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[Geordie_Jacko]

I think we will win this one. WE have to win at some point and I think this is a good opportunity. I just hope Rafa plays Muto if fit from the start, and Rondon if fit. Bench Perez and Joselu and please don't bring on Atsu! would rather have Sorensen on the bench tbh, bring him on if we are winning comfortably, and possibly Longstaff.

I like what you are saying but I don't think we are in the position to start fielding our youth just yet. I really like the look of Longstaff but if someone like him made a big Fu(k up to lose us a game when we are dying for points all hell would break loose.

[ghostrider]

On one hand we have fans saying we have 10 winnable games.
On the other hand we have fans saying we have a championship squad that's even worse than the championship squad we had last season in the prem and we will be relegated.

A right mish mash of minds on this one.

Let's put it in simple terms.

If Rafa sets us up to have a go for 90 plus minutes and uses the players in the way we know they can play, then we have a very good chance of winning the game on that factor alone, aided by a massive crowd of backing voices.

If we set up for half a game and revert to caution or refuse to use players that can change a game, then we could become unstuck.
Hughton will not be coming into this game with anything other than win on his mind.

We should be doing the same.

If we have this mindset of going for the win and not going out there not to lose, we will be absolutely fine over the course of the season, starting tomorrow, hopefully.

[Geordie_Jacko]

On one hand we have fans saying we have 10 winnable games.
On the other hand we have fans saying we have a championship squad that's even worse than the championship squad we had last season in the prem and we will be relegated.

A right mish mash of minds on this one.

Let's put it in simple terms.

If Rafa sets us up to have a go for 90 plus minutes and uses the players in the way we know they can play, then we have a very good chance of winning the game on that factor alone, aided by a massive crowd of backing voices.

If we set up for half a game and revert to caution or refuse to use players that can change a game, then we could become unstuck.
Hughton will not be coming into this game with anything other than win on his mind.

We should be doing the same.

If we have this mindset of going for the win and not going out there not to lose, we will be absolutely fine over the course of the season, starting tomorrow, hopefully.

We don't have players that can change a game that's quite evident for anyone but yourself to see. And it's not about how Rafa sets them up it's about the players pulling there fingers out there ar5e and putting a decent shift in for 90 plus minutes even then we may not get the result we want as we don't have a quality squad. Saying that I think there is enough quality to turn Brighton over. I don't think Hughton will be coming for only a win I think he would take an away point at St.James all day.

[toptoon]

We don't have players that can change a game that's quite evident for anyone but yourself to see. And it's not about how Rafa sets them up it's about the players pulling there fingers out there ar5e and putting a decent shift in for 90 plus minutes even then we may not get the result we want as we don't have a quality squad. Saying that I think there is enough quality to turn Brighton over. I don't think Hughton will be coming for only a win I think he would take an away point at St.James all day.

I agree that Brighton will be happy with a point, just as we should be happy with any way point this season, especially against relegation rivals. We have had a tough start but it´s not an excuse for us to have won so few points to date. We have put pressure on ourselves to win now, something we are never very good at. If we had beaten Leicester at home then I´d be much less worried now - that was a very poor one to lose at home and we were well beaten.