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Considering they had a 'wheres the congratulations from southampton' thread thats pretty lame. Most people just take a congratulations with good heart..

 

Yeah, saw all that last night. Makes you wonder what exactly is there problem.

 

Also, they accuse us of arrogance again; another favourite Bompey past time... interesting, considering some of the comments on there are some of the strange threads knocking around on there:

 

http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?198790-Seagulls-and-Saints-Scarves

http://www.northstandchat.com/showthread.php?189699-Lee-Barnard

 

and many others, including guard of honours for their team, Adkins threads (yes, more) etc. Many references to us being "scum", too. Lol. I really, really don't know why some of them have it in for us...

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I am still surprised you are even bothered about what a handful of idiots on that site actually say. I mean as an example, we should be in celebratory mood but there is a 5 page thread on there about the tannoy announcer trying to get people off the pitch last night, which has become a complete binfest!

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I am still surprised you are even bothered about what a handful of idiots on that site actually say. I mean as an example, we should be in celebratory mood but there is a 5 page thread on there about the tannoy announcer trying to get people off the pitch last night, which has become a complete binfest!

 

The point is it's not a handful ,it seems much more widespread than that.:?

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Congratulations to Brighton. It does show that good players can become good managers........

 

Still remember Poyet's first game in charge, at SMS, when they turned us over and deservedly took the 3 points off us. It's been onwards and upwards for them since then.

 

The Pardew debacle has hurt us this season, where Poyet had a full season to turn his team into champions (almost!).

 

Managerial stability is required if we want to progress next season

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As someone schooled in Brighton I'm pleased to see them promoted but finding the change in footballing superiority difficult to handle with my Brighton supporting mates.

 

We may not be an arrogant club but isn't it arrogant behaviour to slam someone for calling the SFC/BHAFC a derby, f#ck me its just short hand for a close game, lets not be all 'our hatred for Pompey is so intense we can't begin to engage in rivalry type banter with other nearby clubs', because thats a bit sad. Also isn't it a bit arrogant to suggest the CPFC/BHAFC game is of less of a derby than ours with Pompey, lets not be all 'our hatred of our local rivals is more important than yours' because that’s a bit pathetic.

 

At the end of the day their bus was better and faster than ours, but hey their journey wont be as much fun though.

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As someone schooled in Brighton I'm pleased to see them promoted but finding the change in footballing superiority difficult to handle with my Brighton supporting mates.

 

We may not be an arrogant club but isn't it arrogant behaviour to slam someone for calling the SFC/BHAFC a derby, f#ck me its just short hand for a close game, lets not be all 'our hatred for Pompey is so intense we can't begin to engage in rivalry type banter with other nearby clubs', because thats a bit sad. Also isn't it a bit arrogant to suggest the CPFC/BHAFC game is of less of a derby than ours with Pompey, lets not be all 'our hatred of our local rivals is more important than yours' because that’s a bit pathetic.

 

At the end of the day their bus was better and faster than ours, but hey their journey wont be as much fun though.

 

Great post.

 

Apologies to any Brighton fan reading some of the anti-Brighton ****e on this thread. We have our share of retards also. You showed the rest of League One this season how it's done. We should just scrape second but it's going to be close.

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we should be in celebratory mood but there is a 5 page thread on there about the tannoy announcer trying to get people off the pitch last night, which has become a complete binfest!

:lol: This made me laugh :lol: Some of the stuff on football forums is so funny! This sounds like the sort of thread that had it been on this forum, it would have been started by Deppo as a joke, but the serious squad would have jumped on it and turned it into a serious matter! :)

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Yep well done, Poyet must be a fabulous manager and will be Spurs manager soon

 

Congratulations to Brighton, clearly deserved promotion, they have been consistently good this season. Even after they came to St Marys, parked the bus and timewasted from 10 minutes in, they still almost grabbed 3 points, if it hadnt have been for Kelvin saving that pen....

 

Two other points, I agree with all the SWF above who've said its not a derby. It takes two groups of fans to create a rivalry, and its pretty clear to me that most saints fans really couldn't give a toss about Brighton either way, our only real rivals are the skates. Second point, I tend to agree with Old Nick, theres a good chance that Poyet will decamp for spurs the moment saggychops gets the england job, in fact ive had a crafty tenner on that.

