Brightonowl

But you could argue that, over 46 games, those things are likely to level out. Levelling out is a lot less likely over 1 game.

While everyone would love to get the right manager in asap, currently, we’d be starting a first game with a team something like: Dawson Palmer iorfa Ihiekwe Famewo James (hopefully) Baz Byers Vaulks Windass/Smith/Gregory/Pato While by no means enough to challenge for a whole season for a play offs push and a good amount of solid additions required (and a manager, obvs), that team should not be embarrassed on a weekly basis in the Championship, so it’s probably not panic stations just yet.

Bloody excellent post, @KivoOwl.

They’re definitely a mixed and, in a lot of cases, confused bunch. There’s a core of old school fans who really had a poo time for many years and were loyal throughout. Losing their ground, playing miles away, the embarrassment that was Withdean on top of having years of rubbish football would test any fanbase. About 8 or 9,000 of them stuck it out, though, and deserve credit for that. Unfortunately, with that I think comes the dyed in the wool bitterness against a lot of clubs, and that stems from a victim complex that will take time to disappear. It’s often these people you will encounter on message boards. But these people are now a minority. A sizeable chunk of the crowds who turn up at the AmEx now (or, bizarrely at Wembley last week) would have called themselves Liverpool/Man Utd/Arsenal fans much less than 10 years ago. There are also people who had zero interest in football 10 years ago who now have season tickets. The slightly depressing thing from our point of view is that they’re going to maintain this. It’s fashionable to watch football here now. There’s a massive catchment area of people with money in their pockets and no real competition for miles around. Practically everyone in Sussex wants Brighton to succeed. No divided families, no businesses feeling they can’t support one club and not another. It makes a difference. They also happened to drop on lucky with a local business man with a brain, desire, money, a plan and some really good timing. People are forgetting their old, tenuous allegiances to clubs playing in cities far away and stadia they’ve never visited and they’re buying into Brighton as a club. I don’t think this is going away any time soon. You could say they’re overdue sone good luck, but it’s still incredibly annoying being so far behind so many clubs like this. Having grown up with a season ticket at Hillsborough through the late 80s and 90s, it seems ridiculous to be looking at the possibility of a 3rd year in the 3rd tier. Being surrounded by a growing number of Brighton fans whose football memories go back 6 or 7 years and either look at you with pity or laugh when they hear who you support is a constant punch in the nads. The timing of our demise has been pretty terrible. It’s going to get harder and harder to catch clubs like this, particularly if we don’t scrape through the play offs this year. Blimey I hope we get promoted.

Get in Vale!

Like a can of overly-strong-smelling deodorant.

Nice write up and summary of how things have improved recently. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/sheffield-wednesday-darren-moore-league-one-b2294877.html

Bannaaaan got the ball and spun and now he’s gone and blown you all away… Bazzaa! Ooooh ooh ooh oooh he doesn’t even have to try i sometimes think he’s just ******** with you all

Was there with my dad that day. What a great time to be a 13yo Wednesdayite! Was a lot happier then than a few months earlier after the Forest match.

Yeah, I read that as they provide cover for positions and give options. If it didn’t mean that then that would be a weird comment based on recent performances.

In now, via a hotspot to my wife’s phone and a server in Holland, which is where I am, obviously. So that’s that bit of stress over, now for the main course.

Thanks. Tried different browsers and different devices. Not working on phone, iPad or Mac. Will try restarting as well. Cheers.

Morning all Anyone having problems logging in with a VPN. Won’t let me in with Vypr or Nord today.

Thanks. Got it going on the website. Still not found it on the app though!

I can’t see settings either. Weird.

Nothing here either.

We look capable of conceding pretty much any time any team gets into our half. Then flatter a few times going forward while not really creating anything. It’s a bit of a desperate mix that, unfortunately.

As a few have said, he was competing with memories of Nilsson and Sterland and was never gonna come anywhere near either of them. The amount of floaty diagonal balls from around the half way line to opposition’s defenders or keeper used to drive me mad, though.

Jim Magilton?

We're in a similar position with the same points as Burnley were this time last year...

Points wise we're 2 better off than Burnley were at this stage last year. Granted the top two currently have more points too, but if you look at Burnley's form into this time last year, it shows you how much can change. Newcastle without Shelvey for another 4 games could help with breaching the gap. This second half of the season is gonna be interesting. *edit: just seen this already been pointed out in another thread, but there you go...

Hopefully we'll hammer 'em tonight and most of them can do their Superman change back into their real teams' shirts afterwards.

Gonna be somewhat in the minority here tonight. Any Wednesdayites watching in Brighton anywhere? (I imagine this is gonna be a short thread).

There's a major point that doesn't seem to have been mentioned yet regarding Brighton's supporters and their crowds in comparison to clubs like Wednesday, Derby, Forest (and even Dem Blavdes). I've lived here for 10 years, so I think I'm qualified to point out that a good 50% of the people who are at the AmEx on a weekly basis are also Man Utd/Arsenal/Chelsea/Liverpool "fans", who never gave a sh*t about The club until they got a shiny new ground and a sniff of some glory. There is genuine confusion and changing of subjects when they're asked who they'd support if the time came where their two clubs met in the Premier League. This seems totally alien to me. This does not apply to all their fans, I'd say there's a hardcore 8-10,000 that went through some terrible times at Withdean etc. and those people, as supporters, deserve a lot of respect for that. This could also, of course, all change in a generation if they continue to do well and new generations of supporters are born into just being Albion fans. Right now, though, it seems a bit plastic for a large section of the fan base.

I seem to be listening to two blokes talking about Sean McAuley while there's a match going on...