money mainly
Like it or not , clubs are perceived by size throughout the whole pyramid. If money is the same then players will choose clubs on size as well. Lower leagues especially.
Some people hate this argument but I quite like it.
[Albion] Just how much of a big club is Brighton now? And how big can we get?
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money mainly
Like it or not , clubs are perceived by size throughout the whole pyramid. If money is the same then players will choose clubs on size as well. Lower leagues especially.
Some people hate this argument but I quite like it.
I don't buy that. Always is a long time! Here are the teams from the 1950/51 Division One (in order they finished). All familiar but lots of clubs there have gone South and some "fixtures" in the Big 6 missing. 10 or 20 or 30 years in the Top 10 and kids in 2050 will have no perception of us as anything other than a top club.
Tottenham Hotspur
Manchester United
Blackpool
Newcastle United
Arsenal
Middlesbrough
Portsmouth
Bolton Wanderers
Liverpool
Burnley
Derby County
Sunderland
Stoke City
Wolverhampton Wanderers
Aston Villa
West Bromwich Albion
Charlton Athletic
Fulham
Huddersfield Town
Chelsea
Sheffield Wednesday
Everton
Johnny RoastBeef
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- Jan 11, 2016
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An interesting site ranking English clubs by seasons spent in the top flight.
https://www.myfootballfacts.com/england_footy/football-league/seasons-in-top-flight/
https://www.myfootballfacts.com/england_footy/football-league/seasons-in-top-flight/
Moshe Gariani
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I wasn't being entirely serious...
But that suggests that you were being slightly serious!
We are not a big club but we are working on it. You only get to be a big club by winning something which we have not done. Bloom is correct in aiming to be a top ten club and once you are there you may win the odd cup and push up higher. I feel we are on the verge of something special and Potter could be special. I could not see that Ryan needed replacing but obviously he did etc. Onwards and upwards.
I think we’re about the 33rd biggest club in the country at the moment. I can live with being in and around the top third considering our recent history.
It seems the younger generation are starting to see us this way too (country wide). Only a few years ago we would’ve been considered ‘small’. I always knew we were weren’t ‘small’.
We won’t be considered much bigger than now until we win a cup, or finish in the top 10 for quite a few seasons in a row.
Doing well in the cups will help a bit and I don’t mean just being winning them. Quarter finals, semi finals and finals will all help. This is why I never get the ‘We’ll never win the cup, so why bother’ argument. Getting to the latter stages are decent achievements for us. Even Watford have more FA Cup semi finals than us! They’ve even spent more time in the top flight than us. Both statements are true for Palace. My dream is that those statements won’t be true one day and, even then, we probably still won’t be considered big!
It seems the younger generation are starting to see us this way too (country wide). Only a few years ago we would’ve been considered ‘small’. I always knew we were weren’t ‘small’.
We won’t be considered much bigger than now until we win a cup, or finish in the top 10 for quite a few seasons in a row.
Doing well in the cups will help a bit and I don’t mean just being winning them. Quarter finals, semi finals and finals will all help. This is why I never get the ‘We’ll never win the cup, so why bother’ argument. Getting to the latter stages are decent achievements for us. Even Watford have more FA Cup semi finals than us! They’ve even spent more time in the top flight than us. Both statements are true for Palace. My dream is that those statements won’t be true one day and, even then, we probably still won’t be considered big!
Iford Albion
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- Jul 30, 2017
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A few posts have talked about us not having a history - full stop. Fair enough it you say we don't have a history of winning the premiership or European cups but to say leeds have a bigger history than us is to misunderstand the concept of history. We have a rich history full of significant events; battles for survival, the odd success like getting in to the top flight again. We made club history last week... Who can say what our history might be for my kids when they are my age if we maintain our current trajectory. And even if we nosedive it will still be our club and our history.
Charity Shield 1910
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- Jan 4, 2021
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I hope we stay a Brighton, coastal towns and Sussex club. I pity Liverpool fans. They see a Liverpool shirt and have absolutely no idea where that person is from or has roots to. Whenever I see an Albion hat, scarf or shirt outside of Sussex I always wonder which part of GOSBTS they are from. I like the fact that we were a club with no success but big crowds in the third division. I hope we win a cup and have some success on the field, but I want the Albion to remain "ours".