[Albion] Everything is so negative at the moment !!

[Justice]

We are still in the top ten in the EPL, one of our four best ever seasons guaranteed,

And some people are speed-dialing the Samaritans.

In the immortal words of Simon Day, pull your knickers up and make me a cup of tea.

Heard there was queue forming at Beachy head after the Leicester game

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Heard there was queue forming at Beachy head after the Leicester game

The attraction of an ice cream van.
Nothing like a Mivvi to cheer the soul

 

[Justice]

The attraction of an ice cream van.
Nothing like a Mivvi to cheer the soul

I’m a 99 flake type of guy with raspberry sauce.

 

[BadFish]

We DId have a chance to make the Champions league.

We failed because we have a manager who is totally out of his depth.

The lickers cannot keep blaming injuries

The manager isn't 'totally' out of his depth. He is a young manager who is adapting to a new league. He has got some things wrong and some things right. Enough for another season IMHO, we'll see what Bloom and Barber think at the end of the season.

The 'lickers' can definitely continue to blame injuries as they have also played a part in our season. As has the age of our squad and the imbalance in the strength of positions of our squad.

Apart front that though your post is spot on.

 

[Seagullinhove]

If you just want to see sunshine and roses 24/7 can I recommend literally any other website than this one.

Stop now moder. I’m not saying we shouldn’t moan, it’s our god given right as football fans. I’m just saying it all seems doom and gloom at the moment. I didn’t even mention the transport issues !

 

[Seagullinhove]

I'm not negative about our beloved football club. All in all as alluded in a post above, we are top 10 Premier league, something that I never believed would happen in 50+ years of supporting us. Cup final in 83 was highest chance of glory I'd ever thought I'd see. Qualification for a European competition was a dream come true but, its the fact that we are able to do it again this season yet we've just lost our way just when we had a great chance this season to make history again.
For us to have so many international players again, is something I never thought I'd see, sell a player for over 100 million, have a world cup winning player etc etc

We used to have a board on the way to the players lounge at the goldstone with the names of who had played internationally, that’s how rare it was. Top of my head, Foster, Ryan, Grealish maybe. Now it’s pretty much a given most of our team are international, these changes creep up on you but still amazing.

 

[Barham's tash]

Yeah great but other than that one showing at the Amex its never seen the light of day. Pfft. #barberout

Just remember this -

And then look at where we are now.

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

And yet you want us to be winning trophies?

Sometimes, for someone so young, you sounds like a really old man

Haha you know what I mean.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Haha you know what I mean.

Indeed

 

[Blue3]

I do think now is not the moment to comment for fear of over reaction as the old adage goes act in haste repent in leisure

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

On the plus side, Mitoma played half an hour

 

[dejavuatbtn]

We used to have a board on the way to the players lounge at the goldstone with the names of who had played internationally, that’s how rare it was. Top of my head, Foster, Ryan, Grealish maybe. Now it’s pretty much a given most of our team are international, these changes creep up on you but still amazing.

I remember that - it was on the right in the entrance. Steve Penney was a regular, Mike Robinson. I wonder who oiked away with it at the death? Love a bit of memorabilia.

 

[Seagullinhove]

I remember that - it was on the right in the entrance. Steve Penney was a regular, Mike Robinson. I wonder who oiked away with it at the death? Love a bit of memorabilia.

That would be a great bit of memorabilia !

 

[AZ Gull]

We used to have a board on the way to the players lounge at the goldstone with the names of who had played internationally, that’s how rare it was. Top of my head, Foster, Ryan, Grealish maybe. Now it’s pretty much a given most of our team are international, these changes creep up on you but still amazing.

I remember that - it was on the right in the entrance. Steve Penney was a regular, Mike Robinson. I wonder who oiked away with it at the death? Love a bit of memorabilia.

That would be a great bit of memorabilia !

The International Honours Boards (there were two of them) were salvaged by the club from the Goldstone Ground although they were mislaid for a while until they were re-discovered in the club shop (face down, so nobody realised what they were!) in 2008.

The Albion Heritage Society offered to update them but when Tim Carder viewed them he realised there were omissions, mis-spellings and the inclusion of a couple of matches that were not considered full internationals. Not only that but the second, newer board had entries in a different style and the wood was a different colour.

To cut a long story short, the Heritage Society (after consultation with the club) paid for the boards to be stripped down, stained and for the data (up to that point in time) to be re-entered in a consistent style.

The boards were officially unveiled (by 98-year-old Joyce Watts, the daughter of Charlie Webb, Albion's first internationalist) at the Withdean Hospitality Suite before the match against Hereford United on October 18 2008 - there is a report on page 18 of the programme for the following home match against Leicester City.

The plan was to periodically update the boards with new entries. I don't know if that happened - and surely we have far too many internationalists now for that to be realistic. It was always planned that the boards would move to Falmer when it opened. Again, I have no idea if that happened (were/are they in the boardroom? in the defunct museum?).