So,  yesterday we won a game at Withdean. Hoorah! Yet another screamer from Elliott Bennett was enough to defeat Mark McGhee’s Aberdeen, but it was the performance, more than the result, that will give the fans encouragement just one week before the start of the new season.

Pass and move, pass and move, pass and move – it’s simple stuff that everyone is encourage to do as a kid, but it’s a joy to watch a League 1 outfit avoiding the usual long-ball route and instead managing to keep it on the deck. Greer and Sparrow in particular should prove massive additions to what looks a squad worthy of a push for the play-offs.

Sadly though, just a few days before the trip to Swindon, we still don’t have that much talked about “proven 20+ goalscorer”. It’s no surprise really – everyone wants one, but it’s the teams prepared to pay the most (Southampton) and those in the league above that will get them. So many names have been mentioned (usually on North Stand Chat) but nothing has come of anyone of them yet. Simon Cox is the latest name doing the rounds – a proven centre forward at this level, but would he really drop 2 leagues to come to Withdean? Surely a Championship club will take a punt on him anyway? Time will tell, but sadly it looks likely that it’s Barnes/Hart/Holroyd fighting it out for the striking positions on day 1, and we’ll be relying on Glenn Murray to prove he can be our 20+ goal a season man. Our fingers are crossed, but we’re not holding our breath.

One of the names talked about on NSC is Leon Knight, after his recent postings on the forum. We spoke to him, and you can hear that interview here. We very much doubt we’ll be seeing him back here any time soon, but it’s good that the bloke has finally realised he needs to drop the attitude, get his head down and get on with doing what we all know he can do – scoring goals.

Meanwhile, Lua-Lua might be signing for us. So basically, nothing has change on that front since the day last season ended!

We’ll be at Swindon next week and will be attempting to bring live updates from our increasingly popular Twitter page. Follow us now if you haven’t already – it’s the most followed BHAFC page out there! We’re also on Facebook too, and we’ll be looking to keep you updated on all things Albion this season! And it won’t be long before the Albion Moan-In returns – although let’s hope there isn’t much to moan about!!

That’s all for now – hopefully we’ll have Lua-Lua and a new striker by the time of the next blog entry!

Cheers
The We are Brighton team