[Albion] Are you going to the Chelsea Cup game?

[Thunder Bolt]

I don't get this particular line of debate.

Someone made it a week or so back on this thread. I intended to reply then but didn't get around to it.

15 years ago. almost to the day, we faced Aston Villa away in the fourth round. We were League One minnows having our big day out at a Premier League heavyweight.

We took, from what I recall around 6,000 fans. I bought thousands of balloons and handed them out in pubs surrounding Villa Park before the game.

But what that game meant then does not relate to how the same cup draw would feel today.

A couple of years ago, we drew Grimsby at home, two rounds later in the competition I fully concede, and we sold out at the same price point of £25 per adult ticket. I'd personally find a proper FA Cup kickoff time - 3pm on Saturday afternoon - far more attractive than 8pm, with the potential of the tie not concluding until 11pm-ish.

That Grimsby game was in the good old traditional FA cup way. Lower league playing a PL team. Good nature from both sets of fans, and although we won easily, I wouldn't have minded Grimsby getting something as everyone loves an underdog.
We chatted with some of their fans before and after the game.

Yes, it was on a Sunday but an afternoon game, still televised and good entertainment.

 

[BN9 BHA]

Pretty poor to be honest, if we cannot fill the stadium for a cup game against a team we have recent history with.
Europe is a pipe dream, this is our only realistic chance of silverware, and we struggle to fill the ground.
Yes it is a shitty kick off time, Yes the trains and buses, journey back could be a pain, but Jebus it was only a few seasons ago, we dreamed of these kind of nights. The apathy is shameful, the excuses are what they are excuses.
The crowd lately have been dull, and I wonder if an element of our support are fickle and just can't be bothered. Chelsea are thoroughly beatable on our day, we seem to rise to the big occasion, this is the sort of game that could get your mojo back on track after the disappointment of Everton.

If the excitement of the FA Cup under flood lights, can't grab ya, you need to give your head a wobble.
The chance to take friends and family, who can't usually go, cheap tickets,


Get a grip and fill the stadium,

Says the person that lives in Brighton and a few minutes walk from the park and ride site. well done enjoy

 

[Beanstalk]

I don't get this particular line of debate.

Someone made it a week or so back on this thread. I intended to reply then but didn't get around to it.

15 years ago. almost to the day, we faced Aston Villa away in the fourth round. We were League One minnows having our big day out at a Premier League heavyweight.

We took, from what I recall around 6,000 fans. I bought thousands of balloons and handed them out in pubs surrounding Villa Park before the game.

But what that game meant then does not relate to how the same cup draw would feel today.

A couple of years ago, we drew Grimsby at home, two rounds later in the competition I fully concede, and we sold out at the same price point of £25 per adult ticket. I'd personally find a proper FA Cup kickoff time - 3pm on Saturday afternoon - far more attractive than 8pm, with the potential of the tie not concluding until 11pm-ish.

Spot on. And not playing the same team twice in a week would be helpful too. If people have to make a choice between a Friday night they have had in the diary months in advance, and a shoehorned game on a Saturday night, plans are far more likely to get in the way of the latter.

Genuinely believe that we'd have sold a similar amount of tickets regardless of the opposition for that time slot. Take that Palace 3rd round cup game on the Monday night - under 15k for a game that in every other scenario is a complete sell out. It's just crap scheduling.

 

[LamieRobertson]

That Grimsby game was in the good old traditional FA cup way. Lower league playing a PL team. Good nature from both sets of fans, and although we won easily, I wouldn't have minded Grimsby getting something as everyone loves an underdog.
We chatted with some of their fans before and after the game.

Yes, it was on a Sunday but an afternoon game, still televised and good entertainment.

Yep took my 6 year old grandson to that game ..he had great fun….he’s a BIT older now …but no chance I’m taking him to this game

 

[Bozza]

Agree, think it would be full/close to full at 3pm on a Saturday. If we get ET and penalties there will be hardly anyone there……but we know the TV choices never consider the attending fans.

Spot on. And not playing the same team twice in a week would be helpful too. If people have to make a choice between a Friday night they have had in the diary months in advance, and a shoehorned game on a Saturday night, plans are far more likely to get in the way of the latter.

Genuinely believe that we'd have sold a similar amount of tickets regardless of the opposition for that time slot. Take that Palace 3rd round cup game on the Monday night - under 15k for a game that in every other scenario is a complete sell out. It's just crap scheduling.

