Buckley has no regrets about commiting his future to Albion (From The Argus)

lotsofducks wrote:
I would have hoped that journalists who write newspaper headlines would be able to spell "committing"!!!
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Jonathan Mouette wrote:

lotsofducks wrote:
I would have hoped that journalists who write newspaper headlines would be able to spell "committing"!!!

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Not if they are in any way related to many of the contributors on these threads!

pjwilk wrote:
We need to be on our game tomorrow night and show Cardiff that we are the real Champions in waiting.

Clean Sheet wrote:
A bit of a non story for me. Why would he be regretting signing a deal, when he only signed it a couple of weeks ago? Good luck to Noone, but no guarantee of him playing for Cardiff if they make it to the Prem. Elliot Bennet is not a regular for Norwich, and Crofty didn't make the grade there either. I don't know anyone who says that Noone was better than Will or KLL for Brighton, so a good move all round in my book.

wiseman of hove wrote:
Tend to agree with Clean Sheet. Didn't think Nooney was doing much for us at all. As for Lua Lua though, I know rotation is fashionable but has he ever played a full game since we arrived in the Championship?

the taffster wrote:
another piece of poor business by poyet.you name them hes sold them and theyve all gone on to improve their careers,noone,murray ,and now dobbie.all havnt been able to adapt to his mid table style of football.i honestly believe if we got a new manager in it would make all the difference.

Hovite wrote:

wiseman of hove wrote:
Tend to agree with Clean Sheet. Didn't think Nooney was doing much for us at all. As for Lua Lua though, I know rotation is fashionable but has he ever played a full game since we arrived in the Championship?

Noone's final ball last season was lacking, however at the start of the season, before his move, there was a big improvement.

With KLL, last season he came back from injury, but with a metal plate still in his ankle, and he then had a hamstring issue.

He only had his metal plate taken out 5 months ago, so it wouldn't surprise me if we are treating his recovery with care. There is no rush for him, and when he has played, he has looked the business.

Noone has gone to a strong club that has been threatening promotion for the last two seasons, and he slotted in to a team who where well equipped for auto promotion before the season started.

Chi Gull wrote:
Nobody is perfect including Gus. He did what he thought was best for the club at the time and its very easy for people to be wise after the event.

I am glad we still have Buckley. Sometimes I wish we still had Noone, but we got a good price for him and KLL is still young and needs to put his off the field problems behind him. When you look at our squad it's a million miles better than 2 yrs ago. I hope we can get a result at Cardiff but we will need to be at our best, that's for sure. No silly sendings off in the first 15 minutes would help!!

WestStander17 wrote:

Clean Sheet wrote:
A bit of a non story for me. Why would he be regretting signing a deal, when he only signed it a couple of weeks ago? Good luck to Noone, but no guarantee of him playing for Cardiff if they make it to the Prem. Elliot Bennet is not a regular for Norwich, and Crofty didn't make the grade there either. I don't know anyone who says that Noone was better than Will or KLL for Brighton, so a good move all round in my book.

You do now! I think Noone is far more consistent than LuaLua. I assume Gus did too as Noone played more regularly. LuaLua can be great in very short bursts but needs to be far more consistent to ever command a starting role, IMHO.

Everything changes when teams get to the Prem. It is a huge jump. Unless the team you have is very "Prem-ready" when you go up, the chances are a lot of the heroes that got you to the promised land end up not playing there! It can be a very disruptive thing to do. It isn't a total bed of roses, thats for sure!

the taffster wrote:
another piece of poor business by poyet.you name them hes sold them and theyve all gone on to improve their careers,noone,murray

,and now dobbie.all havnt been able to adapt to his mid table style of football.i honestly believe if we got a new manager in it would make all the difference.

mikeygit wrote:
taffster---but that is football--one player may not do well at one club but for whatever reason does brilliantly at another---something that cannot be really explained. Often why players get transferred, another manager can find a way of bringing the best out in a player who is currently not doing that well. Better to look forward and not back at what might have been or what one of our ex-players is doing at another club. Concentrate on who we have now and IMPROVE!!!

wiseman of hove wrote:

Hovite wrote:

wiseman of hove wrote:
Tend to agree with Clean Sheet. Didn't think Nooney was doing much for us at all. As for Lua Lua though, I know rotation is fashionable but has he ever played a full game since we arrived in the Championship?

