[Albion] Albion receive go ahead to increase capacity from just over 30,000 to 32,500

[Dolph Ins]

Having a season ticket and turning up. To watch championship footy are two different things


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Not for me

 

[Wozza]

Why would it be 50% full? I really can’t see season ticket sales falling much at all especially with the waiting list.

The club got to the end of the waiting list last spring. 1000s of fans rejected their chance to buy, and have one more chance to take up their option.

Obviously Covid put people off last March, but this time we could be heading for the Championship, with Covid and finanical uncertainty hanging over everyone....

 

[albionalbino]

Hope we never go down. A 50% full Amex against Barnsley in the Championship on a wet November could be grim atmosphere

League One might return one day.
Halifax. Grimsby. Salford. Exeter etc Tuesday night. November. East stand closed. South stand closed. Top tiers closed.

 

[Uter]

There were lots of games at the Goldstone with a bigger attendance than 32500

Any excuse to dust off Tim Carder's "Seagulls! The Story of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C."...

There were 10 matches at the Goldstone with an attendance over 32500.

 

[nwgull]

The club got to the end of the waiting list last spring. 1000s of fans rejected their chance to buy, and have one more chance to take up their option.

Obviously Covid put people off last March, but this time we could be heading for the Championship, with Covid and finanical uncertainty hanging over everyone....

We still sold over 18,000 season tickets the year after we almost got relegated to league 1, and our lowest ever Amex actual attendance (not tickets sold) was about 17.5K for that terrible televised game against Millwall just before Sami resigned. So I think the talk of 50% full Amex if we were to get relegated is slightly pessimistic.

 

[Eeyore]

I was sat in the Grandstand and I remember plenty of loud singing from outside the ground. We got there about 15 minutes before kickoff (only had to walk across Hove Park) and there were huge crowds outside.

Oh, doubtless, but 10,000 would have required a large police presence and probably even a dispersal order. Would have been carnage.

The match, as is documented, was also became a stitch up. Once it became 1-1 the teams played out the last 20 minutes for a draw. Unlike the Southampton v Spurs match, this has been readily acknowledged by those involved. Only found that out recently.

Willie Irvine:

'We’d played this game at 100 miles an hour until the score became 1-1. At this point I’d noticed Saward and the Rochdale manager talking on the touchline. Somehow the game seemed to slow down dramatically except for me putting in an almighty challenge on their centre-half and almost scoring. “Bloody hell”, he said, “don’t you know we’re playing for t’draw now?” No I didn’t, nobody had bloody told me'

Imagine if that happened now !

 

[redoubtable seagull]

Thought this had already been approved...?

The works had been approved but not the increase in capacity.

 

[doogie004]

Not for me

Probably me neither but I know a few who won’t


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[redoubtable seagull]

We still sold over 18,000 season tickets the year after we almost got relegated to league 1, and our lowest ever Amex actual attendance (not tickets sold) was about 17.5K for that terrible televised game against Millwall just before Sami resigned. So I think the talk of 50% full Amex if we were to get relegated is slightly pessimistic.

Lowest actual league attendance at the Amex is reckoned to be a Tuesday night game against Wigan in that Hyppia season. I remember someone linked a FOI release from either the council or police where the actual attendance was about 13K, about 10K down from the 23k announced attendance.

 

[BLOCK F]

I was sat in the Grandstand and I remember plenty of loud singing from outside the ground. We got there about 15 minutes before kickoff (only had to walk across Hove Park) and there were huge crowds outside.

I was living in Bournemouth at the time and made sure I left plenty of time to get to the ground.It was before I had a season ticket and there were huge crowds outside the Goldstone.Lots of good banter and pushing and shoving, but no trouble.Was relieved to get in, because plenty didn’t.
Lovely goal from John Templeman.

 

[Seasidesage]

What is the matter with some of you? Complaining about an expansion of the ground to allow more people to see the club you claim to support? How can that possibly be a bad thing?

As for 15k attendance next season do **** off. There were dickheads on here moaning about the increase from 22k would never be filled I truly wonder why some of you bother supporting this club when you don't have a decent word to say about it...

 

[Wozza]

We still sold over 18,000 season tickets the year after we almost got relegated to league 1, and our lowest ever Amex actual attendance (not tickets sold) was about 17.5K for that terrible televised game against Millwall just before Sami resigned. So I think the talk of 50% full Amex if we were to get relegated is slightly pessimistic.

Yes, agreed it's pessimistic. But The Amex honeymoon is over, and we live in different socio-economic times, so....

 

[nwgull]

Yes, agreed it's pessimistic. But The Amex honeymoon is over, and we live in different socio-economic times, so....

Agree with that also, but I think that that 18K represents the hardcore who will renew rain or shine.

I also loved that Tony Bloom rewarded this group of fans when we got promoted by changing the loyalty points system to account for consecutive seasons as a season ticker holder.

 

[The Grockle]

What is the matter with some of you? Complaining about an expansion of the ground to allow more people to see the club you claim to support? How can that possibly be a bad thing?

As for 15k attendance next season do **** off. There were dickheads on here moaning about the increase from 22k would never be filled I truly wonder why some of you bother supporting this club when you don't have a decent word to say about it...

Couldn't agree more. We havea had a poor season and in a perilous situation but to question our support and ability to fill our home is a step too far IMO, we have consistently shown over the last decade that we can fill out the Amex to the rafters.

If we go down and I prey we don't, stick with Potter and his philosophy for attacking football and we'll get 30k crowds unless the away end isn't full.

 

[Mancgull]

Yes, agreed it's pessimistic. But The Amex honeymoon is over, and we live in different socio-economic times, so....

Sorry I don’t agree. If I can get a season ticket I will and I’d do a 480 mile round trip to watch a game on top of that. They’ll be plenty of others that will come if they can.

 

[seaford]

Certainly getting there. We had nearly 35,000 in the Goldstone for Rochdale at home in the third division, and that was the official crowd. Would have been more on the terraces that day in all likelihood. Fulham is our biggest official attendance which was 36,000/37,000 I think.

My Dad was there for that, he said that not everyone paid!! A lot climbed in

 

[Swansman]

Excellent news although complete waste of effort as we'll be a middling Championship side next season with gates of 15-18,000

If this is the case then perhaps the team should relocate to a city where people appreciate watching a team representing their city in (by European standards) very high level football even when things are not going well.

 

[dazzer6666]

If this is the case then perhaps the team should relocate to a city where people appreciate watching a team representing their city in (by European standards) very high level football even when things are not going well.

It isn’t the case. The doom-mongers are having their moment in the sun, for some reason they seem to relish the negativity........Saturday afternoon games in the Championship - if it comes to that - will still be almost sell-outs, except maybe where the away support is very small. There will be plenty of empty STH seats of course, but that’s always the case and is in the PL anyway.

 

[Charity Shield 1910]

My Dad was there for that, he said that not everyone paid!! A lot climbed in

I'm sure your dad paid tho..

 

[albionalbino]

If we're winning matches and pushing for promotion in the Championship I could see the ground rocking and full. Depending on restrictions, obviously.
Mid table mediocrity or worse and things will be different.
There's a hardcore fanbase who will always follow the Albion, I'd guess it's up from the Withdean days as we've made new converts.
12-15,000 if we're League one/ Lower Championship?