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Congratulations to Brighton, clearly deserved promotion, they have been consistently good this season. Even after they came to St Marys, parked the bus and timewasted from 10 minutes in, they still almost grabbed 3 points, if it hadnt have been for Kelvin saving that pen....

 

Two other points, I agree with all the SWF above who've said its not a derby. It takes two groups of fans to create a rivalry, and its pretty clear to me that most saints fans really couldn't give a toss about Brighton either way, our only real rivals are the skates. Second point, I tend to agree with Old Nick, theres a good chance that Poyet will decamp for spurs the moment saggychops gets the england job, in fact ive had a crafty tenner on that.

 

He won't be going any time soon. He's pretty tied up in the PR side of things, especially the AMEX partnership. He will be there next season at least.

 

Re all this "we only have one rival" business is a bit pathetic tbh. Surely there is more of a rivalry with Brighton this season considering we are in the same league and were both trying to achieve the same thing!?

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Congratulations to Brighton.The transformation from last season is incredible. Next season they'll not have the advantage of playing at a ground than everybody hates visiting. Moving into a new stadium can be a disadvantage initially (as we found) I'm looking forward to going there though.

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He won't be going any time soon. He's pretty tied up in the PR side of things, especially the AMEX partnership. He will be there next season at least.

 

Re all this "we only have one rival" business is a bit pathetic tbh. Surely there is more of a rivalry with Brighton this season considering we are in the same league and were both trying to achieve the same thing!?

 

We only have one rivalry, and that is with p*rts*outh. Brighton fans seem to have been talking up their rivalry with saints, we dont care either way whether you do well or badly over the course of a season. Listen to the cheers in SMS when the skates results come through and theyve been stuffed, or the groans when they win, then listen to the non-reaction to the brighton results. Technically of course you are correct, every club in L1 are our rivals in attempting to gain promotion.

 

And we'll see about Poyet, wont we ;) imho he's done just that bit too well not to get poached by a prem side. How much money have you put on him staying?

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He won't be going any time soon. He's pretty tied up in the PR side of things, especially the AMEX partnership. He will be there next season at least.

 

Re all this "we only have one rival" business is a bit pathetic tbh. Surely there is more of a rivalry with Brighton this season considering we are in the same league and were both trying to achieve the same thing!?

if you think that Poyet would not jump at the chance of going to a top PL side then you are kidding yourself. BHA have done wonders and I for 1 expected you to wobble but no you have been consistantly good all season. A pathetic time wasting tactical game at SMS did you no service but i suggest NA's comments made us look arrogant and over confident. (hardly Fergie type remarks turning the screw)

Poyet will look at your lovely 22000 seat stadium and see that it may not yeild the expectations he may have of his own ambition. i have no venom to fire at BHA as i have acquaintances who are fans but find the hatred of SFC a bit bizarre. I was there when we played Spurs all those years ago and i suspect had mullery's team been in the same position he would have played out a draw, why risk promotion by trying to win when it suited both to draw.

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Well done BHA. Excellent season and most consistant team by a mile. Unfortunately your fans are still as big a bunch of retards as they have always been. Apart from that I don't give at toss about ya! If we manage to go up then the skates will our rivals as ever. Just maybe Bompey and Brighton could start up a rivaly during next seasons relegation battle in the championship.

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We only have one rivalry, and that is with p*rts*outh. Brighton fans seem to have been talking up their rivalry with saints, we dont care either way whether you do well or badly over the course of a season. Listen to the cheers in SMS when the skates results come through and theyve been stuffed, or the groans when they win, then listen to the non-reaction to the brighton results. Technically of course you are correct, every club in L1 are our rivals in attempting to gain promotion.

 

And we'll see about Poyet, wont we ;) imho he's done just that bit too well not to get poached by a prem side. How much money have you put on him staying?

 

I'm not denying the rivalry with Portsmouth! I'm just stating the fact that rivals will come and go depending on the situation and the league you find yourself in. So what if Brighton fans are enjoying putting one over us? We are the ones who have spent more than anyone else in the league and NA talked us up as pipping them to the title not too long ago.Plus, geographically, they are pretty close. I guarentee that there would be as big a reaction at SMS over Brighton results had we been closer to them all season and I'm sure that historically, Brighton havn't given a monkeys about our results until now.