Noone's final ball last season was lacking, however at the start of the season, before his move, there was a big improvement.

With KLL, last season he came back from injury, but with a metal plate still in his ankle, and he then had a hamstring issue.

He only had his metal plate taken out 5 months ago, so it wouldn't surprise me if we are treating his recovery with care. There is no rush for him, and when he has played, he has looked the business.

Noone has gone to a strong club that has been threatening promotion for the last two seasons, and he slotted in to a team who where well equipped for auto promotion before the season started.

I think his best performance this year , Hovite was when he played 'inside' for a half rather than hugging the line. Might have been the Millwall game? Did wonder whether there might be a role there for him alongside Ulloa for a spell tomorrow. with Vicente/Orlandi left wide and Buckley right wide. Just a thought.

Eddy B wrote:
So all available except Barnes, Hoskins and Croft. My team for the sake of argument for Cardiff...

TK
Bruno, El Abd, Upson, Bridge
Bridcutt Hammond
David, Vicente, Lua Lua (wild card!)
Ulloa

subs - the rest

Eddy B wrote:
Talk of entering the loan market every time there is an injury (Greer, Hoskins) doesn't say much about our current squad back up. Smacks of over reactive knee jerks I think and reduces the chances for new players coming through and taking a chance to establish themselves. To take Hoskins for example (a player who rarely made the first team anyway) - we still have Ulloa, CMS, Barnes, Agdestein, Barker, Dickenson plus the wingers and attacking biased midfielders such as Vicente.

mark by the sea wrote:
Barker won't be here next season, Dickinson no where near ready, Gus was one who said loan! As for the injury to Greer? Who would you have played has upson not been available?

Eddy B wrote:

mark by the sea wrote:
Barker won't be here next season, Dickinson no where near ready, Gus was one who said loan! As for the injury to Greer? Who would you have played has upson not been available?

Hi Mark, I admit centre back was always a bit short in the squad anyway before Greer's injury but seems bonkers to talk of dropping Upson already. I would have played the new Latvian lad, or Hammond or Calde, or even Dunk? Or Ince? Sure we could have coped for 3 games. How difficult could it be marking Kazim Richards? :) I think it's worth blooding a few youngsters occasionally - not the whole team like Aston Villa but 1 or 2 could fit in eg. Forster Caskey with plenty of experience around them. Imagine Forster Caskey getting to play with Vicente! India didn't mind blooding Tendulkar at 16!

Hovite wrote:

pjwilk wrote:
We need to be on our game tomorrow night and show Cardiff that we are the real Champions in waiting.

Funny that because you don't rate us or Gus at all. Check out your yesterdays comment. Blowing hot and cold pj, you're not a fan, you're just on here for your own little wind up.

I can see exactly the game that you are playing, and it's not football.

Freeloaders mate or joined at birth with him by any chance?

pjwilk says...
10:33am Sun 17 Feb 13
Yes we had Murray,Davies ,Wood.All got away cheap.What about Dobbie he played a blinder for Palace,why cant we get players to perform.Must be our ponderous build up.

Jonathan Mouette wrote:

lotsofducks wrote:
I would have hoped that journalists who write newspaper headlines would be able to spell "committing"!!!

!!

Not if they are in any way related to many of the contributors on these threads!

wiseman of hove wrote:
Tend to agree with Clean Sheet. Didn't think Nooney was doing much for us at all. As for Lua Lua though, I know rotation is fashionable but has he ever played a full game since we arrived in the Championship?

the taffster wrote:
another piece of poor business by poyet.you name them hes sold them and theyve all gone on to improve their careers,noone,murray

,and now dobbie.all havnt been able to adapt to his mid table style of football.i honestly believe if we got a new manager in it would make all the difference.

Freeloaders wrote:
So Hovite you claim to love Gus so much,and seem to think of him as the special one.So can you please anser If Hoskins,Dunk,KLL,and JFC are such good player like you claim they are.What is the reason Gus does not pick his best players ha.Plz anser me you small minded child?Also plz anser me why did Cardiff pay us all that money for Noone and not KLL ha?

Hovite wrote:
What are these other names you think I use?

