St Patricks Day
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Is this what our away support will be like if we reach the premiership?
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Is this what our away support will be like if we reach the premiership?
hitony
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Tell me your thoughts on the matter?
albion534
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No, next
St Patricks Day
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Probably be like Wigan to be honest after a couple of seasons. The first season then we'd take our full allocation but the novelty will soon wear off and we'll be come like Fulham, Wigan.
If stoke take that amount then dam sure we wouldn't take more.
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If that's intended to be some kind of poke at Stoke, I think people are perhaps being a little unfair.
The price of football is going up and up, even more so in the Premier League, and people are getting to the point where they are picking and choosing games. Why shouldn't they? If Albion games were going to cost me forty or fifty quid to watch, I sure as hell wouldn't be there every week. I simply couldn't afford it. Newcastle is a bit of a hike from anywhere, and Stoke play them every season so there's no excitement factor.
The price of football is going up and up, even more so in the Premier League, and people are getting to the point where they are picking and choosing games. Why shouldn't they? If Albion games were going to cost me forty or fifty quid to watch, I sure as hell wouldn't be there every week. I simply couldn't afford it. Newcastle is a bit of a hike from anywhere, and Stoke play them every season so there's no excitement factor.
St Patricks Day
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I wasn't having a dig at Stoke fans but was merely asking if we'll be like that with our away support after a season or two, if we reach the prem.
Yes, it will be. Maybe not at first but the novelty of being in the Prem will wear off VERY quickly and fans' attitudes will soon change from "Woo hoo we're in the PREMIER LEAGUE!" to "We should be beating teams like Villa." Even in the first season if we're struggling people will say "I'm not going all the way to Newcastle to watch us lose, not after last week against Wigan and not at those prices." You can see the beginnings of this now, I can't believe how many posts I see saying "We should be in the play-offs with the squad we've got" as if mere fact the squad is better than last year's means it's automatically play-off quality. The fact we don't exist in isolation and that other teams have also invested (and invested a lot more) in their squads doesn't even register. Football fans are very very stupid and very very fickle and Brighton fans are no different. We won't maintain our current away numbers in the Prem unless we're pressing for a Champions' League spot.
L'hampton Eagle
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Think you've missed the point. Brighton have absolutely no chance of pushing for a Champions' League spot I was using it to illustrate ....... na, not worth explaining.
Gregory2Smith1
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I remember going to a cup game at Highbury in the early 80's
about the same numbers as Stoke there
had a little strip behind the goal in the Clock End,Arsenal either side
apart from the 30 or so that got kicked out of the North bank
about the same numbers as Stoke there
had a little strip behind the goal in the Clock End,Arsenal either side
apart from the 30 or so that got kicked out of the North bank
Probably the best post I've ever read on NSC. I agree completely.
sydney
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sake .......you pathetic, palace muppet........why dont you go and drink a few pints of Arun water.......it's free you know....!!
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Football fans are very very stupid
hybrid_x
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Wigan? our away following like Wigan? i don't think so......what an insult.
Wilka
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I heard a Stoke fan on the radio talking about how there poor away form and style of football is killing off what used to be a very large and loud away support.
Personally the money issue would see me cut down even further if we reached the promised land on away games. £50 plus to watch us get thrashed at Chelsea ect isn't so tempting.
Personally the money issue would see me cut down even further if we reached the promised land on away games. £50 plus to watch us get thrashed at Chelsea ect isn't so tempting.
If you look at our away support last time we were in the top flight, it sold out in the first season as people wanted to see the new grounds, but then quickly collapsed. There were games when we took no more than 100.
Not Andy Naylor
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Er, can we get to the Premier League first and worry about it then?
Ninja Elephant
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As do I. Fantastic post. Numbers will naturally stall when the first season factor wears off.
Hopefully we will prove this point in the near future.
finlaych
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If we take more to almost every championship away game I don't see why it would
The Camel
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Being a Stoke fan must be a very depressing experience.
No chance of making Champions League.
No chance of getting relegated.
Nothing to play for unless they go on a Cup run, which is very unlikely as Pulis plays weakened teams in the League Cup (and also did in their one season in Europe iirc)
Dull horrible football to watch every week.
And to top it all they live in a shitty city.
No chance of making Champions League.
No chance of getting relegated.
Nothing to play for unless they go on a Cup run, which is very unlikely as Pulis plays weakened teams in the League Cup (and also did in their one season in Europe iirc)
Dull horrible football to watch every week.
And to top it all they live in a shitty city.