Weakest squad for 5 years.

[Couldn't give a rats arse]

No Lokki it's them!!!

It's unbelievable that people think this is a weak squad!! I think that last season on paper we had the strongest squad in Div2. Before Coppell left I was convinced we were goign to waltz the division. True, the squad hasn't changed much since then plus we've lost Blackwell, Rodger and Piercy (who didn't play that much anyway). But Currie's more than made up for it.

Kuipers is playign better now than any keeper since Eric Steele! Harding, Virgo, Knight, Nicholas and El Abd have real potential. Hardign and Hinshelwood could go that way too... also possibly McPhee, Jarrett and Robinson.

It's not a weak squad IT'S A YOUNG ONE!!! With masses of potential. If we can keep the young 'uns (and that's a BIG 'if') we have the makings of a really great team... which cost us peanuts.

Whether it keeps us up is another matter...

I think the point was (the point I was making anyway) strength in depth. Losing 3 senior players has left our squad wafer thin. I fully agree with your sentiments about the named players - the problem is there is nothing behind them. I can't help wondering if we would have been better off staying down and allowing these young players to develop without the pressure they are currently under. Everything was fine when we were winning. I made the point ages ago that as soon as we lost a few games, people would start clammering for loan players which will do the confidence of those dropped no good at all. We have the most promising bunch of young players I have seen in my 25 years of watching. I only hope they are allowed to fully develop and not get mullered by fans who are demanding survival. For me, survival was always a long shot.

Upshot - we need a striker badly but may not be able to afford one. Get over it whiners. Nobody is happy with the situation - including the board - but unless you have found a money plant then it ain't going to change until the Falmer decision.

 

[Kneon Light]

But with 5 points from the last 7 matches - relegation form!

So f***ing what!

Did you really expect us to go the whole season without showing relegation form at some stage? We have the lowest budget in the league BUT WE ARE NOT IN THE BOTTOM 3!

People with attitudes like this are really starting to piss me off.

 

[Kneon Light]

Upshot - we need a striker badly but may not be able to afford one. Get over it whiners. Nobody is happy with the situation - including the board - but unless you have found a money plant then it ain't going to change until the Falmer decision.

 

[Wilts]

You could certainly create a strong looking team with the various players we have had in the past 3 years.

Kuipers/Roberts

Ingimarsson Morgan Blackwell Harding/Mayo

Currie Nicolas Sidwell Rodger

Knight Zamora

subs: Cullip, Carpenter, Brooker, Beasant, Benjamin [/B]

I sense a theme here

 

[perseus]

Bobby Z gone (doesn't matter about the others) and Danny Cullip, Chippy, OGH, all seem to be playing below their best. I expect we ought to be about fourth from bottom.

The bonus is Virgo, Harding, and Hinshelwood, and I would have only expected one of the three to come good.

So if Peter Taylor was right when we need five new players, and we have Leon Knight, maybe we need just the one new player now?

 

[b.w.2.]

We only need one player - a target man... on loan, even, so needn't cost us the earth... the rest of our squad is fine, IMHO...

Time for DK, the board, and MM to pull their fcuking fingers out, and get someone on board... should have been done BEFORE the Crewe game...

 

[Couldn't give a rats arse]

We only need one player - a target man... on loan, even, so needn't cost us the earth... the rest of our squad is fine, IMHO...

Time for DK, the board, and MM to pull their fcuking fingers out, and get someone on board... should have been done BEFORE the Crewe game...

 

[3gulls]

So f***ing what!

Did you really expect us to go the whole season without showing relegation form at some stage? We have the lowest budget in the league BUT WE ARE NOT IN THE BOTTOM 3!

People with attitudes like this are really starting to piss me off.

Tough!

 

[b.w.2.]

do you not care?... oh, I see, the clues in your NSC name...

 

[Kneon Light]

Tough!

I asked this on another thread when you abused wrexham fans and said you abused Plymouth fans at the Fans Utd game but you didn't respond so I ask again:

Who the f*** do you support? You seem to have f*** all understanding about Brighton's problems.

"We only need one player - a target man... on loan, even, so needn't cost us the earth... the rest of our squad is fine, IMHO...

Time for DK, the board, and MM to pull their fcuking fingers out, and get someone on board... should have been done BEFORE the Crewe game..."

Yes then we can go bust BEFORE the falmer decision.

Don't you actually think that MM is busting a gut trying to find a target man that wouldn't cost the earth?

 

[Kneon Light]

do you not care?... oh, I see, the clues in your NSC name...

I'm guessing like me he's getting sick and tired of twats with no understanding of Brighton's plight.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

I think losing Sidwell was the biggest blow (other then Zamora) because he gave us so much energy in the middle of the pitch and vitaly scored goals from midfield.

If we had kept him we WOULD have stayed up.

We should have taken a gamble and signed him before Reading became interested.

Ingimarson was class as well.

 

[Couldn't give a rats arse]

I'm guessing like me he's getting sick and tired of twats with no understanding of Brighton's plight.

I'm glad it wasn't wasted on everyone. I spell out the situation, chapter and verse, and then you get some prat whining for a loan player "who needn't cost the earth". So where are these magical players who are really good target men and will cost a pittance?

 

[Hydro Driven]

We need loanings + signings!

 

[goldstone]

Absolute crap!

No way do we have the weakest squad for five years.

But we do need a striker!

 

[London Irish]

I sense a theme here

What, that Brooker isn't good enough to get into a starting line-up

 

[b.w.2.]

Dear "Couldn't give a rats arse" and "Kneon Light",

Everyone knows and understands that our club are in financial trouble... people like you harp on about it all the time!... however, this doesn't mean that the board cannot allocate limited funds to team strengthening... as, indeed, they did at the start of the season...

We are a football club... suggestions from the fans that we should allocate some funds to team strengthening should not be met by a tirade of abuse from people like you...

It's a matter of opinions... you stick to yours, and I'll stick with mine...

You must at least admit that it is a grey area... there is no right or wrong here... or, perhaps, your views are so entrenched that you can't see the other side of the argument?...

 

[Lokki 7]

You must at least admit that it is a grey area... there is no right or wrong here... or, perhaps, your views are so entrenched that you can't see the other side of the argument?...

How more black and white than WE HAVE NO CASH AND WILL GO BUST WITHOUT FALMER would you like it to be?

 

[larus]

How more black and white than WE HAVE NO CASH AND WILL GO BUST WITHOUT FALMER would you like it to be?

Hallelujah.

That's it. You'rs not the only ones.

It is patently obvious that we have to keep the playing budget under control. Any tosser can spend money (Leeds for example).

We've got a chairman that is sensible, and that is important in the present climate. If we borrowed money now, the interest payments come off the budgets for the next few years.

Yeah, that's great business sense. Spend tomorrows money today.

 

[b.w.2.]

How more black and white than WE HAVE NO CASH AND WILL GO BUST WITHOUT FALMER would you like it to be?

That statement is true... whether we should spend SOME money now to strengthen our team is a matter of opinion... live with it...