Sky Sports - Dunk "Keeping Albion's Play Off Hopes Alive" What?

[dazzer6666]

On your basis there would be hundreds of thousands of albion supportes in sussex and so the amex should be crammed every single game.Sorry I'm not buying it.Like I said I see far more tops from the big prem sides.Heck,I couldn't even find an albion top at my local Sports Direct !

My 6 year old son prefers Arsenal to Brighton because Arsenal are in the Prem.I'm afraid there are many more kids like him.

Why ? Do all these tens of thousands of kids go to Stamford Bridge or Old Trafford ? Just calling it as I see it and how it's changed in recent years (have a teenage football mad son). Where are you seeing 30/40/50 other shirts on kids to every Albion shirt locally ??

Don't even mention Fat Ashleys junk shop - they only ever have a very limited range of tier one team stuff, and only from certain manufacturers.

I don't dispute there are loads of kids who wear prem shirts (whether they are 'supporters' is another question) but a 10/1 ratio locally for Man U ? Utter bollocks.

 

[Seagull by the Sea]

It used to be done on goals scored rather than goal difference (luckily).

Ah, that will be it then!

I can't believe I didn't remember that, age must be catching up with my memory!!

 

[Hamilton]

Ah, that will be it then!

I can't believe I didn't remember that, age must be catching up with my memory!!

It was actually only done that year as an experiment I believe. Albion got lucky.

 

[Maldini]

Why ? Do all these tens of thousands of kids go to Stamford Bridge or Old Trafford ? Just calling it as I see it and how it's changed in recent years (have a teenage football mad son). Where are you seeing 30/40/50 other shirts on kids to every Albion shirt locally ??

Don't even mention Fat Ashleys junk shop - they only ever have a very limited range of tier one team stuff, and only from certain manufacturers.

I don't dispute there are loads of kids who wear prem shirts (whether they are 'supporters' is another question) but a 10/1 ratio locally for Man U ? Utter bollocks.

You're kidding me right.Do you not think it's slightly more difficult and expensive to travel to Manchester than to go up the road to the Amex?Come on you can do better than that.Prem sides make up for the majority of which teams local kids support.Why?Because they are winners.They win the league,the CL,they are all over the TV,they have the top players who are the idols of kids.How many fans do you think albion gained whilst in the wilderness years of Gillingham and Withdean?Now they are catching up but they need a sustained period in the Prem and some top names,

 

[Peter Grummit]

On your basis there would be hundreds of thousands of albion supportes in sussex and so the amex should be crammed every single game.Sorry I'm not buying it.Like I said I see far more tops from the big prem sides.Heck,I couldn't even find an albion top at my local Sports Direct !

My 6 year old son prefers Arsenal to Brighton because Arsenal are in the Prem.I'm afraid there are many more kids like him.

Sorry, and you're not going to like this, but you've failed as a parent.

#youhadonejob

PG

 

[The Birdman]

Well done Dunk we need goals from all our players I think last season we may have been in a lot more trouble if Dunky had not scores some good goals with better crossing our two centre backs will score more goals.

 

[chaileyjem]

When I take my young son to football practice there are always more kids wearing Prem kits.Alot more.

At the club i coach at , its gradually changed over the last four years so that its now about 60-40 in favour of Albion.

 

[Maldini]

Sorry, and you're not going to like this, but you've failed as a parent.

#youhadonejob

PG

Yes I know.I'm trying to come to terms with it.I hope in time I can wean my son off Arsenal. I even sent him to an Arsenal rehibilitation centre but so far it hasn't worked.He needs to make his own mistakes in life to learn and grow as a person.

 

[chaileyjem]

That just confirms they are insane then.

They can get a maximum of 85 and 86 points.

Not enough for top 2 this year.

I wouldn't be surprised if 85 or 86 is enough.
I doubt that Derby/Sheff Weds are getting it though.

 

[Maldini]

At the club i coach at , its gradually changed over the last four years so that its now about 60-40 in favour of Albion.

Over the last 4 years.You said it.Coincides with the new stadium and seasons near the top of the league.Success as we all know breeds fans and glory seekers.

Brighton & Hove itself might only be around 300.000 population but they have a good catchment area with no other big teams for miles.

