[Football] What’s worse?

[AlbionBro]

Playing rubbish.

I was furious at halftime today and vs Palace, but in both cases we were better in the second half.

I agree you have no future if you are playing rubbish all the time, it's a one-way ticket.

 

[Brian Parsons]

Hate to admit, I just can't bring myself to watch, its so frustrating knowing that this tippy tappy pretty football maybe to nice to watch but we're trying to walk the ball into the goal, why hasn't Bissouma let fly with one of his " specials ".

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[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Tippy tappy football is nice with an end result. At the moment, we might as well be watching Saints v Spurs 1978 or West Germany v Austria WC 1982 - lots of passing but no sign of ever scoring.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Playing well and not taking your chances is harder to take for sure. Playing crap you know what your gonna get and expectations are low. Playing how we play you are just waiting and praying it will click and the goals will flood in.

It depends how you define playing well. Football is about stopping goals, creating goals and scoring goals. We rarely get all three right. Surely it involves all areas of the pitch? Today, we defended poorly for their goal, generally got the tempo wrong through midfield and made a complete pig's ear of all our chances. That has been a feature of us all season. Not clinical enough. Not strong enough and rarely playing well in both halves of games.

 

[Mo Gosfield]

Tippy tappy football is nice with an end result. At the moment, we might as well be watching Saints v Spurs 1978 or West Germany v Austria WC 1982 - lots of passing but no sign of ever scoring.

The manager has built a side of lightweight, mobile, ball carriers. Lots of No.10's, none of whom can score goals and are all physically lacking and small forwards, who can't hold the ball. We do, however, have a decent defence and can carry the ball quite well through midfield. We look much better when our tempo is higher but that is usually only when the game is more open. Teams have long since worked us out. Sit behind the ball and watch us roll it around, before desperation to do something more creeps in and the chance is usually wasted. We have become one dimensional and predictable. Lots of decent approach play but no quality in service or finishing. Its toothless football.
Nothing is going to change because the manager has based everything around one style of play and likes these smaller, lighter players. We are a nice side but lack real bite. A bit too easy to play against. We need to redress the balance. Get a bit more direct, more simple and more aggressive.

 

[oldboyroy]

The thing is we moan about chances missed but it's even penalties missed too now, you simply don't get better chances than penalties and we can't even put them away. Over the season so far we've missed more pens than scored them and with several different takers.

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

It's easy to accept being rubbish.

 

[El Turi]

It was definitely a worse feeling during Hughton’s final matches. Towards the end of the 2018/19 season, we barely created a chance during the last 9 matches of the season which was demoralising.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Houghton’s two seasons we won 9 matches.
Under Potter we won 9 matches last season
This season we’ve only won 5 so far. It was ok when we were getting draws but now we’re not even getting draws. Frustrating.

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

A blend of Hughton, Potterball and someone else. I’m not clever enough for the ‘someone else’ bit but for some reason Shearer springs to mind.

 

[Simster]

This is MUCH more frustrating than just being bloody awful to watch because the usual thing to do is to blame the manager, and normally I would. But how can you blame a bloke who sets his team up to dominate, attack and create 66 chances in 3 games, especially when we're not exactly conceding a hatful? That's what we all want to see. That is why I'm frustrated - I don't feel I can blame the manager.

In that time, we've scored one goal (two if you count today's free kick) and they were both "scored" by defenders. It isn't hard to see where the blame lies. I see Connolly on the team sheet and my heart sinks. Then Welbeck comes on and he too is absolutely shit so my heart sinks further. Maupay is the least shit in my view but he isn't good enough. I wouldn't trust any of them to finish their dinner.

We should have had 3, and could have had 6 easily today. I don't want to see Welbeck or Connolly in the shirt again next season, and Maupay is on very thin ice. I'd only keep him for the sake of continuity anyway. The whole lot of them are utter shit and have let Potter down. He publicly back them in the summer and this utter turd is how they've repaid him.

 

[Weststander]

This is MUCH more frustrating than just being bloody awful to watch because the usual thing to do is to blame the manager, and normally I would. But how can you blame a bloke who sets his team up to dominate, attack and create 66 chances in 3 games, especially when we're not exactly conceding a hatful? That's what we all want to see. That is why I'm frustrated - I don't feel I can blame the manager.

