bn1&bn3 Albion
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Liverpool has pretty average atmosphere but WHEN they do sing its amazing.. same as most top premier league teams.
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Rose tinted glasses over the goldstone atmosphere
- Thread starter Goring Gull
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Liverpool has pretty average atmosphere but WHEN they do sing its amazing.. same as most top premier league teams.
chez
Johnny Byrne-The Greatest
What stand were you in? I dont think ANY stadium that has seats instead of terracing will ever be able to compete with the middle of the North Stand at The Goldstone.
TheMajor
BHA>CPFC
There is nothing to compare with standing in a capacity crowd of 30,000 plus at the Goldstone and the surges of the crowd taking you up and down the terracing - plus we were spanking teams every week. Not sure if we sung much in those days but the excitement was different that anything all seater can offer. But I can remember many seasons there with little to shout about.
But times have moved on and the Amex WILL see great Brighton teams emerge in the future and then the atmosphere will be special. We are just building towards this and it will take time but it's all to look forward too.
But times have moved on and the Amex WILL see great Brighton teams emerge in the future and then the atmosphere will be special. We are just building towards this and it will take time but it's all to look forward too.
Gregory2Smith1
J'les aurai!
of course the amex is better,but what we had at the goldstone was lots of success,numerous promotions,4 seasons in the top flight and 2 fa cup quarter finals played there
when we are successful at the amex,the goldstone will be consigned to the history books,but not just yet
when we are successful at the amex,the goldstone will be consigned to the history books,but not just yet
sir albion
New member
The northstand
LamieRobertson
Not awoke
I remember getting squashed a lot at the goldstone...how many games did we top 30k? I went there from about 1968 onwards and I'm pretty certain tht we didn't hit that figure many times if at all in our last spell in the old first division......had some good times there and as u say there were times when the atmosphere was good ..not necessarily in terms of singing ....certainly there was a fair number of moaners...mostly in the west stand!There is nothing to compare with standing in a capacity crowd of 30,000 plus at the Goldstone and the surges of the crowd taking you up and down the terracing - plus we were spanking teams every week. Not sure if we sung much in those days but the excitement was different that anything all seater can offer. But I can remember many seasons there with little to shout about.
But times have moved on and the Amex WILL see great Brighton teams emerge in the future and then the atmosphere will be special. We are just building towards this and it will take time but it's all to look forward too.
Green Cross Code Man
Wunt be druv
desprateseagull
New member
in the east stand, feel a bit isolated.. bit the noise is tremendous when north / west get going..
will be far better when corner seats are installed..
surround sound!
will be far better when corner seats are installed..
surround sound!
glasfryn
cleaning up cat sick
I spent most of my time on the east terrace at the Goldstone and it could at times be very quiet but there were games that stood out one evening game against Sheffield Wednesday in particular was extremely noisy I went home Knackered that night and listening to the games from the Amex they sound really good
Working class pride
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- Feb 14, 2010
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If you google Barnsley newspapers and read their local reports then one of them described the Amex as a hostile crowd. Been a couple of times and the Amex atmosphere is very very good. The goldstone was electric in big games, average on many games and people just turned up to have a moan on many more. But that was football then up and down the country it was the same. There also was not that pressure for a great atmosphere for every game. As an aside, if you go to anfield the atmosphere is more often than not very quiet despite what the press say. Well done to all of you at the Amex but stop slagging off the moaners as they are all apart of football
Man, I need to get some of these glasses.
Everyone loves to talk about the amazing runs of Wardy, or the impossible saving tackles of Lawrenson - but I recall matches where Wardy was anonymous and barely got the ball, then the dire times when he sat on the bench and that Maybank lumberer was lolling about losing the ball to any defender who wanted it
Yup ,that was seriously depressing!
Yup ,that was seriously depressing!
I always wondered why he was there.
Mind you, I do remember him scoring one fantastic bicycle kick goal in the late 70's.
