[Albion] Your smallest ever away crowd (that you were part of).

[Steve Foster]

They have just announced that there are 33 Crawley fans at the match at Crewe. Fair play to them on a long trip oop north on a Tuesday night in February.

So what game (BHA) were you at where there were very few Seagull fans?

 

[Grassman]

I think it was 2010, the Albion away at Colchester United, so not that long ago from these glamourous Premier League days. It was a freezing cold Monday night and the match was on Sky. I don’t think there were more than 200 of us. It was a sh*t turnout, it was a sh*t game, it was a complete waste of time for everyone involved. Tell that to the kids these days and they won’t believe you.

*and unlike the match talked about below, it was a league match.

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

78 of us made it to Cardiff in the league cup under Wilkins.

Lost in the last minute of extra time.

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[smartferndale]

Southend United in the Freight Rover trophy a couple of years ago I think it was reported as 75 but in a friendly pre season 54 in attendance.

 

[AZ Gull]

Possibly Newcastle Town in a pre-season friendly in August 1998.

 

[Jack Straw]

Finn Harps, Republic of Ireland. Year 2,000. Pre-season tour. 9 of us I believe.

 

[rdigs24]

Away at Middlesbrough in the League cup. I think it was something like 1994. I was on the 1 coach that travelled with something like 30 fans. The weather was horrendous and we lost 5-0 at Ayresome park. I recall arriving back to the Goldstone at 4am where I then walked back to Worthing as it was hours before the next train.... Would I do it again? Definitely as it's a memory I'll never forget

 

[BensGrandad]

Not sure how many but it was very few away to Walsall under Brian Clough and the match was called off due to the weather.

 

[big nuts]

Swansea away late nineties on a Friday night. 2-2 and Ross Johnson scores his only two goals for the club in the same game. You could count the people and it was sixty something from memory.

 

[Mackenzie]

Probably Swansea away in the league cup https://www.11v11.com/matches/swansea-city-v-brighton-and-hove-albion-11-august-2009-285296/

We all signed the front of a single programme, probably 40ish of us.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Quite a few northern midweek away games in the gory years where there was one supporters club coach plus a few hardy souls who made their own way and a handful of northern based Albion fans. Often only a couple of hundred max in those days.

Seem to remember Doncaster bringing 32 fans to the Goldstone as we were able to count them quite easily.

 

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

Pre season friendly at Torquay, circa 2008. A smattering off Albion fans enjoying Graeme Smith in goal and Craig Davies coming on as a sub and getting sent off. Just 0-1.

 

[Timbo]

Walsall always in some weird cup. Lost 5 nil and there was genuinely players playing for us I’d never heard of.

 

[hart's shirt]

Swansea v Albion in the LDV Vans Trophy Round 1 Southern section in October 2001.

We won 2-1 thanks to a late Lee Steele effort. Maybe 50 or so in the Away end behind the goal?

Albion: Kuipers, Pethick, Watson, Crosby, Wicks, Jones, Melton, Pitcher, Rogers, Lehmann, Steele.

 

[Bodian]

Blackburn as short a time ago as 2013. Evening match, perishing cold - ice on the cobbled streets coming from the station. Around 120 of us to see Spanish Dave equalise with a penalty - which was our first shot on target (and last kick of the match).

 

[TottonSeagull]

Wrexham in the FA Cup replay in 2012 on a Wednesday night. Couldn't have been more than 50 of us!

 

[Wilka]

Swansea in the paint pot or Hartlepool fa cup replay midweek. Lost both. Obviously

 

[Berty23]

Grim day playmouth away. We won 3-0. Codner x2 and Nogan. Probably about 1993.

I follow brackley in national league north. We took about 2 to Hereford earlier this season. They had a decent crowd That day so when we equalised it was brilliant being one of a tiny handful cheering.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Away at Middlesbrough in the League cup. I think it was something like 1994. I was on the 1 coach that travelled with something like 30 fans. The weather was horrendous and we lost 5-0 at Ayresome park. I recall arriving back to the Goldstone at 4am where I then walked back to Worthing as it was hours before the next train.... Would I do it again? Definitely as it's a memory I'll never forget

I went to Middlesbrough mid week when the heating broke was this the one? Drove into Luton to get another bus which was worse.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Liverpool in the league when we won 1-0 there wasn’t many. Year prior to the famous cup win