The Uber Fan poll

[Notters]

Yep, season ticket.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Yep it was epic, i miss the Priestfield where men were men and boys were still wetting their pants for their soft padding seats to come.

Men never shaved their legs back then either and we all drank shorts by the trebles none of these pussy craft beer drinkers about.

Oh what a couple of decades has done to us all. :safeway:

Jeff Minton proper Albion hero.

 

[Ninja Elephant]

Yes, once. I paid 2 quid to get in. It finished 4-4, so I'd say that's quite good value for money.

Colchester, Boxing Day 1997! Mark Halsey was the ref!

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My first seasons as a supporter were at the Priestfield, travelling on the Costa Express. Liz herself fixed it for me to be a ballboy once or twice which was emotional, including the Boxing Day carnage against Colchester when I handed the ball to a young Kerry Mayo. What a moment in a young boy's life.

 

[Icy Gull]

Yep it was epic, i miss the Priestfield where men were men and boys were still wetting their pants for their soft padding seats to come.

Men never shaved their legs back then either and we all drank shorts by the trebles none of these pussy craft beer drinkers about.

Oh what a couple of decades has done to us all. :safeway:

Jeff Minton proper Albion hero.

Some truth in that, Albion heroes also include OGH but Rod Thomas was probably my favourite. THAT "save" he got sent off for was brilliant too.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Some truth in that, Albion heroes also include OGH and Rod Thomas was probably my favourite.

With a splash of Mayo

 

[nicko31]

Overseas the whole time missed this era completely

 

[Return of the Rev]

Bought a season ticket for the first time(probably cost me but wanted to support the new chairman)

 

[Rodney Thomas]

The odds are that most fans who went to Priestfield probably either saw Brighton in the FA Cup Final, the old Division 1 or the 91 Play Off Final. They probably also saw us get promoted in '02 and again at Cardiff in '04 so they at least saw a bit of glory. @hans kraay fan club [MENTION=11670]Hove Seagull[/MENTION] and I started taking our kids along to watch the Albion just after we got relegated under McGhee and so for the first 5 or 6 years of them supporting the Albion was sitting in the Family Stand at Withdean watching terrible football week in and week out and having to put up with the teasing from their Premier League supporting friends at school boasting all the time.

I reckon any child that went more than a few times to see us at Withdean and called themselves a Brighton fan during that time has earned the right to call themselves an Uber fan.

My first three seasons watching the Albion with my Dad as a 6, 7 and 8 year old went Goldstone, Priestfield, Priestfield. I think that would probably count as psychological abuse nowadays.

 

[T.G]

Nightmare train journey so didn't go often, but did manage a few games also went as an away fan to watch the mighty (lanky) spider Mellor score the only goal of a very drab game.

 

[Surf's Up]

Bought a season ticket for the first time(probably cost me but wanted to support the new chairman)

Exactly this.

 

[Diego Napier]

Does Gillingham v Brighton in 1977 count? I remember it snowed on the way home but we won 1-0

 

[Insel affe]

Yes and I even think I went to a pre season friendly at pissfield v Palace....

I could have that wrong though, I'm sure I remember them at the far open end.

 

[Dolph Ins]

Didn't vote cos I only went there as an away fan (Brighton of course). Huge kudos to those that did.

 

[wilko1]

Yep two years and season ticket, just felt club needed every penny

 

[AmexRuislip]

Was not that I couldn't be bothered, only that I was overseas

 

[ofco8]

Yep, six of us had season tickets and went to majority of games.

We just had to do it to keep the club alive.

 

[kevo]

Yes. But I live in London, so it's the same distance as travelling to Brighton. I'd already been following the team from 50 miles away for ten years or more.

I'm not quite why going to Priestfield would make anyone an 'uber fan', anyway.. Not like that guy in the programme the other week who hadn't missed a game home or away since the mid-90s. Or how about 'The Doc', who (so I was told) didn't miss a home or away game between going to see them play at Halifax in 1974 and our move to the Amex.