The Goldstone - where did you stand or sit when you first watched the Albion?

[Monsieur Le Plonk]

West Stand to left of directors box (if looking at pitch) and a row back.

 

[Curious Orange]

Oh, West Stand, Block F, row O or P, somewhere near seat 79 as that was where my Dad sat.

When Dad stopped going I graduated onto the West terraces and later the North Stand.

I've probably seen more games at Withdean now though...

 

[westy]

west lower terrace towards the south stand before graduating in my teens to the North Stand just right of centre as you came down the middle gangway. Great view and right in the thick of the atmosphere. Happy days...

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

For my first ever game sat in the South Stand.

From then on I stood at the front of the South, until 'progressing' to the North after a season or two.

 

[bhaexpress]

First time was the Chicken Run but then it was the North Stand until I swapped that for the relative safety of the South Stand. Still, Withdean does make you lose touch with the sense of nearness to the pitch, I just hope that younger fans get that when we get to Falmer.

 

[dunno]

West Stand (on a box!), then the North West Corner, then the North (when I was old enough...and tall enough!)

 

[eastlondonseagull]

You bored?!

Waiting for the printer... marvellous, these minor delays

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[Cheshire]

Started East Terrace Chicken run, then North Stand, moved into the South Stand (NTR) Terraces for the glory days when that end had a good singing section. After the fire the South Stand went all seater so it was back into the North Stand.

 

[fosters headband]

North East corner under the floodlight pylon.
Except there were no floodlights when I first stood there.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Bottom corner of East Terrace at South Stand end

 

[warlingham seagull]

South stand (standing) in the early 60's. Then the Heath Robinson Memorial stand in the 1st Division and back to the South stand (sitting) as we fell down the divisions

 

[Publius Ovidius]

first game in the North West Corner

graduated for every game until they shut it to the east Terrace. ( actually I was the cause of the east Terrace closing down the bottom bit, when I badly sprained my ankle jumping up after we scored against Blackburn. dear departed Ron Pavey told me some years after that they had no money to fix the terracing as it was crumbling and they were waiting for someone to fall over to give them an excuse)

 

[pasty]

Started going with my dad in the South West standing on a box at the front. Regularly found myself in Argus pictures if we scored in the South goal. After a couple of seasons, dad let me go in the South Stand with my mates when it was terraced, then I moved into the North when the South burnt down, and spent the last 4 or 5 seasons up in the North East.

 

[Mackenzie]

Half way down the chicken run four(ish) steps up.

...The North stand was my usual haunt (when I got a bit older), but I've stood/sat in every stand except the North East corner (under the pylon).

 

[eastlondonseagull]

...dear departed Ron Pavey told me some years after that they had no money to fix the terracing as it was crumbling and they were waiting for someone to fall over to give them an excuse)

Sounds about right

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[Scoffers]

First few seasons in the North Stand "crush", then got myself a ST in the West Stand

 

[withdeanwombat]

North stand,against the wall,right behind the goal. 4-6.

 

[bellsize seagull]

the special time was a sunny November day in 1993 v Reading
down the front of the north stand with two pals who had told me to come along, Nicky Rust got lobbed for a lovely goal from the edge of the box lost 1-0 and the affair began !

 

[Monkey Man]

Chicken run, on a crate, in 1979.

Always the North Stand when I came to matches as an adult, except for a brief interlude in the West, for a few games.

Watched the last game back in the East, so never once saw a game from the South. And never once sat down.

 

[Taybha]

wherever i could bunk in