[Albion] What is the point? (Warning: Probably being dramatic)

[Neville's Breakfast]

If we feel down now, imagine how Villa fans feel.

They were convinced that Potter was going to them when Stevie G is sacked.


Thoughts and prayers.

As we all knew there has never been any chance of that happening. Villa fans really are the Midlands version of Leeds fans.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Recent European champions attempt to poach Brighton's Manage.....

Boo ****ing Hoo!

I mean, Christ. What's the matter with people?

Maybe we can get in someone a bit shiitter next time, someone who stays under the radar and doesn't take us to fourth in the EPL.

FFS.

 

[Baldseagull]

Why do we need to be one of the top 6 clubs ? Personally not bothered.

I don't want to be, I want to crash what they consider to be their party once in a while though.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Sorry. I am disheartened right now. Just as I felt we were really getting somewhere, with a real chance (which we weren't going to miss this time) of briefly going top of the PL at the weekend. Just listened to the Albion Unlimited podcast too, so full of hope and positivity. Top ten place achieved, yes, but do it again please, with a foray into a minor European competition - then wave goodbye to GP - preferably to Liverpool or City, anywhere but bloody Chelsea!

Maybe we'll get some good news in the next few hours - but I doubt it

Yes. I’ve disliked Chelsea for more years than any rivalry with Palace. My dislike goes right back to the Docherty years.
Am I disheartened? Yes, but still have a bit of hope.

 

[mothy]

Ask Southampton. They have it done to them for many more years

 

[southstandandy]

I think the job at Chelsea is so inappropriate for GP with their approach to appointing managers. He might be offered a long term contract but they will not give him the time to do what he has with us. He will out on his ear by the end of the season (albeit with a massive pay off) but to me this seems like completely the wrong move for him.

Chelsea might have cash ousing out of their veins but as a club they are as mad as a bag of frogs.

I would steer well clear of this one Graham.

 

[GT49er]

I think the job at Chelsea is so inappropriate for GP with their approach to appointing managers. He might be offered a long term contract but they will not give him the time to do what he has with us. He will out on his ear by the end of the season (albeit with a massive pay off) but to me this seems like completely the wrong move for him.

Chelsea might have cash ousing out of their veins but as a club they are as mad as a bag of frogs.

I would steer well clear of this one Graham.

So would I - but .......................


Perhaps we could include a buy-back clause?

 

[southstandandy]

So would I - but .......................


Perhaps we could include a buy-back clause?

Yeah, if they sack him quickly enough like they usually do, then we should be able to get GP back by the end of the international break!

 

[Vicar!]

Could we please just spend one season in Europe, or win a trophy, just once please, before the team gets decimated.

 

[Arthur]

I did.

Well done you!

Feel free to be more than a bit miffed should GP bugger off up the Kings Road then.

 

[raymondo]

We have been here long enough to realise that the gap between the haves and the have nots is very large. However little old Brighton has closed that gap CONSIDERABLY, and what a great story.

I love under dogs and I'm very happy that we will continue as we are, with or without Potter. Bloom has plenty of tricks up his sleeves yet.

Be not disheartened.

You're sticking your neck out there... and I like it!

 

[raymondo]

Prediction: Potter will stay and we'll lose the next three games

 

[Oh_aye]

So we’ve lost 2 of our best players to bigger sides this summer and one of them last summer, I’ve kind of accepted that’s part of the progression.

When you actually think about it, without a ridiculous money injection how can a club ever break into the so called ‘big clubs’? As soon as anyone lower down the league appears to be making a good run at anything all the vultures come in and take what has taken us to where we are?

Like I said in the thread title, probably a bit dramatic but sometimes you look at football and just think how broken it is, how can a club ever break into the ‘big club’ bollocks?

Over dramatic or is it all a bit disheartening?

I'd say the point is not being suckered into the idea that going to watch football being fun is entirely incumbent on gaining entry into an entirely invented cabal imagined up for TV audiences and consumers.

 

[Dave the OAP]

I'm sure Sir David would just say Big Fish eats Little Fish?

Cardboard box?

 

[Mackenzie]

Well done you!

Feel free to be more than a bit miffed should GP bugger off up the Kings Road then.

To be fair, most of my friends here in Wales are Swansea supporters so I had sympathy with them, my reasoning being that I wouldn’t want that done to my team….and here we are.

Still, never mind, managers and players come and go, I’ll still be a Brighton fan tomorrow.

 

[DJ NOBO]

So we’ve lost 2 of our best players to bigger sides this summer and one of them last summer, I’ve kind of accepted that’s part of the progression.

When you actually think about it, without a ridiculous money injection how can a club ever break into the so called ‘big clubs’? As soon as anyone lower down the league appears to be making a good run at anything all the vultures come in and take what has taken us to where we are?

Like I said in the thread title, probably a bit dramatic but sometimes you look at football and just think how broken it is, how can a club ever break into the ‘big club’ bollocks?

Over dramatic or is it all a bit disheartening?

Having watched the meteoric rise of Brighton over the past 15 years, fans of pretty much every non-elite British football club could be forgiven for reading this post with a sense of disbelief.
EG - our former rivals Leyton Orient would probably consider we are doing OK.

 

[Bozza]

Whilst the poaching of players by the big clubs is relatively commonplace, it feels like it's considerably less so when it comes to managers. From what I can recall over the last 20-30 years...

Liverpool: Brendan Rogers (Swansea) and Roy Hodgson (Fulham)
Manchester United: David Moyes (Everton)
Manchester City: Mark Hughes (Blackburn)
Arsenal: none
Spurs: Mauricio Pochettino (Southampton) and Nuno Espirito Santo (Wolves)
Chelsea: Frank Lampard (Derby)

 

[The Wizard]

Recent European champions attempt to poach Brighton's Manage.....

Boo ****ing Hoo!

I mean, Christ. What's the matter with people?

Maybe we can get in someone a bit shiitter next time, someone who stays under the radar and doesn't take us to fourth in the EPL.

FFS.

Completely and utterly missing the point of the thread, but nice irrelevant rant.

If you aren’t slightly disheartened right now then you can t be that much of a Brighton fan with the direction we’ve been heading as a club and football wise, as I said, how do teams challenge the monotony of money driven football clubs? Question still remains.

 

[dazzer6666]

OP is right but we haven't half barrelled our way up the food chain in the last 10 years. We now have highly talented young players forcing their top 6 clubs to let them come to us, taking £100m+ in transfer fees in a single window, just had our highest ever finish and on track to at least match that again. The whole set up is fantastic. Will be absolutely gutted if Potter goes, but very confident his successor has already been identified - and we'll be causing the same feelings to fans of whatever club the next managerial genius is at now as we'll be feeling tomorrow if he goes (incidentally been listening to the radio for the last couple of hours - sounds increasingly like a done deal sadly). Incredibly there are only a handful of clubs now that can prise assets away from us.

As long as Tony stays, others will come and go, sometimes with more impact than we'd like, but we'll carry on.

 

[A mex eyecan]

If we feel down now, imagine how Villa fans feel.

They were convinced that Potter was going to them when Stevie G is sacked.


Thoughts and prayers.

Bless them. They would never be able to fathom why he chose Chelsea over them.
Best of all though would be if Potter decided to stay put and at his media meeting quoted what he did a few days ago about football, money and transactions.