I have never use Gus and love in the same sentence, you donkey

Hovite wrote:
Shouldn't have done, I am just interested to hear what my other names are ;o)

Hovite wrote:
Shouldn't have done, I am just interested to hear what my other names are ;o)

JUPILER wrote:

Hovite wrote:
Shouldn't have done, I am just interested to hear what my other names are ;o)

Trollbuster.That's for shure

VileFreeloader wrote:

JUPILER wrote:

Hovite wrote:
Shouldn't have done, I am just interested to hear what my other names are ;o)

Trollbuster.That's for shure

Sheesh, I forgot about Trollbuster!

Hovite wrote:

VileFreeloader wrote:

JUPILER wrote:

Hovite wrote:
Shouldn't have done, I am just interested to hear what my other names are ;o)

Trollbuster.That's for shure

Sheesh, I forgot about Trollbuster!

Forgot about him too. Wrong in any case. Isn't that smegbuster's bruver from another luver.

I don't need multiple names to get a point across. If someone is a donkey, I will call them a donkey.

Freeloaders wrote:
Hovite you can never anser one football point you sad mug.Go on then if your freeloading friends are so good why does your super manager not play his best players then lol?Only last week you was a real proper player off training as you put it lol.But now your only an ex-player playing for free lol.Not very good then.

VileFreeloader wrote:

Freeloaders wrote:
Hovite you can never anser one football point you sad mug.Go on then if your freeloading friends are so good why does your super manager not play his best players then lol?Only last week you was a real proper player off training as you put it lol.But now your only an ex-player playing for free lol.Not very good then.

Hovite claimed nothing of the sort, *I* did. Sheesh... quite simple, aren't you? And no I am no longer good enough to keep earning anything from the game as I am the same age as Brad Friedel but never as good as him.

Freeloaders wrote:

VileFreeloader wrote:

Freeloaders wrote:
Hovite you can never anser one football point you sad mug.Go on then if your freeloading friends are so good why does your super manager not play his best players then lol?Only last week you was a real proper player off training as you put it lol.But now your only an ex-player playing for free lol.Not very good then.

Hovite claimed nothing of the sort, *I* did. Sheesh... quite simple, aren't you? And no I am no longer good enough to keep earning anything from the game as I am the same age as Brad Friedel but never as good as him.

Even if you was once a ex-pro,which i don't believe for one min.The fact you still don't make any money out the game like me proves you was always a nothing.People like me and Steve Gritt have gone onto work many years in the game long after its over.What are you one of those many ex-lower league players thats now turned to drink in Hove lol.You now find you get your kicks out of chatting up much younger women in bars,but only to get turned down once again lol.The thing is you only have one line,"I was an ex-pro footballer darlin."Never mind ha you can still pay from all the money you made from the game lol.

Freeloaders wrote:
The fact people like me and Steve still work in the game at our age just goes to show people still think we have something to offer the game.Thats why they pay us still.If it ended all tomorrow i wouldn't care one bit.Iv loved every moment.Plus made some very wonderful friends along the way.

VegasSeagull wrote:
When I visit the speedway track a few miles out of town I never have to wait in a long line to buy a drink or to get something to eat, not even with a six figure crowd attending.

The reason for this is due to the fact that they don't have large service booths, what they have are loads of small ones.

One booth might only sell Budweiser and that beer stand will have maybe two or three dozen already poured or half poured.
The next stand will only sell hotdogs and the next just burgers or warm pretzles.

I would shut down the large service booths at the Amex and use them just to prepare food which would then find it's way to the multitude of small stands. I would also have service boys and girls selling direct to the seats through out the game, pies, hotdogs and sodas and you must have the right money, no change given. Candy, chips and sodas could all be sold from vending machines.

Takings would go up and the long lines would go down.

tug509 wrote:
Good morning Vegas,hope you didn`t get any MIBs round after my last post?. Listen mate if we dont attack Cardiff with a meaning,we will lose!. Peterborough went all out and deservedly won,we Must do the same,i think they have relied heavily on Nooney since he signed,and he has worked wonders,so why shouldn`t we take a leaf out of the leaders book,and stuff them with Will & Kaz?. Gus says we will take chances,imho,taking a chance at the league leaders is vital,if not for the message it sends when we win. UTA

the taffster wrote:
another piece of poor business by poyet.you name them hes sold them and theyve all gone on to improve their careers,noone,murray

,and now dobbie.all havnt been able to adapt to his mid table style of football.i honestly believe if we got a new manager in it would make all the difference.

