Would you be any less miserable in palace's position?

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

It was a MONUMENTAL car crash in the Summer. The warning signs were there when we started dilly dallying over the £200k or whatever it was that Wolves wanted. ANYONE who didnt see this as a WARNING sign for what was to come is quite frankly DELUDED.

I hope the club have learned and League One strikers are NOT the answer. Im LOOKING at you CMS and BALLSACK.

 

[Hotchilidog]

It was a MONUMENTAL car crash in the Summer. The warning signs were there when we started dilly dallying over the £200k or whatever it was that Wolves wanted. ANYONE who didnt see this as a WARNING sign for what was to come is quite frankly DELUDED.

I hope the club have learned and League One strikers are NOT the answer. Im LOOKING at you CMS and BALLSACK.

Bit harsh on Baldock there. I think he has something to offer and IF he is able to participate in the pre-season then I think he has something to offer.

The one positive about last summer's farce is that it was so bad we now know that we cannot get away with another poor off season. The people responsible for the shambles have been moved on and a what appears to be more stable set up is now in place. I think we will go for it in the summer. We have a chance to prove ourselves against the best in the division over the remainder of the season to give us an idea of who can cope with the pressure of big games, then we can fill in the (substantial) gaps in the summer.

 

[Sweeney Todd]

LOL

So you're the Southampton in that anology ?

....oh ok.


True enough - it really has been hell living in Brighton's shadow all these years.

In my analogy, Palace are Pompey in about 2007/08, when they were riding high in the Premier League, and winning the FA Cup, whilst Southampton were disintegrating and dropping into L1. Look where the clubs are now, a few short years later.

My point was that, in football, fortunes can change in the blink of an eye.

I’m sorry if the analogy was too hard for you to understand.

 

[Sweeney Todd]

You're right, when you won promotion it TREBLED

A short history lesson for you…

When our average attendance trebled, in 2011/12, we had just moved to a new, much bigger stadium, as well you know.

 

[CPFC G]

In my analogy, Palace are Pompey in about 2007/08, when they were riding high in the Premier League, and winning the FA Cup, whilst Southampton were disintegrating and dropping into L1. Look where the clubs are now, a few short years later.

My point was that, in football, fortunes can change in the blink of an eye.

I’m sorry if the analogy was too hard for you to understand.

Of course things can change very quickly, Although with Palace and Brighton you lot have been waiting for the eye to blink for 35 years.

 

[Bombadier Botty]

A short history lesson for you…

When our average attendance trebled, in 2011/12, we had just moved to a new, much bigger stadium, as well you know.

Sshhh the Palace thickos can't cope with the notion of being the smaller club in this marriage of inconvenience.

 

[Return of the Makh]

In my analogy, Palace are Pompey in about 2007/08, when they were riding high in the Premier League, and winning the FA Cup, whilst Southampton were disintegrating and dropping into L1. Look where the clubs are now, a few short years later.

My point was that, in football, fortunes can change in the blink of an eye.

I’m sorry if the analogy was too hard for you to understand.

Pompey are where they are mainly due to admin. And for every Pompey/Saints there are a lot more examples of rivalries where the same side remains well ahead of the other for a very long time. Arsenal/Spurs, Liverpool/Everton, Chelsea/Fulham, Stoke/Port Vale, Bristol City/Bristol Rovers, Notts Forest/Notts County...just a few I can think of off the top of my head.

 

[XSE25]

In my analogy, Palace are Pompey in about 2007/08, when they were riding high in the Premier League, and winning the FA Cup, whilst Southampton were disintegrating and dropping into L1. Look where the clubs are now, a few short years later.

My point was that, in football, fortunes can change in the blink of an eye.

I’m sorry if the analogy was too hard for you to understand.

I knew what you meant.
I think it's you that hasn't grasped my point. - and why I was LOL.

Anyway, it's true , things can turn (sometimes quickly) in football - it's just been very long "blink of the eye" for you guy's when it comes to Palace.

