officials in the last 4 games and it's bound to change.

 

[Bluejuice]

Whilst I admire McGhee's taking positives all the time I do sometimes yearn to see him fuming in a Souness manner screaming "I'll kick the !!!!!!! blue buggery out of those players after that woeful performance and let them know that it will NEVER be acceptable again." But it seems he isn't capable of this, unless his persona on camera hides a darker side that we don't see enough of.

I've not lost confidence in him but I do worry about his attitude. Get angry Mark, scream and shout, let it all out.

 

[Pavilionaire]

The only positive is that we've been this shit before and somehow got a win from somewhere.

 

[Marshy]

the 5-3-2 formation is the way to go at the moment.

 

[Ex Shelton Seagull]

Positives:

Rotherham have taken one relegation spot so there's only 2 still available.

The teams around us are pretty piss poor as well. Plymouth have conceded 8 goals in their last 2 games, Cardiff could only convert 1 chance out of 22 against Crewe. We could still scramble to safety thanks to the poor form of other teams.

We might get someone good in on loan by Thursday.

That's your lot.

What's so frustrating is the fact that we are so close to the safety barrier. I really think that 51 points should be enough this season. That's 2 wins and 1 draw from 7 games. This team should be capable of grinding out those results, but I just don't have any confidence that they will anymore.

 

[Dancin Ninja BHA]

What I don't understand, is that nearly man for man, last night was the same team that played so brilliantly, so confidently at Spurs only two months ago (I know Carpenter was missing, and Kuipers, but does Chippy really make that big a difference? Apparantly so......)

What's happened to players like Reid? Awesome at Spurs, last night, a complete waste of space, did he do anything good?

Don't get me started on London Irish's lovechild (Oatway) but he wasn't the only one that was garbage last night....I understand that Reading's midfield is strong and ours dropped back to support the defence, but what I don't understand is our complete INABILITY to string more that 3 passes together.....what the hell do the lads practise during the week?

Angry and depressed from Brighton

 

[Bluejuice]

The team that played last night wouldn't have beaten Crawley Town.
The team that played against Spurs looked a mid-table Premiership side.

So what has happened?

I admire the fact that they gave us the good day out in London but now is when it really matters and they've gone completely AWOL.

Luck has nothing to do with it, we cannot expect to win games playing like we did last night. Were it not for Reading being so poor we could have leaked yet another 5 goals, possibly even more.

I know we;ve been punching above our weight this season but surely the confidence that built in the team should have been enough to see us grind out the results at this crucial part of the season. It really is tragic that we've decided to f*** up so royally at this stage and I fear for our safety

 

[Easy 10]

we must beat a team lower than us. We couldnt do it last time we were in this division and it cost us our place there.

We've done the double over Gillingham this season, taken 4 points off Forest and beaten Rotherham so far, so (thankfully) we've not done too bad in that respect this time round. If it wasn't for that, we'd already be relying on other results. The one positive is that it IS still in our own hands to get out of this.

 

[virgirlo]

Must be the only fan who still believes we'll be fine. Was pretty bad last night but seen a lot worse and everyone agreed 4 games ago that 2 more wins would do it. I can see us beating Leicester, Covernty and Rotherham and suspect we'll also get a couple of draws.
I await to be flamed for this but we were in a lot worse state 2 years ago and their was more optomism. We've not had any luck or officials in the last 4 games and it's bound to change.

totally agree. this season we expected to come nowhere, everyone expected us to be relegation favourites, and up until four games ago we were proving them wrong.
as all albion fans know, we never make things easy for ourselves, we never have boring safety seasons, and that is what makes us so passionate.
this is what it is all about and why we appreciate the wins against teams like Leeds, Wet Ham and Sunderland a lot more than other clubs! PASSION!!!

 

[Starry]

Now the positives, Watford are the team I recon are in freefall as we are.

Just sacked their manager as well.