22-year old Wolverhampton Wanderers and Wales striker Sam Vokes has signed for Brighton and Hove Albion until the end of the season. Vokes has found opportunities limited at Molineux over the past three seasons with loan spells at Leeds United, Bristol City, Sheffield United, Norwich City and most recently a 2 month stay at Burnley where he scored twice in nine matches.

Albion fans will hope that Vokes can do the job that Billy Paynter couldn’t and proves to be the perfect partner for Craig Mackail-Smith to get back among the goals as the Albion look to mount an assault on the play-off positions.

Craig Noone, one of Albion’s brightest prospects during the early stages of this season, appears on the verge of a million pound move to Cardiffy City.

Well, when we say on the verge, we mean that Sky Sports are reporting that Cardiff are thought to have had a bid in the region of £1m accepted, and now have only personal terms to agree with “Nooney”. As Gus says, unfortunately, “every player has a price”.

But would he want to leave? He’s enjoying his football here, he gets on well with Gus, and he’s a fans favourite.

Yes, Cardiff are above us and pushing for promotion - but only by 8 points. Read the rest of this entry »

Brighton have been drawn away to Liverpool in Sunday afternoon’s draw for the fifth round of the F.A Cup. The tie is due to be played over the weekend of the 18th & 19th of February - it means the Albion’s away league fixture against Hull City will be rearranged. Ticket details for the F.A Cup clash will be announced by the club shortly.

Here’s the fan’s reaction to this mouth-watering fixture on Twitter…

@wearebrighton It’s beginning to look like the ‘83 cup run!

— Rod Street (@Rod_RfC) January 29, 2012

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Another magical result for Brighton and Hove Albion fans as Gus Poyet’s Seagulls clipped the wings of the Magpies to send Newcastle United and Alan Pardew crashing out of the F.A Cup.

The only goal of the game came as a result of a shot from Will Buckley that slipped past goalkeeper Tim Krul after taking a deflection off Newcastle defender Mike Williamson

With fellow Sussex side Crawley Town having defeated Hull City 1-0 at the K.C Stadium earlier in the day, there is a real possibilty that the sides could meet in a last 16 clash in which is sure to be a tastey encounter. Steve Evans vs Gus, Tanno and Charlie. Bring it on we say!

WE’RE THE FAMOUS BRIGHTON & HOVE ALBION AND WE’RE GOING TO WEMBLEY!

— We Are Brighton (@wearebrighton) January 28, 2012

Following the reports that claim Brighton have accepted a bid from AFC Bournemouth for striker Will Hoskins, Albion fans took to Twitter to give their reaction to the news and to send their messages of support to the Seagulls’ number 7.

Here’s a selection of the best tweets:

@Hosky_7 You are absolutely wanted at the AMEX! We know your a quality player who belongs with us in this league. Keep the faith #BHAFC

— Freddy Brown (@FredrickBrown10) January 26, 2012

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It’s not been a bad season of cup football at The Amex in 2011-2012. Having hosted just two Premier League sides (Southampton in 2001 and Manchester City in 2008) at home since 1993, we’ve had the old London bus situation with three in six months. We’ve seen off Sunderland and fallen to eventual Carling Cup finalists Liverpool and now it’s the turn of our old mate Alan Pardew to bring his Newcastle United side on the long journey south courtesy of that penalty shoot out replay win over Wrexham. Read the rest of this entry »

Brighton and Hove Albion striker Will Hoskins is being lined up for a transfer to League 1 side AFC Bournemouth after the Albion reportedly accepted a bid for the 25 year old striker - who only joined the Seagulls in the Summer after leaving relegated Bristol Rovers for £500,000

Hoskins has been plagued by injury thus far in his Albion career, managing 1 goal in 8 appearances. If he chooses to move along the South Coast he’ll be linking up with former Albion defender Steve Cook who joined the Cherries at the start of the month.

Bournemouth’s interest in Hoskins comes after several failed attempts to sign Crawley Town’s Matt Tubbs.

If the approach is genuine, it would remain to be seen if Hoskins will choose to drop down a division as his first team opportunities at Brighton do look pretty good if he can maintain a long period of fitness.  However, Hoskins may opt to leave if  he knows he’ll be fighting for a place in the starting XI with this man

Just got in from training reading all my tweets. Shocked as u all are. Football is a mad game.

— Will Hoskins (@Hosky_7) January 26, 2012

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We are six days away from the January transfer window slamming shut and so far Brighton and Hove Albion’s transfer business consists of signing a third choice goalkeeper. It’s a far cry from the days when Dick Knight somewhat foolishly guaranteed five signings in the window live on air on BBC Southern Counties, and then in order to keep his promise signed players like Shane McFaul (remember him? We can’t blame you if you don’t!). Tony Bloom and Gus Poyet prefer to keep their cards much closer to their chests as was shown in the summer when we surprised everyone by capturing Craig Mackail-Smith. That is probably why we haven’t been linked with that many players this month, with only the following being named:

Michael Owen
Lets start with the big one. The Argus today seemed to all but rule out the Manchester United striker heading to The Amex despite wild speculation about him being at the ground, the Grand Hotel, even Brighton Racecourse popping up all over the shop. Poyet has already shown he thinks we need a target man with the unsuccessful Billy Paynter loan spell, of which the former England forward is clearly not. Throw in the fact that he would end up making Vicente look like a superhuman injury-free machine and that signing him would make Gus look like a bit of a pillock after his comments about not being able to compete wages wise with some teams in the division, and you can all but rule it out Read the rest of this entry »

According to the back page of Tuesday’s Sun, we’re trying to sign Manchester United striker Michael Owen!

We’ll believe it when we see it, but it’s not the first time we’ve seen this story doing the rounds….

The former Liverpool, Newcastle and England hitman rarely even warms the bench for Manchester United these days and can often be found tweeting during their games - usually ‘banter’ with Piers Morgan.

If Michael has any hunger left to play football regularly, then perhaps his shared interest in horse racing with Brighton chairman Tony Bloom could see Owen turning out at the Amex in the not too distant future….

The mouthwatering partnership of Mackail-Smith and Owen up front is something Albion fans could only have dreamed about 12 months ago….. sadly we don’t honestly see Michael Owen forming the other half of the duo come January 31st.

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Despite having not a bad word to say about Albion in the summer, after negotiations over the Craig Mackail-Smith transfer, it appears that Peterborough United Chairman Darragh MacAnthony is no longer a fan.

Here are some of his post match thoughts, posted on his twitter, following our 2-1 triumph at London Road yesterday.

“Hey we didnt deserve to win that awful game but lets be fair,your lads didnt either.Thats football”

“You guys certainly getting above your station, calm down.”

“You certainly out dived us as well as winning, gonna send some ballet shoes your way”

“That was bad defeat at home against side who had 2 shots on target.”

So, despite dominating at least 2/3rds of the game away from home, Albion didn’t deserve the 3 points?

Despite absolutely shocking dives from McCann/Tomlin, it’s us who are the cheats?

To be fair to MacAnthony, it does appear that he may have been provoked into some of the comments after Albion fans were gloating after the victory, and he is a lot less bitter in response to some more polite tweets from our supporters. Even so, it’s an interesting insight into what other clubs think of us, especially given that most of our supporters (and Gus as well!) recognised yesterday as one of our best displays of the season.

Makes you wonder, wouldn’t it be fascinating if Tony Bloom had Twitter?