In terms of affiliated supporter clubs, they're actually in the top 5. That said, there are loads of definitions of a big club, and outside of Man Utd and Liverpool there are several clubs all of a broadly similar size and whose fans can realistically dream of semi-regular silverwear.
Don't be arrogant as well. No team in the premier league is a guaranteed six points.
We failed to pick up 6 points from Southampton this season or Sheffield United last season
Sounds a bit like the general consensus on the Ben White thread on WACCOE. It hundred's of pages starting from post 1, where they can't believe how good he is from his first competitive game - not quite fitting the narrative that the season with Leeds made him the player he is. This progresses with the realisation that we didn't allow a transfer clause in the loan agreement but they remain convinced that he'd be signing for them, especially with the 20-25m offers being made and with him definitely going to hand in a transfer request. Even after he signs a new deal with us they are certain that he'll be signing for them at the end of the 20-21 season when we're relegated and that we'll not be getting a 25m offer for him again.
He's a really decent guy in most ways other than football
Suppose it could be worse … he could be palace.
Many fans from many clubs talk like this. When we tried to get McKenna from Ipswich last year, their forum was full of sages who were convinced he stayed with them because he had more chances of making Europe -in their first season in the Prem- than he would at Brighton. Nothing to do with him getting double the money!
We do seem to usually beat Leeds, to be fair. Even in the seasons when we’ve been a bit crap, such as the Hyppia season. Ironically, the last time they beat us was the promotion season.
You’re joking, right? Surely even the most six-fingered Ipswich fan could see that going to a club with seven PL seasons and a European campaign in its recent experience was a step up from one that was recently in League 1. That’s even more deluded than Leeds if they really did think that.
It seems he is a bit like a Sheffield United equivalent of Rory Jennings who has a fixed idea of which clubs should be amongst the elite (apparently based on historical fanbases) and Brighton is not included because of a relatively humble back story.....
I think there are some in every fan base who are delusional. There are plenty on this very forum who seem to think Brighton &Hove Albion should be qualifying for Europe every season and can directly compete with the “big 6” on transfers.
I'm anyone but Burnley really. I'd be more than happy with the above.
Think the minds of some get clouded, they start to feel invincible when they’ve won 30+ games in a championship season and with few defeats they think they’re unbeatable but they forget the jump.
) on and he was talking about that Watford team that demolished us at the Amex 1-3 with him and Vydra up front and stormed the league. He said he remembers his first few games thinking “we are so so bad”. It wasn’t that they’d got worse obviously, just that the Premier League players are absolutely levels above.
I think it's probably that same Big Club logic that makes their little minds believe that because they have a lot of fans, they have an automatic entitlement to success on the pitch, as evidenced by every single Everton fan who's ever proclaimed how hard done by their fanbase is because they flirt with relegation every year, or every The Leeds United fan who thinks they don't deserve to be in the Championship (see also Sheffield Wednesday, Portsmouth etc). And Newcastle, who are also entitled to trophies because of their Incredibly Loyal Fanbase.
I don't agree about Newcastle. They seem to be constantly resigned to their fate. I'm not sure they quite believe today has happened.
What, that they're now on a par with Swansea City, Oxford United and Swindon Town as league cup winners?
