Which division should we be competing in?

[Deano's Invisible Pants]

Following on from the earlier poll about which division we should be competing in while we're at Withdean, where do you think our natural position in football's order should be once we've settled into a 22,000 seat stadium?

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

Natural positions no longer exist in modern football. Manafactured positions do.

 

[Dave the OAP]

third division obviously

 

[Dave the OAP]

Natural positions no longer exist in modern football. Manafactured positions do.

explain please

 

[Deano's Invisible Pants]

Natural positions no longer exist in modern football. Manafactured positions do.

True to an extent, but even the manufactured positions derive from an investor's perception of a club's potential given their capital investment.

I've always thought that the Albion's natural position should be in the top-half of the second tier, occasionally making the top tier, occasionally dropping into the 3rd tier, but generally being a competitive force and capable of decent Cup runs etc etc

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

explain please

A team finishes where they do naturally without becoming a bussiness, rather than a club.

A team's position is now manafactured by the amount of money they have.

 

[Dave the OAP]

A team finishes where they do naturally without becoming a bussiness, rather than a club.

A team's position is now manafactured by the amount of money they have.

But that is always how it has happened.

I think a lot of it depends where you are. The most sucessful teams in the UK are based around large cities, Liverpool Manchester London Glasgow, where you get larger crowds and hense bigger ground to fit themin....leads to more money to buy better players.......the Arabs and Americans are not buying small clubs outside these cities......

 

[Son of a hillbilly]

But that is always how it has happened.

I think a lot of it depends where you are. The most sucessful teams in the UK are based around large cities, Liverpool Manchester London Glasgow, where you get larger crowds and hense bigger ground to fit themin....leads to more money to buy better players.......the Arabs and Americans are not buying small clubs outside these cities......

because Brighton is in the middle of nowhere. We're only a puny town of around half a million. I'd say Falmer is championship class.

 

[Dave the OAP]

because Brighton is in the middle of nowhere. We're only a puny town of around half a million. I'd say Falmer is championship class.

half a million?

the whole connurbaton from Peacehaven to Falmer to Shoreham is only 250,000!

 

[Son of a hillbilly]

What the? I swear we were half a million a few years ago! oh well. lets just point the blame on wikipedia and be off with it, either way, we're still a city and we are classed around 'significantly big' .

 

[Questions]

Division 3 South.

 

[itszamora]

A team finishes where they do naturally without becoming a bussiness, rather than a club.

A team's position is now manafactured by the amount of money they have.

All clubs (yes, even ours) are businesses, they couldn't function otherwise. in response to the question, Championship or possibly the lower ends of the Premiership would do nicely.

 

[Questions]

What the? I swear we were half a million a few years ago! oh well. lets just point the blame on wikipedia and be off with it, either way, we're still a city and we are classed around 'significantly big' .

Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation is also the UK's most densely populated major conurbation outside of London with 4901.5 people per km².[1]

 

[Keeping The Dream Alive.]

But that is always how it has happened.

I think a lot of it depends where you are. The most sucessful teams in the UK are based around large cities, Liverpool Manchester London Glasgow, where you get larger crowds and hense bigger ground to fit themin....leads to more money to buy better players.......the Arabs and Americans are not buying small clubs outside these cities......

It has always happend, but not to anywhere near the extent it happens now. And the gap gets larger every week.

Wigan, Stoke, Blackburn, Portsmouth and Bolton, etc are hardly much bigger cities than ours, they just got lucky, and arrived in the Premier League as the money began pouring in, if Falmer had been ready 7/8 years ago we could well be in their position.

 

[Son of a hillbilly]

Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation is also the UK's most densely populated major conurbation outside of London with 4901.5 people per km².[1]

I was thinking sussex then, makes me think how could worthing and littlehampton add up so its almost the same as Brighton's population.

 

[cardboard]

Blackburn is a town of only 70,000 i believe.

 

[Twinkle Toes]

We should be knocking on the door of Champions League football every season. Obviously.

 

[Djmiles]

With this squad and stadium? League One

With a better squad and Falmer? Championship

 

[Kenhead]

Ive always thought that with Falmer we would be more like Ipswich than any other team currently in the championship.
Flirt with the play-offs every couple of seasons, they are currently 17th in the table.

 

[fatbadger]

Going on history, the one we're in.