 

We just don't want to acknowledge Brighton or Bournemouth as rivals as it highlights our fall from grace.....all imo of course.

 

Re Poyet, I havn't put money on it but I know how tied up he is at the moment with the AMEX partnership and the move to a new stadium. As I said, I expect to see him there next season at least.

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if you think that Poyet would not jump at the chance of going to a top PL side then you are kidding yourself. BHA have done wonders and I for 1 expected you to wobble but no you have been consistantly good all season. A pathetic time wasting tactical game at SMS did you no service but i suggest NA's comments made us look arrogant and over confident. (hardly Fergie type remarks turning the screw)

Poyet will look at your lovely 22000 seat stadium and see that it may not yeild the expectations he may have of his own ambition. i have no venom to fire at BHA as i have acquaintances who are fans but find the hatred of SFC a bit bizarre. I was there when we played Spurs all those years ago and i suspect had mullery's team been in the same position he would have played out a draw, why risk promotion by trying to win when it suited both to draw.

 

Im not a BHA fan, I support Saints

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Considering they had a 'wheres the congratulations from southampton' thread thats pretty lame. Most people just take a congratulations with good heart..

 

While some people need to have a victim mentality. Best to leave them to it...

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I'm not denying the rivalry with Portsmouth! I'm just stating the fact that rivals will come and go depending on the situation and the league you find yourself in. So what if Brighton fans are enjoying putting one over us? We are the ones who have spent more than anyone else in the league and NA talked us up as pipping them to the title not too long ago.Plus, geographically, they are pretty close. I guarentee that there would be as big a reaction at SMS over Brighton results had we been closer to them all season and I'm sure that historically, Brighton havn't given a monkeys about our results until now.

 

We just don't want to acknowledge Brighton or Bournemouth as rivals as it highlights our fall from grace.....all imo of course.

 

Re Poyet, I havn't put money on it but I know how tied up he is at the moment with the AMEX partnership and the move to a new stadium. As I said, I expect to see him there next season at least.

 

Im not a BHA fan, I support Saints

 

ahem, apologies, I think Old Nick and I both assumed you were a wandering brighton fan!

 

As for the rivalry, it depends how you interpret the word. Brighton are rivals in the sense that they are in the same division as us and were trying to achieve the same thing as us, but BHA and others have been like bournemouth fans this season, trying to suggest a dislike/rivalry with us that really doesnt exist in the saints fanbase.

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if you think that Poyet would not jump at the chance of going to a top PL side then you are kidding yourself. BHA have done wonders and I for 1 expected you to wobble but no you have been consistantly good all season. A pathetic time wasting tactical game at SMS did you no service but i suggest NA's comments made us look arrogant and over confident. (hardly Fergie type remarks turning the screw)

Poyet will look at your lovely 22000 seat stadium and see that it may not yeild the expectations he may have of his own ambition. i have no venom to fire at BHA as i have acquaintances who are fans but find the hatred of SFC a bit bizarre. I was there when we played Spurs all those years ago and i suspect had mullery's team been in the same position he would have played out a draw, why risk promotion by trying to win when it suited both to draw.

 

I think the only way Poyet would go to spuds is as a stepping stone to Chelski.

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I think the only way Poyet would go to spuds is as a stepping stone to Chelski.

 

Wrong, theres no way Ancelotti's under any pressure there, what with being on track for the prem title, FA cup and champions league treble.

 

 

 

 

oh, hang on....

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Wrong, theres no way Ancelotti's under any pressure there, what with being on track for the prem title, FA cup and champions league treble.

 

 

 

 

oh, hang on....

 

Haha, in fairness I don't think the stepping stone job is going to come up any time soon! I'd be surprised if the FA were to risk giving Bagpuss the England job and can't see a bigger club wanting him.

 

Besides, Poyet can't lose with Brighton. They'll surely stay up, I think they'll more then hold their own and the media will put it down to amazing management rather than acknowledging the fact that Brighton actually have a lot going for them at the moment apart from a new stadium and a promising young manager.