VegasSeagull wrote:

tug509 wrote:
Good morning Vegas,hope you didn`t get any MIBs round after my last post?. Listen mate if we dont attack Cardiff with a meaning,we will lose!. Peterborough went all out and deservedly won,we Must do the same,i think they have relied heavily on Nooney since he signed,and he has worked wonders,so why shouldn`t we take a leaf out of the leaders book,and stuff them with Will & Kaz?. Gus says we will take chances,imho,taking a chance at the league leaders is vital,if not for the message it sends when we win. UTA

All is cool Tug and no, no visitors :-)

Yeah we have to take the game to Cardiff and I htink we will.
I still fancy trying Lua Lua thru the middle and have Vicente play wider. With the loss of Hoskins, and if we want to continue an attack minded approach, this for me could work. Both Vicente and Kazenga struggle to make 90 minutes so to start with both and try to get the game won in the first half would make sense.

Kaz has speed, is a tad tricky at times and has a decent shot. Vicente playing a tad wider would allow him to take runs inside and to deliver crosses to Ulloa and Kaz. CMS and Buckley on the other side.

Bid big game tomorrow, we need those with a big heart on the field and say what you like about Lua Lua the one thing you can't say is that he doesn't have the appetite for a fight.

Freeloaders wrote:
I tell you what Hovite.You email Dick Knight,or Steve Gritt and ask to meet freeloader anytime you like son.I would love to meet you son,i really would lol.

Hovite wrote:

Freeloaders wrote:
The fact people like me and Steve still work in the game at our age just goes to show people still think we have something to offer the game.Thats why they pay us still.If it ended all tomorrow i wouldn't care one bit.Iv loved every moment.Plus made some very wonderful friends along the way.

If you were really involved in the development of the game, you wouldn't be wasting all your time here FACT.

You may have wanted a career in football but you are obviously a Brighton Youth reject. Maybe didn't even get beyond the playground.

However keep shouting about all these connections, and you may even believe it yourself one day, in your nursing home, making up your past life BSting to other fellow dementured inmates who will be taken in by your Jackanories.

Hovite wrote:
Good to see you back OSA, if we can't get rid of him just make him work hard.

If we all spend 20 seconds a day winding him up, he can dedicate his lifetime writing replies.

Share the load I say ;o)

VegasSeagull wrote:
Oldscrote, I get your point about Cardiff's attack capabilities but can we sit back and defend, hoping to score on the break?

We need points and we need goals to get those points. If Cardiff have to defend against us more than they attack us it can only help our cause.
How many times have we conceded late goals, defending a slim lead is not our forte. Wins have become draws and draws have become losses. There is nothing to lose and everything to gain so I say go for it. ,

tug509 wrote:
Freeloader,

I am honestly waiting for your first post,that neither insults a past present or future player,past,present or future manager,coach. And especially any supporter that somehow doesn`t fit your ideal,in other words,i truly believe with your undoubted skills,we should relieve Gus and Mr Bloom of their current jobs,because you have convinced me of your superior knowledge,and i would expect to see you unvailed as the saviour of our Great club,with immediate effect,as we have obviously been lacking leadership in recent years,that only someone like you could bring.......GET IT YET.. UTA..& UYs

Old Scrote of the Amex wrote:

Hovite wrote:
Good to see you back OSA, if we can't get rid of him just make him work hard.

If we all spend 20 seconds a day winding him up, he can dedicate his lifetime writing replies.

Share the load I say ;o)

It seems others have stepped in and done a better job than I ever did, he's frothing! :-)

Freeloaders wrote:

Old Scrote of the Amex wrote:

Hovite wrote:
Good to see you back OSA, if we can't get rid of him just make him work hard.

If we all spend 20 seconds a day winding him up, he can dedicate his lifetime writing replies.

Share the load I say ;o)

It seems others have stepped in and done a better job than I ever did, he's frothing! :-)

Waiting at a bandstand for 45 mins for someone you don't even know the look of lol.Im sure you do that a lot on Brighton beach nice boy lol.