And it's on bloody ITV4. Next to no one is going to watch it anyway - it will be up against the Masked Singer or Ant & Dec or whatever is currently Saturday night primetime viewing.

 

[Insel affe]

Says the person that lives in Brighton and a few minutes walk from the park and ride site. well done enjoy

What's this, turn the tables and bash the fan that is going and trying to get others too as well, is this America ?
Newhaven aint that far, it is ok if you have other obligations or are bored with how we play, late kick off etc etc, they are excuses, valid maybe, but they are definitely excuses.

 

[Taybha]

What happens if you don't get home by midnight then ?

 

[Wrong-Direction]

This board is nearly all 50+ middle aged men. It’s hardly representative of the fanbase as a whole.

I'd say older, I've worked for a lot of them..

 

[Commander]

Says the person that lives in Brighton and a few minutes walk from the park and ride site. well done enjoy

What about the 4,500 Chelsea fans? How come they will be able to get home OK? When the majority of them will live a lot further away than the majority of Brighton fans. And they are playing an inferior opposition, in what is effectively a much smaller game for them than it is for us.

Flakey fanbase.

 

[LamieRobertson]

What's this, turn the tables and bash the fan that is going and trying to get others too as well, is this America ?
Newhaven aint that far, it is ok if you have other obligations or are bored with how we play, late kick off etc etc, they are excuses, valid maybe, but they are definitely excuses.

Eh? Bash the fan? Is this America? lol…..you are funny

oh and a line from your post

“The crowd lately have been dull, and I wonder if an element of our support are fickle and just can't be bothered”

bashing the fans and is this America

 

[LamieRobertson]

I'd say older, I've worked for a lot of them..

 

[Bry Nylon]

And it's on bloody ITV4. Next to no one is going to watch it anyway - it will be up against the Masked Singer or Ant & Dec or whatever is currently Saturday night primetime viewing.

Not to mention part four of a new series on the National Trust, followed by a profile of acclaimed novelist and essayist JM Coetzee and finally Western, the award-winning French road movie, without subtitles.

Saturday night all sorted

 

[Insel affe]

What about the 4,500 Chelsea fans? How come they will be able to get home OK? When the majority of them will live a lot further away than the majority of Brighton fans. And they are playing an inferior opposition, in what is effectively a much smaller game for them than it is for us.

Exactly.

Flakey fanbase.

It seems so, maybe there is truth in this rumour that a sizeable chunk of the support at the amex come to watch their second team.

 

[LamieRobertson]

Not to mention part four of a new series on the National Trust, followed by a profile of acclaimed novelist and essayist JM Coetzee and finally Western, the award-winning French road movie, without subtitles.

Saturday night all sorted

….and that’s prime time

 

[Insel affe]

Eh? Bash the fan? Is this America? lol…..you are funny

oh and a line from your post

“The crowd lately have been dull, and I wonder if an element of our support are fickle and just can't be bothered”

bashing the fans and is this America

You got me....

I am alluding too, possibly we suffer from second team syndrome at the amex.

 

[Bry Nylon]

….and that’s prime time

Well, obviously its prime time, Lamie. They'll schedule all the boring stuff nobody wants to watch for much later.

 

[LamieRobertson]

I am alluding to we suffer from second team syndrome at the amex.

I imagine there is an element and wouldn’t disagree with you there…how big is up for debate

 

[Justice]

Says the person that lives in Brighton and a few minutes walk from the park and ride site. well done enjoy

Indeed if I lived in Brighton or very near no problem.

 

[BN9 BHA]

What's this, turn the tables and bash the fan that is going and trying to get others too as well, is this America ?
Newhaven aint that far, it is ok if you have other obligations or are bored with how we play, late kick off etc etc, they are excuses, valid maybe, but they are definitely excuses.

1-You seemed happy to “bash” fans that have been honest on this thread with their posts simply answering the thread title question.
As I said “enjoy”

2- Yes Newhaven isn’t far but can still be a ball ache on the train after the match.

But I wasn’t thinking of myself, I was thinking of others, many live in other counties as you know.

 

[BN9 BHA]

What about the 4,500 Chelsea fans? How come they will be able to get home OK? When the majority of them will live a lot further away than the majority of Brighton fans. And they are playing an inferior opposition, in what is effectively a much smaller game for them than it is for us.

Flakey fanbase.

Great whataboutary