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[Albion] Away fans in home ends
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It is.
I'd offer up as a way of 'doing it properly' my mate who lives on my road who was born and bred in South Manchester and is a local and dyed in the wool United fan.
However, he moved down here and has now lived in the Brighton area for a lot of his adult life. He has a ST in the Amex East Stand where he takes his son who is Brighton mad, has all the gear, teases him when we (regularly) beat United and will be the next generation of proper home STH supporting his local team.
The dad can talk very informatively about us, wants us to win when it doesn't affect United and has loads of Brighton supporting mates. However, for one of the United away games, four of us including him went up there for the weekend. The three Brighton fans were in the away end and he got a ticket in the home end (he still 'knows people' from living up there).
That's the right way to do it.
I've nothing against people who have a big club team but also follow a non-league club. That's helping the little club. I've nothing against people like my mate who do things the right way. But having a Brighton ST or a mate with 1901 just so you can watch your real club from the away end is not on.
bobbysmith01
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- Feb 6, 2015
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To be honest, a 1901 member has to have the correct number of points to buy an away ticket. Yes as you correctly state they can then allocate to another person. I have done this before to a good friend who is a fan of 50 years plus, ex1901 and lives up north and goes to 75% of games home and away, but does not have enough points, sometimes for some games. Think maybe you have a point, but not every case, plus they have taken away a lot of perks they promised when purchasing the 1901 deal all those years ago like, free hot drinks, first call on other events, like rugby, concerts, internationals.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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I am making the assumption that many of the Liverpool fans in the away end managed to pick up tickets at Albion + level.
I guess if they've paid their money for this opportunity, the club can do little about it.
It was a great opportunity for some of the Tier 2 and Tier 3 mob to boost their points and get a visit to probably the most iconic away game in the league. Disappointing we couldn't sell this out at a Season ticket holder level.
I see there are still 620 tickets available for Leicester, which is a much cheaper trip, with 15 (FIFTEEN) loyalty points available
Looks like the keenness for away games has dropped, now there aren't the prospect of European away trips on offer.
My First time at Anfield and whilst the result was annoying, I couldn't fault the racket their support made for the last 30 minutes.
Without doubt, the most intimidating atmosphere, I've encountered at an away game.
Makes a mockery of the claims by our friends up the road, of having the best atmosphere in the Premier League.
I guess if they've paid their money for this opportunity, the club can do little about it.
It was a great opportunity for some of the Tier 2 and Tier 3 mob to boost their points and get a visit to probably the most iconic away game in the league. Disappointing we couldn't sell this out at a Season ticket holder level.
I see there are still 620 tickets available for Leicester, which is a much cheaper trip, with 15 (FIFTEEN) loyalty points available
Looks like the keenness for away games has dropped, now there aren't the prospect of European away trips on offer.
My First time at Anfield and whilst the result was annoying, I couldn't fault the racket their support made for the last 30 minutes.
Without doubt, the most intimidating atmosphere, I've encountered at an away game.
Makes a mockery of the claims by our friends up the road, of having the best atmosphere in the Premier League.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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I have a great deal of sympathy for fans who can't justify a season ticket, but pay full whack for 10+ home games and all of the away games they get a ticket for.
Good friend of mine decided to give his season ticket up after 12 years and then went on to do 12 home games the following season.
Missed out on the opportunity for Europa league away games.
He would have been better off keeping the season ticket and exchanging them.
Them's the breaks I guess
Also makes a mockery of those who (when people complain about the Amex atmosphere) say "Oh all Premier League grounds are like that". We know we can turn it on for 'big' games, Liverpool fans can turn it in for humdrum league games against non-elite opposition.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
- 12,409
Yeah but they were as quiet as the Amex for 60 minutes when we had the upper hand.
No different to the Amex in that regard
Edit: and in truth, when we are 0:1 down and start to make a fist of it, the atmosphere get's significantly better too.
It isn't anything to do about the humdrum nature of a game, it's always about what's happening on the pitch.
On Saturday we started sitting deep and invited them on. The Liverpool fans reacted to that and urged their team on. We would have done the same.... but nowhere near as loud, nor from 4 massive stands
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Hotchilidog
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- Jan 24, 2009
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It was hard getting songs going on Saturday. Luckily there was a vocal group near us in AL8 and we were able to make a contribution. The sound did seem to disappear into the ether though with the removal of the roof that was previously there. Absolutely stunned to hear there were Liverpool fans in our end, totally out of order and I do hope that the discussions with customer services yield results. Seemed to be all Albion by me though, a lot of familiar faces.
As long as you personally attend five home matches then the exchange system works.
But i’ve been quite seriously ill recently and getting the ‘we noticed you didn’t attend the *** match at the Amex’ emails from the Club do kind of get on my wick. They’ve got my money and, as much as they’d like me to exchange my ticket, I don’t necessarily want some random (potential away supporter) sitting with my family and friends.
Likewise, if you’ve got kids who have season tickets since they were very young then the club sending them similar emails when they’re at university is equally crap.
The club want bums on seats - I get that - but if you’re meeting your obligation to pay via DD then that’s the financial relationship sorted.
The club have a very peculiar interpretation of the word ‘loyalty’.
HH Brighton
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- Jul 25, 2003
- 1,578
It nearly sold out to season ticket holders. There were a few left for Albion+ members (about 200) as I managed to get my son one
Agree, getting songs going was tricky. We had a good group of people immediately around us and we were all crammed down our row a bit to allow an elderly couple to see the match properly - sitting when they wanted to.
Some familiar faces and laughs but it certainly lacked passion and enthusiasm it felt more like a midweek Cup match at the Amex than an away day.
The train home was hilarious though. All the southerners making their way home…mostly pseudo Scousers.
Disagree. Hate seats going empty and always share/exchange mine if I can’t go.
Uh_huh_him
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- Sep 28, 2011
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If that's the case, then it would seem a large number of our Tier 1-3 fans are passing tickets on to Liverpool fans.
Which is a bigger worry.
NorthstandRacoon
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That would be harsh. Our support this season has had a lot of younger generation fans mixed, which has been good tbf. Until Sat obv.
NorthstandRacoon
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But that dilutes the atmosphere. That must have been a lot of tickets to their friends and fam’. I would imagine alot of this is plastic liverpool fans from Brighton.
NorthstandRacoon
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That’s fine.
mine is with my two kids, close family and friends..we’ve had idiots/away fans in the past so lessons learnt.
To other friends and family it’s fine.
NorthstandRacoon
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This.
Loads of friends and family of players. And sponsors too.