Potter Out

[THUNDERCLINT]

Had enough of this arogrant no mark now.  

11 games, 27% win ratio and 0.66 goals per game.

Either the break clause is true or this flake quits otherwise were proper fucked.

[Massive Attack]

Nail firmly on head, https://observer.co.uk/news/sport/artic ... d-sullivan

Fucking hell, 1st I've seen of this article. 

[LeroysBoots]

Nail firmly on head, https://observer.co.uk/news/sport/artic ... d-sullivan

[Maverick180180]

Nearest I think we get to a cohesive side at this point is:

Areola

Wan Bissaka Mavropanos Kilman Aguerd

Soucek (c)  Potts

Bowen            Paqueta             Diouf

Fullkrug

Not a great line up by any means, but Mavropanos and Kilman are our best at heading the ball, Aguerd at left back has the pace and ability to play fullback and would let Diouf (our best crosser) stay high and deliver balls into the box, Paqueta gets a free role, Bowen is back wide right where he's most effective, Fullkrug gets some service, and Potts can do Soucek's running who at least has the discipline to shield at the base of midfield.

With what we have, that would be my lineup as things stand.

If we can get that CDM be it Onyedika or one of the other numerous ones we've been linked with then all we need is a young striker and it's still not great by any means but does begin to look better on paper.

 

 

You can forget Potter playing a team like that though,
he won’t deviate from 5 at the back or playing Ward-Prowse

[twoleftfeet]

We have a young striker who would improve our side instantly, his name is Callum Marshall.

[Jean-Luc Paul Goddard]

When you look at Potter's actual record it Brighton...pretty reading it does not make.

Season 1....41 points, 39 goals. 
Season 2...41 points, 40 goals
Season 3....6 games....departs for Chelsea.



 

I'm sure it's not deliberate but you seem to have missed out his one actually decent season at Brighton. He left at the start of season 4. Season 3 they finished 9th with 51 points. They scored just 42 goals even then though, only 4 teams scoring fewer that season. The following season when he left they scored 72, which tells its own story.

[Massive Attack]

We got the wrong Potter, should have got Harry.

 

I think we got the right one, only he should have been put in charge of all the Supporter Liaison busy bodies in the Stadium. He would have fucking loved that gig wearing a snazzy head-set, clipboard, blue hi-viz, the job lot.

I reckon he would make a great celebrity chef with his tendency to over-elaborate with the limited stock he has at his disposal instead of concentrating on getting the maximum out of a few simple ingredients. 

Ag!

[eusebiovic]

We got the wrong Potter, should have got Harry.

 

I think we got the right one, only he should have been put in charge of all the Supporter Liaison busy bodies in the Stadium. He would have fucking loved that gig wearing a snazzy head-set, clipboard, blue hi-viz, the job lot.

I reckon he would make a great celebrity chef with his tendency to over-elaborate with the limited stock he has at his disposal instead of concentrating on getting the maximum out of a few simple ingredients. 

[eusebiovic]

Nearest I think we get to a cohesive side at this point is:

Areola

Wan Bissaka Mavropanos Kilman Aguerd

Soucek (c)  Potts

Bowen            Paqueta             Diouf

Fullkrug

Not a great line up by any means, but Mavropanos and Kilman are our best at heading the ball, Aguerd at left back has the pace and ability to play fullback and would let Diouf (our best crosser) stay high and deliver balls into the box, Paqueta gets a free role, Bowen is back wide right where he's most effective, Fullkrug gets some service, and Potts can do Soucek's running who at least has the discipline to shield at the base of midfield.

With what we have, that would be my lineup as things stand.

If we can get that CDM be it Onyedika or one of the other numerous ones we've been linked with then all we need is a young striker and it's still not great by any means but does begin to look better on paper.

[Massive Attack]

We got the wrong Potter, should have got Harry.

 

 

I think we got the right one, only he should have been put in charge of all the Supporter Liaison busy bodies in the Stadium. He would have fucking loved that gig wearing a snazzy head-set, clipboard, blue hi-viz, the job lot.

[Far Cough UKunt]

We got the wrong Potter, should have got Harry.

