[Albion] Still keeping the faith with Potter?

[nwgull]

I am not a football expert but isn’t an important part of league football accumulating more points than other teams? We don’t have that many.
Not to say I’m not on potter traIn. It’s great seeing us play football.
We need to rise up the table, for him to be considered a success though.
Surely.

I’m not a football expert; I’m a fan, and I pay my money to be entertained. I feel like I’ve had far for value for my money this year, even though we’ve got fewer points. The only enjoyable thing about our attritional single goal wins last year was the final whistle, and then you’d accept a large slice of luck and try to work out where our next win was coming from.

 

[vagabond]

I have spent years in awe of players from the big clubs on the telly pinging the ball to each other at pace and moving into space, playing quick exciting football, and never thought it would come from the Albion. This guy has been a revelation and whoever was responsible for identifying him and getting him here is destined for the Hall of Fame.

[emoji106]

I’ll go one further, if we do go down I’m more then happy for GP to take us back up.

 

[Acker79]

Entertainment is still the key thing though, that's what we're truly paying our money for, not points.

To some fans it is. The players on the other hand are competitive sportsmen who want to be successful in their chosen field, which comes through winning points. The club are a business that wants to be as successful as it can, which means staying in the premier league where the big money (and usually smaller losses when we're not paying off entire coaching staff), and to do that, you need the points to keep you up. Gate money is nice, and helps a bit, so keeping fans coming back is good, but it is dwarfed by TV money (yeah, tv companies like entertainment, but upsets, too. If little ol' Brighton offer the chance of an upset, they'll take that even if it isn't pretty.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

The exciting attacking play is one thing, but it's not bringing us enough reward. According to the Premier League we're fifth in big chances missed, many of which must be shots hit straight at the goalkeeper, an area in which I think we excel.

Also defending is 50 percent of the game. and ours was terrible for both goals at Villa. In each case nobody stayed with a runner into the box. In fact, for the second someone (Solly March?) tracked Targett and then left him.

Consistently playing well and still losing is a classic prelude to relegation. Okay, there's a long way to go and if we can keep eleven men on the field more often than not then things ought to improve. Last year we got more points than we deserved early on but eventually found our true level. That may well happen again and if it does we'll end up around 12th-14th. But we have thrown away too many points so far thanks to failings in both boxes and that has to change or we'll be in trouble.

Part of a manager's job is get the team to cut out the silly mistakes Our defence kept us up last season, but isn't good enough at the moment.

 

[Tokyohands]

I'm all in.

 

[Brightonfan1983]

[emoji106]

I’ll go one further, if we do go down I’m more then happy for GP to take us back up.

Utterly agree. But...
I can see him getting poached.
Having said that, and thereby immediately rubbishing my statement, there's no one in the PL who at the moment would take this 'unproven' manager, and the style he'd bring. So I reckon we're safe for another season or three.

 

[Muzzy]

The edge of my seat is getting worn. Bring back CH to even it up a bit [emoji106]

 

[saafend_seagull]

Utterly agree. But...
I can see him getting poached.
Having said that, and thereby immediately rubbishing my statement, there's no one in the PL who at the moment would take this 'unproven' manager, and the style he'd bring. So I reckon we're safe for another season or three.

If he takes us down no one will go near him.


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[Mo Gosfield]

Loving the football, rueing the lack of professionalism at times, worrying a little that we have' missed the boat ' a bit re points gained. Think we could have got a bit of a flyer and created a small cushion ( as Bournemouth seem to do most seasons )To get back on track, we need a minimum of 4 points, ideally 6 from the next two.
Superb for 30-35 minutes. Made them look very ordinary, which I think they are without Grealish. Every optimism we will stay up. Team Potter for me.

 

[GT49er]

Part of a manager's job is get the team to cut out the silly mistakes Our defence kept us up last season, but isn't good enough at the moment.

Our defence kept us up last season - but that was because we were defending with eight players, plus the CF (Murray) coming back to help out at corners and free kicks. This season, we are asking three or four defenders to do the job of 8 or 9 - that's the price you pay for allowing more than two players at a time into the opposition half - players can't be in two places at once!

For heaven's sake don't keep on about our defence being rubbish - it isn't. we've conceded 12 goals in 9 matches; that's makes it the joint 8th. best defensive record in the PL (and half of those goals were away at Man. City and Chelsea!) I bet the likes of Spurs, Chelsea, West Ham and Villa, for examples, would love to have defences as good as ours!

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Our defence kept us up last season - but that was because we were defending with eight players, plus the CF (Murray) coming back to help out at corners and free kicks. This season, we are asking three or four defenders to do the job of 8 or 9 - that's the price you pay for allowing more than two players at a time into the opposition half - players can't be in two places at once!

For heaven's sake don't keep on about our defence being rubbish - it isn't. we've conceded 12 goals in 9 matches; that's makes it the joint 8th. best defensive record in the PL (and half of those goals were away at Man. City and Chelsea!) I bet the likes of Spurs, Chelsea, West Ham and Villa, for examples, would love to have defences as good as ours!

Keep on? This is my first post about Potter in weeks, and I certainly haven't said our defence is rubbish.

 

[GT49er]

Keep on? This is my first post about Potter in weeks, and I certainly haven't said our defence is rubbish.

No, agreed - you said they weren't good enough, which I disagreed with. The 'keep on' wasn't aimed at you (yes, I know, it was in a reply to your post, so I should have explained it better), rather at a number of posts recently complaining about our defence, or more often specifically about our defenders individually.

 

[Justice]

What a difference an international break makes. Quite sure GP was a genius when we beat Spurs, unfortunately lose against a side with a man advantage and he’s being hung out to the critics.

 

[GT49er]

What a difference an international break makes. Quite sure GP was a genius when we beat Spurs, unfortunately lose against a side with a man advantage and he’s being hung out to the critics.

Really? Hadn't noticed - where's it all happening?

 

[B.W.]

I am enjoying my football again, but we do need to be more clinical in front of goal, or Potterball will fail...

 

[Acker79]

In the past I've noted my frustration with our performance in the final third - wrong decisions or poor execution. I think that is still there - Alzate had a couple of great chances yesterday, but seemed reluctant to take the shot, some poor execution in great positions by Maupay. But the frustration at those moments are lessened by the win. With lessened frustrations, I'm starting to enjoy the football more. Though, that is with 3 wins in 4 games (and that fourth game being when we've had someone sent off). I imagine when we have an inevitable poor run (either losses or draws), those frustrations will come back, but for now I'm enjoying it.

 

[SIMMO SAYS]

In the past I've noted my frustration with our performance in the final third - wrong decisions or poor execution. I think that is still there - Alzate had a couple of great chances yesterday, but seemed reluctant to take the shot, some poor execution in great positions by Maupay. But the frustration at those moments are lessened by the win. With lessened frustrations, I'm starting to enjoy the football more. Though, that is with 3 wins in 4 games (and that fourth game being when we've had someone sent off). I imagine when we have an inevitable poor run (either losses or draws), those frustrations will come back, but for now I'm enjoying it.

Thanks for letting us know

 

[Acker79]

Thanks for letting us know

You're welcome.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I am enjoying my football again, but we do need to be more clinical in front of goal, or Potterball will fail...

to get us into the top 6 maybe

When we sign the strikers that Liverpool and City have, we'll be a lot more clinical in front of goal

 

[Icy Gull]

Go on then, I’ll give him just a couple more games.