The Albion in 3 years time and beyond?

[Working class pride]

In 1910 the Albion won the charity Shield and were Champions of England.
In the 50's and 60s the Albion played to big crowds but had no desire to make success match the large crowds.
In the 70s and early 80s it was the old div 1 and a FA Cup Final
The late 80s and 1990s was serial decline, and the decay resulting in areas of the goldstone being closed. The goldstone was then sold and the club exiled in Gillingham
The 2000s the club came home and now its 20,000 sell outs and expansion plans at the Amex.

Where will the Albion be in 3 years, 10 years and 15 years time? Any trophies, cup finals or top flight football? Or will the Albion stay a well supported but under achieving team?

 

[Falkor]

Would be happy with competing for promotion in 3 years time.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Hopefully there'll be no more "Zamora coming home threads"

 

[sir albion]

Hovering around the top 4 of the championship hopefully as don't see the funds that will get us to the top two just yet

 

[spongy]

3 years - solid top half championship club pushing if not in play-offs for a few seasons
10 years - lower half/mid table premiership
15 years - solid premiership club maintaining top half season finishes maybe threatening europe places

Its a big ask, a lot of clubs have flirted with the premiership over the years, only man utd, liverpool, everton, arsenal, chelsea, spurs and villa have been ever presents in that league

 

[VAL1850]

Tarrico still playing at right back when hes not suspended

 

[fly high]

3 years - perpetual promotion contenders, bit like Cardiff, with several quality youngsters coming through the ranks in our shiny new academy, averaging gates of 25k
10 years - Regarded as one of the best youth academies in the country, with a stint in the Premiership, averaging gates of 30k
25 years - Established top half Premiership side, academy having produced several England internationals. An ageing Martin Perry marks out plans to raise the east stand roof to add another 10,000 seats.
50 years - A 44,000 capacity Amex is no longer sufficient, as Brighton are now regarded as the biggest club in the world, so the clubs plans to move to a new 155,000 capacity "floating" stadium in the sea, with individual teleporters fixed into every seat reducing travelling time to 0.0001 seconds. An investment in cloning technology by Tony Bloom 20 years ago is proven a success, as Peter Ward mk II returns to score 9 goals against conference side Crystal Palace in the FA Cup third round

Look forward to bouncing this

Can I sign up for the cloning so I can be there to see it?

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Hopefully there'll be no more "Zamora coming home threads"

He'll be back by then or on the verge of joining us.

 

[TKC]

Hopefully there'll be no more "Zamora coming home threads"

Is that because he's signing in the summer?!

 

[Working class pride]

3 years - perpetual promotion contenders, bit like Cardiff, with several quality youngsters coming through the ranks in our shiny new academy, averaging gates of 25k
10 years - Regarded as one of the best youth academies in the country, with a stint in the Premiership, averaging gates of 30k
25 years - Established top half Premiership side, academy having produced several England internationals. An ageing Martin Perry marks out plans to raise the east stand roof to add another 10,000 seats.
50 years - A 44,000 capacity Amex is no longer sufficient, as Brighton are now regarded as the biggest club in the world, so the clubs plans to move to a new 155,000 capacity "floating" stadium in the sea, with individual teleporters fixed into every seat reducing travelling time to 0.0001 seconds. An investment in cloning technology by Tony Bloom 20 years ago is proven a success, as Peter Ward mk II returns to score 9 goals against conference side Crystal Palace in the FA Cup third round

Look forward to bouncing this

How good would a floating ground parked at the West Pier be?

 

[Northstandite]

Will be in the PL,
but Azure will still take a pasting on NSC.
And there will be some whinging on NSC if the full 30,750 don't attend every game.

Beyond, there will be the odd Europa cup run, and perhaps a League Cup win or 2.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Is that because he's signing in the summer?!

He'll be retired by then - or injured.

 

[BHAFC_Pandapops]

3 years - perpetual promotion contenders, bit like Cardiff, with several quality youngsters coming through the ranks in our shiny new academy, averaging gates of 25k
10 years - Regarded as one of the best youth academies in the country, with a stint in the Premiership, averaging gates of 30k
25 years - Established top half Premiership side, academy having produced several England internationals. An ageing Martin Perry marks out plans to raise the east stand roof to add another 10,000 seats.
50 years - A 44,000 capacity Amex is no longer sufficient, as Brighton are now regarded as the biggest club in the world, so the clubs plans to move to a new 155,000 capacity "floating" stadium in the sea, with individual teleporters fixed into every seat reducing travelling time to 0.0001 seconds. An investment in cloning technology by Tony Bloom 20 years ago is proven a success, as Peter Ward mk II returns to score 9 goals against conference side Crystal Palace in the FA Cup third round

Look forward to bouncing this

yes. absolutely love it.

 

[Seagulls1984]

I said to friends bout 2years ago that by 2012 Brighton would b a top perm club,everything is in place for the club to go as far as they want to.

 

[HoveSaint]

Up in the Prem with us Saints. Would be nice. And the icing would be seeing the Blue Few back in league 2.

 

[the wanderbus]

I seriously think we could be in the premiership by the start of 2015/16 & then become a bit of a West Ham type yoyo club for a while.It'll then go one of two ways , we'll become a comfortable mid table side with the odd cup final/semifinal appearance or we'll find ourselves in the same position as Reading are in now...a well established championship club with ambitions of getting back to recent glory's.

 

[e77]

Best case scenario: A southern Bolton or Wigan who do enough every season to stay up but capable of getting into the Europa Cup.

Worst case scenario: Huddersfield where the ground doesn't quite transfer to results on the pitch.

I suspect somewhere nearer best case than worst case.