A sobering thought

[Charlies Shinpad]

I would never have dreamed that after seeing The Albion in the last ever game at The Goldstone at the age of 39 I would be nearly 50 when I next saw them play in there own ground again.

Just think of all the fans young and Old this enquiry has cost the Club in terms of Financial gain as well as loyal support.
We will never get these people back,and if we did we would only get a few because in all the time we have been in the wilderness these Premiership sides have slowly been putting the blinkers of these fans and now all they know is Superstars on Sky and not Local heroes in Blue and White Stripes!

I know some on here will say look at the support at The Play Off Final,but when it comes down to it,that was a special game and it was great for the Glory Hunters,who in the next few weeks will be settling down in there armchairs for another exciting season of Premiership Plus etc.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I would never have dreamed that after seeing The Albion in the last ever game at The Goldstone at the age of 39 I would be nearly 50 when I next saw them play in there own ground again.

Sometimes hard to remember it's only a poxy football stadium the club want to build. What a piece of bloody nonsense this whole circus is.

 

[Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms]

When I was at school (over 10 years ago) it felt like being an Albion fan was a strange local disease that a select few of us had caught. I'm always amazed at how many kids I see wearing the stripes all over Sussex now. I think the future support of the club looks fairly secure....

 

[Easy 10]

Those fans can, and will, be won back to the club when we get our state-of-the-art stadium.

The bottom line is, nothing beats LIVE football, and any "fan" who would prefer to sit on his arse in his front room watching Man U on the telly than go down the road to his local club in their smart, modern arena, is not a fan worth having anyway.

There is a whole generation of young fans who will be attracted like moths to a flame by the sheer magnificence and splendour of Falmer. We already have a team to be proud of. When we have a stadium that matches that team, people will come flocking.

 

[Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms]

Put much better.

What a long day it has been.

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

I agree with what you are saying Easy,but to wait nearly ten years and still not have a Stadium is a Fuc*ing Joke!

 

[Easy 10]

I agree with what you are saying Easy,but to wait nearly ten years and still not have a Stadium is a Fuc*ing Joke!

Absolutely, you'll get no argument from me on that point.

Have faith - once we get that stadium, a whole new generation of Albion fans will come flowing from the City. They'll soon dump their Arsenal and Liverpool shirts when they have an opportunity to worship at a TRUE shrine of football within their own locality.

I'm amazed how many kids I see in Albion shirts as it is, when we are playing inthe worst ground in the entire League. Just imagine how many we'll get when we are playing in a stadium to be proud of.

 

[Seagull73]

In order for us to maintain those fans, the team MUST continue to do well. It must at least do ok in the First Division.

That is why it has been so important for us to try and get this done ASAP, in order that we don't lose that young support. One cannot go without the other though long term, and that is the sobering thought of this delay.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

Re: Re: A sobering thought

Sometimes hard to remember it's only a poxy football stadium the club want to build. What a piece of bloody nonsense this whole circus is.

which we could have a circus stadium- that would be wicked

 

[oapdodge]

Already I have a couple of people at work who went to Cardiff and are now on about Spurs and Chelsea.If we had the ground we might have kept there interest a bit longer and gained some of their money.Hopefully we always have a new breed coming up and as soon as we get the ground dads & mums will be able to bring their kids.I just hope it is built in time for a few of the older fans who are longing to sit in a new stadium and watch the team they have supported as a boy at The Goldstone,Gillingham and Withdean.

 

[larus]

Already I have a couple of people at work who went to Cardiff and are now on about Spurs and Chelsea.If we had the ground we might have kept there interest a bit longer and gained some of their money.Hopefully we always have a new breed coming up and as soon as we get the ground dads & mums will be able to bring their kids.I just hope it is built in time for a few of the older fans who are longing to sit in a new stadium and watch the team they have supported as a boy at The Goldstone,Gillingham and Withdean.

I take my lad, and he's a 'real' fan. He's 10, been a season ticket holder and looks forward to the away games, even with all the travelling. We don't do them all, but are starting to do more.

The point I'm trying to make is, if you can catch them young enough, it doesn't matter that we're not in the premiership (yet). Seeing live football that you can relate to is more important.

 

[sams dad]

A few years ago it was a rarity to see youngsters in the Stripes.Nowadays kids aren't scared of being ridiculed for supporting The Albion-the last four years have shown that we can have a successful local team.

