How many ALBION fans have been going to Withdean this season?

[Guest]

I think I've sat next to your dog!

He didn't rate Dan Harding much!

 

[The Auditor]

Very interesting..and better attendance percentage than I would have thought...sometimes it does seem that there a quite a few empty seats ..are attendances based on people through the turnstile or season/ticket sales?
Have been to all gaves except Bristol Rovers and sometimes wonder why ..but its the Albion and I love them....despite my moaning

 

[Artois]

All Brighton fans that turn up to every game need to praised.

Thanks

 

[Barnet Seagull]

All Brighton fans that turn up to every game need to praised. Its so rubbish at the Withdean and we've hardly been scoring any goals.
Well done all you loyal home fans.
I live in London, so tend to go to more away games, which means sitting in nice stadiums, with an atmosphere and you can park nearby - to be honest its the easier option.
I'm surprised there aren't more empty seats at home - good work.

what he said. Full respect to those who can and do go to the soulless hole that is Withdean.

 

[Stinky Kat]

I think I've sat next to your dog!

He didn't rate Dan Harding much!

the dog is easily led

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

i can very rarely go to games as i work tuesdays and saturdays

stoke was my first home game, but i have managed to get days off work to go to some away games

 

[caz99]

I have been to a fair few this season although money is now a problem, and i am starting to get more and more down watching them at home withdean is just a depressing place. the atmosphere away is so much better

 

[Colbourne Kid]

The attendances are people through the turnstiles not tickets sold. There have only been three games this season where the home end has not sold out and in each case there were less than 100 tickets left.

Don't forget also that 60 seats are left empty each game for safety purposes.

 

[Hannibal smith]

The Ground will hardly ever be sold out - Anyone that has ever sat in V Block will probably never go back there for a start as you see as much of the game as Ray Charles would.

Away fans as well are once bitten twice shy. Its not a trip I would do more than once as an away fan.

 

[Simster]

We get more people along when we play League games on Tuesdays (5,943 home supporters on average) than we do on Saturdays (5,772 average).

Unlike Saturday afternoons, I find a trip to Withdean on a Tuesday night just about tolerable. Onto the train at London Bridge with a few friends, half a dozen cans on the way down and either straight to the game or a quick pint at The Railway just behind PP station. And then - more times than not over the past 5 years - rounded off by another routine win and a kip on the train home to London.

Saturday is a total mare by contrast - half the day ripped out by the journey, and the atmosphere's crap when you get there.

Nonetheless, I'm looking forward to the NSC sponsorship game vs Sunderland - I have a pass to get totally BATTERED in the pub afterwards.

 

[Hove&Albion F.C]

thats not bad actually, considering how long we've had to put up playing there and how unbelievably shyte it is putting up with it. Well done to all those that still brave it week in week out

I've been once this year- but living in Manchester most of the football season i tend to save my cash for away games.

 

[Yoda]

And some clubs don't return tickets in time for us to sell them to our fans. At least half the matches this season I've been here for, the away stand wasn't sold out.

 

[Stinky Kat]

And some clubs don't return tickets in time for us to sell them to our fans. At least half the matches this season I've been here for, the away stand wasn't sold out.

So why dont our brilliant business men on the board ask away clubs for the money up front on the tickets..like Spurs did..allegedly

 

[e77]

Also if a season ticket holder can't make it and can't get rid of their seat, it is still money in the bank for the club.

 

[Storer68]

