Brighton Sky Blue
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A bold statement that. Do you accept we’re in a battle to stay up?
Match Thread Coventry City - West Bromwich Albion Match Thread - Monday 30th Oct (1 Viewer)
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Brighton Sky Blue
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Despite being miles offside that is how you take a 1v1
OldBedrocker
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We make it easy for them to defend when we play it square until they’ve got all 11 behind the ball
AFCCOVENTRY
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Fadz sounds like a broken man in this interview.
Evo1883
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Certainly and pretty much killed the game off too
StrettoBoy
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There were a lot of debts secured by charges over the club's assets which were paid off on 11th January when King took over. It's all recorded in the club's filing history at Companies House.
Brighton Sky Blue
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They didn’t play well, just took the gift Wilson provided and the offside goal. Allowed us plenty of opportunities and got away with it as per
Great_Expectations
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Emotions are high, everyone is pissed off. If Robins wasn’t Robins there would be more questions asked. But he is Robins and he’s earned that.
Talk of MR out and relegation is OTT at this point. No way we’re going down.
Talk of MR out and relegation is OTT at this point. No way we’re going down.
HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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I mean we lost to Rotherham who are also shit so the alarm bells should be ringing
David O'Day
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it was
matesx
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We have scored one goal in the last 4 games.... where do you see the goals coming from in this team?
Cos I can't see too many
Alkhen
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It has been a bit of a shock at how badly we have adjusted this season but I'd say losing Vik and Hamer would derail most teams, that's the heart of the team gone. Was disastrous not being able to replace Gus. And pretty mental to try and totally change the system at the same time. That's on Robin's. Today was odd as 1st half we looked ok and more comfortable in using the box.
I dunno I just think it's mostly confidence and adjusting to the league that is holding them back. I'm positive we'll come good. Just looks way worse when you look at the fees we paid.
Alkhen
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HuckerbyDublinWhelan
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Middlesbrough lost Giles, Archer and Akpom… they seem to be getting better
Brighton Sky Blue
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Another bold statement
Alkhen
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Mid table easy. Could be better if we actually bring in a replacement for Gus
Sorry to interrupt another post-loss BSB meltdown, but as bad as we looked going forward, we absolutely didn’t look like relegation fodder tonight.
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Brighton Sky Blue
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There’s so been so much change
robins needs to stick to an 11
least then we definitely know if these new players are shit
Agree with this. Stick to the box. Simms up top though for me. Lati and Kitching as two of the three, not sure about Fadz at the mo though.
Tonight summed up the season for me. Not a bad performance, stinking first goal, miss a couple of sitters and a shocker from the officials. Just not getting the rub of the green as I’ve said before.
Ps text from baggies mate
‘We were lucky with a couple of decisions to be fair but we can be hard to break down and you missed a couple of great chances’
Well I didn’t hear either of them declare we were in a potential relegation battle and it would be “bold” to suggest otherwise. Thankfully they know the difference between a crap performance and a crap bunch of players.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Hovering above the relegation zone, even the ‘old guard’ seem to have had their belief drained. 4 in a row on Saturday.
Razzle Dazzle Dean Gordon
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Not sure i can keep telling myself "we will come good" for many more games. That was such a frustrating game, not getting the penalty, concede an awful goal and miss an absolute sitter. At least we've got a nice trip to Preston coming up, always get something there don't we 
Brighton Sky Blue
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Matt smith
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‘It’s a process’
Seaside-Skyblue
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Robins probably has made mistakes here but I'd much rather he figure that out how to get us going rather than someone fresh. He deserves that opportunity and if people were calling him the best thing since sliced bread and should have a statue etc but now doubting his ability to turn around a blip start after wholesale changes then blimey. We aren't getting Pep and £200m to spend just so you know if we sack Robins. Give him time. A season isn't even long in footy, never mind 12 games or whatever it is. I'm sure we've even had a run worse than this with Robins before but he always comes up with the goods.
Not sure if you heard his post match interview but it’s quite clear to everyone it’s not currently working. If he thought we were mired in a relegation battle after 13 games then it would make sense to change things asap but I’m not sure he agrees with you.
BlueSkiesForever
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This is a cracking stat tbf, clearly shows we’re not good as a possession-based team. We lack the mentality and ability to be able to move the ball around with fluidity meaning we never cause the opposition problems, we don’t try though balls, we don’t try 1-2’s, we don’t pull defenders out of positions, we don’t try either ambitious or non-ambitious shots when we have the opportunity, it is SO predictable it’s getting beyond a joke now.
The box worked much better than the old 2 up top formation, I hope we don’t just shelve that because we conceded an offside goal and our keeper made a howler.
Brighton Sky Blue
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Lose again on Saturday and potentially be in 21st place just 3 points above the drop zone, I don’t think there’ll be much doubt. We can’t score even gilt edged sitters, keep giving away poor goals and the midfield remains lacking in dynamism. I mean I could be wrong and we go and beat PNE away for the first ever time in the league, but I imagine not.
Sky Blue Pete
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Yep I think he’s trying to convince himself it’s a few tweaks or luck that’s required it’s not
SkyBlue_Bear83
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Do possession based teams work effectively at any level of football where player quality is of a similar level? Only works if your players are two or three levels above the opposition it appears.
Having a high possession is usually a result of your players being so much better than the opposition, altering your game to artificially increase your possession stats where the players on both teams are of a similar quality rarely seems to be successful.
Having a high possession is usually a result of your players being so much better than the opposition, altering your game to artificially increase your possession stats where the players on both teams are of a similar quality rarely seems to be successful.