In that time, we've scored one goal (two if you count today's free kick) and they were both "scored" by defenders. It isn't hard to see where the blame lies. I see Connolly on the team sheet and my heart sinks. Then Welbeck comes on and he too is absolutely shit so my heart sinks further. Maupay is the least shit in my view but he isn't good enough. I wouldn't trust any of them to finish their dinner.

We should have had 3, and could have had 6 easily today. I don't want to see Welbeck or Connolly in the shirt again next season, and Maupay is on very thin ice. I'd only keep him for the sake of continuity anyway. The whole lot of them are utter shit and have let Potter down. He publicly back them in the summer and this utter turd is how they've repaid him.

Pretty much my thoughts.

I wanted Welbeck to succeed, but my heart sank when he given the pen ..... I genuinely thought that he’d miss.

IF we stay up, I’m praying that Bloom and all his highly paid lieutenants finally crack the forwards debacle. I know finances are shite due to lockdown, but eventually we’ll run out of luck flirting forever with relegation. Potter or any manager need decent strikers to do themselves justice.

 

[saafend_seagull]

Just generally lockdown football is very hard to watch. These are like pre season friendlies.


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[heathgate]

Got me thinking after today’s game, I remember towards the end of Hughtons reign that I genuinely didn’t want to watch us anymore for the first time ever and after today I feel immensely frustrated about watching us playing well and throwing games away with crap finishing despite playing good football.

What’s more frustrating:

Watching us play utter shit and lose games

Watching us play fairly well but missing chance after chance after chance.

Yep,... I am taking a break now, this season has been bad for my mental wellbeing. See you next season, or maybe not, no tapatalk option may deter my involvement.

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[Deadly Danson]

Yep,... I am taking a break now, this season has been bad for my mental wellbeing. See you next season, or maybe not, no tapatalk option may deter my involvement.

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I'm with you. I'm a Brighton fan - I'm quite content with us being rubbish, I'd be much calmer if I was a Sheff Utd fan at the moment but I can't remember a season that has literally depressed me more than this one. For various reasons, things are so ****ing shit at the moment and the Albion are making things significantly worse in my head. I know I can't stop being a fan after 37 years so I'll just have to hope things perk up. Ridiculous I know.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

I voted 2) simply because I know that we are, or have been, quite tight at the back. The thing that I find frustrating now is that I don't every feel that we are ever going to score and the prospect of us winning comfortably is beyond my comprehension. I start watching each game with a sigh and have found myself, for the first time ever, looking at my phone when we are in possession as I know that there is nil prospect of anything to cheer at the end of the move. In the second half I was even fantasising about us bringing on Fred Binney, now he knew where the net was.

 

[drew]

I voted playing rubbish is worse. I remember the away games where we parked the bus from the 1st minute. It was embarrassing. Now, whilst it is frustrating with the number of chances not being converted, I know we are only millimetres away from more goals. Previously, were were about 60 metres away from scoring goals!!

 

[Iggle Piggle]

I'd rather have Tiltman and Farrington up front than Maupay and Connolly. The only time one of those have scored recently was an open goal against Leeds and in that time Connolly has even managed to miss 2 open goals.

If I was a defender in that team I'd have lamped one of them by now.

Never have I been more frustrated watching us.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Us being crap, I can accept. I've had over 50 years training for it and don't tend to get overly frustrated.

But this is completely new to me and I really don't understand or like it

 

[wellquickwoody]

This is MUCH more frustrating than just being bloody awful to watch because the usual thing to do is to blame the manager, and normally I would. But how can you blame a bloke who sets his team up to dominate, attack and create 66 chances in 3 games, especially when we're not exactly conceding a hatful? That's what we all want to see. That is why I'm frustrated - I don't feel I can blame the manager.

In that time, we've scored one goal (two if you count today's free kick) and they were both "scored" by defenders. It isn't hard to see where the blame lies. I see Connolly on the team sheet and my heart sinks. Then Welbeck comes on and he too is absolutely shit so my heart sinks further. Maupay is the least shit in my view but he isn't good enough. I wouldn't trust any of them to finish their dinner.

We should have had 3, and could have had 6 easily today. I don't want to see Welbeck or Connolly in the shirt again next season, and Maupay is on very thin ice. I'd only keep him for the sake of continuity anyway. The whole lot of them are utter shit and have let Potter down. He publicly back them in the summer and this utter turd is how they've repaid him.

Annoyingly, I entirely agree with you.

But I have been complaining about the lack of a quality striker in his prime for SIX years now.