[Albion] So How's It Going To Go Wrong?

[Paulie Gualtieri]

It will be the usual player availability through injury or suspension over the busy xmas and January period I suspect

Igor, Van Hecke and bizarrely Verbruggen are all on 3 yellows and will need to be careful until January (Game 20) especially as Dunk didn’t make the squad last week and Webster still injured

 

[Uh_huh_him]

In great form, looking confident, closer and closer to full strength and playing Friday night at home against the team that is bottom of the table. A win, or even a score draw, would put us second in the league, if only for a night.

Well we've all been Albion fans long enough to know what comes next. We've been through this before and we'll be running up to punt the ball knowing for sure that Lucy will whip it away at the last minute and we'll find ourselves flat on our back again. So before somebody posts the equivalent of @prodnose's old favourite of standing up in the middle of the crowd and shouting 'Nothing can go wrong now!' lets have guesses of how it will actually go wrong: An early sending off? A below par performance? Southampton being brilliant? A dull 0-0? A mixture of any or all of the above?

What's your guess for how the bubble will burst? Perhaps if we say them all aloud, we'll break the hoodoo.

I caught myself totting up the amount of points we "should" get by the half way point.....

Fool.

 

[severnside gull]

An in-form Igor is dropped. Dunk back. Falls over trying to pass back to Bart and a goal results.
Rinse and repeat.
0-2

 

[8049]

Football League retrospectively changes the rules for 96/97 back to goal difference and relegates us to the National League.

 

[Insel affe]

it is not, I am trying to stay positive, I cannot conceive the idea my baby brother will be smugly texting me all evening and Saturday after Southampton win their first game, I want them to go down on a record low points tally.

End of, we will not lose.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Personally am 100% confident of a win, we have momentum and most players available. Saints are totally devoid of any confidence and I am assuming the club have thought about a management change but seen there is little options any better bar possibly Potter but maybe cannot afford to pay-off their current manager?

Yep. I can't see it being even possible that anything will go wrong.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Ipswich
Forest
Wolves

Every single time this season we've gone into a game as clear overdogs at home, we have failed to win.

But these were a good sides.

 

[The Wizard]

Brighton 0-1 Southampton

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

From our experiences with playing bottom teams over the last five years... you kind of have to be senile not to be worried.

I'm not worried.

Hang on..... something something.....

No. It's gone.

 

[Bob!]

We're win

 

[Javeaseagull]

You can guarantee the Amex will grant their keeper a golden game as it always does.

Great game at the Amex - keepers don't leave our home without one

I am sure we used to say that at the Goldstone. Every visiting keeper plays a blinder, why is that? Rings a bell with me anyway.

 

[chaileyjem]

In 2020/21 Southampton were 3rd after 13 games with 24 points.
They then had a dreadful rest of season , finished in 15th place with just 43 points - just 2 more than us that season. Almost looked like they were going to get relegated at one point but beat Palace and Fulham out of the blue in May and hung on.
Had a great FA Cup run too only to lose to Leicester in the SF....

 

[sparkie]

We already know the spoilers to this one.

Spoiler

Albion lose.

 

[chaileyjem]

Brighton 0-1 Southampton

On the other hand the last time we played Southampton at the Amex, they were essentially relegated, we were overwhelming favourites

...And we won.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

This season is different. I think we're going to rip them apart.

 

[Nobby Cybergoat]

I think it will go wrong because Southampton will do a remarkably accurate impression of the Barca team with Iniesta, Busquets and Messi etc.

They will then go back to being utter gash for the rest of the season and finish rock bottom

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Ipswich
Forest
Wolves

Every single time this season we've gone into a game as clear overdogs at home, we have failed to win.

To be slightly pedantic (and off topic, this is NSC after all), the opposite of an underdog is not an overdog, but a top dog.

This come from the days when you would cut planks by rolling a tree trunk over a large pit and use a two man saw to cut along its length. The poor beggar in the pit getting covered in shavings and detritus was the underdog and the guy standing astride the trunk in the sunshine was known as the top dog.

 

[chaileyjem]

Also ask Palace about what its like to have a run of games where it all goes well and then a longer run of games where it doesn't . I'd suggest we have another look on Jan 4th when we play Arsenal (for the 2nd time) and will have 20 or so games in the bag before any premature verdicts of Europe Again Ole Ole etc.


(says someone who sang Europe Again etc at top voice in the rain at the Vitality on Saturday ha ha having scraped past Bournemouth ha ha)

 

[Mellotron]

To be slightly pedantic (and off topic, this is NSC after all), the opposite of an underdog is not an overdog, but a top dog.

This come from the days when you would cut planks by rolling a tree trunk over a large pit and use a two man saw to cut along its length. The poor beggar in the pit getting covered in shavings and detritus was the underdog and the guy standing astride the trunk in the sunshine was known as the top dog.

I respect this knowledge. "Overdog" didn't sound right to me anyhow.

 

[Mellotron]

This season is different. I think we're going to rip them apart.

I thought that about Wolves and Ipswich.