Fabrice29

Matt O'Riley was targeted when we played a completely different game model and were just embarking on a PL season. Matt O'Riley was barely a realistic target then, only really propped up by a relationship with our manager at the time and was rightly recruited by an established PL team. Not sure where the idea that it hasn't worked out for him at Brighton has come from but if he is moving on, it's not to a team who has just been relegated to the Championship who will now play a different way, in a lesser league and offer less wages for the pleasure than when he previously rejected us.

Only if I was specifically calling you stupid, stupid. Yep. I’ve been posting your ‘we won’t get promoted under Martin’ posts and telling them Martin has a history of proving idiots wrong.

You don’t need two capitals for that. Stupid.

Don’t give me stuff to patronise you about then…stop saying really stupid stuff about things you don’t understand. It’s okay not to get it and it’s okay to not comment on it if you don’t. See! You make it far too easy. Anyway, glad you’ve managed to get inside the ground now.

Sorry, yes I messed up the dates my bad. I wasn’t making any comparison to SR and Saints though. Just pointing out you don’t need to be a high status flying club to make a success of it.

You’re very close to getting it but yet so far btw 🤣 As for the Grandad chap, he’s consistently on here refusing to try to understand Xg because it’s new, so not sure that’s a winnable situation at all. Think he’s still refusing to understand how the new tickets work as well.

Did we really struggle to break down low blocks that much by the way? Think there was only a couple of games we didn’t score in in the Championship. Forest this season in the Prem could be considered a low block. Think being one of the top scorers in the league as a team and having the actual top scorer of the league feels like a pretty good retort to that theory.

Brighton have been doing it since 2009 and I wouldn’t have classed them as a high flying status club. No idea when they really started seeing the fruits of it in the first team of Brighton.

I’m not sure how anyone can argue Smallbone wasn’t decent for us in the Championship last season. Same with Aribo. We didn’t need an under performing Alcaraz and didn’t need to find a way to cater for him. It’s perfectly okay for players to go on and do well at other clubs, 3 clubs later, but it doesn’t mean it renders everything we did in the Championship as shit. The lad also had the option to go to Juventus that January, hardly going to be competing with that even if he’d played every week. Player doing okay at a club 3 clubs after playing for us isn’t news unless it’s an opportunity to have a dig at Russell Martin. Much more of a reflection of our recruitment. He’s not as good as Fernandes so I’m not even sure where you would fit him in necessarily. He wouldn’t be competing with Downes or Uguchukwu so maybe as an attacking option? Sure. If you had told me we’d end the season with Onuachu and Sulemana back in the team, Armstrong not at the club and we hadn’t replaced Adams with anyone particularly effective then yes, I’d have said can we at least keep Alcaraz. But I suspect, like our manager, we all hoped our recruitment would was going to work out a little better than that when he was sold permanently (which funded Ramsdale btw).

Shackled by having to pass the ball to his team mates 🤣

I don’t think ‘players will love him’ is the diss you think it is.

I don’t disagree that his service has been woeful and I’m sure he could contribute to a side built around him but I’ve literally watched him jump for balls going straight up and down and miss them completely. I don’t think his control with his head is particularly great and would suggest his heading stats are somewhat masked by his height and defenders not fully engaging and aiming to pick up 2nd balls. Btw side note whilst quickly looking to see if I could find some decent evidence beyond headers won (he’s high on headers lost too btw) and more specifically what happens with those headers I noticed that both he and Ramsdale are in the top 10 worst passes success percentages in the league. Along with Pickford and Beto as well. That doesn’t particularly bode well for progressive goalkeeper we are trying to sell or his target man being particularly effective.

He is poor in the air. Despite how many headers he wins. That's my point.

I think people are just pointing out it makes you look a little silly and obsessed. But hey, you keep spelling it Wussel for no reason, that'll look really funny and cool.

He's 6'7 and the fact that this surprises you says quite a lot.

You can be as horrible as you like, I'm just pointing out that lecturing everyone on how terrible he is as a manager when he's the only manager that bought your club success in the last few years and you didn't make any real improvement in anyone from the outsides mind when he left probably makes you look a little deluded and obsessed. I probably wouldn't want to be seen in other threads clamouring for managers who are "proven" and "safe" and then naming a bunch who themselves have fan bases who will laugh at you either.

Or maybe he's done quite a decent job everywhere he's been as a manager? People have their issues with Martin and seem weirdly obsessed about talking about him consistently on here but the rewriting of history isn't needed.

Daily reminder that spending a couple of years in the Championship will involve losing quite a lot of matches and an increasing amount of tension/anger/declarations of the team being built not being good enough and people will 100% mind.

You okay man? Every post you come across quite bitter, doesn’t feel healthy.

Where's that then?

Random post 2 years after their last...

Has he? Go on...

Stop saying "MartinBall"... you're a grown man.

I’m not even sure what’s that supposed to mean but good to know that not jumping to wild conclusions about 19year olds you know nothing about is now a clubs party line 🤣

I think I just find it a bit mad that people can make wild conclusions, assumptions or theories about people’s attitude because of some small moments in games. But yes, we disagree.