I'd like to think when they reach the Prem most games will be a sell out.

 

[sparkie]

I wouldn't be surprised if 85 or 86 is enough.
I doubt that Derby/Sheff Weds are getting it though.

It's looking like 88-90 will be required for top 2 this year, except in the unlikely case that 2 of the top 3 implode.

Even then Hull would be massive favorites to take advantage.

It's insane to think Derby or Sheff Wednesday will finish in the top 2.

 

[dazzer6666]

You're kidding me right.Do you not think it's slightly more difficult and expensive to travel to Manchester than to go up the road to the Amex?Come on you can do better than that.Prem sides make up for the majority of which teams local kids support.Why?Because they are winners.They win the league,the CL,they are all over the TV,they have the top players who are the idols of kids.How many fans do you think albion gained whilst in the wilderness years of Gillingham and Withdean?Now they are catching up but they need a sustained period in the Prem and some top names,

Have you moved from '10-1 Man U to the Albion' to 'a majority' now ? Massive, massive difference, which was my point in the first place.

 

[Maldini]

Have you moved from '10-1 Man U to the Albion' to 'a majority' now ? Massive, massive difference, which was my point in the first place.

Your point in the first place was that you believe Albion fans make up the majority of young fans yet who've backed that up little.

 

[dazzer6666]

You're kidding right? For every one young brighton fan within say a 20 mile catchment area I'd say there are a minimum of 10 Man U supporters.

Not 10 - 1 Man U to Albion - on that basis you're suggesting maybe 1 in 50 or maybe 100 local kids who have a team support Albion ?

Your point in the first place was that you believe Albion fans make up the majority of young fans yet who've backed that up little.

No - my point in the first place was a response you stating it was a 1 in 10 ratio. Without popping into a local school and asking for a show of hands I can't give you any stats, but I've observed enough (as have others posting here) to suggest it's nowhere near that ratio.

 

[chaileyjem]

Success as we all know breeds fans and glory seekers.
.

Ha ! I seem to have missed all this success and glory !

 

[chaileyjem]

It's looking like 88-90 will be required for top 2 this year, except in the unlikely case that 2 of the top 3 implode.

Even then Hull would be massive favorites to take advantage.

It's insane to think Derby or Sheff Wednesday will finish in the top 2.

Yep. Sheff Weds would have to win 11 in a row to even be within in a shout.
Derby 8 in a row.

 

[sahel]

Well put. The bias towards the media identified Big 4 while we have actually been right in amongst it all season has been extremely obvious and to deny it seems odd.

With 40 games played they have finally got the message this week but it is begrudging and Derby winning last night was a much bigger story than warranted - "Play off bound team finally wins a home game against out of form fourth placed team".

As for the bookies, they also consistently reflected this bias and have, King Canute style, only finally accepted that we are more likely than Hull and Derby very recently...

What really offends me is the sloppy journalism. Football "punditry" is stereotyped and predictable and lazy. It is of course difficult to come up with anything new and interesting but what they do is too easily to fall into lazy cliches which any old fool could say or write. There are interesting stories to write around Brighton and other clubs - in Brighton's case for example an Arab Israeli playing alongside a jewish Israeli, or the emergence of two young centre backs or the renaissance of a 34 year old Bruno.

 

[chaileyjem]

There are interesting stories to write around Brighton and other clubs - in Brighton's case for example an Arab Israeli playing alongside a jewish Israeli

Do you mean these in depth profiles of Hemed and Kayal in The Guardian and The Times
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/nov/21/beram-kayal-tomer-hemed-israelis-brighton
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/article4633870.ece

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

At the club i coach at , its gradually changed over the last four years so that its now about 60-40 in favour of Albion.

Is this coaching based on lots of ultimately meaningless stats as opposed to whats happening in front of your own eyes?

 

[alfredmizen]

If you think this is bad now you wait until we (Fingers crossed! One day soon!) become a Premier League side.

We could be sniffing around the top two and Sky and it's pundits would still write us off.

Nobody see's Brighton as a big club, and nobody outside of Brighton is interested in reading or hearing about us.

With all due respect, Brighton aren't a big club.