This is so funny. Brighton reporter confirms that both striker deals they had in play, had fallen through.

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On the all, I think we had an excellent transfer window. Shame about a winger to replace Boyd though.

Shame ....after their promotion some fans were posting they would finish around 8th

I can't be bothered to read them all, but these look like they could have potential

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Steddyman wrote:Shame about a winger to replace Boyd though.

Brady not adequate?

dsr wrote:Brady not adequate?

How can Brady replace Boyd when they were in the same ******* team 4 months ago?

Is he going to play on the left and the right at once?

Jesus wept.

They remind me of Americans all gung ho thinking how wonderful they are and then it when thinkgs don't go their way it all comes crashing down. Awful plastic supporters.

We need to let go of this idea of one player replacing another. You want cover for each position but trying to trace back who has replaced who since 2012 seems a bit futile.

A year ago, Boyd and Arfield were wingers. Now it's Brady and Gudmondsson. Whether Brady has replaced Boyd or not is purely because you're defining "replaced" more narrowly than me.

dsr wrote:A year ago, Boyd and Arfield were wingers. Now it's Brady and Gudmondsson. Whether Brady has replaced Boyd or not is purely because you're defining "replaced" more narrowly than me.

So we've gone from our wingers being

Boyd
Brady
Gudmundsson
Arfield at a stretch

and now they are

Brady
Gudmondsson
Arfield

Brady hasn't replaced Boyd has he?

He was on the first list! How on earth can Brady replace Boyd?

You have a very strange definition of 'replaced' in your dictionary

Back end of last season, Boyd was in the team, Brady was sub. Now Brady is in the team.

What was that comment about Real Madrid that one of their deluded posters made a few months ago? I can't remember now but it was hilarious. I was on the Watford forum at the weekend looking for their thoughts on Gray and they were saying similar things about Brighton fans.

So who is Brady's replacement (even though he hasn't left, so actually it boils down to who is Boyd's replacement)?

Walters and Barnes both play on the flank too from time to time.

I think we can say we've replaced Boyd..

Just had a look on the twitter and message board of Brighton.Its like reading the drama queenery on here but with different user names,.

Jimscho wrote:Just had a look on the twitter and message board of Brighton.Its like reading the drama queenery on here but with different user names,.

Careful. You will be called a homophobe next.

Sidney1st wrote:Walters and Barnes both play on the flank too from time to time.

I think we can say we've replaced Boyd..

So we'll play Walters and Barnes on the flanks, Cork and Taylor at centre back, and Tarkowski in midfield.

How about we just play players in their proper positions, and have enough players to cover those positions.

gandhisflipflop wrote:Careful. You will be called a homophobe next.

Absolutely, Kings can also be just as dramatic.

We must be inclusive of all in the spirit of fair play.

1st season in PL is very very tough.

Can you imagine the meltdown on here if that happened to Burnley?

No ambition, powder dry..........

UpTheBeehole wrote:So we'll play Walters and Barnes on the flanks, Cork and Taylor at centre back, and Tarkowski in midfield.

How about we just play players in their proper positions, and have enough players to cover those positions.

Lets just stop right there.

You're having a tantrum and I'll be honest, I can't be bothered with that today, you're already irritating me with it.

Boyd has gone, get over it.
We've got players who have proven they can play in more than one position for us and other clubs.
It's quite common at other clubs for managers to utilize this aspect with some players so Dyche is quite right to do the same.

The window hasn't been perfect, but it could've been a whole lot worse.
However we are in a better position than a number of clubs, see Newcastle and Brighton for example.
Real issues at other clubs too.

Go and lie down, maybe take a nap until you've calmed down...

UpTheBeehole wrote:So we've gone from our wingers being

Boyd
Brady
Gudmundsson
Arfield at a stretch

and now they are

Brady
Gudmondsson
Arfield

Brady hasn't replaced Boyd has he?

He was on the first list! How on earth can Brady replace Boyd?

You have a very strange definition of 'replaced' in your dictionary

LOLZ

Walters can play wide

Now that we've got the option to playing 3 in the middle with 2 out wide, the potential pool of wide players can be picked from

Traditional:
Brady
JBG
Arfield

When we are either chasing a game / need to win against similar opposition

Walters
Barnes
wells? - I'm not sure about him whether he can play that role

So potentially 6 players for 2 slots depending on the match situation.

When playing 4-4-2 we were limited into having defensive wide men in that role, hence why Brady hardly got any game time.

4-5-1 / 4-3-3 seems to fit our squad better at the mo

It is of some compensation to me that BHA failed to sign Andone. Of course, like everyone else on here, I know next to nothing about the man.

