Brighton & Hove Albion (A) | Post Match Thread

KS55 said:
Yes. That’s the most worrying part for me. Andy Morrison is a bit too old but we need a fighter like him.
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A strong captain leads the fight

City's problem is all over the park. really the weakness is based on last season's failure to improve the squad in the summer and then an injury crisis and panic buying in the winter
 
ayrshire_blue said:
Your definition of recent is probably different to mine. I think where we fundamentally disagree here is that I don't think we're close to the stage where we suggest that he's done.
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I define recent in a football manager time frame as the last 6 months.
But, currently, Pep has been struggling for twice as long as that now.
There is no shame to it. Management develops fast and innovations to micro improve performances arrive constantly throughout the game.
That he has managed to stay at the point of this innovation for such a long time is testament to his credentials.
I'm not looking to replace him, but he absolutely has to begin winning games to the levels he once was. Everyone, including Pep, understands this.
 
The Mighty Marmoush said:
Well the question is, who chooses the players we buy the Pep or the board?
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Two things that are difficult to reconcile:

1) Pep clearly has serious clout with the board. For there to be no dialogue in the media about his job being under threat - especially considering how keen most of them are to amplify any problems where city are concerned - he clearly enjoys a unique position in the English game.

2) In which case, why does he seem so unimpressed with so many of the new signings? How can A) be true if he has little or no say in who's brought in? If, of the other hand, he chooses who to buy, then how is he getting away with seemingly overlooking them?

A puzzler, definitely.
 
ayrshire_blue said:
It's a strange argument, imo, as in his last season he won the league at a canter and was signing guys like van persie. It's since his departure that they've went to rat shit.
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Ferguson beat that team into the ground. RVP won them the league and he got everything he needed to win it out of all the 30+ year olds. They all left after Fergie's final arrogant hurrah and the club has been in shit state ever since.
 
noseve said:
Don't think that a keeper will make much difference on the pitch, but your comment re: the dressing room might be right on the money.

You have to wonder who is the driving force in there? Rodders on the pitch, but somehow I can't imagine him having that slightly intimidating presence to put the steel into everybody.
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Make Rodri ‘Team’ Captain immediately. Bernardo is not a leader, he’s great when speaking to the media, but not sure he’s a leader on the pitch
 
SamTheGuru said:
Ferguson beat that team into the ground. RVP won them the league and he got everything he needed to win it out of all the 30+ year olds. They all left after Fergie's final arrogant hurrah and the club has been in shit state ever since.
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So at which point should they have sacked him?
 
Damanino said:
will be interesting what pep does with RB spot. he didnt start Nunes vs Wolves and Spurs but now got him starting and straightaway he gives away a pen because his hands are up in the air vs a cross he should have expected to be made.
and last derby at Etihad where Nunes did his brainfuck error of course which then turned a 1-0 lead into a loss. same as today game.
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He is no full back and neither is Lewis. The failure to sign a decent right back is glaring.
 
ayrshire_blue said:
It's a strange argument, imo, as in his last season he won the league at a canter and was signing guys like van persie. It's since his departure that they've went to rat shit.
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He left them at the end of that season with an aged squad that were already finished!
SamTheGuru said:
Ferguson beat that team into the ground. RVP won them the league and he got everything he needed to win it out of all the 30+ year olds. They all left after Fergie's final arrogant hurrah and the club has been in shit state ever since.
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They were fucked the next season and ever since. What are we heading to? Is the sentimentality of what Pep has achieved in the past stopping us from seeing what might need to change? We dont have an aging squad now
 
This is the norm now. The 2007/08 tactics don't work, not without the best players in the world which we no longer have.

I remember City fans accusing other mangers or being troglodytes, but JG hasn't changed in almost 20 years. We have a Sammy Lee type who has until May, then what? All eggs in one basket and the farm hand is no longer efficacious.
 
SamTheGuru said:
Ferguson beat that team into the ground. RVP won them the league and he got everything he needed to win it out of all the 30+ year olds. They all left after Fergie's final arrogant hurrah and the club has been in shit state ever since.
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The younger players he left behind were shite. Is the pattern repeating itself?
 
I don’t even blame pep really. I think he probably got far too much credit when it was going well and is probably getting too much flack now.

Truth is without good players you are nothing and I’m not sure we have a squad capable of mounting a title bid these days.

Just look how far we have fallen. Look at those bench options.

 
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