Were we 'too good to go down' in the Prem?

thecatintheroof

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Gary Lineker has just said Brighton are 'too good to go down' from the Premier League. Obviously we did go down, but did you think that about us when we were in the Prem?
 
If VAR was about we’d have stayed up. Well and truly shafted by the officials in many a game.

The Oyston’s would still be here so I’m at peace with it now
Do you they think would @Athers - I think someone would have come in that next season and the O's would have bailed. Sam Oyston once told me that was OO's plan - shame the old goat didn't invest and then he might have made his fortune and disappeared!
 
Do you they think would @Athers - I think someone would have come in that next season and the O's would have bailed. Sam Oyston once told me that was OO's plan - shame the old goat didn't invest and then he might have made his fortune and disappeared!
They weren’t motivated by money they were motivated by the large satanic shaft that they all had firmly up their arses. They would have stayed for as long as we wanted them to leave.
 
I've just had a look at the premier league standings across the last 20 years and we finished on 39 points in our season. 39 points across the last 20 seasons see us stay up in all but two seasons. We get relegated in 2002/03 as West Ham are relegated on 42 points and obviously 2010/11. What a shame really, few poor decisions and a lack of some luck saw us relegated
 
If VAR was about we’d have stayed up. Well and truly shafted by the officials in many a game.

The Oyston’s would still be here so I’m at peace with it now
I disagree, the officials would still have found a way to shaft us.
It's still the big clubs who are generally getting the rub of the green with VAR.
 
If that team was in the current premier league then definitely, think the premier league standard in the 10/11 season was a lot better than it is this season
 
I knew by the Wigan home game that we couldn't really sustain all the defeats (13 eventually) in the second half of the season, without it eventually catching up on either points or goal diff. If you lose to all four teams around you then you're leaving it to fine margins.
 
If VAR was about we’d have stayed up. Well and truly shafted by the officials in many a game.

The Oyston’s would still be here so I’m at peace with it now
I’m sure you’re right about staying up. Straight after the last game was played Sky were doing a recap and Jamie Redknapp said then that but for bad refereeing decisions we would not have gone down
 
We were often naive but we had a great spirit that drove us to out-perform our failings earlier in the season. Later in the season we couldn't keep that level of self-belief going. Fine margins saw us relegated and, with the owners we had, it was a Herculean effort. I'm just happy that I was there to see it.
 
I've just had a look at the premier league standings across the last 20 years and we finished on 39 points in our season. 39 points across the last 20 seasons see us stay up in all but two seasons. We get relegated in 2002/03 as West Ham are relegated on 42 points and obviously 2010/11. What a shame really, few poor decisions and a lack of some luck saw us relegated
It most seasons you have one or two really poor teams(this time Shef U and WBA) so to survive you have just just do better than just one other team so we were unlucky that season, but I agree a little bit of investment should have kept us up(tall reserve goalie)
 
We were exhausted mentally towards the end but what an effort. Needed investment in january which never came. When you look at what clubs owners at the bottom end do season on season to survive and ours just stood back , watched and tried to save some money.
 
We were exhausted mentally towards the end but what an effort. Needed investment in january which never came. When you look at what clubs owners at the bottom end do season on season to survive and ours just stood back , watched and tried to save some money.
Poor quality signings in January but perhaps bigger, the injury to Gilks and not getting in a good goalkeeper.
 
First 11 was more than good enough, unfortunately the squad wasn't.

I seem to remember someone worked out that if games only lasted 70 minutes, we would have finished in the top half!
 
I'd rather watch us getting beat in 2010-11 than winning ugly and drawing downright pig ugly this season. For me it's not just about the result.
Poor quality signings in January but perhaps bigger, the injury to Gilks and not getting in a good goalkeeper.
Totally agree.
 
Some good points on here - & whilst I appreciate this may be an unpopular view with the Charlie Adam purists, I’ve always reckoned that in the second-half of the season Charlie had had his head turned by the rave reviews he was deservedly getting & was more than a little cheesed off that he was being denied an immediate big-money move at that point & had one eye on the exit door.
 
Even if we had stayed up, the following season would have been a nightmare to endure. Too many players out of contract and as BCB says above, charlie had his head turned along with others. We would have been Derbyesque
 
Some good points on here - & whilst I appreciate this may be an unpopular view with the Charlie Adam purists, I’ve always reckoned that in the second-half of the season Charlie had had his head turned by the rave reviews he was deservedly getting & was more than a little cheesed off that he was being denied an immediate big-money move at that point & had one eye on the exit door.
Spurs wanted him on deadline day but KO wasnt having any of it. The fans sang Charlies name at the next match, he clapped them and then got on with it. I thought he deserved a bit of credit, he isnt superman and he did more than enough for us that season.
 
First 11 was more than good enough, unfortunately the squad wasn't.

I seem to remember someone worked out that if games only lasted 70 minutes, we would have finished in the top half!
I may be wrong, but I think it would have qualified us for Europe. I also said at the time, it was not the lack of skill that got us relegated but the lack of stamina (putting those bad decisions to one side that is.)
 
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