Fantastic, cheersWhilst I have no issue with trousers I did feel casual meant jeans were okay and I feel much more comfortable in a pair of them! Can't wait to get there!
Are there any traditions that us newbies must uphold in honour of NSC or is it a free for all to disgrace ourselves? ..
Great night had by all this evening. The NSC table won the quiz so we won a bottle of champagne. I got Poyet to sign it and we all decided to auction it for REMF.
Fantastic.
Glad you had a good time.
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I thought we agreed we'd swap it for blue nun and drink the good stuff ourselves? This is a DM, right
Oh yes sorry it's a signed bottle of Blue Num Who said champagne?
- and a second decider question to guess how big the Amex pitch was in square feet was needed to decide the winner. We were about 2,000 off however it was nearer than the other team's guess therefore NSC were the winers of the bottle of bubbly (sorry Blue Nun ). We got Gus to sign it, and believe that will be passed on to @Bozza for auctioning off!
Was a fantastic evening. Thought I'd give some sort of detailed description for those who weren't there
First off have to say the players to a man were all brilliant, willing to sign anything, have their picture taken with and chat about whatever to anyone. As always a credit to Brighton and Hove Albion!
Small reception at first for everyone to meet and greet. Great to meet all the other NSC-ers and had a cracking evening just chatting about all things Albion. Players were all in a group together until everyone was seated, at which point they each went to their own table, with at least two players to a table. Richard Reynolds was MC for the night, and got Martin Perry to come up and he said a few words thanking everyone on behalf of Tony and the board for their sponsorship this year.
Before the food there were group photos of each sponsor with their player/s so we had a group photo with both Kaz and Brids. Pair of them were utter gents and great to chat to. Was nearer to Liam and talked about a number of things including his time up in Scotland earlier in the month, paticularly how bad the weather was and that the game should never have gone ahead. He also said that he doesn't read this site, as he thinks he's better not doing so (and tbf he's probably right considering some of the post-match reaction that occurs!).
Had the Barca - PSG game on the tv's as the spanish contingent are mostly Barca fans, and when PSG took the lead Vicente took a bit of ribbing from some of the other players for Barca conceeding, and you could definitely tell from the look on his face he was worried at that time!
The Quiz was great fun. 10 questions where we had to guess which player was being described from bits that were written about them (height/weight/hobbies/food they liek/music etc) from previous programmes this season. The idea was to see how much each player knew about their teammates, and how good a pokerface the player being described could be when he knew it was him being described. Some of them were ones any of us could get (CMS fond of walking his dogs/ Orlandi spending time in Italy etc) and a roar went round the room when the following description was given "This player is 5'11, and can be found eating at Nandos" because of who it obviously was! Interesting one for me was Upson's description, which was something along the lines of "And he'd like to meet Arnold Schwarzeneger, because just like him he'll say 'I'll be back' "...read into that what you will.
Naturally Gus' table got 10/10, but they were excluded from wining the prize. The 3 teams on 9/10's (including us) tiebreaker question was to guess how much the last 3 home attendances (Palace/ Leic, Charlton) added up to. Naturally two teams managed to get it (85,035) spot on - no thansk to the WiFi of course
After that everyone went round chatting to different players, getting more autographs/photos etc - myself included. Also had a quick chat with John Lees of BBC Sussex, and was interesting to hear his account of his on-air encounter with the Top Gear chaps when they presented that drive-time show on the station a few years back.
After a while players all started to disperse and things were pretty much wrapped up by 10pm. Overall a brilliant evening and a great experience. If you're one of the lucky eight next year then I certainly suggest you get along to this. A fantastic evening, and thank you to all the staff at the club for putting on a wonderful event!
If there's anything I've left off or forgotten then others feel free to add on more! Just once again thanks to Bozza for the opportunity to go along to this!
