stadium shock

[jmsc]

The club have a choice;

If they want to sell decent ale and food, I'll be there!
If they don't, I'll continue doing what I've been doing for the last 12 years.

Let's see what the club cares about, money or the fans?

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

This all sounds so wonderful.

I am sitting here 3000 miles away with this thread open in one tab, and British Airways open in another, and a third with a Google map of local banks here where I might -- ahem -- 'withdraw' enough money to get over to Falmer for the opening.

(On mature reflection, I think the weekly lottery ticket is a better long-term plan than the bank job.)

Someone stand me a pint when I finally get there.

I think there'll be quite a few ex-pats making the journey for the first official game at Falmer. I'll be there, so if you can find me in amongst the 22,000 supporters, I'd be more than happy to buy you a pint.

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

This all sounds so wonderful. I am sitting here 3000 miles away...

Me too, more or less. It's amusing to see from a distance how people can get all steamed up over details at this point. It's not so long ago that NSC's doubters were only going to be convinced we were getting a stadium at all (Dick Tight's pipe dream, anyone?) once they saw a digger on site. After that, they had to see real excavations: then proof was demanded that steel was being ordered (10 pages).

Now, 12 months on, we are able to luxuriate in whinges about delayed arch erection, not to mention that perennial favourite, the position of the webcam.

What fun - and there's only another 20 months of this kind of micro-analysis to come... What's next for fierce debate among NSC's finest: Colour of directors' box seats? Variety of grass seed for the pitch? Scent of air freshener for the refs' toilets?

That's the stuff!

 

[Stumpy Tim]

I think there'll be quite a few ex-pats making the journey for the first official game at Falmer. I'll be there, so if you can find me in amongst the 22,000 supporters, I'd be more than happy to buy you a pint.

I'll be there too. It's a given

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

I'll be there too. It's a given

Perhaps we could get all ex-pats who fly in to meet up and arrange something with the club. E.g.

Group photo.
Article in the program and Argus.
Perhaps a free hospitality box or something?

 

[Gilliver's Travels]

Perhaps we could get all ex-pats who fly in to meet up and arrange something with the club. E.g.

Group photo.
Article in the program and Argus.
Perhaps a free hospitality box or something?

2 out of 3. If anybody deserves free hospitality, it's surely those poor sods who have endured the horrors of Withdean for ten long years... Rather than those champagne charlies among us who have chosen to sod off and live elsewhere - all the while denying the club we love all that much-needed income.

 

[Austrian Gull]

Perhaps we could get all ex-pats who fly in to meet up and arrange something with the club. E.g.

Group photo.
Article in the program and Argus.
Perhaps a free hospitality box or something?

Sounds great - fame at last!

Oh, and are you extending that buying a pint principle to all exiles who will be there for the first game?

 

[Stumpy Tim]

2 out of 3. If anybody deserves free hospitality, it's surely those poor sods who have endured the horrors of Withdean for ten long years... Rather than those champagne charlies among us who have chosen to sod off and live elsewhere - all the while denying the club we love all that much-needed income.

Pipe down GT. I want a hospitality box!

 

[Frutos]

The club have a choice;

If they want to sell decent ale and food, I'll be there!
If they don't, I'll continue doing what I've been doing for the last 12 years.

Let's see what the club cares about, money or the fans?

So you won't go and watch the team you (presumably) support if you don't have a suitable way to consume alcohol in the course of so doing? I don't understand why it is that people feel they can't socialise without drinking, surely you could cope for one afternoon every other week if the Albion are that important to you?

As far as what the club cares about, tell me why they should care about someone who hasn't, from what you've said, been for the last 12 years and for whom the key factor in whether they'll go and watch their team play is drinking alcohol?

 

[Tory Boy]

What is so very wrong about having a proper fans bar selling good food and drink for fans before the game?

Or would the club prefer to see fans spend their money in Lewes and Brighton pubs?

TB

 

[beorhthelm]

Now, 12 months on, we are able to luxuriate in whinges about delayed arch erection, not to mention that perennial favourite, the position of the webcam.