 

[rochdale seagull]

there are also a couple of northern accented young children (aged 5 and 8) who are proud to wear their Brighton kit amongst their Man City/Utd supporting friends. They've never been to Brighton or near Withdean but love the club despite fact they have got potentially much better prospects of glory just down the road (and I dont mean Rochadale AFC!). God only knows why they stick with the Seagulls though when every away game I have taken them to we lose!
Cant wait to take them to their first home game in a proper stadium.

 

[sams dad]

there are also a couple of northern accented young children (aged 5 and 8) who are proud to wear their Brighton kit amongst their Man City/Utd supporting friends. They've never been to Brighton or near Withdean but love the club despite fact they have got potentially much better prospects of glory just down the road (and I dont mean Rochadale AFC!). God only knows why they stick with the Seagulls though when every away game I have taken them to we lose!
Cant wait to take them to their first home game in a proper stadium.

You're doing a fine job raising those two.Keep up the good work

 

[PaoloRossiJohnson]

there are also a couple of northern accented young children (aged 5 and 8) who are proud to wear their Brighton kit amongst their Man City/Utd supporting friends. They've never been to Brighton or near Withdean

Cant wait to take them to their first home game in a proper stadium.

There's also a couple of Brummie-accented children who are, or are turning into, Brighton fans...

My son - aged 4 - is practically already a fan, having been bombarded with pro-Brighton propaganda since birth!! (Well isn't that what football club-supporting Dads are supposed to do...?!!) I, too, can't wait to take him to Falmer (or wherever)!

Friends' son - aged 15 - is slowly turning into a BHA fan. He's had some sympathy for me, I think, whenever I've explained the stadium situation to him over the last few years, and now, having come with me to Cardiff and experienced our passion, can't wait to come to more BHA games; in fact, he's already asked to come to the Leicester game with me. And he's (been) a Liverpool fan as of family upbringing.

So, there IS hope that a 'new generation' will come, despite, or maybe because of, our recent troubles...

Keep the Faith!

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

It is good to hear there are plenty of kids around the Uk who love the Albion,but my point I am trying to make is set out below

I have 2 sons aged 14 and 15 and they went to the Goldstone,we were season ticket holders at Gillingham and we also were at Withdean til last season,but it has got to the stage now where they dont want to sit in a ground every other Saturday and get wet and cold and where the atmosphere is just about Zero,and I cant make them change there minds!

These are the kids that we are losing and by the time The Stadium is built they will have forgotten how much of a crack a home game was!!

 

[PaoloRossiJohnson]

by the time The Stadium is built they will have forgotten how much of a crack a home game was!!

Well you'll just have to take them (or they'll take themselves) to a home game at the new stadium, and they'll soon be reminded!!!

Anyway, take them to an away game - the atmos is FAR better. Trust me - apart from one game, that's all I've seen in the last 7 years...!!!

 

[Bwian]

Build It and they will come.

A great sentiment borrowed from a great movie...And they will come-don't doubt that. Wherever our new stadium gets built, we'll sell out most games for the first season which in itself will give the club its first positive cash flow in eons.

Kids who've drifted away will come back and those that have been brainwashed by the likes of Chelski and Arse, Man U and others will see the error of their ways and start supporting their local club-mainly because The Albion will be the coolest thing in Sussex (it is already but a new ground will make us more so).

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

Well you'll just have to take them (or they'll take themselves) to a home game at the new stadium, and they'll soon be reminded!!!

Anyway, take them to an away game - the atmos is FAR better. Trust me - apart from one game, that's all I've seen in the last 7 years...!!!

Ive been taking them to away games for the last 5 years,thats the trouble!
They know what an atmosphere you can generate at an away game,and then they go to a home game and sit in a cemetery!

 

[magoo]

Those fans can, and will, be won back to the club when we get our state-of-the-art stadium.

The bottom line is, nothing beats LIVE football, and any "fan" who would prefer to sit on his arse in his front room watching Man U on the telly than go down the road to his local club in their smart, modern arena, is not a fan worth having anyway.

There is a whole generation of young fans who will be attracted like moths to a flame by the sheer magnificence and splendour of Falmer. We already have a team to be proud of. When we have a stadium that matches that team, people will come flocking.

How does it go?

'Build it, and they will come...' LOLOL