BRIGHTO V LEEDS
Bighton on the south coast a place renowned for dirty weekend
mods v rockers, scallops that before brexit were a big local export to France the fantastic film Brighton rock the 1948 version
the home of punk poet Atilla The Stockbroker
and of
Brighton and Hove Albion FC
founded in 1901 just 18 before the mighty LEEDS they are in fact one of the reasons i support leeds
as a kid my grandad took me to football mostly in london palace v blackpool was my 1st gam followed by chelsea v spurs i was not interested in any of them then we moved from mitcham surry
to lewes 8 mile from brighton while watching match of the day leeds played them and old keneth wolsteholm said about newly promoted leeds didnt fear the well established brighton
i was hooked
brighton now play in the village of falmer in a 31000 seat stadium closer to lewes
from lewes to brighton if you need it you can get the 28 and 29 bus to the ground
am betting bamford on the bench but ralf and rodrigo back so we nearly have a full team
any way 1-1
Agree Smurf take a point, move onto Palace game, analyse yes and try to work on the weaknesses but hopefully yesterday they drew a line on Saturday's game and are moving on.
Big two fixtures coming up, i said during the week that i think we needed 10-12 points out of our last 8 games before new year. Tough ask considering liverpool, chelsea, arsenal & City are in that block, but if last April showed us anything we can still take points of even the best teams in the PL, and i for one wont give up on them.
Yes fans have a right to question what the tactics are, why certain players are being asked to play different roles against different opposition, but look if MB or any other top level coach set up exactly the same EVERY time the played it wouldn't be too long before that gets figured out and fans would be giving out about that too.
Lets face it Saturday was as poor, bloody pliss poor, but we still got a point, we were fantastic against spuds in the first half and should have been 2 maybe 3 up but still got nothing from that game. So if we are frustrated i can only imagine how the manager feels???
For me i dont see playing James instead of Gelhardt was the right thing to do, cause tbf James on the wing against spuds caused them alot of problems, so James has been asked to do a different role the next day out? Why do this??
Gelhardt would have offered more and his running the channels would have allowed rapha to demand the ball cause he would have seen a willing runner ahead of him.
Also Roberts coming on and looking like our best player tells a story in itself. I watched the game again yesterday and Roberts done nothing special but if the other players do ANYTHING AT ALL then daaaaa of course Roberts will standout.....
Forshaw was very poor i dont know how many times i saw him "defending" and all of a sudden being the wrong side, not that the attacker done a brilliant turn Forshaw just left "goalside" why??? he done that at least three times and low and behold they were straight onto our CB's.???
As for that Mark Robbins goal 😱