What fun - and there's only another 20 months of this kind of micro-analysis to come... What's next for fierce debate among NSC's finest: Colour of directors' box seats? Variety of grass seed for the pitch? Scent of air freshener for the refs' toilets?

f***ing MARVELLOUS isnt it?

 

[Dover]

The club should have a large home bar, that can provide good food etc, for one good reason.

Brighton University is right on the doorstep and they have no bar on site. (well I couldn't find one when I was doing a course earlier this year)

 

[Return of the Rev]

a place to call our own

So you won't go and watch the team you (presumably) support if you don't have a suitable way to consume alcohol in the course of so doing? I don't understand why it is that people feel they can't socialise without drinking, surely you could cope for one afternoon every other week if the Albion are that important to you?

As far as what the club cares about, tell me why they should care about someone who hasn't, from what you've said, been for the last 12 years and for whom the key factor in whether they'll go and watch their team play is drinking alcohol?

no a decent social area is not just about alcohol its a place to meet eat and avoid the crowds before and after the game and watch the sky game etc.:US:

 

[Chicken Run]

no a decent social area is not just about alcohol its a place to meet eat and avoid the crowds before and after the game and watch the sky game etc.:US:

I'm gonna join the Falmer Health club, 9am work out, swim and sauna then into the bar oh and free parking hehe

 

[Lord Bracknell]

So that will be ignoring the bar being put into the North Stand cunningly called the Supporters' Bar and the concourse bars with a requirement of the brewer to supply a real ale and/or guest beers and the two Executive Club bars and the six other hospitality bars and the fact that bars will be open in the concourses after the game and that the concourses will be as far away from "lager in a thin plastic cup under a concreate (sic) and iron work roof" as you could imagine. Apart from that not a bad thread.

The problem is ... there is a difference between a bar "cunningly called the Supporters' Bar" and a bar that is run by the supporters.

See Leyton Orient, for example.

 

[maffew]

So you won't go and watch the team you (presumably) support if you don't have a suitable way to consume alcohol in the course of so doing? I don't understand why it is that people feel they can't socialise without drinking, surely you could cope for one afternoon every other week if the Albion are that important to you?

As far as what the club cares about, tell me why they should care about someone who hasn't, from what you've said, been for the last 12 years and for whom the key factor in whether they'll go and watch their team play is drinking alcohol?

I could be wrong but I think you misinterpreted his post, it sounded like for the last 12 years he meant he was drinking/eating elsewhere before going to the ground.

Live football wouldnt be the same to me if I couldnt have a few of beers first and a bit of banter, and I probably wouldnt sing either, yeah thats probably wrong but its about the whole afternoon/day for me not just the 90 minutes

 

[maffew]

And a decent supporters bar would be most welcome, I guess it'd have to be biiig though

 

[Return of the Rev]

Stadium for all

And a decent supporters bar would be most welcome, I guess it'd have to be biiig though

WHY BIG, SURLEY THERE COULD BE SEVERAL DIFFERENT BARS WHICH COULD CATER FOR VARIOUS TYPES OF FAN, SUPPORTERS CLUB BAR ,JUNIOR SEAGULL ENTERTAINMENT ROOMS,SPORTS BAR SHOWING SPORTS EVENTS,PETER WARD BAR FOR THE MORE VOCAL ETC,THEY COULD PROVIDE HOT FOOD IN A COMFORTABLE SURROUNDINGS,WE KNOW THE 1200 CORP PLACES ARE PLANNED BUT WHAT ABOUT THE FOOT SOLDIERS? SORRY FOR CALLING YOU SURLEY.

 

[attila]

Supporters' bar always part of the plans. Still is. Plans at the architects at the moment. Real ale on the agenda. Locally brewed at that, hopefully. Up to we who drink it to make sure that it is profitable to the club - what an onerous task! If by any chance it isn't, it wouldn't be sold any more. Simple. More when things progress. Difficult time for me at the mo but finger has been on the pulse all the way through on this one.

 

[attila]

..and real ale on sale in the concourse bars as well.