Finnegan

I don't really understand (or, I do and I'm being facetious) how the ref hasn't sent all of those people from the touchline. Absolutely ridiculous scenes.

She's also pretty much an influencer more than a footballer. Probably the most misogynistic thing I've ever posted but she definitely signs for most of the clubs she does because she's got about a billion Instagram followers on account of her giving herself a wedgie every game for social media clout.

We also had near zero credible threat on the break to keep them honest when they were trying to come back in to the game because Ayew can neither run in behind or effectively press.

Compared to our wage bill it's nothing. We've lost about half a billion in failed transfers and God knows what on over inflated wages, particularly for players that then sit on the bench or aren't even in the match day squad. You don't really have to look much beyond that to see why we are where we are.

#chatgpt

Looked on to me. Camera angle is a bit off but look at the six yard box. But Luke Thomas man

Our centre backs

The man has absolutely no man management skills. Not a single player who was lacking in confidence or commitment under Cooper and RVN has been revitalised by Cifuentes and in-game we have no spirit at all. The entire squad plays with fear, we're so easily rattled, we frequently collapse and throw everything away, we're often very poor straight out of the tunnel in one or both halves. Might as well still have Rodgers.

You absolutely can make this stuff up Every. ****ing. Time.

So everyone ready for the second half where we come out like Marti has fed them all sleeping pills, we try to defend a one nil lead and get battered?

His all round play has been great but BDCR should have had a couple so far.

Watching us play those balls in behind with Ayew running at a speed Vestergaard would find trivial is so upsetting.

I was literally thinking it was insane how long it was taking to get there

Lovely finish but take a bow Bobby.

I literally just lost control of myself and yelled twat at the screen That's Ayew in a nutshell. Makes a decent run, makes a decent turn, then all he's got to do is lay it on ahead for the runner but no he has to keep dribbling and runs out of play with it. ****ing shit.

Ugh. Sounds about right.

"They call it the m69 derby", there's no they. You do. You call it that. Sky call it that. Everyone else thinks it's cringe af.

I have the sound muted and I just glanced at the TV but even without words I'm pretty sure sky are doing a segment about Cov playing a high line and being vulnerable to pace in behind. Good job we're starting old pappa Ayew up front then eh No need to panic, Frank. Clean sheet today.

Casually scrolling reddit and just had to actually double take.

Yeah that'd probably be my list if I had to name the people I can tolerate. Love Ricky, just think he's very misused now. I'd have him almost entirely as a centre mid these days. Don't disagree on Skipp, he clearly cares and I think he's gotten better now he seems to have built some confidence and Cifuentes is leaving him alone to just be a defensive midfielder and largely just hold. Fatawu obviously I like a lot, one of the few. Stephy I don't firmly hate but he's clearly a long, long way off form and doesn't inspire me with any particular confidence. I don't feel great when he's on the team sheet, same as Daka really. Struggle to see either having any big impact under Marti.

Every week I can't actually put any 11 together I don't deeply dislike. It'd basically just be 11 JJs and he's not ****ing ours

Watching no other player has made me this angry in years.

And that still saves us a lot of money.

Sure and remember when we hired Ruud van Nistelrooy, who was one of the most iconic figures in football, and he turned out to be shit? You can come from anywhere and be good or bad, what matters is whether or not you were qualified. Clive Woodward was in no way qualified to be the Director of Football at a Premier League football club. In fact, having looked again at what he's being tasked with at Brighton, I don't even think fitness is a large part of it. I think he's more there to drive culture and mentality to sustain high level performance over time which is something the All Blacks (and Crusaders) are pretty much famous for, it's not really a surprise that people from other sports would be looking for consultants and asking how the ABs kept that up for so long. Thomas Frank and Brentford's recruitment team have spoken multiple times about taking philosophy from the ABs when it comes to picking characters / personalities they want to bring in to the club, quoting "No Dickheads" as a cultural pillar. I just don't think it's that comparable to the Woodward situation, other than the fact they both had a rugby background and that makes it a snappy story for the tabloids. If Woodward had never been best mates with Southampton's owner, nobody would be batting much of an eyelid about Brighton now.

I know it was sacrilege at the time to say this out loud but Clive Woodward isn't any kind of genius. He was a pretty meh coach who was already something of a rugby dinosaur at the time who took an extremely strong England side who were all peaking to a world cup in which they were the best team. Because of what that meant to the English public he became some sort of mythical sports hero for a while. Redknapp hated him, they fell out, Redknapp left and they made Woodward Director of ****ing Football. A bang average rugby coach. What. In contrast, Brighton are hiring a guy responsible for fitness, conditioning and team culture and asking him to do a similar role in a different sport. Other than understanding that footballers need different body types to rugby players, I don't really think there's much difficulty there transitioning to the new job. Some things are applicable across all sports and some things aren't, really. If there was an incredible sports psychologist that had helped, say, Lewis Hamilton or Roger Federer win countless titles then you wouldn't object to them coming and working with LCFC right? But if we tried to hire Bill Belichick to replace Cifuentes you'd be rightly horrified.