[eusebiovic]

He is another flake...a legend in his own lunch break but then so was Lopetegui and others and it always consistently reflects back onto the person running our club. 

I actually think Sullivan himself is an actual sociopath. David Gold had the diplomacy and manners out of their partnership. Sullivan would piss people off with his shit conduct and low ball offers etc and then DG would be the one to try and smooth things over.

I think that is largely Brady's job too...she goes along with it for the ride because it's easy money. She gets rewarded handsomely to sing from the hymn sheet and uses the platform to pursue other agendas away from her role at the club.

Sullivan is despised not just by us but pretty much the ENTIRE football world. I don't think we fully appreciate that fact. He covers it up through litigation and his press contacts from the Daily Sport days. 
Hopefully the younger press pack finally have him in their crosshairs because it certainly seems that something has changed.

[stubbo-admin]

Nearest I think we get to a cohesive side at this point is:

Areola

Wan Bissaka Mavropanos Kilman Aguerd

Soucek (c)  Potts

Bowen            Paqueta             Diouf

Fullkrug
 

Not a great line up by any means, but Mavropanos and Kilman are our best at heading the ball, Aguerd at left back has the pace and ability to play fullback and would let Diouf (our best crosser) stay high and deliver balls into the box, Paqueta gets a free role, Bowen is back wide right where he's most effective, Fullkrug gets some service, and Potts can do Soucek's running who at least has the discipline to shield at the base of midfield.

With what we have, that would be my lineup as things stand.

[stubbo-admin]

When you look at Potter's actual record it Brighton...pretty reading it does not make.

Season 1....41 points, 39 goals. 
Season 2...41 points, 40 goals
Season 3....6 games....departs for Chelsea.

Not exactly second coming of Pep type stuff.  Bloke looks more and more like a fraud, and Chelsea clearly broke him (and he's still broken....the most mentally fragile manager I've seen).

Everyone can see he's basically dead man walking. We've got 3 or 4 key players it's vital to get the absolute best out of....and he's not doing it.

But also, we dont have a defensive line suited to a back to the walls type manager now either. Todibo, Kilman and Aguerd all terrible in a deep lying siege situation (which is actually what we've seen this season...terrible at box defending). 

The only hope we really have with this defence is to play a high line and use Aguerd and Todibo's pace in footraces.

But since we also don't have a defensive organiser to control a high line....we're fucked.

Be a miracle if we don't average conceding 1.5 goals per game or more. So then we have to score at least that many to survive.

And Potter teams don't score goals. 

Were fucked. We've spend a fortune on defenders who can't actually defend (but look lovely in training with the ball at their feet), have allowed our midfield to age, and have totally neglected our strike force.

We're just about at our strongest in wide midfield (Bowen, Guilherme maybe, Diouf and Summerville) but have a manager that doesn't leverage that. Have a first choice striker who thrives on balls into the box and a team that doesn't deliver any. 

And we've let our only real ball carrier go to our main rivals. 

I'll say it again. We're fucked. And a couple of central midfielders even if they run around like Jack Russells is not going to change the mess we're in.

We don't have a complimentary or cohesive unit.

[Forest Gate Ugly]

You’re right, Vexed, whatever Potter has inherited and even though his boss keeps throwing him under the bus, he should still do better. 

[Massive Attack]

I think there's an element of truth in both. Far too many cooks have spoiled the broth now and Potter is a walking catastrophe. 

[Vexed]

I think Russ from the WHN channel made a good analogy.

He said it was like having jigsaw pieces that came from 5 different jigsaws.

You’ve got Moyes players.
You’ve got Lopetegui players.
You’ve got Steidten players.
You’ve got Potter players.
You’ve got Sullivan players.

None of them fit together. 

It needed a complete overhaul in the summer but here we are with a week left of the transfer window and the scattergun has been brought out once again.

 

 

 
Nah. That's a load of bollocks. They're just players, don't matter who bought them. The managers job is to get the best out of the squad he's got. Potter is failing miserably at this one task. He can't expect a full squad overhaul to suit him, he's not fuckin Pep.
In fact he's making them noticeably worse. He's got a worse record than Avram Grant currently. Let that fucking percolate for a minute.