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let me get this straight...CL wanna be (again) spurs will take a NPC manager (with no real experience at that level) to deliver CL football..?

 

just like saints getting luggy really....lol

HR, CL winning manager then. i missed that somewhere. I dont think any of the top 4 would contemplate him but IMO Spurs might, if not them another PL side could well take the plunge.
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HR, CL winning manager then. i missed that somewhere. I dont think any of the top 4 would contemplate him but IMO Spurs might, if not them another PL side could well take the plunge.

 

HR.....FA cup winning manager...done absolute wonders with pompey....had European experience....bit of a difference to hiring a manager with little/no NPC experience let alone the rest

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HR.....FA cup winning manager...done absolute wonders with pompey....had European experience....bit of a difference to hiring a manager with little/no NPC experience let alone the rest
Hardly massive experience, and Pompey are nopt a good example of brilliant European feats, and HR's spurs should have been walloped ,even agianst the Young Boys they were 3 down in 20minutes.Tactical brilliance. I think Poyet cold do a good job, opinions
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where will he go?

 

Since the chairman has said this morning the aim for next season is "top six", I'd imagine Poyet will stick around for a while. Interviewed last night he said he would be at the club "for a long time".

 

The rubbish current stadium, if not the league position masks what he has been allowed to do at Brighton. He's been given the opportunity and freedom to restructure a club around his vision of how football should be prepared for and played. There are many much bigger clubs than Brighton but very very few where a manager has the opportunity to do that. The only two that spring to mind are "Mr Crewe" Dario Gardi and of course Wenger.

 

Right club, right manager, right chairman and right time. It could have course been very different, but evidently hasn't been.

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Since the chairman has said this morning the aim for next season is "top six", I'd imagine Poyet will stick around for a while. Interviewed last night he said he would be at the club "for a long time".

 

The rubbish current stadium, if not the league position masks what he has been allowed to do at Brighton. He's been given the opportunity and freedom to restructure a club around his vision of how football should be prepared for and played. There are many much bigger clubs than Brighton but very very few where a manager has the opportunity to do that. The only two that spring to mind are "Mr Crewe" Dario Gardi and of course Wenger.

 

Right club, right manager, right chairman and right time. It could have course been very different, but evidently hasn't been.

 

keep telling yourself that enough times and you might actually believe it. Poyet will have ambitions beyond a small club like Brighton, no matter what he says he would be off like a shot if a Premier league club came calling. Your best hope is that he hangs around long enough to get you promoted again.

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More than happy to offer congratulations to Brighton and considering the terrible times their fans have had to suffer over recent years then I personally think it's great news that they are not only going up, but having a quality stadium thrown in to boot.

 

They have been worthy winners over the full season and tying it up with quite a few games left is quite an achievement. I hope their fans enjoy the rest of the season and I bet they can't wait for next season to start.

 

As for the rivalry, well there was most definitely a semblence of one back in the late 70's/early 80's when Portsmuff had fallen off the radar and Brighton were vying for promotion and then in the top flight together for a few years. Not a "real" rivalry, but it was definitely a game that you'd look out for (and get down to central for the Footy Special to Hove!!!!!).

 

I'm sure some of the older heads down still there have it in for us after the perceived stitch up of 78, but not sure why the younger generation are so moody LOL.

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keep telling yourself that enough times and you might actually believe it. Poyet will have ambitions beyond a small club like Brighton, no matter what he says he would be off like a shot if a Premier league club came calling. Your best hope is that he hangs around long enough to get you promoted again.

 

Know him well then?

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Know him well then?

 

very, VERY few managers dont go when a bigger job comes calling...bet adkins loved it scunny....I bet howe loved it at the cherries (he actually said so)...but a job turns up that "they could not turn down"....

 

brighton, no matter what their ambitions are will be a pretty small club in the NPC

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Know him well then?

 

No, don't need to.

 

Brighton, like Saints, have their place in the food chain. If Poyet continues doing as good next year it won't be long before a bigger club comes calling.

 

If he was a Brighton boy with a bit of history with the club you would stand a better chance of keeping hold of him but he's not. he's a big name who's played at the highest level in this country. If someone like Leeds came calling he would be off tomorrow IMO.

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