Upsetting

[meanmachine25]

Give me the Gillingham years ....£6 to get in yes we were crap.....but the fans counted for something..... Not just their wallets.... And as for the gallows humour...... Good times and they call this progress...... Just saying

 

[Mowgli37]

What saddened me most was the number of people more concerned with screaming abuse at Sami and the players rather than actually supporting the team.

 

[daves143]

The whole club needs a overhaul, what happened tonight has been 18 months in the making :-(

 

[Horses Arse]

In 27 years of supporting this football club I have never felt so apathetic as I have done this season. That includes the Gillingham years. Thanks Paul Barber for ripping the heart and soul out of our football club.

Great post. As others have said Barber has caused bad blood at this club. He's ripped the heart out of the club.

All of the momentum we built in our final season at Withdean, then moving into our fantastic new stadium, continually breaking our transfer record and raising the bar with player recruitment all seems in the dim and distant past.

It was an utterly depressing watch tonight, seeing so many empty seats and a poor team performance, with no direction or leadership on the bench.

Whilst FFP has played a part, we have neglected the playing side of the club which I find staggering as it was quality player recruitment that brought in much needed revenue e.g. Ulloa, Buckley, Bridcutt, Noone & Barnes. In effect we trusted our manager to speculate to accumulate, now we clog up the team with untested free transfers, loan players, panic buys (Baldock) & needless buys (Stockdale) when we had a perfectly sound keeper.

I started to sense something cancerous in the club last season, and this season the club have got what they deserved, they are treating the fans as mugs and it's about time we stood up and made our feelings clear. Player recruitment has been shambolic and it's no surprise to see such a low level of passion on the pitch when our squad has 6 loanees.

Sami has to go but he cannot shoulder all of the blame, Barber & Burke are as much too blame.

This club used to have a soul, Barber seems to have single handedly ripped that out, by trying to turn us into this corporate beast that values greed and money over loyalty and community.

Time for Bloom to make wholesale changes from top to bottom and clear out Barber, Burke, Jones & Hypia and start investing in the team again.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

I've never known an atmosphere to be so angry and hostile at a Brighton game before, it will take one hell of a turn-around to get everyone onside again. Where's Bloom right now? Oh yeah - Oz. Good timing.

He was there tonight.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

What saddened me most was the number of people more concerned with screaming abuse at Sami and the players rather than actually supporting the team.

I thought the support for the team was pretty good tonight.

 

[Quinney]

Sami has got off very lightly so far. People have given him time as they appreciate it's not all down to him alone, however team selection, tactics, motivation are and he is coming up way short.

 

[Winker]

He was there tonight.

Good

 

[Justice]

I've never known an atmosphere to be so angry and hostile at a Brighton game before, it will take one hell of a turn-around to get everyone onside again. Where's Bloom right now? Oh yeah - Oz. Good timing.

Err TB was at the game tonight he was talking to Kieth Andrews outside the north stand at around 6.15.

 

[catfish]

It's times like this when we need all Albion fans to unite together and pull the club through this mess. Squabbling amongst ourselves will get us nowhere.

 

[Dolph Ins]

I really don't know where this fighting amongst ourselves in the North Stand comes from. It can only be that the stewards were trying to make themselves look important by wading into nothing because I didn't see any fighting

 

[Monsieur Le Plonk]

Great post. As others have said Barber has caused bad blood at this club. He's ripped the heart out of the club.

Has he? Has he really?
I will happily lay the blame right now at Hyppia, Jones' and Burke's door but by going after Barber for our shi*ty situation is nonsensical. Barber has been given a job by TB and whether you like it or not he is delivering. The problems lie with those those other 3 clowns.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

There is one person that has ripped the heart out of this club and that is Barber,if he doesn't go NOW then there's no point getting rid of Hyypia.

 

[Southy]

In those days the anger was directed at a chairman who didn't give a toss about the club, today we have a Brighton fan as chairman but who has lost the plot. Major difference.

Not completely true. What about the Darlington night game in Nov 96 when the fans turned on Case and harangued him outside the ground after the game? Far worse atmosphere than this.

 

[Pretty pink fairy]

I've never known an atmosphere to be so angry and hostile at a Brighton game before, it will take one hell of a turn-around to get everyone onside again. Where's Bloom right now? Oh yeah - Oz. Good timing.

because he can £££££££££££££££££
regards
DR

 

[aolstudios]

In 27 years of supporting this football club I have never felt so apathetic as I have done this season. That includes the Gillingham years. Thanks Paul Barber for ripping the heart and soul out of our football club.

This. Since the very first game of the season. In fact, before - it's just been obvious something's badly wrong

 

[Barrel of Fun]

This is probably the first season in a long, long time that we are actually underachieving. It's new to a lot of people. Certainly new to myself. I started watching us in 1990 and it was all downhill from there.

I feel apathetic about football as a whole. I went to approx 200 Withdean games and have been to 15 (?) at the Amex.

 

[CaptainDaveUK]

If I were Bloom I'd sack Barber and Burke first as I think they are more to blame for our current predicament. I think Hypia should go but not before the other two. Barber and Burke are ruining the Albion's 1st team and worst than that have alienated the fans. Tony we don't want them at our club anymore.

 

[greyseagull]

All of the momentum we built in our final season at Withdean, then moving into our fantastic new stadium, continually breaking our transfer record and raising the bar with player recruitment all seems in the dim and distant past.

It was an utterly depressing watch tonight, seeing so many empty seats and a poor team performance, with no direction or leadership on the bench.

Whilst FFP has played a part, we have neglected the playing side of the club which I find staggering as it was quality player recruitment that brought in much needed revenue e.g. Ulloa, Buckley, Bridcutt, Noone & Barnes. In effect we trusted our manager to speculate to accumulate, now we clog up the team with untested free transfers, loan players, panic buys (Baldock) & needless buys (Stockdale) when we had a perfectly sound keeper.

I started to sense something cancerous in the club last season, and this season the club have got what they deserved, they are treating the fans as mugs and it's about time we stood up and made our feelings clear. Player recruitment has been shambolic and it's no surprise to see such a low level of passion on the pitch when our squad has 6 loanees.

Sami has to go but he cannot shoulder all of the blame, Barber & Burke are as much too blame.

This club used to have a soul, Barber seems to have single handedly ripped that out, by trying to turn us into this corporate beast that values greed and money over loyalty and community.

Time for Bloom to make wholesale changes from top to bottom and clear out Barber, Burke, Jones & Hypia and start investing in the team again.

This is one of my all time favourite posts on NSC. I've just copied and pasted it and sent it on to the old man in his hospital bed.

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

This is one of my all time favourite posts on NSC. I've just copied and pasted it and sent it on to the old man in his hospital bed.

You're not wrong. Hope your old man's ok.