From the few times I went as a kid with the local junior seagulls footy team my main memory was feeling a bit naughty singing the "you're shit aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh" after goal kicks. 20 years later it still cracks me up but for different reasons
Birdie Boy
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- Jun 17, 2011
- 4,387
The Amex is way better for atmosphere than the Goldstone but as a few have mentioned, it was a different type of atmosphere. I am in the East with my two boys, aged 14 and 15 and I have slowly got them singing, certainly the older one and away games they have not stopped singing. I am a little disappointed in the atmosphere at the Amex but I think this comes down to at least one reason and that is there are a lot of kids as season ticket holders, especialy in the East. Most kids think that their Dads are embarrasing when they start singing and don't join in, especially if they have mates around them! As I have pointed out, my two are now gradually joining in and I think this will happen with a lot more kids. After the Barnsley game I went into the North Stand for a pint and there were a lot of very young kids in there, under 10 yo, which again could effect the noise from there. I do hate it when there is a long silence and I do think it is up to the North, less so the West, to get the atmosphere going. Look at Sunday when Barnsley were singing "Red Army" for 5 or 10 minutes, it took a bloody long time for the Brighton crowd to drown them out. BTW, well done Barnsley for that, hopefully we can do something similar one day.
Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
- 23,870
"Steve Foster m'lord, Steve Foster...." for corners at the North Stand end.
Randsta
New member
Most of the time goldstone was crap! but I did enjoy jumping around like a loon in the north stand...good times
Spiros
Well-known member
The one game I really remember from the Goldstone for it's atmosphere was the night we beat Sheff Wed 3-2 to get promoted from div 3 to div 2 - 1977 I think, I guess that's the one you mean?
Apart from that there would be the odd chant from the North stand but nothing spectacular. The atmosphere took a downward turn when the roof was taken off the North Stand - the new roof was never quite the same. I stood in the north through my teenage years and wouldn't say that even there was especially noisy - mainly a few hardcore singers in the middle and a group of blokes nearer the north west corner.
TBH the most noise I have ever experienced in nearly 40 years of following the albion was the Donny game this season and I'll be amazed if we ever top that.
dejavuatbtn
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We have always been one of those crowds that creates a great atmosphere when the going is good, and a crap one when things are going bad. One of the main reasons I became a fan in the early 60s was the atmosphere we generated, particularly when we get Bobby Smith on board, got 20K+ gates and stromed division 4. The atmosphere at a heaving Goldstone is something I will always remember. Packed north stand surges and singing for the whole game, with originality and wit. But there were some dark days and poor teams resulting in it being remembered by some as a morgue.
We are still on a bit of a high at the moment with the team and new ground. We have the opportunity to make the Amex a stronghold and a place feared by the opposition - it's the fans who will create this, not the players. We need to stop rucking them, get behind them and boost their confidence. Everyone has an off day or two, it's just when you have one in front to 20K people, it's noticved a bit more and creates the type of ranting we are occasionally subjected to on NSC.
We are still on a bit of a high at the moment with the team and new ground. We have the opportunity to make the Amex a stronghold and a place feared by the opposition - it's the fans who will create this, not the players. We need to stop rucking them, get behind them and boost their confidence. Everyone has an off day or two, it's just when you have one in front to 20K people, it's noticved a bit more and creates the type of ranting we are occasionally subjected to on NSC.
AlastairWatts
Active member
Too right: a mate who is a LIverpool fan went to Anfield last Saturday, told me that the Swans fans made all the noise plus a bit of community singing (didn't I see them in 'Zulu' a while back??) and that he was surprised how quiet the Liverpool fans were.
I had a season ticket in the South Stand at the Goldstone in the late '70s and '80s and I think that the atmosphere at The Amex much better: I just think that more support for the team rather than than some of the songs many fans don't know might make a bit of difference. Nothing like the goold old Seagulls chants for me.. It's all too easy, as someone else said, to hanker after the old grounds but the reality is that the design of the new stadium seems to me to turn it into more of a theatre than the Goldstone - and that is, after all, why we go!