From today's Northern Echo

1. " Brighton were the best side to visit The Vic this season, they played the ball around excellently"

C Turner.

2. " Sometimes you have to put your hands up and say you were beaten by the better side.............that was not the case today"

G Poyet

I rest my case!!!

Turner is trying to big up the result probably to try and save his skin. There is no way brighton were the best side to visit the Vic. They were passing it around well but were toothless upfront.

Gus Poyet is clearly a very bad loser.

IMO a draw would have been a fair result yesterday. We played no football but defended well.

Turner must have forgotten about Norwich, Charlton, Southampton, MKDons and Huddersfield who all looked pretty good. I thought Brighton where decent and you could see how they have done so well away from home breaking with the pace out wide. If they had Nicky Forster up front it would have been different, however if we had Torres up front we'd have won by 4 or 5 so it just goes to show its a funny old game of opinion and people see different things in the beautiful game.

I wish managers would be more honest with their assessments though as it gets a bit boring hearing the usual we was robbed and I though we worked hard blahh blahh

I thought brighton were one of the better teams to visit this season and passed the ball about very well in midfield.

they looked a better team than swindon did last week IMO.

...and had a manager!

It's not so very long ago that Turner was blaming the pitch for us not playing a passing game. Brighton were able to pass it about on that pitch.

Whilst I am cock a hoop with the three points, I have to say that on another day Brighton would have won. How they didn't score in that game is a mystery. We were all saying that it was only a matter of time before they scored. They were the better of the two teams and Flinders getting MOM, deservedly, speaks volumes. However the best side on the day doesn't always win, and I'm glad we thwarted them.

Although i think every one of our players made a contribution,as they did on Saturday, I would also single out Gary Liddle. I thought he was immense.

Joe Gamble needs a rest, sooner rather than later.

Lets get the required points for safety, sort the squad out where its needed, get a new manager in and move on next season.

They weren't the better of the two teams
They passed it around well, with no end result
They were chippy and continually bleated onto the ref, in a traditional Brighton stylee

And helthick is a 'lovely lovely person' and didn't get nowhere near enough abuse

HTH, FWIW, TIA

We were obviously watching two different games. The reason they had no end result was Flinders had probably his best game for us ( in my opinion of course). YAD ERT IUB ZZX ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ........... Crash.

the bottom line is....thank f-uck Pools pulled out all the stops and got the 6 points this weekend gone - if ever a team needed to do that it was Pools

Spot on Mr Parmo.
Would be massive if we can repeat it over this weekend, although I would be over the moon with four points from the next two. Six would be awesome.

and Turner to get manager of the month

Aye..................now that would shut us up.

oh no it won't!!!!

etc etc!!

A little thing called Scott Flinders???

Precisely. There were too many occasions when Flinders stood alone. But stood he did, for which we are all grateful. The guy in the other goal has done it to us in the past, when we absolutely battered Swindon on the opening day of our promotion season, only to lose 1-0.

Flinders has played a big part in getting us those six points. His double save early on against Orient was also significant.

Good on the lad.

So your basically telling us our Keeper made some saves.. That's what he is there for.. HTH

And a forward is there to score goals, so if one of them gets a couple should he not be man of the match, because 'that is what he is there for' ?

I did not think Flinders was as good yesterday as many are saying he was. He played like that regularly at the start of the season, its just that he has been going through a dip in form. On his day he is excellent but he needs to be a bit more consistent.

Im really pleased for the lad like. His lass is fit too (not that that matters like but its worth saying )

I never mentioned Man of the match, he is just stating the obvious and so was i

Of course our keeper's job is to make saves, noone is saying it isn't.
I'll tell you something though. If he continues to perform at the standard he set yesterday, he won't be here long, that's for sure.

the boy is going to be a top goal keeper. I said it on here a few month ago that he will play premier league at some point and i got shot down. I stand by my statement.

He may make it to that level but he comes accross very much as a 'confidence' keeper. When he is playing well he looks outstanding but when he has a dip in form he lets in soft goals. From what im aware no club has ever stood by him and as soon as he hit a bad spell he has been replaced. Perhaps keeping faith in him will help him with any confidence issues. Its certainly noticable that he comes for crosses much rarely lately. If he can rediscover his early season form then I certainly wouldnt rule him out from playing at a considerably higher level.

Even the Brighton fans clapped him wen he got MOTM

i still dont know why he got man of the match most of the shots were long distance and didnt trouble him the only good save i recall is where he tipped it over the rest were what you would expect a keeper to save.
glad he didnt concede but he has played better this season
glad we got 6 vital points over the weekend

His save from Gary Dicker's shot was better when he tipped it onto the bar.

he didnt tip anything onto the bar. The one that hit the bar got a deflection off a defenders head.

It hit Liddle on the head but was still going in. Flinders stuck up an arm and it was the slightest of touches but did stop it from going in top corner or in off the bar. I was stood in Town End directly behind it and he definately saved it.

Haha. But atleast I know he saved it.

have you seen the highlights? Look closely.... He got nowhere near it

I thought on the highlights it looked clear he got a touch but it might just be me eyesight!! But I definately seen he got touch when it happened.

well one of us has been wanking too much

that'll be me

They make quality motors and every one had a fridge and a video under the Hitlers