Ron Judkin

Thanks mate that cheered me up

It’s what you get from a nepo baby surrounded by yes men that leach off of his naivity. (Not to make any excuses for Top himself).

When the foundations themselves are completely ripped out, that tends to happen… It can literally happen to any club at any point, it could happen to Man City when/if they are finally charged. That is purely an opinion, you have absolutely no way of knowing that and no facts to back that up. Brighton and Brentford operate under the same structure as pretty much every football club does nowadays. Boards make decisions and the managers are just coaches. Even if you are correct in its entirety, Vichai for example was the one that gave said power and decisions to the likes of Pearson. Everyone ****ing hated Puel, but he had a very good scouting team that he brought in, they Vichai and the likes picked and hired. Rodgers was successful, just a bottle job that ultimately ruined it completely when he (claimed) didn’t get the power he wanted, so should we have given Rodgers more power or less? Was Rodgers a manager or a coach? It makes sense that he was a coach, and that’s why the downfall began, because we restructured and took power away from managers, hence the board’s incompetence. The 14 second thing would have literally been handled by Rudkin, we as fans have no clue about the inner workings of that whole fiasco but I’m sure Vichai would have put things in place to ensure it never happened again. It may not have even been directly Rudkin’s fault. (That being said it would have been better if we had just never signed Silva full stop he was shite ). If you’re giving credit to Puel etc for signings why aren’t you blaming him for not replacing Mahrez? You can’t just cherry pick. I for one am glad Vichai wasn’t the head of recruitment, that wouldn’t have gone well at all. Rodgers then decided Perez was his man, whom at first was actually alright, but frustrating (that’s coming from someone who always moaned about him moving like he was running in fruit cake). With all that being said, replacing the literal PFA player of the year is not something you do with much ease, especially a club of our stature. I mean I know the same way you seem to think you do. It was widely reported that the signings we made were recommendations left by Walsh. Slimani actually probably wouldn’t be far off a Walsh signing at all, he wasn’t perfect, he did make some bad signings as well. Slimani originally worked hard and was a physical presence, in fact every single one of you on here were all for the signing when we were making it as he was bagging in the World Cup. Potentially yes, which actually shows the reality of our club’s stature even with the Prem win. If we were always destined to crumble back down none of this makes any difference and we may as well just agree with the happy clappers. But we obviously don’t, so clearly there was a standard that was set and reached but never held onto. Plenty of clubs have done it, which is my point about weak foundations basically applying to everyone but the untouchable sky 6. Oh and btw, Brighton are currently regressing.

A good leader listens to advice around him and knows when to take it, so I don’t really get what your point is there. I mean you could literally say that about any strategy ever, it worked, so it was a good strategy. You always need some luck, no matter what, but to now say a strategy that literally won us the premier league was flawed is a bit of an overreach purely fuelled by rightful hatred of the nepo baby. You mean after we made signings on Walsh’s list and he left to be Everton’s DoF wanting to move back home? We literally used the exact same strategy we had always deployed, if we didn’t look for value we would have spunked far more money. We simply trusted Walsh, as we always did, but you don’t seem to be blaming him? We never had a lack of network until post Puel. Then we started using Rodgers’ mates and hiring Southampton rejects that then signed more Southampton rejects for whatever baffling reason. Fofana was quite out the box, Cags as well in fairness but that’s about the limit of that list, maybe Castange. I have to disagree, personally I think if Vichai hadn’t died and Covid hadn’t happened we would still be a premier league team. Through simple facts of bigger budgets and more ruthless standards. (Rodgers being sacked and sulking players not getting a chance)

As is evident by pretty much every single club this has ever happened to though, it won’t ****ing do anything. The arrogance of football owners and desperate need to simply make profit on their investment does not allow them to capitulate when such pressures are applied. He said himself he won’t sell, when he is surely aware of the discontent. We have pretty much only just started the drop, there’s a hell of a long way further to fall yet.

As much as I agree with this sentiment, if you’re gonna blame Vichai and the likes for those now hindsight errors, you have to give him the credit for being the one to also appoint Pearson, Walsh, Ranieri etc. Ranieri’s tactics changed the second season, that’s why it went to shite. Potentially along with players getting a bit too big for their boots. But the biggest thing was simply losing Kante and not replacing him until January with Wilf.

I originally said that too, but 2 matches post Marti and it’s still the same individual errors costing games with no more chances created (albeit moreso because we’ve had 10 men). The confidence is far harder to improve when it comes with arrogance and little to no willingness to do better or work harder.

Even a proper manager couldn’t stop these donkey’s making goal conceding errors every game

You forget, no one is dumb enough to want to sign him which also needs to happen. Especially on 80k a week…

“Lefties of a fan base” Never cringed so much in my life

I am so glad someone has finally addressed the core of what Enzo’s system is. It’s mental to me that 3 managers have followed him trying an inverted fullback but missing that very key aspect.

With James fit I actually think we’d have the players to play his system, being as most of them played it before. We’d miss Kiernan but I think Enzo could get it to work

The only way that ever happens is if he comes for 6 months for massive money as well as feeling bad for us. That or the Man City job isn’t ready for him yet so he’s just bored and fancies having a laugh and getting tossed off by Winksy

Biggest impact would be a new 11

As much as a striker is a priority it is BAFFLING to me that people don’t think we need defenders? We have ZERO CLEAN SHEETS IN 25 FFS

We weren’t any better when he played either

That Moroccan “speciality” threw a paddy and decided he was too good for us despite doing **** all

Oh yeah I know mate just saying that’s where people are getting it from

All the wage tracking websites and that shite say 70k a week

He literally can’t get into a team 2 points above us. Isn’t match fit in the slightest because he missed pre season trying to force a move and I watched him get shat on both when we beat them 5-0 two seasons ago and last season in the prem.

Go look at Southampton fan opinions before trying to claim that

I genuinely have so much boiled up hatred for the incompetence that is our board and recruitment team. All of them obsessed with Southampton rejects or are Southampton rejects themselves.

I mean he very clearly got them motivated for the second half. What on earth did you expect him to do with one week of training and a red card in 10 minutes?

You’re the only one that thinks that I’m afraid. He was non existent when playing the 10.

Brighton did that with Buonanotte…