Brighton FFS

[farawaysaint]

Never thought I'd see the day that I was jealous of the seagulls We have our best season in living memory and miss the league title to them by 3 points. We have outr best start to a season ever and they manage to sit 1 point ahead of us at the top of the league. They have 19000 season ticket holders a brand new stadium and have made some incredible signings this window beyond all expectations and brought in quality players, (Vicente FFS,) whereas we seemingly missed on our big targets. Perhaps jealousy isn't the right word but they just seem to be one upping us by the smallest fraction each time diminishing our own acheivements and it's annoying the living hell out of me. I can't even read a newspaper article about our games without them mentioning how well Brighton are doing in the same sodding sentence. I can remember thinking the whole of last season that they'd fall away or their manager would get poached and people are saying the same this season with I imagine similar results. Please tell me I'm not alone in feeling this way because I need to moan to someone. (Oh and to the seagulls' fans reading this forum, you know who you are; I'd still rather top myself than be a Brighton fan )

[Thedelldays]

fair play to them...other than the little spat last season, they deserve this...

 

would take the table finishing like this right now

[pap]

Glad you've got that off your chest?

 

I do get what you mean. The media seems to be in love with Brighton at the moment, as they were last year.

 

While it's a little grating to hear them mentioned so often, I'm not that worried about their incoming players. We've both got decent teams, decent managers and our own way of playing. We've just got to worry about our own results. That said, looking forward to playing them this year.

[jawillwill]

I like Brighton and hope they do well. Obviously, like every other team, I would like Saints to finish above them, but if the season finished as the table is now I wouldn't be too distraught.

[Crab Lungs]

This is their little moment in the spotlight - when the new stadium novelty and team gets picked apart, they're be lower-mid Championship on 12-14,000 gates. I estimate 2-3 seasons from now...

[Trader]

We could have had more than 19000 season ticket holders this season with a little more effort and a little less greed.

 

But apparently we didn't want them.

 

Pity.

[Dark Munster]

I wouldn't mind them that much, if it wasn't for their obnoxious manager.

[latter day saint]

I wouldn't mind them that much, if it wasn't for their obnoxious manager.

Agree.

[SuperMikey]

I'm glad that it's 2 newly-promoted clubs at the top of the Championship rather than the parachute-flush ex-Prem teams like it usually is. As long as we finish above them, I don't care how they do this season!

[Simster]

Never thought I'd see the day that I was jealous of the seagulls We have our best season in living memory and miss the league title to them by 3 points. We have outr best start to a season ever and they manage to sit 1 point ahead of us at the top of the league. They have 19000 season ticket holders a brand new stadium and have made some incredible signings this window beyond all expectations and brought in quality players, (Vicente FFS,) whereas we seemingly missed on our big targets. Perhaps jealousy isn't the right word but they just seem to be one upping us by the smallest fraction each time diminishing our own acheivements and it's annoying the living hell out of me. I can't even read a newspaper article about our games without them mentioning how well Brighton are doing in the same sodding sentence. I can remember thinking the whole of last season that they'd fall away or their manager would get poached and people are saying the same this season with I imagine similar results. Please tell me I'm not alone in feeling this way because I need to moan to someone. (Oh and to the seagulls' fans reading this forum, you know who you are; I'd still rather top myself than be a Brighton fan )

*chuckle*

 

(For what it's worth, I'd happily see Southampton go up with the Albion. I quite like Southampton)

[Window Cleaner]

what's so surprising, good manager,good team last season,good recruitment.The NPC is no great shakes, especially when you have a side disciplined enough to get you out of that footballing dungeon that is League 1.

 

You need to seize your chance in the NPC straight after promotion to it, after that your players take on airs and graces and don't remember what a sh*t place they've just come from.

[sambosa75]

They've done well but I'm not jealous of them. In my opinion, they've had one game against one of the tougher sides in the league, away to Cardiff and beat them 3-1. The rest I would have expected them to win anyway. Good on them I say. The only points we have dropped so far are away to Leicester where they had an absolute, stone-wall foul on Lambert ignored for their 3rd goal and we absolutely pummelled them in the 2nd half but couldn't get an equaliser.

[Simster]

They've done well but I'm not jealous of them. In my opinion, they've had one game against one of the tougher sides in the league, away to Cardiff and beat them 3-1. The rest I would have expected them to win anyway. Good on them I say. The only points we have dropped so far are away to Leicester where they had an absolute, stone-wall foul on Lambert ignored for their 3rd goal and we absolutely pummelled them in the 2nd half but couldn't get an equaliser.

Cardiff were played off the park but considering the season they are having, that was probably an off day for them.

 

To be honest, the best team we've played this season has been Blackpool. They equalised with a great goal from Kevin Phillips in the last minute, but were the better team for the first and last quarters of the match. In fact, that was the best game of football I've see for quite a long time.

 

You might be interested to know that we're away at Leicester this weekend. I think we'll either end up well beaten or we'll utterly ruin them ourselves. We've got to lose at some point but I think it'll be a really gash team we end up losing to - I just hope that gash team isn't Palace in a couple of weeks time.

