I just want to know the secret of Brighton, Bournemouth & now Forrest how they are establishing themselves in the PL, as we couldn't do it with a lot more funding & a much wider fanbase, makes my pi** boil it realy does. .
They have little expectation from a lesser fan base. Whether we like it or not, the expectation of our fan base rivals that of a top 6 PL club. Sadly we don’t have the same level players, but a supporter base that believes we should be in Europe, as soon as we get promoted. None of those teams avoided relegation by much in their first season(we did significantly better I think), they’ve had a fair few scares since but have kept a foothold in the Prem, and will likely remain there for a shed load longer.
money… and a bit of luck… survive a few years and you gradually build a squad that can stay. Forest were lucky to go up, really lucky to stay up. Now they’re looking a decent side. I appreciate some think luck doesn’t play a part in football.. you make your own etc… but it’s a nonsense… sides stay up by a point or goal difference, over 38 games. It’s a var decision, a keeper error, a deflection. I know emu and I like to rise a few with our Marsch comments (I didn’t like him much) but our last 4 games under him, we’d have won them all if it wasn’t for a catalogue of missed sitters and defensive howlers. If he was still here we’d likely be established, mid table and bitching about the boring narrow football and cliched press conferences. We might live in a world of data driven performance stats etc but ultimately the reason football is so popular is its unpredictable and the best team don’t always win. Having a better squad/manager just loads the odds and mitigates the risk. There’s no magic formula. Getting and staying in the prem requires Good owners, good management, good luck.
Of course. You flog a lad for 40m and replace with one for 5 and improve the team. It’s a master stroke by any standard
Yes it's genius on par with selling your classic car and replacing it with a banger and no one notices.
No one laughed about Corberan, some just pointed out that he didn’t want the job and signed a contract extension with WBA.
They have a scouting team, we had Orta and certainly in the case of Brighton, they have a style of play and appoint a coach accordingly so the transition is as close as possible. We go from Bielsa and his love of width to a coach who sets up narrow using inverted wingers, then lurch to “Big Sam”
Utter genius by the superior 49ers.We plebs know nothing about Soccer and need to learn the math of marathe.
[QUOTE="milkyboy, post: 17845774, member: 1011912" I know emu and I like to rise a few with our Marsch comments (I didn’t like him much) but our last 4 games under him, we’d have won them all if it wasn’t for a catalogue of missed sitters and defensive howlers. If he was still here we’d likely be established, mid table and bitching about the boring narrow football and cliched press conferences. .[/QUOTE] That could be easily said of yesterday’s game and the one against Portsmouth.
You're dead right. We have a top six fan base and our owners (and previous owners know it). The loyalty some of us show them is not reciprocated imo. The moronic mistakes they have made over the past 5 years or so shows how clueless Radz, Orta and 49ers actually are. How many other clubs have we heard of that that make such lousy decisions whether it be contracts, bad signings, or losing our top talent!
