Where's the passion gone?

[Icy Gull]

The building blocks of Adams last spell here was passion. From what I saw yesterday both the team and Adams have lost it. On the pitch Savage and towards the end Virgo were the only ones who looked like they really CARED. The others tried hard, did their best etc but did not seem to be willing to bust a gut for the team.

Adams aftermatch interview was pathetic, talking about what a plus it was not conceding ( which we would have done on a few occasions if Hereford players had had a bit more composure in front of goal) and ignoring our lack of a cutting edge. The Adams of old would have questioned our inabilty to test the goalkeeper of the team bottom of the league at home more than once in 90 minutes.

Only my second game of the season and I was not even a little bit impressed by what I saw.

An Adams team without passion is going to fail as he is the most clueless manager tactically that we have had since Jeff Wood.

The teams lack of passion is rubbing off on me and I won't be hurrying back to watch that shit.

 

[Djmiles]

The novelty of Adams coming back has worn off, and people are waking up to the reality of a season of disappointment. If we can't beat Hereford at home, who can we beat?

 

[glasfryn]

The building blocks of Adams last spell here was passion. From what I saw yesterday both the team and Adams have lost it. On the pitch Savage and towards the end Virgo were the only ones who looked like they really CARED. The others tried hard, did their best etc but did not seem to be willing to bust a gut for the team.

Adams aftermatch interview was pathetic, talking about what a plus it was not conceding ( which we would have done on a few occasions if Hereford players had had a bit more composure in front of goal) and ignoring our lack of a cutting edge. The Adams of old would have questioned our inabilty to test the goalkeeper of the team bottom of the league at home more than once in 90 minutes.

Only my second game of the season and I was not even a little bit impressed by what I saw.

An Adams team without passion is going to fail as he is the most clueless manager tactically that we have had since Jeff Wood.

The teams lack of passion is rubbing off on me and I won't be hurrying back to watch that shit.

most of the players have not been here long enough or are loanee's who may not be staying IMHO.
Injuries have not done the Albion any favours either.

 

[Gritt23]

most of the players have not been here long enough or are loanee's who may not be staying IMHO.
Injuries have not done the Albion any favours either.

Then you have to question why we have brought so many new players in when MA inherited a team on the fringe of the play-offs.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

most of the players have not been here long enough or are loanee's who may not be staying IMHO.
Injuries have not done the Albion any favours either.

Fair enough, but these reasons aside we should be able to muster more than a single shot on goal against the bottom team and not loose to 9 men.

 

[bhadeb]

The passion went out the door when Dean and Ian walked out of it

 

[Gritt23]

I was certainly shocked at the downbeat nature of MA interview. That wasn't the passionate, up-and-at-'em MA we knew from before.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Was the Withdean CROWD that devoid of passion first time Micky was here? Honestly can't remember now. Suspect not, cos we were all in shiny new uncharted Withdean territory, we had Zamora, we had a swamp of a pitch, it pissed it down every single home game for months on end, and we ground out highly unlikely 1-0 victories at home, time after time. It was genuinely EXCITING dammit! And the players surely feed off the excitement to a certain degree. Hence (maybe) this season all the decentish results, those away from home and the Man City one-off at Withdean, have been partially a result of the players feeding off the buzz of the crowd. Maybe it makes the adrenalin kick in or something. But Withdean is MORIBUND every Saturday afternoon home game. Not sure anything can be done about that actually. Maybe just have to live with it til Falmer

 

[The Auditor]

The passion went out the door when Dean and Ian walked out of it

Partly..and the fact that it looks like Micky has a "job for life"

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Partly..and the fact that it looks like Micky has a "job for life"

Sadly, Micky's no longer the young manager in a hurry with unlimited ambition to manage at the highest level. He's older, wiser, knows his limitations, maybe now more intent in just holding down a steady job that pays the mortgage. Bit like most of us I suspect.

 

[clippedgull]

I was certainly shocked at the downbeat nature of MA interview. That wasn't the passionate, up-and-at-'em MA we knew from before.

It's funny how people view things from different perspectives.

I have just watched it and he seemed satisfied that we had done everything correctly, except win the game.

I know it's never going to happen for team morale etc etc. But it would be nice for a manager to be refreshingly honest and say that the team performances have been shockingly bad and they should be ashamed to pull on the Seagulls shirt.

 

[Gritt23]

Was the Withdean CROWD that devoid of passion first time Micky was here?

But we are being given NOTHING to cheer about. I think it showed how far our expectations have dropped that such a dismal performance against such a rubbish Hereford side didn't even get much of a boo at the end .... 0-0 at home to a dreadful side, with no passion, no tactic, and hardly any shots on goal, didn't seem to disappoint the crowd a great deal, we all just wandered off shaking our heads. We've booed better performances than that this season, but the mood is now one of being resigned to the fact that we are gash.

 

[Gritt23]

I have just watched it and he seemed satisfied that we had done everything correctly, except win the game.

Yeah, that worried me .... is he HONESTLY satisfied with that performance, and the only thing we lacked was a goal? Surely not, surely MA has higher standards than that!

 

[The Auditor]

Sadly, Micky's no longer the young manager in a hurry with unlimited ambition to manage at the highest level. He's older, wiser, knows his limitations, maybe now more intent in just holding down a steady job that pays the mortgage. Bit like most of us I suspect.

fair comment ....he needs to show he "cares" as much as we do rather than the "image" being given off at present....it all seems a bit "it doesnt matter at the moment" to me..we pay and hope for better than that.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

But we are being given NOTHING to cheer about. I think it showed how far our expectations have dropped that such a dismal performance against such a rubbish Hereford side didn't even get much of a boo at the end .... 0-0 at home to a dreadful side, with no passion, no tactic, and hardly any shots on goal, didn't seem to disappoint the crowd a great deal, we all just wandered off shaking our heads. We've booed better performances than that this season, but the mood is now one of being resigned to the fact that we are gash.

Fair comment. Much the same scenes will be have been re-enacted at grounds up and down the country yesterday. Always a bit rubbish to know by October that you've got no chance of making the play-offs this time around. Oh well