[Johnny Shearer]

They have like us got a team together with a bit of fight and spirit about them. I'd take Greer as a CB, he is a good player for them and recently signed Vicente who by all accounts was the business a few years ago. I'd take the table as it is now at the end of the season!

[OVER THE HILL]

Brighton have done well and good luck to them.

 

I feel no jealousy towards them , all the fans I have met have been decent and deserve respect for sticking with their team through some very lean years.

[doddisalegend]

The only problem I have with Brighton is their manager and his over active mouth. Still Brighton fans seem to think the same about our Nigel so I suppose we're even....

[sambosa75]

Cardiff were played off the park but considering the season they are having, that was probably an off day for them.

 

To be honest, the best team we've played this season has been Blackpool. They equalised with a great goal from Kevin Phillips in the last minute, but were the better team for the first and last quarters of the match. In fact, that was the best game of football I've see for quite a long time.

 

You might be interested to know that we're away at Leicester this weekend. I think we'll either end up well beaten or we'll utterly ruin them ourselves. We've got to lose at some point but I think it'll be a really gash team we end up losing to - I just hope that gash team isn't Palace in a couple of weeks time.

 

I wasn't having a go, just saying in reality you have only got one result that I wouldn't otherwise have expected you to get. It was a great result. As I said, good on you.

 

Leicester will be interesting. They did well against us for the first half hour, plenty of pace up front, decent aggression but they tired badly and once we settled down and started playing football they couldn't live with us. You lot are a ball playing side too, if you can start on the front foot, unlike us, I'd fancy Brighton for the win.

Edited 13 September, 2011 by sambosa75
not sure 'unlike we did' makes sense!

[alpine_saint]

I wouldn't mind them that much, if it wasn't for their obnoxious manager.

 

Yep. Poyet is a gibbon-faced c*nt who reminds me of another c*nt, my brother-in-law.

[Born In The 80s]

I'm always surprised at the hate a lot of our fans have for Gus Poyet. As a player i used to love watching him play, and as a manager i have nothing but respect for the bloke. He's doing an unbelievable job and i'm picking him to manage one of the big london clubs in the next few years (Chelsea/Spurs perhaps). Fans of both sides get too easily wound up by managers trading playground taunts. It's pantomine really and Adkins and Poyet are both 'guilty' of it. I personally find the 'mind games' pretty entertaining and it all makes for a tastier atmosphere when we play them. I love it no more than if us and Brighton finished in the top 2, whilst big spenders West Ham and Leicester had to make do with the lottery of the play-offs. Won't happen, but still, a nice thought.

[Petersfield Saint]

I'm always surprised at the hate a lot of our fans have for Gus Poyet. As a player i used to love watching him play, and as a manager i have nothing but respect for the bloke. He's doing an unbelievable job and i'm picking him to manage one of the big london clubs in the next few years (Chelsea/Spurs perhaps). Fans of both sides get too easily wound up by managers trading playground taunts. It's pantomine really and Adkins and Poyet are both 'guilty' of it. I personally find the 'mind games' pretty entertaining and it all makes for a tastier atmosphere when we play them. I love it no more than if us and Brighton finished in the top 2, whilst big spenders West Ham and Leicester had to make do with the lottery of the play-offs. Won't happen, but still, a nice thought.

 

This, agreed

[Simster]

I wasn't having a go, just saying in reality you have only got one result that I wouldn't otherwise have expected you to get. It was a great result. As I said, good on you.

 

Leicester will be interesting. They did well against us for the first half hour, plenty of pace up front, decent aggression but they tired badly and once we settled down and started playing football they couldn't live with us. You lot are a ball playing side too, if you can start on the front foot, unlike us, I'd fancy Brighton for the win.

 

I'm always surprised at the hate a lot of our fans have for Gus Poyet. As a player i used to love watching him play, and as a manager i have nothing but respect for the bloke. He's doing an unbelievable job and i'm picking him to manage one of the big london clubs in the next few years (Chelsea/Spurs perhaps). Fans of both sides get too easily wound up by managers trading playground taunts. It's pantomine really and Adkins and Poyet are both 'guilty' of it. I personally find the 'mind games' pretty entertaining and it all makes for a tastier atmosphere when we play them. I love it no more than if us and Brighton finished in the top 2, whilst big spenders West Ham and Leicester had to make do with the lottery of the play-offs. Won't happen, but still, a nice thought.

Totally agree with this. Some of our fans are as embarrassingly infatuated with Adkins as some of yours are with Poyet. Albion and Saints, 1 and 2 please. Oh, and I'm not sure it won't happen to be honest. I have a feeling Albion, Saints and West Ham will be fighting it out for the top two places with Leicester nowhere after a car crash of a season.

[doddisalegend]

Interesting that this piece on Nigel Adkins on the BBC website seems to have turned into a little Brighton/saints spat on the comments section below it.......

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/paulfletcher/2011/09/the_adkins_diet_gets_saints_in.html#297164