Premier League 2024/25

[Number 6]

14 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Brighton have had a really really poor season considering the vast strength in depth they have. 

Yep, they've been run really well but I think to an extent it does show a couple of things:

 

1. A fancy manager from abroad isn't a guarantee of success 

2. A lofty position for ANY of the non tradition big 6 is precarious 

[Tommy Fresh]

Just now, Bilo said:

There's something in that, but it's difficult to argue that it didn't work under Rodgers for the first two years. The failure to adequately replace scouts was a huge blow. 

Brighton have lost staff though and the recruitment model hasn't changed, Tony Bloom drives it all. The issue we actually had was not selling anymore when we signed Daka and Soumare, which then ****ed us the following summer when we couldn't spend.

[Sunbury Fox]

Horrible start to the PL weekend. Was hoping that F*rest were finished after last weekend. 

[The Doctor]

Just now, Bilo said:

There's something in that, but it's difficult to argue that it didn't work under Rodgers for the first two years. The failure to adequately replace scouts was a huge blow. 

it did work for the first couple of years under Rodgers but note how the further we've got from Puel, the more incoherent we've got, as with when we got rid of Pearson. It worked briefly but then started to decline, because it's taken time to undo what they put in place. 

[Bilo]

Just now, Sunbury Fox said:

Horrible start to the PL weekend. Was hoping that F*rest were finished after last weekend. 

They were always going to beat Brighton at home. Anyone thinking otherwise was kidding themselves. 

 

Their next four after this are honking.

[ceebeefox]

11 minutes ago, The Doctor said:

ok, so you think then that after the title win we should have just decided that 38 points was fine, and we shouldn't try to evolve our style to attempt to beat teams that feared us?

No I actually think if Kante had stayed we’d have won it again. The system was fine we just needed to carry on, I don’t think the big clubs ever feared us or sat back.

[The Doctor]

3 minutes ago, ceebeefox said:

No I actually think if Kante had stayed we’d have won it again. The system was fine we just needed to carry on, I don’t think the big clubs ever feared us or sat back.

and the other 13 teams? all well and good that the big six don't change for anyone, but that's a maximum of 36 possible points and you're not getting all 36 (we took 16 in 15/16)

Edited 1 February by The Doctor

[Tommy Fresh]

Ref from the Blackburn game gives that as a penalty 

[Arkie Bennett]

Has Wellbeck stopped rolling yet?

[Muzzy_no7]

7 minutes ago, Number 6 said:

Yep, they've been run really well but I think to an extent it does show a couple of things:

 

1. A fancy manager from abroad isn't a guarantee of success 

2. A lofty position for ANY of the non tradition big 6 is precarious 

Fact they are below both Bournemouth and Forest is enough to say serious questions should be asked of Hurzeler. 

[Pliskin]

Brighton are shit. Every season is the same, start well and then tail off. 

[FrankieADZ]

4-0 forest

[FrankieADZ]

fair play to NES,

hes knows when to adapt for games etc

sign of a good manager

[Dahnsouff]

Lamptey got some skills  

[Tielemans63]

Elanga was a brilliant signing for Forest. Ten Haag did a great job of selling some of United's most effective talent. 

[RowlattsFox]

Attackers are allowed to hold defenders but not the other way around. 

[Tielemans63]

Lamptey looking like he'd fit right in at LCFC 

[FrankieADZ]

5-0

[FrankieADZ]

lamptey has had a shocker today

[Muzzy_no7]

Honestly could Brighton have given this to Forest on any more of a silver platter? 
 

Absolutely pathetic. 

[iancognito]

Forest proving that massively overspending and getting the players you want at the expense of a small pts deduction is the way to go.

[CrispinLA in Texas]

35 minutes ago, JimJams said:

Interestingly he's only scored more than 1 in a single game this season.

 

Can't remember who it was against though.

He probably read your next 😅

[jammie82uk]

A team involved in back to back 5-0 games can’t have happened to often in the premier league let alone a defeat and win by that margin if it stays this way 

[CrispinLA in Texas]

Just now, FrankieADZ said:

lamptey has had a shocker today

His heads been turned by Leicester 😅

[Iwebema]

It reminds me of one of those wenger games where he used to just ignore how the opposition play and set up accordingly and just say we will be too good. 

Brighton got exactly what they deserved today, couldn't of played more into forest hands.