when the sleeping giant awakes...

[seagullsaint]

....my only worry about the stadium being completed is that we have lost too many sussex fans to man u,chelsea etc etc...... I hope i am wrong but the 30 odd thousand who made their way to cardiff for the play-offs where made up partly of local sussex people 'doing their duty', before going back to their london teams....

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

There are ten-odd thousand waiting in the wings to come back and watch a competitive Brighton team playing in a decent stadium in the Championship, where we can hopefully match Premiership-chasing Palace's woeful 15k for their last home game. And if we ever make the Premiership ourselves the ground will sell out for most games (certainly at 22k capacity!), if for no other reason than that a significant proportion of home seats will be filled by fans of the visiting teams (although why Wigan don't sell out in this regard is a mystery, unless they make it virtually impossible for away fans to buy sly tickets in the home stands)

 

[Silent Bob]

My theory is if Reading can do it so can we. They're traditionally smaller crowds, and they are even closer to London.

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

My theory is if Reading can do it so can we. They're traditionally smaller crowds, and they are even closer to London.

When you say traditonally you mean 20 years ago

 

[El Presidente]

I thought this thread was about someone's penis

 

[Silent Bob]

When you say traditonally you mean 20 years ago

I suppose so. But when they moved into their new stadium they were getting about 8000 or so I think?

 

[seagullsaint]

my theory is that if the pot hunters can change their team so easily in the first place,( according to who is winning trophies at the time) when we have won the johnstone paints trophy they shall come flocking back and forget about being die hard manc supporters brought up in the slums of polegate!

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

my theory is that if the pot hunters can change their team so easily in the first place,( according to who is winning trophies at the time) when we have won the johnstone paints trophy they shall come flocking back and forget about being die hard manc supporters brought up in the slums of polegate!

I didn't know Shinewater was in Polegate

 

[seagullsaint]

I know manchester has a zone around it called greater manchester, but pevensey bay is taking the pish.....

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

I thought Pevensey Bay was an Arsenal stronghold

 

[seagullsaint]

no no... pevensey bay is a manchester united stronghold! you are thinking of pevensey which is gooners,,,, pevensey recreation ground is divided down the middle however... the 'pev bay salford young team' have control of the swings, while 'pevensey gooners', operate the slide.

 

[desprateseagull]

here's a thought- credit crunch.

watching football (whether live, in the freezing cold, or on sky etc..) is just too expensive, and falling down many people's priority list.

 

[Paxton Dazo]

I hate all London clubs TBH. Bring on Falmer

 

[Zesh Rehman]

Neil Warnock once said we were a sleeping giant, hes right. But we need to get into the Championship and being doing well there before we even think about get regular full houses in, and success.

 

[csider]

not really fans then are they if they f*** off and follow a prem team?

 

[Ernest]

More like f***ing comatose at the moment

 

[Marshy]

If we build it they will come......

 

[Mendoza]

If we build it they will come......

you would think, but then it is £10 to get in for the JPT area FINAL tomorrow, which could see us go to Wembley and we have only sold 5400 tickets.


I think if we get to Wembley we would struggle to sell more tickets than the capicity of Falmer

 

[Spider]

you would think, but then it is £10 to get in for the JPT area FINAL tomorrow, which could see us go to Wembley and we have only sold 5400 tickets.


I think if we get to Wembley we would struggle to sell more tickets than the capicity of Falmer

But most loyal fans don't actually care about the JPT, let alone the casuals who need real incentive to go to a game. I know for £10 you would expect people to bite the clubs hand off, but I don't think you can judge any club by their JPT attendances.

 

[Silent Bob]

you would think, but then it is £10 to get in for the JPT area FINAL tomorrow, which could see us go to Wembley and we have only sold 5400 tickets.


I think if we get to Wembley we would struggle to sell more tickets than the capicity of Falmer

I don't. I predicted around 5000 for this game, the 'chance' of getting to Wembley doesn't mean that much, it's still a game against Luton at Withdean in the JPT. Wembley is the attraction because it's Wembley. Double our gate for this competition isn't bad!