How connected do you feel to the club's values?

[Bozza]

There's a lot of talk, much of it justifiable, about the changing face of the Albion.

Bit by bit, the slightly Fawlty Towers-eque cottage industry Albion of old is being replaced by a lean, mean, money-making machine.

Do you feel connected to the values of the Albion?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Yes.

 

[Common as Mook]

Local, a fan as chairman and a professional outfit.

Ticks all of my boxes and I'm glad the noddy days are over.

 

[Nibble]

Fairly obvious answer isn't it? We cannot have it both ways, we all wanted a new stadium, it takes money just to keep place like that running. If we want decent players we have to get money and prestige. Redundant question in my opinion. It is what it is.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I think the club is becoming more professional and has made some efforts to include the fans. Complaints have been looked at, and some dealt with, although not all of them.

 

[essbee]

Just as neither of us would consider going to follow another club with the same
passion -I don't think the 'connection' can ever be severed or compromised to
a great extent.

 

[bernster]

Local, a fan as chairman and a professional outfit.

Ticks all of my boxes and I'm glad the noddy days are over.

this

 

[GreersElbow]

Their commitment to AITC's work impresses me, and makes me pleased we have such a club. The money-making side iis an unfortunate response to the business of football, it isn't something the club just popped out of no where.


We have a chance to make a profit, I have full confidence the profit will be re-invested into the club (and a bit to pay off Bloom, and rightfully so). If the club and its fans wish to get to the top flight, there has to be some decisions to be made that at first, may appear to be controversial. But in the long term beneficial, but this is due to to adapting to how business in football has emerged.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

It gives me a warm glow to be so detached from the ruthless, all conquering BHA marketing machine.

 

[attila]

I feel 100% connected to the Albion, always have, always will be.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

We have a wonderful stadium, paid for by a fan of the club.

In that stadium I have three seats bought at a very reasonable cost, though an interest free direct debit.

At that stadium I can walk along the concourse eating a local pie and drinking a local pint, chosen to reflect the wishes of the fans, whilst looking at artwork on the walls, contributed by fans, including myself.

Its absolutely still OUR club. Its just being run professionally, that's all. You simply cannot manage a club the size that the Albion has grown to, in the cottage industry fashion that existed before. It would be an utter disaster.

 

[teaboy]

Personally I feel less connected, but that's probably due to personal circumstance rather than the club. It seems there's a lot of tokenism in 'listening to the fans' and some promises made that shouldn't have (re standing).

 

[8ace]

The fuckers have robbed a score off me, they've had one MONTH to sort it out yet all I've had is one email off them which basically said "have you tried turning it off and on again".

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

I feel 100% connected to the Albion, always have, always will be.

Wat Tyler would turn in his grave!

 

[*Gullsworth*]

I feel 100% connected to the Albion, always have, always will be.

There is your answer.....if he's in so am i.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The ONLY way in which I feel that the club has become slightly detached from us, is the lack of local lads in the first team. That was a real source of pride in the Wilkins era.

Again, thanks to TB and his investment in the new Academy, that will also be corrected in the years ahead.

 

[catfish]

If the Albion became the plaything of a rich owner with no connection to the club I would have serious misgivings.

But we remain in the hands of a lifelong Albion fan and, apart from the odd glitch, the club is moving in the right direction and taking the majority of fans with it.

And I still bloody love going to the Amex.

 

[*Gullsworth*]

We have a wonderful stadium, paid for by a fan of the club.

In that stadium I have three seats bought at a very reasonable cost, though an interest free direct debit.

At that stadium I can walk along the concourse eating a local pie and drinking a local pint, chosen to reflect the wishes of the fans, whilst looking at artwork on the walls, contributed by fans, including myself.

Its absolutely still OUR club. Its just being run professionally, that's all. You simply cannot manage a club the size that the Albion has grown to, in the cottage industry fashion that existed before. It would be an utter disaster.

Very very good reply and one the majority of Albion fans would echo!

 

[Wilko]

I love the Amex and the football but I felt more connected watching us at Withdean when we were shit because it was a smaller, more commited close-knit community. Watching us lose in the rain with 5000 fans had a certain amount of dedication/mental issues.

The Amex and season ticket prices at the moment are spot on in my opinion, a fair price for a very good product.I would start to lose connectivity if ticket prices become £50 odd should we go up. I have already chosen not to do away games this season due to the cost. Though these feelings would be a loss of faith in football rather than the Albion specifically.

 

[Hiney]

We have a wonderful stadium, paid for by a fan of the club.

In that stadium I have three seats bought at a very reasonable cost, though an interest free direct debit.

At that stadium I can walk along the concourse eating a local pie and drinking a local pint, chosen to reflect the wishes of the fans, whilst looking at artwork on the walls, contributed by fans, including myself.

Its absolutely still OUR club. Its just being run professionally, that's all. You simply cannot manage a club the size that the Albion has grown to, in the cottage industry fashion that existed before. It would be an utter disaster.

This, totally this.

You can't expect the club to blunder along a la the Withdean Years whilst at the same time mount a realistic business case for establishing us in The Premier League. As we develop as a club and as a business, there will be casualties along the way but by and large, I think the club have done pretty well to take the fans along with them.

It's a YES from me.