Don Quixote
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- Nov 4, 2008
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Why is Dick Knight letting the team go down the tube
- Thread starter Giraffe
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As was posted last season, and probably the season before, DK seems to think he can call the shots as to where the club will finish in any given season. Falmer's been put back a year, effectively, so DK thinks we can cruise in the Third Division for another season, just tread water, get a run in the Piss Pot, flog 30K tickets to the general popoulace of BN something and all the attendant merchandising shit. And he's a lucky chairman, and he'll probably get that Grand Day Out at Wembley. Only a couple of matchdays away after all. Trouble is, in the medium term, there's a shitload of club out there with a shitload more ambition than the Albion. We'll sink sure as a stone while the ambition is to tread water.
Just won't do
There's one huge flaw in your argument. Going nowhere in division 3 is costing the directors £10,000 a week keeping the club afloat. It's not a case of lack of ambition, they do not have a bottomless pit of money. If you look at the last set of accounts the director's report explicitly stated that the continued going concern of the club was dependent upon (a) selling players at a profit and (b) the directors dipping into their pockets, and they stated that they were not prepared to do this indefinitely.
If we were promoted then the TV money alone would increase revenues by over £1 million, and that's before the higher crowds due to more attractive opposition and higher numbers of away fans turning up. It's therefore crazy to say the board want to stay where we are, as they are better off financially from promotion.
DK has made mistakes, but he does not call the shots on the board, but without his continued enthusiasm for the club, and that of the Blooms, the club woud be have been in liquidation by now, not administration.
Deano's Invisible Pants
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- Mar 1, 2008
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Spot on mate - great post. I guess there is an outside chance that some hugely wealthy benefactor will come forward in time, but until that happens criticism of the current board's level of investment is ludicrous and unfair.
Dave the OAP
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what the really sad thing is that we all moaned like hell that the squad wasnt good enough and that Adams needed loanees....we get thornton, asinyah, the lad from leeds in and they are worldbeaters until our coaching staff get hold of them and now they are NOT!!!
Why is it we get all these decent players down here and after we have finished with them they become pony?
I see adams argument that we need loanees, but the real issue is what happens when they all go home. the FA Cup showed we haved a thin squad who are basically not good enough for third division football.
This is a very worrying state of affairs and I can see us, without a dramatic injection of players , playing in the fourth division in front of 3000 people.
The fa cup game with 2500 should have rang HUGE ALARM BELLS to the owners that if you havent got STH's propping this club up...this club is dead in the water.
Why is it we get all these decent players down here and after we have finished with them they become pony?
I see adams argument that we need loanees, but the real issue is what happens when they all go home. the FA Cup showed we haved a thin squad who are basically not good enough for third division football.
This is a very worrying state of affairs and I can see us, without a dramatic injection of players , playing in the fourth division in front of 3000 people.
The fa cup game with 2500 should have rang HUGE ALARM BELLS to the owners that if you havent got STH's propping this club up...this club is dead in the water.
Barrel of Fun
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I think that is an issue through out the whole of lower league football and with Britain set to face the brunt of the global downturn, we are going to have problems in the whole football pyramid. I would not put it past each league having a team or three starting on negative points (other than the Premiership/Recession free).
deano seagulls
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- May 11, 2008
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I am concerned that Dick hasn't had much to say to the fans lately - we have won 4 league games all season and that's not good enough - irrespective of what happened with Dean going and Micky coming it is not acceptable huddersfield have won 6 games carlisle won 6 games swindon won 4 - just one difference from them to us - they have got rid of the manager
Nemesis
SERIOUSLY!
The best thing is for you to give your full-time 'support' to your other club: Reading. That way we won't have to put up with your semi-literate ramblings any longer.
You NEVER hear him when things are a bit rough, you'll only ever hear him gloating once every so often when something decent happens, he leaves other people to take the flack for his cock ups.
Seasider78
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- Nov 14, 2004
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What exactly are we expecting him to do, crawl out on his hands and knees at half time and confess to all his mistakes in front of the Withdean crowd??!?!!
Name me one other chairman who would come out and do that!
Nobody can say they are particulary pleased with our start to the season but the sack him, get rid of that attitude of some of our fanbase is part of the problem not the solution.
m20gull
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Worldbeaters? Why do you think they were avaiable for a loan to a league 1 club?
Mendoza
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All though there are a few faults with Dick Knight, I dont think it is his fault we are shit at football.
That is down to the manager and the players. We finished 7th last year, rightly or wrongly. In pre season, we signed some quality players, in the season so far we have signed some quality players.
We have improved the squad with better players, but we are WORSE at football, that is not down to Knight.
Adams appointment, no one ACTUALLY thought it could be this bad, and at present it seems to have backfired pretty spectacularly. Although it doesnt look like, there is still time to get promoted this season, but I doubt it would happen, and will be content with a (not in the play off spot) top 10 finish now.
Knight only seems to appear when something good happens to the club, so at present we cant expect to hear too much from him in the near future, lets say, until we maybe sign a big name player in the transfer window, and said player appears with a Brighton scarf shaking hands with Sir Dick.
That is down to the manager and the players. We finished 7th last year, rightly or wrongly. In pre season, we signed some quality players, in the season so far we have signed some quality players.
We have improved the squad with better players, but we are WORSE at football, that is not down to Knight.
Adams appointment, no one ACTUALLY thought it could be this bad, and at present it seems to have backfired pretty spectacularly. Although it doesnt look like, there is still time to get promoted this season, but I doubt it would happen, and will be content with a (not in the play off spot) top 10 finish now.
Knight only seems to appear when something good happens to the club, so at present we cant expect to hear too much from him in the near future, lets say, until we maybe sign a big name player in the transfer window, and said player appears with a Brighton scarf shaking hands with Sir Dick.
Knotty
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You know that DK doesn't have much to do with Falmer do you? You've been in on the hundreds of meetings involved so you've seen it for yourself, have you?
I try very hard not to 'attack' anyone on NSC because we are all entitled to our opinions, diverse as they might be. However you state your opinions as facts on subjects about which you know next to nothing. You state 'facts' that you want to be true to support your agenda. You don't know that they are true.
In my opinion, therefore, you are clueless.
Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Knight has f***ed up with the Adams re-appointment, even Adams biggest apologists on here have to accept that we have been consistently clueless and bad surely? Are there any real signs that he's turning it around?
Overall Knight is still well ahead though and although I was not enthusiastic about the messiah's return I can see the thinking behind it.
Overall Knight is still well ahead though and although I was not enthusiastic about the messiah's return I can see the thinking behind it.
Apart from the vital cash we could have earned from an FA cup run...
The ref has to take credit for that though.
Mendoza
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There is no way the ref can be blamed for us chucking away a 2 goal lead in the first game, and us playing rubbish in the replay, just inviting them to attack us as soon as the second half began. The tactics we used, we were always going to loose, but stick with it, you just have to
Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Listening to John Byrne on Saturday, he was getting quite irritated with the fact that the Withdean crowd always seem to want to blame the ref for Albion's ineptness. Having heard him a few times this season I get the impression that he is no Adams fan either.
We were 16th after 28 games last season. Of course I'm disappointed in the start we've made this season, but I sincerely believe Adams can turn it around as Wilkins did last season.
only listened to the phone in on the way home and Byrne stated the ref did'nt book anyone.....so he was watching the wrong game for starters!
Brighton Breezy
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The ref wasn't the best but made less mistakes than most of our team...