[Albion] Falmer Watch 10th Anniversary – Today, October 31st 2018.

[Muzzman]

Nice to see the timelapse video still up and running on youtube.

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[The Oldman]

Thank you Jack for those wonderful picture updates. Used to drive to Mithras House from Seaford on match days but always parked up Village Way to peer through the hoardings.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

[MENTION=259]Jack Straw[/MENTION]'s Falmer Watch was always mandatory viewing. Few of us were able to get down there in person and see the dream come to fruition on a weekly basis. Unmissable stuff!

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Oh my, I was 44!!!

 

[Hiney]

Some time this season, we will see the 5,000,000th person through the turnstiles

At the moment, the combined attendance is 4,653,812 of whom 288,354 are away fans.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Some time this season, we will see the 5,000,000th person through the turnstiles

At the moment, the combined attendance is 4,653,812 of whom 288,354 are away fans.

You clearly have too much time on your hands!

Great stat though!

 

[Hiney]

You clearly have too much time on your hands!

Great stat though!

 

[Marshy]

Some time this season, we will see the 5,000,000th person through the turnstiles

At the moment, the combined attendance is 4,653,812 of whom 288,354 are away fans.

Oooh better be a prize for being fan no 5,000,000

 

[Barry Izbak]

Blimey. 10 years?

While you were standing in that field (before the days of the step ladder) did you think to yourself "in ten years time, we will just have watched our third Premier league win in a row in front of over 30,000 fans?"

Dreams do come true

 

[Brok]

Some time this season, we will see the 5,000,000th person through the turnstiles

At the moment, the combined attendance is 4,653,812 of whom 288,354 are away fans.

Then, according to my dodgy maths, should be about 2.43pm on 13th April.
Home to Bournesmuff.

 

[Bozza]

Oooh better be a prize for being fan no 5,000,000

And if there is, I hope they reject it for only really being fan 4,621,953 to enter the stadium. Pretendances.

 

[Hiney]

Then, according to my dodgy maths, should be about 2.43pm on 13th April.
Home to Bournesmuff.

Unless we have a couple of home FA Cup matches!

 

[Brok]

Unless we have a couple of home FA Cup matches!

Or indeed a postponed match...

 

[Brovion]

Blimey. 10 years?

While you were standing in that field (before the days of the step ladder) did you think to yourself "in ten years time, we will just have watched our third Premier league win in a row in front of over 30,000 fans?"

Dreams do come true

I can't speak for Mr Straw, but for me - probably no. Top half of the Championship with crowds about 12-15,000 was probably where I expected us to be in the first 5 or 10 years. Remember when construction started Mickey Adams (Mk II) was the manager, so this was before Russel SALDE and before we almost got relegated into the fourth tier!

 

[Jack Straw]

Blimey. 10 years?

While you were standing in that field (before the days of the step ladder) did you think to yourself "in ten years time, we will just have watched our third Premier league win in a row in front of over 30,000 fans?"

Dreams do come true

I can't remember what my thoughts were as far as where we would be in the league, just that we would have a super stadium that we could all be proud of, regardless of the division we would be in. Perhaps in my deepest subconscious, I envisaged us playing and beating the best teams in the land. It's amazing that some dreams come true!

 

[Snowy]

There’s a guy who posts on Twitter with regular drone movies of the ongoing build of Brentford’s new Stadium. If that technology had been available ten years ago Jack Straw’s posts would have been even more memorable.


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[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

As someone living on the other side of the world and thus with no way of seeing any stage of the construction in the flesh I absolutely loved those weekly updates. They kept me more connected to the club and the excitement surrounding it than anything else. I got a real buzz from them.

It really was like a real life field of dreams...if you build it they will come. Not just the fans but the dreams we had for the club all through the dark days and the sodden stasis at withdean. If you build it the dreams will come true.

Thanks Jack for documenting the building and realisation of our footballing dreams

 

[Everest]

Happy anniversary JS.

And I still have all 32,344 timelapse images on my 'puter

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Was expecting a 2019 calendar to celebrate.

 

[Henfield One]

Amazing at the time and still amazing now, thank you Graeme for an amazing pictorial record that will endure. Unlike the blue roof that hasn't..... anyone know what the latest position is? There was talk of legal action, but that was a year or so ago.