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By that logic we should give Sky Blue Sam 15 mins off the bench, after all we don’t know if he’s good enough until we give him a try.

Right, thought he’d said something specific. But agreed, he seems like a top bloke and you can see why he gets the most out of players.

What did he say?

I’ve not, unless they arrived in todays post.

No. But most of the discussion here is lazy, centred on their lack of performance and with the benefit of hindsight.

But the reason we don’t look like profiting right now is they’re not performing, which obviously wasn’t the intention. If you’re going to criticise the “model” you need to critique the intentions, not the outcomes.

No idea what you’re prattling on about at this point.

Why would we sit on the cash? Again, there would’ve been widespread outrage if we didn’t spend after selling our best players. If we could reliably sign £10-£20m quality players for £1-2m we would have the best scouting department in the world. Get a grip.

Explain? We sold our two best players (unavoidable when they were both on their last contracted year) and reinvested the money. What are you suggesting we should have done? Not spent it?

So what are you suggesting we should have done? Spent less? Then moaning myrtles like you would be shitting the forum up with posts about how King pocketed the cash from our sales! And we have been incrementing it. With the exception of Wright our signings are 2,3,4m instead of the 0-2m we...

So what on earth are you talking about “models” for then? Aren’t the signings of Hamer and Vik in line with the model? You’re not happy that we’re not winning games. Fine. But stop trying to apportion blame for it because your logic is clearly lacking.

So you’re suggesting we don’t follow this model? You want us not to sign cheap players?

To get this thread back on track, can someone define what exactly the “Brighton/Brentford model” is?

“Decided”? Do you actually think they’ve both decided not to contribute? “Yeah mate might just move to the championship and tank my career for the banter”

We could’ve been watching him in the Prem! Imagine…

I think the bigger issue for me is it’s unclear how we are actually trying to score our goals. Last year it was very obvious, playing vertically and trying to get the ball into Vik as soon as possible for him to hold up or turn, then play from there while the opposition were out of position...

If you’re gonna talk about Man City, they actually play 3 centrebacks. Their formation is actually best summed up as 3-2-4-1 on paper (although it’s so fluid that means little) which is closer to what we play than a 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 is.

In what way are we trying to copy the “Brighton model”? We’ve had to replace half of our starting XI. Some signings have looked good (MVE, Dasilva, Binks, Lati). Some have barely played enough to make a judgement (Saka, Kitching, Collins). Some have been worrying yes. We’ve also essentially...

In the second half? Maybe when we threw the kitchen sink at them last 5/10 mins but that was desperation.

Context matters. If we go in at half time 1-0 up away from home then I would expect players to be more conservative, given that a 0-0 second half means 3 points. When we’re 1-0 down and play 45 minutes without really looking like scoring that’s a problem, and players deserve worse ratings.