​​​​​​All this 'doesn't matter who the manager is under this owner...' stuff is fucking horseshit, idiot talk. No we're never going to be winning much under these cunts, but there's no way we should be shipping eight goals in the first two games of the season with one injury in the entire fucking squad. Fuck off with this shit. It's fucking easy to do better than we are:

Your best player is a winger. You have four wingers in the squad. ​​​​Play fucking wingers.

​​​​​​Your only centre forward is old, slow and shit. Prioritise a young pacey centre forward.

You don't play any aerially dominant CBs. Dont buy a fucking Tiny goalkeeper who is vulnerable from crosses. 

You have mostly slow old shit midfielders. Don't play a system that requires them to run their nuts off all game. 


Your team looks shit in every pre-season game. Don't play the exact same failing system in the league. 

Don't fall out with your only decent midfielder like some fucking petty schoolgirl. Dont send him out on loan for peanuts before you've replaced him you fuckin div. 

When you're lacking players with leadership, dont release all your fucking leaders. 

You're losing 5-1 at home, dont bring on a fucking defender at this point. 

You've performed pathetically at your job, dont be a chippy sassy cսnt at the presser. Take criticism on the chin like a fucking man. 

This is just a tiny fraction of the enormous list of things this useless cսnt Potter has fucked up. But he's an arrogant fucking cսnt who is out of his fuckin depth. Even though the club is clearly a total mess, this clown is making it worse. Needs a fucking smack in the mouth the useless boring incompetent brummie cսnt. I can't fuckin stand the prick. 

[Forest Gate Ugly]

Manager is irrelevant as long as Sullivan is there. Only ones who’ll take the job are on the downward slide in career terms and prepared to risk being Sullivan’s fallguy for one last shot at the Premier League. I guess maybe Ange would fit that bill but Sullivan is really the de facto manager and football director of our club. 

[BRANDED]

Blokes a fraud now. Was when we signed him. We need some grit and belief. This is going to be ashit fest.

[muskie]

Perhaps some people will start realising that Potter is just a symptom of the Sullivan disease.

Potter out? OK, 2 months after he's gone a new thread on here "Cooper out" or "Dyche out" or even "Benitez out".

We're fucked and we're going down.

[Dick Shaftsbury]

Great article here from The Observer that focusses more on the cսnt midget than Potter.

https://observer.co.uk/news/sport/artic ... zHFI5qkdBg

Good, we need more articles like that.

[twoleftfeet]

I think Russ from the WHN channel made a good analogy.

He said it was like having jigsaw pieces that came from 5 different jigsaws.

You’ve got Moyes players.
You’ve got Lopetegui players.
You’ve got Steidten players.
You’ve got Potter players.
You’ve got Sullivan players.

None of them fit together. 

It needed a complete overhaul in the summer but here we are with a week left of the transfer window and the scattergun has been brought out once again.

[Alfs]

Great article here from The Observer that focusses more on the cսnt midget than Potter.

https://observer.co.uk/news/sport/artic ... zHFI5qkdBg

[onsideman]

I don't think broken promises were remotely unusual (probably still aren't). Suing was. Still is. That's why no one employed him again

He made poor decisions and sued because we sold Anton Ferdinand and George McCartney without his approval.

What a hill to die on 

None of which changes the fact that this board are cunts and Potter is weak

He chose not to take up offers to manage Clubs for a number of reasons, which he's been up front about. Not because no one would employ him again. 

the opportunities offered weren't appealing, the game moved on quickly, he lost enthusiasm, and he started enjoying other work like TV and media. He also noted that management has become more pressured with social media, and he was happy to spend time with his family. Righto

[Massive Attack]

I don't think broken promises were remotely unusual (probably still aren't). Suing was. Still is. That's why no one employed him again

He made poor decisions and sued because we sold Anton Ferdinand and George McCartney without his approval.

What a hill to die on 

None of which changes the fact that this board are cunts and Potter is weak

He chose not to take up offers to manage Clubs for a number of reasons, which he's been up front about. Not because no one would employ him again. 

[goose]

Sums the clueless cսnt(s) up...

https://observer.co.uk/news/sport/artic ... zHFI5qkdBg

 

 

An excellent article which should be nailed to Sullivan’s tiny head.