[Football] SAMI - 10 years on

[chaileyjem]

The bleakest night ever at the Amex .


(I'm writing a piece for that Dogma marking 10 years since Hyypia - 2 Ys not 2Ps - resigned. "A very honourable man " said Tony Bloom at the time, His worst ever move . Says well ? Most of us i guess. )

Sammy Lee ! The loans ! The inexplicable strikers ! Darren Bent ! Lewis Dunk as top scorer ! and so it went on. What a calamitous few months it was.

But Milwall (H) - that was the nadir. Never been a night as poor as that - and I'd include the Palace semi final and Brighton 0- Bournemouth 5 in there.

 

[The Grockle]

A low time in our recent history after all the buzz of moving to the Amex but I'd argue it was the catalyst for the success that followed. Hypia, for all his shortcomings had a tiny budget, Bloom realised he'd need to back his next man and ploughed millions into the player budget which thankfully paid off.

 

[LamieRobertson]

If I recall correctly the atmosphere at that game was very toxic

 

[Taybha]

If I recall correctly the atmosphere at that game was very toxic

It was the night Millwall fans became intertwined with the electrified and apparently mined 10ft wide bit of netting between the fans,for some unfathomable reason about 50 or so of Millwall's bravest decided to charge the family section in the SW corner,half way across said netting about 5 Brighton fans stood their ground and this caused complete confusion to the supposedly tuff guys from the smog,it went downhill rapidly for them as 2 Brighton fans had successfully negotiated the booby trapped netting and lamped what they could before a complete Millwall retreat.
It was almost as pathetic from Millwall fans as our performance on the pitch.

 

[Justice]

If I recall correctly the atmosphere at that game was very toxic

Fans getting dragged out of the North the Oscar song on repetition I quite enjoyed it apart from the football obviously

 

[Klaas]

The bleakest night ever at the Amex .


(I'm writing a piece for that Dogma marking 10 years since Hyypia - 2 Ys not 2Ps - resigned. "A very honourable man " said Tony Bloom at the time, His worst ever move . Says well ? Most of us i guess. )

Sammy Lee ! The loans ! The inexplicable strikers ! Darren Bent ! Lewis Dunk as top scorer ! and so it went on. What a calamitous few months it was.

But Milwall (H) - that was the nadir. Never been a night as poor as that - and I'd include the Palace semi final and Brighton 0- Bournemouth 5 in there.

Bloody hell, I'd forgotten most of SH's reign but I had to google the Sammy Lee link, so far down in my subconscious had it been shoved.

 

[jcdenton08]

Yeah I was there for this, very grim. The atmosphere was toxic as mentioned above, two really poor teams. Awful football match. Watching the “highlights” really sums it up.

 

[dazzer6666]

Yeah I was there for this, very grim. The atmosphere was toxic as mentioned above, two really poor teams. Awful football match. Watching the “highlights” really sums it up.

Likewise……..but to lighten the gloom, the evening away game very soon after at a FREEZING Fulham was one of the most memorable

 

[El Presidente]

I thought Darren Bent did okay for us. He wasn't given much supply, but at least he knew where the back of the net was.

 

[dazzer6666]

I thought Darren Bent did okay for us. He wasn't given much supply, but at least he knew where the back of the net was.

…..including goading the Fulham fans when he scored against them at the Amex, then getting it back x10 when we lost

 

[JBizzle]

He got neither of his preferred two assistants, we'd sold our star striker for £8m and replaced him with Baldock (decent) and O'Grady (not decent) plus an absolute raft of crap loans (not you, João).

He wasn't the right manager for that squad. Trying to play exciting progressive football with a group of might be-s, has beens and never were-s was never going to work.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

A low time in our recent history after all the buzz of moving to the Amex but I'd argue it was the catalyst for the success that followed. Hypia, for all his shortcomings had a tiny budget, Bloom realised he'd need to back his next man and ploughed millions into the player budget which thankfully paid off.

Nathan Jones took over for two games, a draw and a win, which was enough to get us out of the bottom three, before Chris Hughton took over.
David Burke was sacked without notice.

 

[Washie]

Nathan Jones took over for two games, a draw and a win, which was enough to get us out of the bottom three, before Chris Hughton took over.
David Burke was sacked without notice.

I think this was the biggest misstep. Burke was poor with signings.

 

[macbeth]

really good season when it comes to naming players you’d forgotten played for us today. adrian colunga, greg halford, gary gardner, emmanuel ledesma, leon best, plenty of others. an absolute treasure trove of crap

 

[el punal]

As Paul Barber would say about the progression of the club “You hit a bump in the road.” Well we hit a bloody great pothole. Sami Hyypia was a world class player but as a coach had ideas well above Brighton’s station, the proverbial ‘making silk purses out of sows ears’. It all started off badly and got progressively worse.

As many have commented, that Millwall game was the most horrible experience I’ve endured at the Amex. Millwall fans being complete knobs, Brighton fans fighting each other, our players seeming to have just given up, and Hyypia being the epitome of dead man walking.

I sometimes look back to that awful evening and compare it to where we are today and, boy, am I grateful

 

[Weststander]

If I recall correctly the atmosphere at that game was very toxic

All 237 of them.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The knives were out at the Junior Seagulls Party - he resigned the following morning

 

[Eeyore]

Felt sorry for Sami, I liked the wingback system and felt like we played good football under him. Just couldn't get results with a Poundshop team that had about six loans and looked like it had been cobbled together last minute

 

[chaileyjem]

I thought Darren Bent did okay for us. He wasn't given much supply, but at least he knew where the back of the net was.

I'm sure i've seen somehwere in a lovely graph - and still surprised to this day - that the player budget actually went down that season. and i think it was the only year in Bloom era that this was the case. Have you ever worked out why or the rationale for that ? (David Burke ? Expected signings not going through ? Bloom having wobbles ? Not trusting Hyypia ? )

 

[chaileyjem]

Likewise……..but to lighten the gloom, the evening away game very soon after at a FREEZING Fulham was one of the most memorable

Yes. What do they say. The darkest hour is just before the ....sight of Solly March scoring exactly the same type of goal he'd later score against Palace and Liverpool in the Premier League ...