UpTheBeehole wrote:So we've gone from our wingers being

Boyd
Brady
Gudmundsson
Arfield at a stretch

and now they are

Brady
Gudmondsson
Arfield

Brady hasn't replaced Boyd has he?

He was on the first list! How on earth can Brady replace Boyd?

You have a very strange definition of 'replaced' in your dictionary

Who replaced Kightley?

You can't replace Boyd with like for like for all sorts of reasons, and because of the way in which Dyche employed him, but it could be argued that any out of Ward, Taylor and Arfield, are more than adequate in his "defensive" role, and that Brady, Gudmundson and Walters more than adequate replacements in an attacking sense. He wasn't an attacking winger in the Kightly sense.
In any case our framework has changed somewhat this season anyway.
Incidentally Boyd doesn't appear to be doing very well at Wednesday, though I haven't actually watched their games.

And nor should we replace Boyd like for like.

The longer we stay in the premier league the more we need to evolve and IMO that means we need to get better at attacking whilst still remaining solid at the back. I think with the players we now have we are starting to see very positive signs of this.

And I thought that this topic was about Brighton and Hove Albion's troubles. Ah well.

We didn't need to replace Boyd like for like. We're playing a different formation therefore the defensive requirements of the wingers isn't the same. For what it's worth I suspect Walters and Barnes will be utilised as wide players now so we've actually got 5 who can fill those places.

Don't like that club since they went all plastic. Nothing but disdain for their plastic population. Hope they go down. Shame really for their proper fans and I don't mind Hughton.

I hope BHA go down, too. As well as Newcastle.

Dear Mr/Mrs/Miss/Master Up The Beehole and anyone else who talks about 'replacing' players

Stop it!!!! Buying and selling players isn't about replacing. 99% of us know that, so please stop it: you are actually showing yourself up.

Thank You

Im_Not_Robbie_Blake

I thought this was the Brighton meltdown thread.

I think Brighton could easily be the team cut adrift by Christmas. Which would be a shame for Chris Hughton but great nevertheless.

I enjoyed our trip there two seasons ago. Really liked the idea of keeping the refreshment places open after the game while the crowds (I was going to say dispersed but "moved onto the railway station " would be more acurate). But I too would like to see them straight back down because of their whingeing entitled fans.

Agreed, but I think hanging around the ground would have been much less fun if we hadn't just scored a last minute equaliser.

aggi wrote:Agreed, but I think hanging around the ground would have been much less fun if we hadn't just scored a last minute equaliser.

Which equaliser the first or the second

The fact they've not signed one player with Prem experience is baffling to me.

Steddyman wrote:This is so funny. Brighton reporter confirms that both striker deals they had in play, had fallen through.

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On the all, I think we had an excellent transfer window. Shame about a winger to replace Boyd though.

I secretly hope they were in for Barnes and we pulled the deal at the last minute.

Brighton remind me of us in Dyche's first Premier League season,organised neat tidy possession, but no cutting edge,hell they couldn't even break down 10 man Watford last week,i can't see where the 10/11 wins they would need for survival is coming from.All the better for everyone else including us,in addition i can see other clubs eyeing up Chris Hughton.

Caernarfon_Claret wrote:Who replaced Kightley?

Whoever is "it" playing Ghost in the Graveyard down at Gawthorpe

Brighton fans have already sh!t the bed,theyre all talking about being "like Derby" "goinf down without a fight" etc etc and they also talk of wanting "big names" After all their bluster and shiny new stadium talk and "europe in 3 yrs" guff it's gonna be hilarious if they crumble like white dog poo.

Houghton deserves better than this load of plastics.A Man city mate of mine described their ground atmosphere as sounding like "a big version one of those god awful childrens play centres"

I would not mind Hughton as our next manager when Sean walks because of us morons.

If any of the big clubs had any balls CH and SD would be managing top 6 clubs imo. Both classy intelligent managers who have won 2 or more prem promotions and done things the hard way.CH was treated appalingly by Newcastle Direct.com

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Brighton fan I know who mocked me when they beat Barnsley once also mocked me twice most recently when we were relegated and last time mocked me when they missed out on promotion compared to us saying we would just go back down.

It would just be perfect if they got relegated. They may be playing defensively now but they don't have the practice playing that way in the Championship having always been more of an attacking side. With the premier league experience that we have compared to them hopefully it will mean they flop.

Sad thing is it was all or nothing for them last season and they managed it , if they didn't they would be in a financial mess and probably under an embargo for FFP. They literally have done a QPR.

It just doesn't make sense, FFP still doesn't stop clubs from paying over the odds and they simply get a get out of jail free card when they get promoted.

Oh and they got a free stadium too.

Sod em, hate them more than Blackburn personally. Deluded bunch of fans...and when I lived in Southampton I thought their fans were bad

You thought their fans were bad, super d. In what way?