 

[XSE25]

Pompey are where they are mainly due to admin. And for every Pompey/Saints there are a lot more examples of rivalries where the same side remains well ahead of the other for a very long time. Arsenal/Spurs, Liverpool/Everton, Chelsea/Fulham, Stoke/Port Vale, Bristol City/Bristol Rovers, Notts Forest/Notts County...just a few I can think of off the top of my head.

Sshhh the Brighton thickos can't cope with the notion of being the smaller club in this marriage of inconvenience

 

[fat old seagull]

Sshhh the Brighton thickos can't cope with the notion of being the smaller club in this marriage of inconvenience

At this moment in time, less successful, I'll give you that. But smaller ? You can't be serious surely.

 

[Sweeney Todd]

At this moment in time, less successful, I'll give you that. But smaller ? You can't be serious surely.

In the season that Palace went up, our smallest crowd was higher than their biggest.

 

[XSE25]

At this moment in time, less successful, I'll give you that. But smaller ? You can't be serious surely.

At this moment in time ? hmmmmmm

In terms of size - there's not much difference between the clubs in truth.
Both could push on with successful top flight spells, both could stagnate\dip without.

 

[jimbob5]

In the season that Palace went up, our smallest crowd was higher than their biggest.

Yes it's tempting to crow about our support but let's not forget it was pretty disappointing back in the day when we were in the top division. What will happen when the mighty Whitehawk get in the league.

 

[XSE25]

In the season that Palace went up, our smallest crowd was higher than their biggest.

I'd expect Brighton to be getting larger crowds in the Championship - students, new residents (not many people moving to SE25 !) - probably not much difference in the core support though. Not that it really matters.

 

[CPFC G]

At this moment in time, less successful, I'll give you that. But smaller ? You can't be serious surely.

Seriously what makes Brighton a bigger club than Palace?

 

[COYP]

Seriously what makes Brighton a bigger club than Palace?

£100m stadium, £30m academy, higher gates, fanbase that would never need anything so tinpot as having the words up on the big screen because a large chunk of the fans don't know the words to their only song...oh wait, ignore those last two...

We're getting £70m a year (about to be increased yet again), playing some great football, have players knocking on the door of the England squad, have an atmosphere that even Brighton fans are forced to compliment with a manager who has Palace in his blood.

They have debts (has Uncle Tony's loans been converted into equity yet? If not Brighton's £130m in the red), sustained losses, an underperforming squad, and an atmosphere that doesn't exist.

That's what makes Brighton a bigger club than Palace...

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Yes it's tempting to crow about our support but let's not forget it was pretty disappointing back in the day when we were in the top division. What will happen when the mighty Whitehawk get in the league.

That will impact on Brighton as well as Palace don't forget though jimbob.

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Seriously what makes Brighton a bigger club than Palace?

Is that a serious question?

 

[Return of the Makh]

£100m stadium, £30m academy, higher gates, fanbase that would never need anything so tinpot as having the words up on the big screen because a large chunk of the fans don't know the words to their only song...oh wait, ignore those last two...

We're getting £70m a year (about to be increased yet again), playing some great football, have players knocking on the door of the England squad, have an atmosphere that even Brighton fans are forced to compliment with a manager who has Palace in his blood.

They have debts (has Uncle Tony's loans been converted into equity yet? If not Brighton's £130m in the red), sustained losses, an underperforming squad, and an atmosphere that doesn't exist.

That's what makes Brighton a bigger club than Palace...

I doubt next year this will apply.

 

[Megazone]

Seriously what makes Brighton a bigger club than Palace?

Nothing. It's all a figment of our imagination. There is no league table which proves which club is bigger. It's similar to claiming apples are better than pears and then arguing about it for a further 35 years.

Brighton and Palace are rival clubs, which more or less suggests they're both similar in size and potential.

You're fans are crap when the chips are down and ours aren't much better (Withdean on a tuesday night). God knows why we need to argue which club is bigger?