Ian Hart: To dismiss Brighton and Hove Albion's new striker after brief cameo is frankly laughable

You can boil an egg then eat it. You can probably walk a mile. And you can actually go to sleep, have a dream and wake up again, I did it once jet lagged in Perth, Australia. What you can’t do, specifically from any given seat in the Amex stadium, is watch a young international striker, who’s played and scored at a World Cup Finals, and decide in around 20 minutes that he’s useless. Albion’s new Canadian striker Promise David, is clearly not Danny Welbeck, well at least not yet, but by the same token he’s also not David Cameron (The former soldier turned Brighton striker from the Withdean era rather than the runaway Prime Minister from a decade ago), yet reading some of the drivel on social media since Saturday’s disappointing 1-1 draw with Leeds United you would have thought Tony Bloom had fallen foul of football’s answer to the Oxford Street ‘3 card’ con trick.

The stalemate against our compatriots from Yorkshire was actually one of those games, where you find yourself debating long into Saturday night and beyond whether it was a two points dropped or a point gained?

I will stick with the point gained. Albion were simply dreadful first half, slow out of the blocks, to the point where Leeds could have been home and hosed by half time, then the game effectively turned on its head, Albion were better, still not great mind you, and given the chances they had in the second period a draw was probably a fair reflection on the 90 minutes.

But as my old mukka on the wireless, Warren Aspinall, pointed out, if you have ambitions to finish in European contention again we should be beating teams like Leeds United at home.

Two caveats however, I do wonder how every other club in the EPL at this stage of the season would fare with arguably their best four players, Kaoru Mitoma, Yankuba Minteh, Georginio Rutter and Jack Hinshelwood in the treatment room? And why with the aforementioned injuries fitting that perhaps our bench isn’t perhaps as strong as it could be, Fabian Hurzeler chooses to wait until 77 minutes before making any kind of change, despite having a potential five at his disposal? Granted Promise didn’t look like Eusebio or Jimmy Greaves, he clearly needs game time, but for the very small minority of keyboard warriors to dismiss him on his brief cameo on Saturday is frankly laughable.

So Sunday’s trip to Coventry takes on even greater importance now. The Sky Blues have yet to win, after a difficult opening three games back in the top flight, I hope Frank Lampard’s charges do eventually get off the mark, but not this week. We need, after the events at the Amex, to get back on the horse and win - ugly or emphatic I don’t care - and hopefully we will be able to do it with at least one of our ‘Fantastic Four’ returning, Rutter, but I think even on Matchday 4 (that horrible Americanism!) Hurzeler has to throw the dice and start Promise David, up top, the traditional old style centre forward vs allegedly one of the worst defences in the League?

We might not even know the definitive answer to the question come the final whistle but given the aforementioned scenario, I think we will have a clearer picture, even for the armchair critics!

As always there’s far worse things for people to be getting upset about, the legendary Sir Tom Jones getting ditched by ITV for starters.

That certainly is unusual………