If brighton had died all those years ago?

[Mackenzie]

If Brighton had finished I'd have stopped watching football, couldn't imagine following any other team.

 

[Kalimantan Gull]

Not sure - if there was a new Albion, ala Wimbledon, would almost certainly have latched onto that - if not, may have found another team. I have always had a soft spot for teams in the places I've lived - Cambridge, Forest, Man City, Exeter, Man Utd - which lasts for as long as I lived there, before casting them aside

 

[gjh1971]

When Scarborough were reformed this is what i believed happened, thus spiltting the fan base.

Not quite - one team was the relaunched Scarborough by the fans trust, the other team was the original Scarborough youth team

 

[sully]

I'd have followed a re-formed club for certain, but possibly would have been more side-tracked by Crawley than I have been.

I doubt it would have felt the same either way, though.


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[Tory Boy]

We would have been sent to the Conference, but we wouldn't have gone out of business.

Someone would have bought the club off Archer, and IMO we would only be about 3-5 years from where we are at present.

The fans wouldn't and didn't let the club go down.

TB

 

[Smithy24]

Would have been the re-formed club

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

We could have reformed as North Stand Chat FC and worked our way back up the leagues. Just think we could now be singing about our favourite striker ....... der , der , der , der , Brett Mendoza

 

[DumLum]

I would have probably cried at 3pm every saturday for a season or two.

Right now I would be on here mocking you AFC Brighton losers. As I support the Seagulls(After a long bitter court battle over the nickname, which finally went our way due to the years spent at the Goldstone.)also known as AFC Hove.

 

[16bha]

I'd have followed AFC BHA up the leagues, waiting for day we get to play the dreadful MK Seagulls....

 

[DumLum]

I'd have followed AFC BHA up the leagues, waiting for day we get to play the dreadful MK Seagulls....

 

[sod1]

Going down plymouth with middle rev! 3 games in four days!!! Gonna stay sober for these games!

you're probably still pi**ed from the amount you drunk on the day of the donny game , but at least you saw more of the game than i did

 

[GT49er]

Very few clubs that get relegated to the Conference completely disappear - I think it's only Chester, Scarborough and Maidstone that don't exist any more (though I fully expect someone to tell me I'm wrong!) I'd have been heart broken if we'd lost at Hereford, but I think I'd still be following the club, albeit probably in a much lower league.

 

[severnside gull]

Assuming we had gone bust with no ground of our own it's hard to see how we could have done anything other than re-form at a level somewhat below the Conference, possibly playing at Whitehawk or Southwick. Who knows?

As I was living in the Midlands then and mostly watching Albion away from home as now I doubt I would have been able to get to many if any games until the re-formed club reached the Conference because that's when, geographically, they would have come within reach. I am sure I wouldhave lost interest as a result and probably/hopefully revived it once the club were on their way back whether they were Albion FC, Brighton Rangers or whatever..............

Meanwhile I would have done what I do now I guess and when there is no Albion to watch I go to one of the local teams - Villa, Wolves, Blues, Walsall, Hereford, Kidderminster, Bewdley Town if I'm in the Midlands; the Bristol clubs, Bath, Weston, Yeovil or Exeter if I'm in Somerset, and if I'm in Holland I go to see Ajax. Plenty of choice but I have no loyalty or committment to any of them and none of them excite me in the way the Albion do.

 

[Seagull Steve]

I think I would probably be an armchair plastic, if I'm truthful.

 

[blue2]

Followed the reformed Brighton.

only possibility

 

[Gritt23]

Initially, I think I'd have given up watching football completely (unless an FC Brighton had formed). In time I would probably have drifted back to whatever my most local non-League club would have been at the time I started to want to attend games again. Now, that's Ebbsfleet, but previously, it would have been Dartford.

 

[Gwylan]

Would probably have watched more rugby

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Would probably have watched more rugby

I was about to say the same thing.

A real shame we don't have a top class side down here.

 

[8ace]

One would have probably emigrated to one of the colonies.

 

[Driver8]

I would probably have watched my two local teams. Wrexham and Chester City! I would probably have topped myself by now.