Right this suddenly flashed into my head whilst thinking of Fatboy Slim doing his beach gigs.
Anyway, theres been talk of doing a March (as in walk not the month) type thing, they always get media attention and this may work so here goes:
Before a saturday game, we get as many Brighton fans (preferably those going to the game) down Brighton beach just to the West of the Brighton Pier (Palace Pier to those living in the past) with one huge banner and many other little ones. I'm talking huge as in the BHA Giant Flag type thing, we then spend an hour or so on the beach gathering numbers until about 1pm when we start our March up London Road - bringing Brighton to a standstill - all the way upto Withdean.
Something of this magnitude if it works would be fantastic, imagaine 5,000 or so people on the beach all holding banners, a TV Chopper flying overhead to get this remarkable scene on video for the news - this sorta thing would get National coverage. The Argus going crazy because Brighton's traffic up London road just stops!
Dunno what the police would think about it all but if there's a few thousand of us they are hardly gonna stop us all walking to the game! If London Road is out of order then how about just march upto the train station.
Think about, we get over 6,000 every home game, away support dont bring that much, so if we could get as many ticket & non-ticket holders for a Saturday game then we could easily be looking at 5,000 for a beach Falmer party of some sort.
My belief is that we need something BIG to continue the Campaign alongside the smaller leaflet stuff which we should continue doing especially at away games.
discuss my idea:
Anyway, theres been talk of doing a March (as in walk not the month) type thing, they always get media attention and this may work so here goes:
Before a saturday game, we get as many Brighton fans (preferably those going to the game) down Brighton beach just to the West of the Brighton Pier (Palace Pier to those living in the past) with one huge banner and many other little ones. I'm talking huge as in the BHA Giant Flag type thing, we then spend an hour or so on the beach gathering numbers until about 1pm when we start our March up London Road - bringing Brighton to a standstill - all the way upto Withdean.
Something of this magnitude if it works would be fantastic, imagaine 5,000 or so people on the beach all holding banners, a TV Chopper flying overhead to get this remarkable scene on video for the news - this sorta thing would get National coverage. The Argus going crazy because Brighton's traffic up London road just stops!
Dunno what the police would think about it all but if there's a few thousand of us they are hardly gonna stop us all walking to the game! If London Road is out of order then how about just march upto the train station.
Think about, we get over 6,000 every home game, away support dont bring that much, so if we could get as many ticket & non-ticket holders for a Saturday game then we could easily be looking at 5,000 for a beach Falmer party of some sort.
My belief is that we need something BIG to continue the Campaign alongside the smaller leaflet stuff which we should continue doing especially at away games.
discuss my idea:
