[Albion] STHs - are you renewing?

[Foul Play Rocks]

I’ll be renewing. It would only be cost or illness that would prevent me from renewing.

 

[indy3050]

I’m out. I’ve enjoyed the trips to port vale and Colchester etc but I’ve fallen out of love with the game. I’ve said it before it died the day we made it to the top table, I just don’t enjoy it anymore... VAR is a big reason and will also save around £200 per month towards decent family holidays. Bad fan but I couldn’t give a shit x

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

The club absolutely shafted me last season when it came to my season ticket so they can get f*cked. Fully expect next season to be the first time in my life that I don’t make it to a single game.

You've been going since aged one?

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Where were these true fans when we played our home games at Gillingham ?

Back at 5,500 on the waiting list after giving the ticket up due to kids.


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[South Stand Bonfire]

We are prisoners of our own desire

I like that. I'm going to use that phrase at an appraisal next week if someone asks for a pay rise.

 

[timbha]

I like that. I'm going to use that phrase at an appraisal next week if someone asks for a pay rise.

be careful, I'm still trying to work out your previous post! #83

 

[upthealbion1970]

Me and the Mrs both renewing again without a doubt

 

[Motogull]

I wonder how the feeling would be if we:

1. statistically were the least attacking and opportunity creating team in the league
2. were the scorer of a solitary first half goal at home so far
3. had only scored from a penalty to record our solitary first half goal at home so far
4. had to put up with a tedious drone controlled by a man with moobs and a megaphone

I suspect the result might be a little closer.

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

be careful, I'm still trying to work out your previous post! #83

Genuinely no malice intended! Mr Beach But is ok - I'm just jealous I have too many years to go before I can early retire like him.

 

[Whitechapel]

You've been going since aged one?

Younger than that

My mum took me to my first game when I was 15 days old

 

[blue-shifted]

Not renew? Are you stark raving mad?

 

[Sheebo]

Championship with Potter ? No thanks Tim. This season has killed football for me.

Nearly used up my quota for ticket exchange. It's been an awful season. We went backwards under Hugton after Xmas. We are doing the same again. 1 win in 11 with some tough fixtures at home coming up. Throw in VAR, football is dead for me.

Why are you still posting daily on a football forum then?

 

[Peter Grummit]

Younger than that

My mum took me to my first game when I was 15 days old

My missus and I took our eldest to Old Trafford for the 93 cup game when he was -43 days. He went again the next time we played them there. He was 24.

 

[portlock seagull]

Entering 3rd season without a ST after 20 years owning one and I have to say it’s quite liberating! Happy to get along when I can and be part of an exchange and can nearly always get tickets if want. I really don’t care about so called big 6 matches, they’re ones I actively avoid now they’re so boringly predictable. After we’re relegated I might get one for the Championship as I enjoy the unpredictability and Var-less matches. The PL though is a huge disappointment, endured rather than enjoyed.

 

[Invicta]

100% renewing. Reckon we'll stay up, if not queue sera sera

 

[grubbyhands]

Already cancelled. Really bored of the Premier league and VAR.

Had 3 years at this level and that's enough for me.

Good! You won't be missed on here or presumably by whoever is unfortunate enough to have to sit next to you at any game.'Bye!

 

[Weststander]

Entering 3rd season without a ST after 20 years owning one and I have to say it’s quite liberating! Happy to get along when I can and be part of an exchange and can nearly always get tickets if want. I really don’t care about so called big 6 matches, they’re ones I actively avoid now they’re so boringly predictable. After we’re relegated I might get one for the Championship as I enjoy the unpredictability and Var-less matches. The PL though is a huge disappointment, endured rather than enjoyed.

I did that for 2 seasons whilst I was on the waiting list, you can get a ticket without fail if you diarise Bronze member release dates. I’ve never seen Mansour’s FFP cheats beat the Albion!

 

[Invicta]

Agree entirely - but doesn't say much about the bulk of our fanbase supporting through thick and thin. Only a couple of thousand supported us in the dark days at Gillingham and even in the Theatre of Trees we could only manage about 8000 per week with very few games over our stint there ever actually selling out.

Seems we just have a huge proportion of 'fans' who only want to follow us in the Prem or because we have a swanky new ground. Same as most clubs.

If we do go down I just hope that most of the supporter base sticks with the club in order to help push back up to where we all want to be.

We averaged c28k in Championship before I think so I wouldn't worry too much

 

[AlastairWatts]

I had a season ticket at the old Goldstone but had a younf family during the Gillingham and Withdean years. I’ve had a season ticket at The Amex since the stadium opened.

But I’m now 74 with a heart condition and I’d be a very stupid old man to sit in a cold sports stadium on a freezing afternoon. I live a way away and I’m not comfortable driving back in darkness, so catch five different trains to get to the stadium. Sometimes too my pub landlord duties interfere. To cap it all my sister, who lives in Brighton and has a season ticket is also not in the best of health and finds it increasingly hard to get into the stadium. She has decided not to renew either

I feel miserable about all of this. It seems wrong to me to pay for a ticket I sometimes don’t use. Nothing to do with the football - but someone else could use that seat. I’ll miss the excitement and the feeling of being part of it all. And no, I don’t think that relegation is going to happen…

 

[el punal]

Agree entirely - but doesn't say much about the bulk of our fanbase supporting through thick and thin. Only a couple of thousand supported us in the dark days at Gillingham and even in the Theatre of Trees we could only manage about 8000 per week with very few games over our stint there ever actually selling out.

Seems we just have a huge proportion of 'fans' who only want to follow us in the Prem or because we have a swanky new ground. Same as most clubs.

If we do go down I just hope that most of the supporter base sticks with the club in order to help push back up to where we all want to be.

Sorry, but I disagree with a lot of that. The Albion have always had a large fan base, helped by the fact that we are the only League club in the county (until recently with the addition of Crawley). The nearest other clubs being over forty miles away. When we were at Withdean it was difficult to get match day tickets and with a capacity of only 6,000 initially to 7,800 in the later years. It was rare that attendances went below 90% of capacity.

Your point about a huge proportion of ‘fans’ who only want to follow us in the Prem also doesn’t ring true. Apart from the first two seasons at the Amex (when it wasn’t fully developed) our average attendance, when we played in the Championship, was between 26,000 to 28,000 - and always there was a waiting list for season tickets. That does not smack of glory hunting JCLs to me.

With reference to the possibility of us being relegated to the Championship and how that will affect attendances - who knows? I don’t think anyone is going to relinquish their season tickets by the start of March as we will still be very much in contention in retaining our PL status