After sacking a manager whose team finished 7th, anything outside the top 6 this season will be a failure. That ought to be achievable as Adams has inherited the basis of a good squad.

I hear from the fans on 606 that Dean Hammond is on his way back! What a great signing he would be. Thats just hope our fans can forgive and forget!

SeagullChip wrote:
I hear from the fans on 606 that Dean Hammond is on his way back! What a great signing he would be. Thats just hope our fans can forgive and forget!

Thats just an unfounded internet rumour with little or no substance

Surely the financial implications of playing in a lower division have to be taken into consideration and the quality of player you are likely to attract and obviously for a club like Brighton, the value of players in a promoted team will escalate and finally the better we play and the better the opposition the higher the attendance. So no I don't think it would be a blessing in disguise

livermore and currie to sign friday

well we had a team on the verge of striking the manager locking himself in the office and avoiding players , and we came in 7th!!
Adams cant finnish lower than 7th or questions will be asked, lets suppose we are midtable and falmer is shelved because of the credit crunch? what will the fans be saying then? however lets suppose we are 1st or 2nd, and falmer is shelved? are the fans be happy or upset? the next 6 months are going to be the most important in the clubs recent history, if all goes well , knight will be the savior, bad and he will have to resign. lets hope for a decent cup run and some exciting football.

mark wrote:
well we had a team on the verge of striking the manager locking himself in the office and avoiding players , and we came in 7th!! Adams cant finnish lower than 7th or questions will be asked, lets suppose we are midtable and falmer is shelved because of the credit crunch? what will the fans be saying then? however lets suppose we are 1st or 2nd, and falmer is shelved? are the fans be happy or upset? the next 6 months are going to be the most important in the clubs recent history, if all goes well , knight will be the savior, bad and he will have to resign. lets hope for a decent cup run and some exciting football.

What makes you thing Falmer will be shelved just because of the credit crunch or are you just latching on to the doom and gloom merchants.

Jason Hewison wrote:
After sacking a manager whose team finished 7th, anything outside the top 6 this season will be a failure. That ought to be achievable as Adams has inherited the basis of a good squad.

Completely agree. If we are going to treat a coach as abysmally as we did Wilkins, we had damned well go one step further and make it to the play offs, no matter how much the local rag cozys up to him and Knight by lowering expectations.

J wrote:

Jason Hewison wrote: After sacking a manager whose team finished 7th, anything outside the top 6 this season will be a failure. That ought to be achievable as Adams has inherited the basis of a good squad.

Completely agree. If we are going to treat a coach as abysmally as we did Wilkins, we had damned well go one step further and make it to the play offs, no matter how much the local rag cozys up to him and Knight by lowering expectations.

But he wasn't COACH, was he! He was the manager. He was obviously a good coach but a lousy manager and as such, he was not treated shabbily. Get over it.

The Credit crunch simply means that money wont be leant to sub prime risks. Falmer is not a sub prime risk and therefore will not be affected. Stop reading the Daily mail

I see a team in blue and white celebrating at the end of this coming season....a team in all white are facing doom and gloom, a feeling theyve known before!

Firstly, well done Argus for starting yet another story with negativity, pat yourself on the back Mr Naylor. 2nd, what is it with you people still griping about Wilkins being sacked? You would think he was the best manager this club has ever seen by the way some of you bang on about him. So what, he got sacked, that my friends is football, DW has said he holds no grudges and knows this is what goes on so how about the rest of you let it go and start looking to the future instead of dwelling on the past and making yourselves miserable eh?!
I would rather make play-offs than get auto promotion, more money involved (tv rights etc), but I can see us going up and not coming back down, we have a reasonably solid squad now and we will add to it

Drew wrote:

mark wrote: well we had a team on the verge of striking the manager locking himself in the office and avoiding players , and we came in 7th!! Adams cant finnish lower than 7th or questions will be asked, lets suppose we are midtable and falmer is shelved because of the credit crunch? what will the fans be saying then? however lets suppose we are 1st or 2nd, and falmer is shelved? are the fans be happy or upset? the next 6 months are going to be the most important in the clubs recent history, if all goes well , knight will be the savior, bad and he will have to resign. lets hope for a decent cup run and some exciting football.

What makes you thing Falmer will be shelved just because of the credit crunch or are you just latching on to the doom and gloom merchants.

so the albion have security for a loan for falmer? banks have been had over time and time again by clubs going into receivership! and on the clubs own accounts show a loss of 2.5 million on a turnover of 4.2 million, that in any ones eyes are seriously not great figures, and dont forget we are leasing falmer from the council, so the only value is a football stadium or scrap metal, i would love to see it happen but the figures dont stack up.

What utter twaddle this guy Naylor talks about waiting to be in Falmer before thinking about promotion to the Championship. The drivel he writes posing as journalism makes me wonder what piece of nepotism could have got him his job! I could write better stuff than he does. Brighton have paid 300k on a decent striker, hired a high profile manager who is getting more players in. This is not being done so we can play in Div 1. The timing is perfect because any outlay on players cn be financed within the overall funding of Falmer. If they get promotion and are still at Withdean they will survive in the Championship with the players they have brought in for at least the crucial first year. Finally, if Brighton need a left back I am informed a likely contender is Danny Granville, a former Colchester player who Adams has managed a few times.

Just think to the last time we said that. When we were fighting for our league status. They said we wouldn't do it and that we were down and out. We did it. I have compleat faith in our team and think that we can stay on for falmer and possible promotion but even if it doesn't happen it doesn't matter. We need a long term team not a quick championship fix. If we get promoted and then relegated its no differant to not getting promoted and just staying in league one. We need falmer not promotion.

pete wrote:
What utter twaddle this guy Naylor talks about waiting to be in Falmer before thinking about promotion to the Championship. The drivel he writes posing as journalism makes me wonder what piece of nepotism could have got him his job! I could write better stuff than he does. Brighton have paid 300k on a decent striker, hired a high profile manager who is getting more players in. This is not being done so we can play in Div 1. The timing is perfect because any outlay on players cn be financed within the overall funding of Falmer. If they get promotion and are still at Withdean they will survive in the Championship with the players they have brought in for at least the crucial first year. Finally, if Brighton need a left back I am informed a likely contender is Danny Granville, a former Colchester player who Adams has managed a few times.

I think Danny Granville signed for Orient

David Livermore signed from hull on free transfer 2 yr contract

City Boy states Falmer is not a risk!!!
A 13,000 average crowd is required to pay back the large loans involved,leaving little if any cash to strengthen the side.As it is a 22,000 seater stadium it will not be necessary to buy a season ticket so attendances will be governed by results.
Does the term "White Elephant" come to mind?