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You can sign as many players as you want as long as one of them is Will Grigg and you don't nab Adam Forshaw off us. I personally would imagine Hyppia will need a year just to prepare you lot for a proper go but we'll see. Depending on who you get in you could have a real go this year.

My abiding memory of Brighton's visits to GP is the last one, where despite the footballing Gods efforts (penalty save, hit the woodwork etc.) - you did manage to beat us, good atmosphere that night, under the lights.

That's fascinating, how long has he been owner of the club?

Well we have the money, but FFP restrictions mean its not all available. We'll be fine once we move ground, but the next two years are vital and hopefully our good connections get us a few good loans and our young players develop well.

We were a level above Rotherham last year (although we lost to them twice with awful performances) and Evans has never had a team that didn't have a relatively big budget. We'll see, I agree we'll do well to stay up. And yes, relish your last (hopefully last two unless you go up) visit(s) to...

Recession hit us similarly, our development partner Barrats originally owned the land and bailed when the recession hit, but our owner Matthew Benham sorted it. As for Attendances, we'll probably average about 9,000 next season. That's a good 17,000 less than you! Amazing figures.

That's interesting, likewise we have a wealthy fan owner, which I like because they won't **** the club over for cash. I also like that our owner doesn't let his passion of the club get in the way, and whilst he has his visions for the club, he leaves the running of it to professionals and...

He really is, although he's not proven at this level or any professional level as manager over a long period of time - and if it does go to plan, someone else may want to poach him off of us with lots of money. As for the whole preconception thing, many of our own fans had similar ones - he had...

That's true. Out of curiosity, who has bank rolled the current success?

For those interested, our manager also founded the Next-gen series, which is like an u-19 Champions League, with Europe's top clubs competing. It is said that when he won Manager of the month, he received congratulations from people at clubs all over the world from Boca Juniors to Barcelona.

Griffin Park may be falling apart but it's one of the last of it's kind, with proper terracing, right in the town, surrounded by boozers and close to the pitch, proper atmoshpere. Take the opportunity to visit the away while you still can!

It's been hard for even the most die-hard Brentford fans to keep the faith over the years in all honesty, I'm so grateful that my generation barely saw any of the hard times, and we're getting to see the end product of so much loyalty, hard work and dedication.

That's the idea, although if QPR get their new stadium and play in the prem when it happens, I think our hoopy neighbours may (sadly) enjoy the plastic's custom for many years to come

Warburton was an average non-league footballer, and his son plays in the Canadian second division I believe, so he's not a natural. He actually took a 90% pay cut from working in the city, and began a career in football as a youth coach. He used to travel abroad a lot and watch foreign clubs...

While there is a lot of quality in this league, there doesn't seem to be a team that you look at and immediately think 'they're going up by easter', so I think more than half the league might be aiming for 'Top 6'. Depending on how Hyppia does, you might look at aiming higher IMO.

Every club has it's idiots, but in the main our fans are 'proper' as you say, unlike the majority at Fulham, Chelsea and QPR.

I'll put it this way: Everton were unlucky to have lost him. He'll probably play for England too, with the national team's future looking quite bleak.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20980190 there's the link I was referring to. Obviously, the club seems in good shape, I was just interested to see whether this meteoric rise with the promotion in 10/11 was without it's bumps along the way. Don't get me started on Parachute payments and FFP!

Can't you only lose 6m as of next season in the championship due to FFP? And we had a loanee from Chelsea last season called George Saville, just turned 21, in the junior Frank Lampard mould. Good player, although not certain his future lies with us. Our best player would be Adam Forshaw...

well, your average attendance is certainly a cut above this level