Just out of curiosity, how come you moved from London to Devon? I always thought Devon was a place where old people live or where people go to retire.
Yeah permanent (well for now, lol). Keeping it for next season then see how I feel mate. I’m back for the NLD and I’ll try and go games when I can. Lockdown made me realise I don’t miss going as much as I thought I would, that’s when I decided to make the move. Got a lot of fam down here including my Mum.
We are neither as good as people made out or as bad as people will make out after this. We ain't a top four team so it's a joke that we are in the fight for 4th spot. If we get top 4 it'll be because of the failure of Arsenal and united...and tbh they would probably say the same thing.
It is to be fair haha. I’m pretty lucky that I’m able to work from home now mate and so when picking a ****ty flat in north London or a flat a 10 min walk from the beach it became a no brainer. My family own a restaurant down here too, whilst my Mum recently bought a house so it sort of made the move quite an easy choice in the end. Got most of my mates down for the bank hols this weekend so it’s been a bit of a result as the weather’s great … well other than the actual result
I missed it more than I thought during lockdown tbh but in my 20s to mid thirties I didn't miss going at all. I still followed us each game on TV or radio but weren't really interested in going. Hope you're enjoying the change mate
Once we got to go past the starting XI it gets a bit thin very quick It has to be a good summer transfer window for us…only way we eradicate these age old issues
Well MOTD got the upset they wanted, now they have to spend several hours editing out all the cynical fouls and blatant timewasting
Yeah going well thanks. The area I’ve moved too I’ve been coming down on holidays for 30+ years basically since I was a baby so I know it better than London, lol. Been a family tradition since my late grandad was a kid. If I didn’t have fam down here I wouldn’t have made the move but beach, free restaurant food, family and a nicer neighbourhood made it a relatively easy decision in the end. I’ll probably head back to London at some point though, or somewhere else anyway. I wanna live a couple/ few years abroad too if I can, that’s definitely on the bucket list. My uncle bought a house in Spain a few months back whilst one of my good mates lives in Malta where I’ve been a few times so down the line I might see if they have a spare room
We lost cos we played appallingly (from what I've read on here and various websites.) The match stats show they deserved it
Disgraceful performance, no urgency, no energy, with players strolling around half heartedly from the off. The coach also failed to change anything quickly enough when it was clear it was not working from early on. The referee was poor, he failed to stamp out all the Brighton time wasting, failed to give Mwepo a second yellow and failed to punish Cucurella for a deliberate rake down the achilles.
They’re damning stats. Whilst I expected us to be much better though, it further backs up what I say about Potter. They dominated the play for large periods and this time managed to finish a chance, if he had a proper finisher in his team they’d likely be top 8 this season. It’s only a matter of time til he gets a top job.
Do the match stats show the number of cynical fouls or amount of time wasted? Pawson was in full-on "Manage the game" mode, hence Mwepu and Cucarella got one yellow card between them
No attempts on target and only 5 attempts in total has nothing to do with their time wasting or the ref imho
Except for when it does For the obvious example, given our effectiveness on the counter, how effective is that counter going to be if every time we get the ball the Brighton player who lost the ball hits the deck, looks around for the ref, and starts howling like his ankle's facing in the opposite direction to what it should be? That saps any momentum when trying to counter dead Same goes for cynical challenges. When a team gets penalised for it, that doesn't stop the team getting clogged from attacking - but when the cloggers get away with it time and again, that gives the other team pause when going forward as they know the same's going to happen, which certainly happened when Mwepu was subbed off and there was somebody else who could kick us 3-4 times in the way Think about it: how many times have we drooped when the ref is letting the opponents kick us off the pitch over the years? I can trace that back to the Jol era at the earliest, because once it gets in the player's head the ref is checked out of doing his job, the players wilt
Absolutely mate. All this bullshit blaming the referee, I hate it so much. Brighton were the better team so well done to them. Some people on this forum are such bad losers it’s embarrassing
While you have a point to some extent, with the players we have we should be able to play around them as we did against Villa who were far nastier than Brighton. This is life in the PL if a team cannot afford to buy the top class players they have to replace that with energy and organisation. We looked jaded from the first minute and the recovery I was expecting in the second half never happened. Brighton kept the ball very well and if you don't have the ball you can't score.
No it doesn’t, stop trying to deflect the fact we were bad and they were good today. Kulesevski could easily have been sent off as well so it evens itself out
