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***Official*** English Football Season 2018-19
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Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Disagree completely. Brighton will always have periods of struggle. The idea that someone else can come along and magically make them more stable in the Premier League is laughable.
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Yes, but the idea of someone coming along and non-magically making them more stable is entirely plausible.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Without a magic wand it's less plausible.
Niall
International Coach
Not won a game since March, playing horrid football and only survived because the three sides going down were awful. I like Chris, but better sides are coming up next year so they had to act. They may hire a Moyes, but they could also hire someone that might try and help them evolve somewhat.
Niall
International Coach
36 points they got this season. Again I like Chris, but its not as if they finished top 10. I don't think the chairman is as deluded as some are thinking. He doesn't expect them to be challenging for Europe, but is he a fool to want a little better than what they achieved this season?
sledger
Spanish_Vicente
Yeah the whole "He's not very good, but we sometimes looked ok, and he's a nice man" approach to running a club is a recipe for going down.
Hughton seems a decent chap, but as a coach he has a very low ceiling. And like Niall has said, they've looked like utter arse for prolonged periods this season.
Hughton seems a decent chap, but as a coach he has a very low ceiling. And like Niall has said, they've looked like utter arse for prolonged periods this season.
Uppercut
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Brighton aren’t even that small a club, so it’s weird to think 36 points should be the height of their ambition. Decent stadium, good catchment area for more fans and potential academy products, attractive location for players. Comparable to Wolves or Watford and a lot bigger than Bournemouth or Burnley.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
I think they’ll discover he greatly overachieved in getting them up, never mind staying there. But as always, only time will tell.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Getting Brighton promoted doesn't entitle Houghton to a job for life.
I haven't paid a huge amount of attention to the Premier League this season other than via podcast but it feels like Brighton haven't won a game in years. Officially it's 3 wins in his last 23 games, which is ****ing honking. Fans and chairmen are entitled to ask for more.
I haven't paid a huge amount of attention to the Premier League this season other than via podcast but it feels like Brighton haven't won a game in years. Officially it's 3 wins in his last 23 games, which is ****ing honking. Fans and chairmen are entitled to ask for more.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
They’ll probably end up with less. But we can only wait to see what happens.
It is one of those classic ones that bizarrely makes people who are not fans of that club really angry. Nigel Adkins at Southampton the absolute classic example, now of course most of them don't end up working that well but this seems entirely reasonable.
Spent a decent amount of money as well, what he has done at Brighton has almost exactly mirrored what he did at Norwich but they just got away with it this season. He will probably quite rightly land himself a good Championship job.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Cheers, that was sensational
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
Didn't Brighton spend like 60m this season and have less points than last year? Sounds like a recipe for a sacking if there ever was one.
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So did City.
