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[Football] Why’s it not quite working at the moment?
- Thread starter Doc Lynam
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maltaseagull
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We had nobody to control our midfield. Same method over and over. Down to the wing with a few passes between full back and wing. Poor cross easily defended. No plan b
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Tyrone Biggums
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Players aren't good enough as a group.
I think our formation doesn't work. Don't think it's a coincidence we've only won one game since we changed to 4-3-3. Our best football has come when we've played 4-4-1-1 or 4-4-2.
Locadia doesn't track back leaving us exposed on our left. Montoya doesn't have the relationship with March which leaves us exposed on the right. Gross isn't where he needs to be. Stephens isn't good enough. Combined, it makes us completely lacking in substance across the middle of the park. Murray, Dunk & Duffy can only do so much with little support.
Locadia doesn't track back leaving us exposed on our left. Montoya doesn't have the relationship with March which leaves us exposed on the right. Gross isn't where he needs to be. Stephens isn't good enough. Combined, it makes us completely lacking in substance across the middle of the park. Murray, Dunk & Duffy can only do so much with little support.
Megazone
On his last warning
The summer signings haven't really made much impact. We didn't improve on what we have. It's starting to show when we need to change things around.
OvingdeanSeagull
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Because Hughton insists on playing the exact same terrible line up week after week despite huge amounts of evidence that it just does not work.
Also, because the ref is a ****.
Also, because the ref is a ****.
Kalimantan Gull
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Stephens is off form and the new formation, whilst looking nice at times, isn't producing the goals whilst damaging our defensive shape.
Plus, form, class, temporary, permanent, that old chestnut
Plus, form, class, temporary, permanent, that old chestnut
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Stephens is still knocking it around like he's in the championship and doesn't realise everyone's that bit faster in thought and deed.
Montoya is not as good as Bruno, we're missing Izquierdo's pace and trickery, Gross can't hit a barn door.
Crucially, none of the big attacking signings have been properly integrated and this is a big worry.
Montoya is not as good as Bruno, we're missing Izquierdo's pace and trickery, Gross can't hit a barn door.
Crucially, none of the big attacking signings have been properly integrated and this is a big worry.
saafend_seagull
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We’ve been shite all season bar 3 games. Played better last season. Got extremely lucky in games where deserved to lose but somehow won on a couple of occasions too. Also all our goals come from set plays now. Awful to watch.
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Absolutely. Let’s not forget where Brighton have come from. A championship team with our better players retained with the weaker players replaced. The Premier League is a tough devision. We’ve been in a relegation fight since being promoted, nothing has changed.
No? Montoya and Bernardo have improved our FB options, and are gradually taking over from Bruno and Bong. Bissouma has got everyone pretty excited, and Andone was just starting to fire-up when his elbow got the better of him. Locadia (OK, he was a January signing, not a summer one, but he was injured for a chunk of last season) - OK, his flame flickered briefly a few weeks ago, but seems to be guttering a bit now; jury out, but gradually veering towards a thumbs-down. Ali J. - jury still out there too - again, injured a lot, but hasn't set anything alight yet. CBs were acquired as cover, and as such they're quite satisfactory, as are the GKs.
So, doesn't look like the summer window was a dud to me; we have been unlucky with injuries though, compared to last season when we were phenomenally lucky!
Weststander
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I used to argue with such posts, not now.
26 PL games played and so few quality performances in those. The rest were some backs-to-walls jobs, together with a stack of outplayed losses.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
- 72,314
Not enough warm weather training 
doogie004
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Clueless manager picking same poor starting line up
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portslade seagull
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Gross is awful at the moment and has been for a while. Needs to dropped
Megazone
On his last warning
I feel as if the signings we made have only strengthened positions we were already reasonably strong in anyway. The weaknesses in our team were ignored. We're crying out for pace upfront, a tough tackling centre midfielder, a winger who can cross from the byline and more leadership when going forward. It seems last summers signings were too focused on the future rather than the now.