BensGrandad
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The man/woman has hit the nail on the head 'fans' of Brighton will support a winning team and desert a losing one it has happened for the past 60 years that I have been watching them and unlikely to change now.
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Tempting Back Those Missing Fans
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The man/woman has hit the nail on the head 'fans' of Brighton will support a winning team and desert a losing one it has happened for the past 60 years that I have been watching them and unlikely to change now.
Convenience for me.
I can't see me going to Falmer as I can't be arsed parking up and getting trains and buses and stuff to the outskirts of Brighton and trying to get tickets by texting / going to petrol stations etc when you KNOW the technology won't work, or the fuckwit on the till will key in "4 litres of Multi-grade engine oil" by mistake and it will all turn out to be a massive trauma, and you wish you'd never bothered.
No, I just want to be able to decide on the day, drive to the ground, hand over CASH to some bloke on turnstile and go in and watch a game of football.
Can't be arsed with all this planning ahead with some thing that is is supposed to be an enjoyable way to spend a day off....
Bye bye live football for me
I can't see me going to Falmer as I can't be arsed parking up and getting trains and buses and stuff to the outskirts of Brighton and trying to get tickets by texting / going to petrol stations etc when you KNOW the technology won't work, or the fuckwit on the till will key in "4 litres of Multi-grade engine oil" by mistake and it will all turn out to be a massive trauma, and you wish you'd never bothered.
No, I just want to be able to decide on the day, drive to the ground, hand over CASH to some bloke on turnstile and go in and watch a game of football.
Can't be arsed with all this planning ahead with some thing that is is supposed to be an enjoyable way to spend a day off....
Bye bye live football for me
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I'm not joking with my suggestion you know. Imagine a few honeys like this beauty at Withers - in Albion STRIP of course. It would put at least a thousand on the gate
Trouble is the stands are so far away from the pitch thatt it would be difficult to get a view that was worth turning up for. Maybe they could replace the stewards (who are mostly twats) with some quality MILF.
Is she realy a MILF tho Buzzer? She looks about 20
Withdean Wanderer
Banned
We could always bring back Alex Bertin? 
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
Really? She looks a fair few years older than Gully's girls. And some of those are 20 apparently.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
I like your thinking. And that old boy that carries the board with the Withdean wager? Get Heather Mills in a very skimpy t-shirt to carry it round.
St John's ambulance? f*** 'em. Sexy MILFs in nurses outfits.
Dean White? He can go. Swedish masseur milfs please.
I can see a theme here.
Mendoza
NSC's Most Stalked
It maybe hard to tempt back missing fans.
I know that for the Bristol Rovers game, when we were on form, the club gave Legal and General 200 FREE tickets to give to staff and their family and friends, and only managed to get rid of just over 50
they were GIVING them away and couldnt shift them!
A couple of big (relative) name signings always helps, the style of football isnt that bad when we attack, but i think now its just the weather thats keeping people away
I know that for the Bristol Rovers game, when we were on form, the club gave Legal and General 200 FREE tickets to give to staff and their family and friends, and only managed to get rid of just over 50
they were GIVING them away and couldnt shift them!
A couple of big (relative) name signings always helps, the style of football isnt that bad when we attack, but i think now its just the weather thats keeping people away
rusty redeyes
New member
That's absolute cobblers, they were not free but cost a donation of £5 to I think it's the Teenage Cancer Trust. And I can assure you that more than 50 were taken, with restrictions on how they were sold. L&G also did the same deal for New Years Day and again more than 50 were sold. You have to take into account that the tickets are only for the family stand and as 30.8% of employees are under the age of 30 @ City Park, they are hardly going to have young kids in tow. Open the offer up to other areas of the ground and it might entice other employees. Saying that, a fair proportion of those that are fans are STH anyway.
On another note, I decided on the Friday before the cup game to take my daughter. Called the ticket office, good deal £16 for both of us, but I then get stung for a £2 booking fee and as I'm picking up the tickets from the ground I also lost out on the travel voucher. Daughter was bored senseless by the game and wishes every game was like the 1st game she ever went to when we beat Leeds. How do you explain to a 10 yr old that being a Brighton fan you have more bad days than good
Clive Walker's slaphead
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- Mar 10, 2006
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One of the biggest problems we face is the way the population has changed over recent years. Swarms of people have moved out of London to be near the sea and buy cheaper properties and they have absolutley no interest in The Albion and go back to the capital to see their team. Also whilst the club has been in the doldrums there has been an explosion of football on TV and a lot of people now don't know any different than to watch their live football that way. I run a youth football team and with the exception of my son and one other the rest have never been to a live match.
Captain Haddock
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Jimmy Grimble
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This is spot on, with Brighton, I think attendences ENORMOUSLY depend on how the team is doing, take Saturday for example 317 travelling fans, if we were in the top 4 of this league and fans could consistently depend on good football and good results ( I'm not criticising the team here), then I think there would have been around 600 up at Oldham. I personally think Brighton are one of the biggest teams in the football league whose attendances mostly depend on how the team is doing, what with part-time and fair weather fans.
However, I also think football is a dying sport and as the years progress all lower-league teams are losing out on generations of supporters. Money and The Premiership ruined the people's game.
..but there is an increase in lower league attendances.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/6665891.stm