Don Tmatter
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Why have our attendances gone from 7 - 27k ? Anything to do with the capacities of the two stadiums?
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Bridcutt
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essexeagle
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- Jul 22, 2004
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£3M a year is a huge amount. The Palace owners said we get about £4M a year in the Championship. I guess BHA are not getting too much more than that. Yes, an extra 10K fans will bring in slightly more than that but not an awful lot. And you seem to have double the losses of Palace so perhaps you are in fact, despite the nice ground and larger attendance, worse off than Palace have ever been since 2010?
Hillian1
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No, no, no, don't be silly. We're all plastics.
Just agree with the mongrels and they may just go away.
Sweeney Todd
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The gap in income between the Premier League and the rest is the main reason why so many clubs – including Palace, twice – have gone bankrupt. So what do Sky and the FA do? They negotiate an agreement which lavishes yet more millions on the Premier League and leaves the rest even further behind. Of course, Palace fans are wetting themselves at the prospect of joining this jamboree, but they should heed the lessons of history, in terms of their club and the game in general.
essexeagle
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- Jul 22, 2004
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Anyway, does anyone know if Bridcutt has agreed his transfer to Palace yet? 
Dougie
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- Jan 11, 2012
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I think we are just happy that this money will set us up for years to come , with our sensible leadership . Thanks for your concerns but we will be ok .
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Yes and you said that the last two times you went up - on the back of screwing your creditors - and you still managed to go into receivership twice.
So despite your reassurances, the rest of us will hold fire on casting your mid to long-term credit worthiness until proven otherwise.
BobbySmith
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No one does plastic like Palace, just proved it with your response, no logic at all. Maybe you try and paint us with that brush as you can't get the amount of fans that we can now. Yes getting a bigger stadium does help us get from 7k to 28k, funny that. So when you get a 30k stadium (funny I know), can we call your fans plastic when you increase from 14/15k you get now? I wonder.
Psalm 56:5
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If you're rounding off it would be more accurate to ask why they've gone up from 6k
https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/showthread.php?167856-Average-attendance-at-Withdean
So desperate to get one over us, aren't you?Its not just a desire for premier league football. I for one am pissed off with people who sit in the Amex with no real passion. Yes we have a great stadium but sometimes you might as well be at a bloody cricket match. So what have we achieved? We have a nice new stadium and yes a good fan base but how long will that last? Always been a pessimist when it comes to the Albion,so sorry but at this precise moment yes I would rather be in the Premier league
Still think he'll end up at Norwich, just before the friendly......
seagullsovergrimsby
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Christ on a bike Nige
seagull_special
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If Brighton had got promoted the last pace you would have found me would be on a Palace website, I would just be basking in the moment with not a thought for them. Very strange to see them on here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pot and kettle spring to mind seeing as this is a BHA forum and you're waving your cock about on here again.
Monkey Man
Your support is not that great
Palace keep trotting out this figure of 900,000 as their potential fan base. On that basis we're entitled to claim 1.5 million, which is (I believe) the population of Sussex. If you want to bring Crawley into the equation let's slice off a further 100,000 and call it 1.4 million.
On that basis it's not hard to see why we might be able to fill a 30,000-seater stadium, even in the Championship, or why our crowds are bigger than Palace's.
Regarding this tiresome issue of "plastic" fans ... we had 14 years playing in stadiums which were either in an entirely different county (Gillingham) or else were very small, had no roof, no atmosphere, some poor sightlines and were expensive for what they were (er, Withdean).
In such adversity, a lot of us thought we'd lose a generation of fans. Over those 14 years, thousands of the old guard will have died off, thousands more simply lost the Brighton habit, and thousands more were born into a county which, to the Premier League generation, maybe didn't seem like it had a "proper" football side.
Yet the Amex has been packed to the rafters for two seasons, failure to reach the Prem hasn't dented season ticket sales, kids across the county are wearing the stripes like never before, and there's a tangible sense of pride in what Brighton have achieved ... EVEN FROM PEOPLE WHO DON'T NECESSARILY GO TO GAMES.
It's a pretty incredible story and pretty much everyone in Sussex understands it. I'm not surprised that our Palace friends think that it all adds up to a "plastic" fan base but the truth is so different that these jibes really don't sting at all.
On that basis it's not hard to see why we might be able to fill a 30,000-seater stadium, even in the Championship, or why our crowds are bigger than Palace's.
Regarding this tiresome issue of "plastic" fans ... we had 14 years playing in stadiums which were either in an entirely different county (Gillingham) or else were very small, had no roof, no atmosphere, some poor sightlines and were expensive for what they were (er, Withdean).
In such adversity, a lot of us thought we'd lose a generation of fans. Over those 14 years, thousands of the old guard will have died off, thousands more simply lost the Brighton habit, and thousands more were born into a county which, to the Premier League generation, maybe didn't seem like it had a "proper" football side.
Yet the Amex has been packed to the rafters for two seasons, failure to reach the Prem hasn't dented season ticket sales, kids across the county are wearing the stripes like never before, and there's a tangible sense of pride in what Brighton have achieved ... EVEN FROM PEOPLE WHO DON'T NECESSARILY GO TO GAMES.
It's a pretty incredible story and pretty much everyone in Sussex understands it. I'm not surprised that our Palace friends think that it all adds up to a "plastic" fan base but the truth is so different that these jibes really don't sting at all.
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Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Great post, Monkey Man.
seagullsovergrimsby
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What would Palace fans say if we put in a £3M bid for Jedinak ?
Change your name to Nigel and you're half way there
What the hell is that supposed to mean?