I think that hits the nail on the head. If you look at our club in isolation then yeah we have progressed, the squad is better then 6 years ago as is the manager and the ground BUT to get some real perspective, when you compare us to clubs in and around us we're a bit of a shambles to be honest.

We have maybe 14 players that we can genuinely choose from, the rest our championship quality, our recruitment is a complete joke, we go through managers like anything and we have a team that has no genuine way of playing other then give it to our best player and hope he does something with it. I think we're incredibly amateur and the management from the top are niave. Parish is clearly a good business man but when it comes to football I think he is well out of his depth.

I just see us as being like sunderland a few seasons ago rescuing our season with a few games to go each year, that will catch up with us as it did with them.

Edited by JacksonEagle (05 Dec 2018 1.28pm)

Brighton are well run but it does miss some spectacular large points. They are a quarter of a billion in debt to Bloom. We also have a skewed perspective on their signings you see Gross or Andone but not Sutner or Locadia.
Having said that we have been firefighting for a few years but then its easy having a long term objective and corporate goals if you have a quarter of a billion spare

One supporter of hacking argued that without it "you will do away with the courage and pluck of the game, and I will be bound to bring over a lot of Frenchmen who would beat you with a week's practice -Blackheath secretary at first meeting of the F.A

I've not seen the game but by all accounts Roy was let down by some calamitous defending from a group who'd previously looked solid ie conceded one goal the previous three games.

He has insufficient alternatives without a big target man and another winger / attacking mid player. PVA and Townsend bring intensity to our attack but their end product this season has fallen below the level required IMO. AWB isnt bringing enough to this area either.

Thanks to serendipity management and Wilfred Zaha as without either we would have long gone downstairs

BHA knew our tactics and countered them very well. They also played with more passion than us. Parish or the Yanks can do nothing about that.
However, lack of squad depth - which means there were no worthwhile players to bring on is entirely the Board's fault. Look at the Scum subs - and we had Sorloth to bring on.

Red and Blue Army!

To be fair we knew their tactics, the importance was in the first goal which Friend gifted them, we then compounded that by shocking defending. Had we scored first Wilf and Aaron would have torn them apart while Tomkins and Sakho mopped up jobs a good un and job done.
I will add to that in Murray and Andone they have the mobile intelligent striker we don't

One supporter of hacking argued that without it "you will do away with the courage and pluck of the game, and I will be bound to bring over a lot of Frenchmen who would beat you with a week's practice -Blackheath secretary at first meeting of the F.A