What was your lowest point whilst following the Albion

[Icy Gull]

There were quite a few in the 3 Barstewards tenure but for me it was an evening game at the Goldstone, I'd totally lost interest in the football at that stage so can't even remember the game or who we were playing, I'm sure one of you with a better memory will help me out here

After yet another defeat, could have been during Case's time as manager, a fairly sizeable proportion of the crowd gathered outside the main entrance and hung around chanting anti board songs for about an hour or so. Not violent or anything like that but just a real feeling of despair that it seemed we were powerless....

I really felt that evening, that we were going to just disappear into the Conference and oblivion. Total depression about the situation.

Was there a worse time ?

 

[Woodchip]

Leicester @ home 05/06. f*** me that was depressing. I have only been a Seagull for a short time though, so in no way compares to the dire last seasons at the Goldstone.

 

[vulture]

3 Really spring to mind

3)That shity cup exit in 1996 on pens

2)The 3-2 home defeat to Darlo same season.Sad to see that playing legend that was Case being so shit at a manager.Great crowd action after the game

1)Half time at edgar street.Never have I felt so low at a football match.

 

[vulture]

There were quite a few in the 3 Barstewards tenure but for me it was an evening game at the Goldstone, I'd totally lost interest in the football at that stage so can't even remember the game or who we were playing, I'm sure one of you with a better memory will help me out here

After yet another defeat, could have been during Case's time as manager, a fairly sizeable proportion of the crowd gathered outside the main entrance and hung around chanting anti board songs for about an hour or so. Not violent or anything like that but just a real feeling of despair that it seemed we were powerless....

I really felt that evening, that we were going to just disappear into the Conference and oblivion. Total depression about the situation.

Was there a worse time ?

That game was darlo at home we lost 3-2.It really kicked off.Case got loads of abuse.And we spoke to the darlo manager and players when they came on to the coach.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

0-5 at Palace

That hurt so much

 

[Robot Chicken]

0-5 was bad but for me it was when we were 12 points adrift, it was Christmas 1996 and we were facing relegation, moving to Gillingham and maybe going out of business. The team were playing shocklingly bad and that's when I felt as sad as I've ever felt following Brighton...

Going to Selhurst with 5000 other fans in the Championship and losing 5-0 was bad but didn't threaten our existance as a football club...

 

[acrossthepond]

Losing the signal on the world service just after half time in the Hereford game, and being unable to find out the score for about 6 hours afterwards as all comms were out, but knowing that we were one down.

I was working in Angola at the time, and the comms were shit shit shit

 

[crodonilson]

When I wet myself on the terraces of Leyton Orient because I couldn't get to the toilet on time

 

[cjd]

1) Scunthorpe away when we were fighting relegation to the conference. We lost 2-0.......abject performance, and most of the teams in the bottom won.

2) Leyton orient away, when Peter Shilton made his 1,000th league appearance. Got so mad afterwards, I got on the players coach, and pleaded with them to stand together and tell Belotti Archer and co to F*** Off. Most of them looked terrified at the "nutter" (me ), but Goerge Parris was really good and listened.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Literally the lowest point?

The day we opened the season with a game at Southend United. Our seats were in the front row, behind the goal. And they were so low down, behind the wall, that it was actually impossible to see any of the game (apart from a goal kick) while occupying them.

Needless to say, we stood in one of the aisles.

 

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Getting done at home to Canvey Island.

Watching that game had a horrible sense of inevitability about it. Not just about the game itself, but about the years that were to follow.

We were heading nowhere but down, getting nothing but worse, and everyone there knew it.

We all knew it was going to have to get a whole lot worse before it got better.

Things have levelled out in the last year or two, but when I think back to Canvey Island, the two championships and the play off final in Cardiff - f***, given our current situation (in which we're still treading water) we've been blessed.

 

[Superphil]

Half time at Hereford

5-0 at Palace

Doncaster at home, 1997

Losing to Orient at Priestfield, 0-3 I think was the final score, we left at 0-2.

 

[Rougvie]

Its a bit strange but I think when you are in your twenties you dont really let a football club dictate your mood as much as when you get older, there were many grim times in the 90's but you always had your mates with you, some of them were even a great experience at the time, I always felt that the Albion would never die back then, there were just too many people commited to making sure that never happened.

My lowest point in 25 years of watching the Albion was our exit to Coventry in the FA Cup a few years back under McGhee, it was the reality that most of my friends had found other things to do on a Saturday who were never coming back, I was sitting on my own surrounded by empty seats of people I knew who had better things to do that day, the football was just dire as it had been for several months and we were just getting into a spiral that really was threatening the long term future of the club, the reality that it was £24 for this 'pleasure' just convinced me that regardless of my love for the club I had followed man and boy, there were for me also, more enjoyable things to do with that money.

I've probably moved on a bit from that, there is light at the end of the tunnell, a Falmer YES is aproaching and with a bit of luck the thing will be built.

 

[crasher]

For me it was an evening game at Priestfield when we lost 3-0 to Barnet (Barnet!).

We were just so dire that I couldn't see us winning ever again, couldn't see us getting back to Brighton ever again.

Somehow even half-time at Hereford wasn't quite as depressing, I suppose because I still had a flicker of hope then. That night at Priestfield was close to despair.

 

[m20gull]

Three spring to mind:

5-0 obviously. A most-anticipated moment turned to most-humiliating.

Losing at Kingstonian.

Gritt's last game in charge. A midweek defeat away to Exeter and I went on my own because my wife wouldn't go and I had a long and miserable drive home to Kent.

 

[pasty]

Its a bit strange but I think when you are in your twenties you dont really let a football club dictate your mood as much as when you get older, there were many grim times in the 90's but you always had your mates with you, some of them were even a great experience at the time, I always felt that the Albion would never die back then, there were just too many people commited to making sure that never happened.

My lowest point in 25 years of watching the Albion was our exit to Coventry in the FA Cup a few years back under McGhee, it was the reality that most of my friends had found other things to do on a Saturday who were never coming back, I was sitting on my own surrounded by empty seats of people I knew who had better things to do that day, the football was just dire as it had been for several months and we were just getting into a spiral that really was threatening the long term future of the club, the reality that it was £24 for this 'pleasure' just convinced me that regardless of my love for the club I had followed man and boy, there were for me also, more enjoyable things to do with that money.

I've probably moved on a bit from that, there is light at the end of the tunnell, a Falmer YES is aproaching and with a bit of luck the thing will be built.

God that is so true. When we first moved back to Withdean, I was one of six people who bought our season tickets together. The season before last, I was the only one left. I was sat there, like you say with a load of empty seats around me when I got a text. I opened it up, and it was another mate sitting in another stand from where he'd spotted me, and it said "How are doing Billy no mates"

 

[surrey jim]

That 1996 cup exit (as said before)

Palace 5-0

Leicester away last season, we ran them off the pitch but ended a 0-0

 

[Les Biehn]

Probably the playoff against Notts county.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Probably the playoff against Notts county.

Yes, if only for the pink NOBO shirts!

 

[severnside gull]

a whole season at gillingham...........just so desperately sad

after the cup final replay...down and down

getting stuffed by leatherhead at home in the cup

first game I saw at withdean........I used to run there and thought "have we really sunk to this"? but still better than priestfield