Should the South Stand be our "North Stand" ?

[The Wookiee]

Been thinking this for a while, to me it would make perfect sense, bigger stand, close to away fans. Could get quite lively in there! IMO the current North Stand looks crap, ok will look better when corners filled in, but still think the south would generate more of an atmosphere ? Thoughts ?

 

[Bwian]

North Stand is The North Stand. Always was, always will be. There'll be more than enough atmosphere generated at both ends of The Amex.

 

[Robot Chicken]

Yes, good idea. Now you just need to swap all the season tickets over!

 

[Spider]

No.

1. Contrary to popular opinion, I think the North Stand as it is now looks awesome, and more to the point is perfect to be the noisy stand since it is a contained space where singers can congregate, The more mingling you get with other stands the more dissolved this becomes. Plus, the North stand is now the only Stand with any real seperate identity since all the others now link together.

2. The noisy home fans are almost always, in my experience, behind the goal opposite the away fans (hence why people on NSC, almost without fail, complain about how quiet other grounds are, when of course it's simply because you can't hear much from the opposite end). People who want to sing and be as close to the away fans as possible are more likely to be the bellend type who prefer shouting "wankers", "you're just a small town in ...", "sheep-shaggers", standing up making wanker signs at the away fans for no reason, celebrating a Brighton goal by simply gloating at the away fans rather than taking any apparent pleasure in the fact that we just scored, and reacting to away fan abuse like "you're not singing anymore" as if they had all just collectively shagged your mother. As someone who sat in WSL towards away end last season, I can say there are a lot of these cretins about. Keep the North Stand for those who know what properly supporting your own team is about.

 

[T soprano]

I think you already answered your own question "the north stand will look better when the corners are filled in " and will sound better as well plus it's closer to the west upper H block were most off the noise is anyway

 

[Silent Bob]

North Stand is The North Stand. Always was, always will be.

It wasn't at Withdean.

 

[The Wookiee]

Fair enough xx

 

[Bwian]

It wasn't at Withdean.

Minor detail.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Been thinking this for a while, to me it would make perfect sense, bigger stand, close to away fans. Could get quite lively in there! IMO the current North Stand looks crap, ok will look better when corners filled in, but still think the south would generate more of an atmosphere ? Thoughts ?

YES! The north is pretty poor,should be better when the corners are filled in but yes the south stand would make more sense to be our popular end.
But then the south stand had more cred at the goldstone for quite a few years
North got on their toes too many times

 

[T soprano]

YES! The north is pretty poor,should be better when the corners are filled in but yes the south stand would make more sense to be our popular end.
But then the south stand had more cred at the goldstone for quite a few years
North got on their toes too many times

The south stand at the Goldstone had a great atmosphere until the seats went in

 

[del_boy]

No the north stand should be the north stand!

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

Panda says: I'm so keeping my season ticket in the south stand.

 

[catfish]

You'll never take the North Stand!

 

[Twinkle Toes]

I reckon we may as well go the whole hog & make the West Stand the East Stand & verse-vicea. We can even swop the lower sections for the uppers & have a big tombola in the centre circle to randomly relocate the rest of the plucky STH's.

You never know, you could be sitting between TB & that bint going out with Wayne Bridge - with Uncle Ernest in front of you.

Thoughts?

 

[Albion Dan]

I completely agree it makes much more sense for our main atmosphere stand to be the south near the away fans. You will never get the mongs in the north to agree though.

 

[Captain Sensible]

No because it's away fans up until half way into the South stand (if they take full 10% allocation).

 

[BHAboi]

Me and a mate got our season tickets in the south stand as reckon the atmosphere will be buzzing with the away fans next to and hopefully some banter between the stands. Guess will find out on the first day of the season the type of crowd in there

 

[Worthai Seagull]

I reckon we may as well go the whole hog & make the West Stand the East Stand & verse-vicea. We can even swop the lower sections for the uppers & have a big tombola in the centre circle to randomly relocate the rest of the plucky STH's.

You never know, you could be sitting between TB & that bint going out with Wayne Bridge - with Uncle Ernest in front of you.

Thoughts?

Very funny ... made me laff that did !

 

[tubaman]

If we're going to start calling the North stand the South stand and the South stand the North stand isn't it all going to get a little confusing. I don't mind. I have a seat in the West upper, or is that the East upper now?

 

[Deleted member 2719]

No.



2. The noisy home fans are almost always, in my experience, behind the goal opposite the away fans (hence why people on NSC, almost without fail, complain about how quiet other grounds are, when of course it's simply because you can't hear much from the opposite end). People who want to sing and be as close to the away fans as possible are more likely to be the bellend type who prefer shouting "wankers", "you're just a small town in ...", "sheep-shaggers", standing up making wanker signs at the away fans for no reason, celebrating a Brighton goal by simply gloating at the away fans rather than taking any apparent pleasure in the fact that we just scored, and reacting to away fan abuse like "you're not singing anymore" as if they had all just collectively shagged your mother. As someone who sat in WSL towards away end last season, I can say there are a lot of these cretins about. Keep the North Stand for those who know what properly supporting your own team is about.

Your not much fun Spider or are you always like that


Yes, i like the idea of the South stand having the main vocal support but not sure how long it would take to get the singer, the majority re-housed there.

We do need more banter in the stadium.