VegasSeagull wrote:
Mr. Freeloader would you agree that any, or all, of the new lads signed for the DS could become, to use your words, 'freeloaders.'

To sign any young player is a gamble, we don't know how they will turn out at the time of signing but we hope that what the scouts and management have seen is indeed the real thing.

There will always be one or two that don't live up to expectations, no matter how good they looked when we signed them, that's football. My hope is that if the Latvian lad doesn't make it he will not become the latest on your list of, 'vile freeloaders,' or any of the other young players that have recently joined us. Perhaps you might, if they don't make it, describe them as, a gamble that didn't pay off.

Freeloaders wrote:

Old Scrote of the Amex wrote:

Hovite wrote:
Good to see you back OSA, if we can't get rid of him just make him work hard.

If we all spend 20 seconds a day winding him up, he can dedicate his lifetime writing replies.

Share the load I say ;o)

It seems others have stepped in and done a better job than I ever did, he's frothing! :-)

Waiting at a bandstand for 45 mins for someone you don't even know the look of lol.Im sure you do that a lot on Brighton beach nice boy lol.

Hovite wrote:

Freeloaders wrote:

Old Scrote of the Amex wrote:

Hovite wrote:
Good to see you back OSA, if we can't get rid of him just make him work hard.

If we all spend 20 seconds a day winding him up, he can dedicate his lifetime writing replies.

Share the load I say ;o)

It seems others have stepped in and done a better job than I ever did, he's frothing! :-)

Waiting at a bandstand for 45 mins for someone you don't even know the look of lol.Im sure you do that a lot on Brighton beach nice boy lol.

There was no one on the bandstand you donkey. No crowd not one person there, not you or anyone else full stop.

If you'd have turned up, there would have only been me and yourself.

After that you claimed that you were a disabled teenager and went "bet you feel hard now"

You are a prize golden donkey

WiseOldSeagull wrote:
Back to football for a few minutes. I'm convinced that GP will play the spanish contingent (ínjuries permitting). They are the future of he club and that means no first 11 spots for Buckley and KLL. They will be used as impact substitutions given their inconsistent performances. This means Lopez, Vicente and Orlandi in a three prong attacking midfield formation with Dicker/Hammond and Bridcutt in behind. Ulloa will continue as the lone striker.

What is our biggest concern right now is the inability to find a striker that scores at least a goal in every two matches. And that is why we will persist with 5 in midfield. All of our recent goals have come from midfielders and that will not take us into the playoff spots. CMS is yet to fill his potential as a golscorer at this level. Barnes scores the odd one or two but compared the the teams above us who all have strikers that are finding the back of the net. That will be the difference between playoff spot or not.

What's the matter with CMS and Barnes? Why can't they consistently find positions in the box to score goals? It's down to them and we have to rely on special players such as Vicente and Orlandi to do their the strikers jobs.

We will not make the playoffs unless our strikers start doing what they are paid to do.Find the back of the net.

Now is the time, and if CMS comes off the bench and scores he should start the next game. Whichever striker finds the back of the net they should start the next game.

The model is Man U. V Persie, Rooney are paid to score goals and that is what they do. Sad to say that is also what GM does for CP. We have no one anywhere near as consistent in finding the back of the net as GM does.

Time for CMS, Barnes and Ulloa to stamp their mark and catapult us up the table. We won't achieve the playoffs relying on 3 attacking midfielders scoring us into the premier league.

VegasSeagull wrote:
I don't see any of the matches now as, home or away, games, to me they are all chances to pick up three points and nothing more.
If it was right to set up in the way we did against Blackburn then it is right to do the same for Cardiff at the top, or Bristol City at the bottom. We play to win and by that I mean we let the back five, and Bridcutt, deal with their strikers and we create enough havock at their end to force them to defend.

It's all or nothing from now on, win or go down fighting.

Clean Sheet wrote:

the taffster wrote:
another piece of poor business by poyet.you name them hes sold them and theyve all gone on to improve their careers,noone,murray ,and now dobbie.all havnt been able to adapt to his mid table style of football.i honestly believe if we got a new manager in it would make all the difference.

Taffster, a bit one sided IMHO. What about the people GP has brought in, Bridge, Upson, Vicente to name but a few. What about those who have progressed incredibly under GP, El Abt, Bridcutt. None of us get everything right every time do we?