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Forest Friday
- Thread starter Napper
- Start date
Da Man Clay
T'Blades
- Dec 16, 2004
- 16,286
6500 at best I would have thought. Probably even closer to 6000. Should be a good game though and atmosphere is usually better on a Friday.
dougdeep
New member
Dry and cold says my weather man.
Well the South Stand Block F is sold out, as I just tried to buy one. I shall instead be joining the 'singers', abusing the stewards in 'H'.
pasty
A different kind of pasty
And Mrs P got me what were apparently the last tickets available in Block C yesterday.
Scotty Mac
New member
- Jul 13, 2003
- 24,405
pre-christmas games on a friday night usually result in a good atmosphere and are pretty eventful - should be a good one
Tricky Dicky
New member
Wot - no season ticket ?
pasty
A different kind of pasty
Nope. Last season was the first without one. Out of the six of us that sat together when we first started at Withdean, I'm the only one left regularly going now, so go with a mate and we buy tickets game by game.
Tricky Dicky
New member
Fair enough - the numbers did drop somewhat.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,639
As far as December goes, it's a condition of playing at Withdean, innit?
The council don't want too many Saturday home games in the run up to Christmas as it would cause havoc with the shoppers' park & ride, not to mention the traffic in the area (although OBVIOUSLY people don't drive to Withdean, do they...).
Who cares, evening games usually have a better atmosphere for some reason.
bristolseagull
Well-known member
yes, because we're the only city that has shops and offers a park and ride system.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
The former council officer who set up the Withdean shopper's park and ride scheme writes ...yes, because we're the only city that has shops and offers a park and ride system.
P&R gets incredibly busy at Withdean in the run up to Christmas - especially on Saturdays (and has done since it first started, back in the early 1990s). And it takes a lot of pressure off the city centre car parks at the time when they are at their busiest.
Don't whinge about the shoppers' park & ride - it was the budget for P&R that paid for the demolition of the old tennis stadium (where the South Stand entrance is now). If that hadn't happened, the Football Club would have had to pay a fortune to get the site into shape to allow the Albion to return to Brighton in 1999.
Scotty Mac
New member
- Jul 13, 2003
- 24,405
yes, because we're the only city that has shops and offers a park and ride system.
we're the only city that uses the football stadium as the park and ride site...
Barrel of Fun
Abort, retry, fail
We are also the only city that has a directors suite that doubles us as a creche. I look forward to hearing about Roman Abramovich sitting on a stray block of lego or a transformer.*
Lord B - You were responsible for the destruction of the old tennis centre?
I was born a stones throw away from Withdean stadium and was brought up there. Can anyone confirm whether there was a large fire at some point? My folks don't seem to remember, but I am positive this was the case.* Assuming we beat Mansfield and draw Chelsea at some point.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
Guilty as charged, BoF.
I know nothing about any fire. Honest.
I know nothing about any fire. Honest.
- Jul 7, 2003
- 47,639
yes, because we're the only city that has shops and offers a park and ride system.
Clearly not.
But the park & ride system was in place at Withdean (very successfully) a long time before the Albion were, therefore we're hardly in a position to dictate to the council what they can and cannot do with it.
And, unlike many cities, our P&R is based smack in the middle of a leafy residential area, as opposed to on a city-edge industrial estate, so adding 5-6000 football fans into the mix was unlikely to ever be popular with city planners.
If you want to sit in a queue for an hour to get anywhere near Withdean on a Saturday in the run up to Christmas, be my guest. I, and I'm sure plenty of others, are quite happy with the odd Friday night game.