Team Pld Total Highest Average Capacity Pct
1 Wolverhampton Wndrs (16) 12 319839 28397 26653 29400 90.6%
2 Brighton & Hove Albion (20) 12 75789 6804 6316 6973 90.5%
3 Queens Park Rangers (10) 12 189153 18363 15763 19148 82.3%
4 Plymouth Argyle (17) 12 196236 20555 16353 20922 78.1%
5 West Ham United (6) 12 327421 31365 27285 35647 76.5%
6 Gillingham (23) 12 96892 10739 8074 10600 76.1%
7 Nottingham Forest (22) 12 272307 26099 22692 30602 74.1%
8 Derby County (8) 12 294636 30793 24553 33597 73.0%
9 Leicester City (13) 12 283760 30231 23647 32500 72.7%
10 Ipswich Town (1) 12 263360 29955 21947 30311 72.4%
11 Leeds United (19) 12 337030 31808 28086 40204 69.8%
12 Crewe Alexandra (11) 12 82742 9095 6895 10046 68.6%
13 Reading (4) 12 193145 22230 16095 24200 66.5%
14 Rotherham United (24) 12 73459 8860 6122 9500 64.4%
15 Watford (15) 12 165922 17780 13827 22100 62.5%
16 Sheffield United (5) 12 230990 22959 19249 30936 62.2%
17 Coventry City (18) 12 173007 18054 14417 23633 61.0%
18 Stoke City (7) 12 206439 23029 17203 28384 60.6%
19 Preston North End (14) 12 149768 18531 12481 20600 60.5%
20 Millwall (9) 12 135881 15025 11323 20146 56.2%
21 Cardiff City (21) 12 141750 17006 11813 21432 55.1%
22 Burnley (12) 12 148856 16956 12405 22546 55.0%
23 Sunderland (3) 12 314050 31723 26171 48300 54.1%
24 Wigan Athletic (2) 12 115498 12035 9625 25000 38.5%

 

[Kev the Ape]

Me my mum and dad are season ticket holders. And we been going for ages. I been a Seagulls fan all my life.

 

[West Hoathly Seagull]

The weekdays getting more than Saturdays phenomenon surprises me. I have not missed a game this season (Watford on 3rd January will be my first), but I find it very hard to get down from London for evening games, and I am less than 15 minutes' walk from Victoria. One of the things the Civil Service does give us when it is not trying to ruin our pensions is flexi time, so I can get out early, though it means work piling up, but my mate sitting near to me works in the City and he does not finish work until 6.30, so he cannot get to evening games. Also, the prospect of getting up at 6.30 am after a night at Withdean and an hour and a half's walk and drive is not too pleasant. I agree with everyone else that Withdean is horrible. I don't think those who feel relegation would not matter have considered this. While I and others will make the effort to get down from London or wherever to see Stoke, Wigan, Ipswich and so on, how many are going to find Torquay on a Tuesday night at Withdean attractive, never mind away when there is no immediate chance of promotion?

 

[mr turd]

Went to withdean a couple of years ago,whats it like these days

 

[dougdeep]

Team Pld Total Highest Average Capacity Pct
1 Wolverhampton Wndrs (16) 12 319839 28397 26653 29400 90.6%
2 Brighton & Hove Albion (20) 12 75789 6804 6316 6973 90.5%
3 Queens Park Rangers (10) 12 189153 18363 15763 19148 82.3%
4 Plymouth Argyle (17) 12 196236 20555 16353 20922 78.1%
5 West Ham United (6) 12 327421 31365 27285 35647 76.5%
6 Gillingham (23) 12 96892 10739 8074 10600 76.1%
7 Nottingham Forest (22) 12 272307 26099 22692 30602 74.1%
8 Derby County (8) 12 294636 30793 24553 33597 73.0%
9 Leicester City (13) 12 283760 30231 23647 32500 72.7%
10 Ipswich Town (1) 12 263360 29955 21947 30311 72.4%
11 Leeds United (19) 12 337030 31808 28086 40204 69.8%
12 Crewe Alexandra (11) 12 82742 9095 6895 10046 68.6%
13 Reading (4) 12 193145 22230 16095 24200 66.5%
14 Rotherham United (24) 12 73459 8860 6122 9500 64.4%
15 Watford (15) 12 165922 17780 13827 22100 62.5%
16 Sheffield United (5) 12 230990 22959 19249 30936 62.2%
17 Coventry City (18) 12 173007 18054 14417 23633 61.0%
18 Stoke City (7) 12 206439 23029 17203 28384 60.6%
19 Preston North End (14) 12 149768 18531 12481 20600 60.5%
20 Millwall (9) 12 135881 15025 11323 20146 56.2%
21 Cardiff City (21) 12 141750 17006 11813 21432 55.1%
22 Burnley (12) 12 148856 16956 12405 22546 55.0%
23 Sunderland (3) 12 314050 31723 26171 48300 54.1%
24 Wigan Athletic (2) 12 115498 12035 9625 25000 38.5%

We're nearly top.

 

[Braders]

Every one of those.

as have i