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And neither is Traore.

Not the best time to be making this sort of argument given that Brighton just paid £23 million for a teenage midfielder who has played fewer than 500 minutes of first team football.

Wait until Neil hears about Wu Ming, the talented young Chinese striker that Brighton are signing on a free.

You've got the manager you wanted. Most clued-up neutral observers think we've made a bunch a smart signings. We've lost a couple of games that everyone expected us to lose. Does it not occur to you that it might be worth waiting at least a few months before making all these sweeping...

Lol. That didn't take long.

Nope, it's just that you're annoying dick. And almost certainly a racist. But it's the 'annoying dick' thing that's the bigger problem.

But quadratic equations are easy, I hope we're being a bit more rigorous than that. Proof of Goldbach's conjecture or it's back to the Championship with you.

Honestly, I wouldn't say it had to be anyone's fault. A huge amount of what happens in sport is random, especially in terms of results, particularly between competitors of similar strengths. It's entirely possible for Iraola to be a better manager than GON, for us to have a slightly better squad...

Obviously it'll be the recruitment team's fault. But I will admire the Jupiter-sized brass balls on Neil if he tries to claim that he recognised GON's qualities all along, and that Blake / Hughes are a disgrace for not doing the same.

But statistically he has been good so far - the highest combined xG and xA per 90 minutes of anyone in our squad, which he achieved playing against some of the better sides in the division. In fact his numbers, in the top flight, with all the adaptation issues already identified, were...

Didn't he play a neat lay off to Anthony in the build up to our second goal?

I think that's probably right. And it's definitely the way it should be. Excellent managers are unlikely to also be excellent directors of football, Eddie Howe being a case in point.

I'm sure Neil would disagree, but in general our recruitment seems to have been pretty smart over the last year or so. A lot of the stats and analytics bods - who used to snicker at our transfer policy when Howe was the manager, and who now snicker at Newcastle's (£83 million for Gordon and...

Sigh. And so it begins . . .

Going to slightly fewer football games this season ≠ getting thrown off a cliff.

I don't think they imply backing down on the new stadium. If nothing else, Foley seems set on massively increasing hospitality income and that's just not really possible where we are. I imagine that Frevola was alluding to discussions about what the capacity needs to be in the new stadium.

Calm down mate, it was a joke.

The capitalists can't extract surplus value from your labour if you refuse to do any labour. ;)

So GON did his work properly and was binned off. If Fraser had done his work properly and got badly injured in the process, he'd have been binned off as well. It's easy to see why he didn't fancy it . . .

I mean, he was working, in that he was turning up for work. He wasn't giving 100%, which - as someone who's rarely given more than 50% at any job I've ever done, falling to less than 10% when I know I'm going to be leaving - doesn't strike me as the worst crime in the world.