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[Albion] When did things last feel this bad?







WATFORD zero

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Jul 10, 2003
28,304
Trying to think of a time since the end of the Goldstone when things have felt this gloomy from an Albion point of view.

I know Gillingham was a ball ache and there was some wet and windy nights at Withdean, but what is going on with our club at the moment feels farcical.

Ferguson going from a £100m striker to being sent to a direct rival on loan.

Barco farce.

Rumoured discontent within the dressing room.

The board making calamitous decision after decision on transfers whilst popping up on a new podcast each week sucking up the plaudits.

A clueless baffoon of a manager.

Never ending injuries (which I think might be down to the players not being motivated to play/get fit for manager).

Endless crap performances at home.

Loosing 7 - 0 to a #teamslikeforest

I could go on...

Never in the history of Internet Forums has so much :shit:been inflicted on so many by so few​

 


The Grockle

Formally Croydon Seagull
Sep 26, 2008
5,796
Dorset
1st season at Gillingham
Micky Adams mk2
Slade post the great escape
Hypia horror tenure
Potter's winless run

If you think this is the worse period post Goldstone you have a short memory.

Yesterday was shite but just a blip in an otherwise ok season. The reaction is knee jerk had we spooned a 1 nil win yesterday we'd be 4 points of 4th and there would be a very different tone on here.

Our tactics at times have left me a bit bemused and we've been we've dropped some ludicrous points but we've lost 6 games out of 24.
 


Seagull58

In the Algarve
Jan 31, 2012
8,862
Vilamoura, Portugal
I know this is trolling but the idea this season is “the worst “ is laughable. This year I’ve had Spurs, United, and City at home. Up there with some of the best Amex moments in the PL. And 4 great away days at Everton, United, Bournemouth , and Ipswich . Of course all sorts of disappointment and crap too (Leicester ! Wolves ! Palace ! ) but that’s a lot of decent moments. Ofc The last week has been terrible . But I’ve seen us lose hundreds of games and will no doubt see many more. And come Saturday afternoon and it will have faded - I luckily gave Forest a swerve this year - and I’ll be full of Cup hope. Again. 52 years since I first saw the Albion play Chelsea in the cup as it happens. And who knows…
52 or 58? We played them in 1967.
 


sussex_guy2k2

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Jun 6, 2014
4,604
Just picking up on your point about the "remember where we came from" group, of which I'm assuming you are attaching that label to myself.

If we are talking about getting to a point and continuing progress as the start point for our expectations, I and others in this group we are labelled, attended the FA Cup Final and witnessed us being a gnats cock away from lifting the trophy and beating the mighty Man Utd. If I'd have set my expectation back then to at least get back into the FA Cup Final and have a chance of winning it, then I'm afraid to say my expectations haven't been met for over 40 years ;)
That feels like a lot of disappointment to have to deal with 😅
 












sussex_guy2k2

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Jun 6, 2014
4,604
I see what your saying, but then, why change your expectations? I just want to stay up every year and everything else is a wonderful bonus. My mojo rarely drops as a result. Some people have said top 10 is their expectation, if so we are meeting that, but for me its more of a target than an expectation. But if your expectations have become to get in the top 6 at the start of the season, and stay there all year, winning every game against a lower table team, well we might do it occasionally but more often than not we won't. So you are frequently miserable. Just can't see how that's a fun place to be.
If I’m being honest, it’s more than I’ve just found this season to be lacking in any real joy. I don’t trust the manager, the “style” of football is almost non-existent.

Personally I took a couple of years off of being a ST holder for personal reasons, came back to it this year and haven’t had the pleasure I used to from it, so I’ve cancelled my ST. And it’s primarily for the reasons you mention (as well as some other bigger frustrations with the club that I’m apparently not allowed to have). It’s just not that fun anymore for me.
 
















studio150

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Jul 30, 2011
30,435
On the Border
I for one believe in the process, and having got over the many messages of 'bet you wished you hadn't gone' I am now fully focusing on dumping Chelsea out of the FA Cup on Saturday, as they react to Saturday's disappointment in the beat possible way.
 




aolstudios

Well-known member
Nov 30, 2011
5,606
brighton
Trying to think of a time since the end of the Goldstone when things have felt this gloomy from an Albion point of view.

I know Gillingham was a ball ache and there was some wet and windy nights at Withdean, but what is going on with our club at the moment feels farcical.

Ferguson going from a £100m striker to being sent to a direct rival on loan.

Barco farce.

Rumoured discontent within the dressing room.

The board making calamitous decision after decision on transfers whilst popping up on a new podcast each week sucking up the plaudits.

A clueless baffoon of a manager.

Never ending injuries (which I think might be down to the players not being motivated to play/get fit for manager).

Endless crap performances at home.

Loosing 7 - 0 to a #teamslikeforest

I could go on...
About a year ago for several months, ffs
 






Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park
NSC Patron
Apr 5, 2014
26,877
This is a strange thread as obviously this isn't the worse of times , even at the Amex. However, how can an Albion "fan" post that he is laughing at the result with his mates ?? It is the worse league result since the fifties and has completely ruined my weekend and beyond. The result is a humiliation for the Club and our City IMO

If Hurzeler is around to lose at Selhurst in April he will have the dubious double of the Forest defeat to his name plus being the first manager since the 1930's to lose home and away to Palace in a league season. :facepalm:
That'll be me. And, yes, I did have a laugh about it with a Leeds supporting friend. The irony being that they won 7-0 (biggest result in nearly 50 years) and the fact that, as much as I love the Albion, I don't let results upset me. Life has far more important things to get into a stew over. Whether Albion lose 7-0 or won 7-0 I still feel the same about their place in my life. And in the end, it's just twenty two blokes kicking a bag of air around a patch of grass. I love it, but I'm not going to let it make me unhappy. Football for me is more about the what happens off the pitch, the friendships I have made, the great days out. Places like NSC where a lot of good folk gather. Victories and success are a bonus. Defeats and absolute tonkings, never mind, it happens.

Palace doing the double over us ? Well, I'd rather they didn't. If it happens :shrug: The sun will still rise in the morning, the birds will sing, and it won't cost me my life.
 
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Justice

Dangerous Idiot
Jun 21, 2012
21,806
Born In Shoreham
I for one believe in the process, and having got over the many messages of 'bet you wished you hadn't gone' I am now fully focusing on dumping Chelsea out of the FA Cup on Saturday, as they react to Saturday's disappointment in the beat possible way.
This process nonsense is what crap managers come out with to cover themselves.
If they win it’s the process if they lose it’s a long process absolute bollocks for the naive to suck up. No offence like.
 


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