Bournemouth away.

[Foolg]

Taken from back of todays Argus:
"Bournemouth have revealed controversial plans to treat away supporters differently from their own at Dean Court. The Cherries are erecting temporary seating at the south end of the ground in anticipation of bigger crowds"
Bournemouth Chairman Eddie Mitchell said: "It is going to be uncovered so, depending on the whether, we will try to push the away supporters down there when it is forecast to be gloomy...... I am sure other clubs wont want to help us in any way so that is our plan. If it is tipping with rain or snowing, the away fans will be there".

Seeing as we visit on 22nd January i expect we'll be in there. Out of order IMO, seeing as the ground already holds over 10k and they only averaged 4900k last year anyway.

 

[clippedgull]

Bastards.

I'm afraid we can't hold the moral high ground here

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

Bastards.

I'm afraid we can't hold the moral high ground here

Absolutely. A taste of our own medicine!

 

[Foolg]

Absolutely. A taste of our own medicine!

But as it goes on to say (will upload article when its online), if it was worthwhile we would have upgraded the away end, but circumstances were constantly changing, and we were never that well off. The fact that last time they were in L1 they averaged 5.5k suggests they dont need the improvements anyway.
Chairmans IMO being a complete prick, and if anything it'll lose him money.

 

[murraymints4brighton]

Still won't have an effect on the game, we will MURDER them when we sign WALDO PONCE

 

[Simster]

Just bear in mind that Boscombe are a two bob noddy outfit, and with that in mind you'll find it all quite funny.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Absolutely. A taste of our own medicine!

Indeed. Still, it'll give us a tremendous advantage if it feels like we're playing at home.

 

[Horton's halftime iceberg]

Win when its raining, we always win when its raining.

Home form home

 

[Simon Morgan]

To be fair though I suppose its just a manifestation of "home advantage" in a way. Away dressing rooms are always made to be smaller/crappier as well. They're bound to want to look after their own fans rather than worry about other peoples.

 

[gullshark]

Reminds me of the new year's day game there a couple of years back - we had packed out the stand at the side with the roof and a couple of people that paid on the gate had that entire uncovered stand to themselves.

Songs of 'We're the dry side, we're the dry side, we're the dry side brighton boys' and 'We can see you getting wet'.

Hilario

 

[8ace]

Just bear in mind that Boscombe are a two bob noddy outfit, and with that in mind you'll find it all quite funny.

This. If you are in any doubt here is there badge:

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Reminds me of the new year's day game there a couple of years back - we had packed out the stand at the side with the roof and a couple of people that paid on the gate had that entire uncovered stand to themselves.

Songs of 'We're the dry side, we're the dry side, we're the dry side brighton boys' and 'We can see you getting wet'.

Hilario

It was only hilario until Wayne Henderson did his bit...

 

[Foolg]

To be fair though I suppose its just a manifestation of "home advantage" in a way. Away dressing rooms are always made to be smaller/crappier as well. They're bound to want to look after their own fans rather than worry about other peoples.

Yeah, i can accept that, but the fact is that on average the last time they were in league 1 the ground was 50% full. They dont need to add this stand really, and you can just see what will happen, the east stand (?) we were in for Hendersons cock up that time will be 50% full. They could easily shift those people along and put us where we were last time, but they wont, they'll stick us behind the goal.
The other thing, it says this stand holds just over 1000, another sell out on the cards then.

 

[The Wookiee]

The away end at Dean Court was uncovered, nobody seemed to moan about that before the season started

 

[Simster]

This. If you are in any doubt here is there badge:

Indeed 8ace. I mean, just look at it.

f***ing noddy.

 

[Robert Codners Nostrils]

Does anyone remember the away game in the 94/95 season? Year before the pitch invasion I think. Open terrace and it absolutely poured down. If my memory serves me correctly, I think we won 3-0 that day with Jeff Minton and Junior McDougald getting on the score sheet! Could be wrong though!

 

[Badger]

This. If you are in any doubt here is there badge:

It looks like they've modified it, the ball is no longer resting on the head and WTF is going on with the square chin?

 

[house your seagull]

Does anyone remember the away game in the 94/95 season? Year before the pitch invasion I think. Open terrace and it absolutely poured down. If my memory serves me correctly, I think we won 3-0 that day with Jeff Minton and Junior McDougald getting on the score sheet! Could be wrong though!

i was undercover that day, but remember it.

rust and mcdougald had been practising a break straight from the goalie and it worked this one and only time.

rust booted it to junior and i think he had 2 touches and boom, goal.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

The point is that, if they have covered accomodation (which they would do) then why should we be forced into the open?

We home fans at Withers suffer just like the away fans do.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Reminds me of the new year's day game there a couple of years back - we had packed out the stand at the side with the roof and a couple of people that paid on the gate had that entire uncovered stand to themselves.

Songs of 'We're the dry side, we're the dry side, we're the dry side brighton boys' and 'We can see you getting wet'.

Hilario

I was one of the dozen or so people in the wet side for that game, it was great fun but got absolutely drowned. Although there was enough space in the main stand, they made us go into the uncovered stand behind the goal until half time when they finally moved us over.