The FANS WALL at Falmer ?

[Easy 10]

Dunno if this idea has ever been floated before, but now that the stadium is effectively packaged, tied up with ribbon, brightly decorated with a sumptous silk bow and has a label attached that reads \"Too all Brighton fans everywhere, lots of love and kisses Dick and the boys, xxx\", how about THIS for a money-making scheme.

Who out of you would be prepared to pay, oooh lets say….£50 to have your very own BRICK in one of the stadium walls ? The brick would have your name engraved upon it (perhaps in stylishly grand gold colouring), and that brick would be built into the stadium wall, on display for all time and for all to see. Your very own little piece of the stadium, embedded in the stadium FOREVER. I believe Sunderland did exactly this when they built the Staduim of Light, although I think they only charged £35. However, a number of years have passed since then, and we are affluent southerners after all, so I don\'t think £50 would be an unreasonable price to pay to have your own piece of history forever locked into the stadium. I know I would. I reckons this would prove to be a HUGE moneyspinner for the club, and could directly contribute to the costs of building the stadium in some small way. What say you all ?

If there seems to be enough interest, perhaps we could put this to the esteemed INSIDER on Ask The Club.

 

[Barnet Seagull]

I think the idea has been mooted before - certainly a good fund raiser in my view.

 

[tedebear]

I have my name on a brick in the Olympic swimming stadium in Sydney! I do visit it and rub it knowingly!

I should be rather pleased to have another brick in a wall at Falmer too!

ps ask the blub has been gone for some time!!

 

[Mrs Coach]

I'm sure a lot of people would do it 'in memory of' someone as well. I certainly would.

 

[ILOVEBHA]

I would do it and would pay maybe more than £50 for the privelege and honour

 

[csider]

My sister has her name on the railway track in Hove Park. So there..!

 

[hans kraay fan club]

They did this at Southampton, but I seem to remember it was more like £200 per brick! £50 I would think would barely cover the administration costs and the actual costs of the engraving.

 

[Braders]

some fans have got seats due to the A&K (myself included) but i'd buy a brick too

 

[DIFFBROOK]

Sheff Utd have also done this. Dont know what they charged, but its does look good. Yes, count me in.

 

[Easy 10]

ps ask the blub has been gone for some time!!

Oh yeah.
I hadn\'t noticed

 

[JJ McClure]

certainly a good idea but all the pictures look like construction will be metal and glass so not sure if it will be a very bricky sort of place.

 

[Franks Wild Years]

I have my name on a brick in the Olympic swimming stadium in Sydney! I do visit it and rub it knowingly!

I should be rather pleased to have another brick in a wall at Falmer too!

ps ask the blub has been gone for some time!!

Ask the blub ?

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

Can i Have a breeze block ??

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

Yes I'd be up for this but as was said above I think 50 quid wouldn't be enough to be worthwhile.

On a different (similar) subject does anyone know what happened about the seats at Bury that lots of us paid to have our names on? Did anyone ever see them?

 

[tedebear]

Ask the blub ?

Cross between blurb and club - given the drivel some people used to ask!!

 

[queens park pete]

When the Liberal Democrats come to power after Norma Baker leads a coup d'etat, anyone with their name on the Falmer wall will be the first up against the wall as destroyers of the most beautiful field in the whole world.
Marina Pepper "Spray" will lead the team of torturers.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I might pay to put Cutress' name on it. She'd love that.

"Melanie Cutress, Albion lover"

 

[Easy 10]

OK, maybe £50 is a bit Lidls, but I was influenced by the Mackems and their £35 bricks. You can get an end-of-terrace house up there for £185 though, so I suppose it was bound to be dirt cheap.

Id probably pay up to about £200 for my own brick I suppose.

 

[Monkster]

They do this at Carlisle for £30 a pop if I remember rightly, although it's not called the fans wall, its called the FLOOD DEFENCE wall now

 

[Woodchip]

Couldn't we have a "walk of fame" style where people have their names in floor tiles instead?