saltash seagull
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dont know what hull's average crowd is but i know they've had some massive crowds at times this season but so would we have done if we'd been playing at falmer in the 2nd championship season
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n1 gull
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Have you seen the state of their bloody pitch, unless he's going there to play rugby league, he won't have a chance of scoring
Brighton Breezy
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Brighton and Hove actually has a bigger population but only just.
Hull are a big club because they can take 9,000 to a mid week away game in the second division.
They have a nice ground a good support base.
They are a bigger clun then us these days.
Hull are a big club because they can take 9,000 to a mid week away game in the second division.
They have a nice ground a good support base.
They are a bigger clun then us these days.
dougdeep
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Richie Morris said:
Brighton Breezy
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Of course they are.
They have a good squad, can attract players from Premiership clubs like Barmby and Thelwell.
They get gates over 10,000 people higher then ours and they have a lovely ground which is due to be made bigger.
They have a good squad, can attract players from Premiership clubs like Barmby and Thelwell.
They get gates over 10,000 people higher then ours and they have a lovely ground which is due to be made bigger.
Its a hypothetical question of course, but if we had our ground I would expect our away following to go up as a) new stadium = more funds for team = more success
b) bigger stadium = more people turning up = more people being bit by the bug and wanting to go all over the country wanting to watch the team.
This is whats happening with Hull, and its whats gonna happen with us when we finally get Falmer. Therefore they are probably a bigger club than us at the moment, but when we get Falmer we will be on roughly equal footing with them.
b) bigger stadium = more people turning up = more people being bit by the bug and wanting to go all over the country wanting to watch the team.
This is whats happening with Hull, and its whats gonna happen with us when we finally get Falmer. Therefore they are probably a bigger club than us at the moment, but when we get Falmer we will be on roughly equal footing with them.
anyway its the same old cack really,so all we need to do is get this bloody stadium.
Tommy Cook reporting
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See, there you go again Richie, with this Hull are bigger than us shite. I may be thick, but I don't understand.
Okay, look at it this way, when we were in a similar position to them, on the up, support increasing dramatically, a chairman prepared to invest etc. it was 1977/8. Then we had 25,000 crowds on a regular basis. Therefor we are a bigger club than them. End of story. This moment in time is their best ever period, so they are bound to get good gates.
Hardly surprising that they get 10,000 more than us at home at the moment, is it. What with our ground only holding 7,000.
Here's an idea. If they want to make you cream your pants so much, why not support them? Me, I say the Albion are a big club. Waiting to get bigger on the granting of approval for a new ground......
Okay, look at it this way, when we were in a similar position to them, on the up, support increasing dramatically, a chairman prepared to invest etc. it was 1977/8. Then we had 25,000 crowds on a regular basis. Therefor we are a bigger club than them. End of story. This moment in time is their best ever period, so they are bound to get good gates.
Hardly surprising that they get 10,000 more than us at home at the moment, is it. What with our ground only holding 7,000.
Here's an idea. If they want to make you cream your pants so much, why not support them? Me, I say the Albion are a big club. Waiting to get bigger on the granting of approval for a new ground......
smudge
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HELLO!!!!!!!
Hull took so many to Shef Weds cos they haven't played them for f***ing years & it's a local derby.
Hull bigger than Brighton? Do me a favour!
Oh yes. where are the nice parts of Hull.
(The women are minging too!)
Hull took so many to Shef Weds cos they haven't played them for f***ing years & it's a local derby.
Hull bigger than Brighton? Do me a favour!
Oh yes. where are the nice parts of Hull.
(The women are minging too!)
Tommy Cook reporting
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No Weezle, you're wrong. I was talking about the past to illustrate a point. Did the fact that we were getting bigger gates than Sheffield United, Leicester, Southampton, Sunderland and Middlesboro in the late 70s mean we were a bigger club than them? No. It didn't.
No Tommy, YOU'RE wrong!
This is one of those age old pointless arguments! How do you measure who is the biggest club? By current gates? By potential gates? By annual turnover? By league position?
Perhaps in the late 70s we were bigger than Sheffield United, Leicester, Southampton, Sunderland and Middlesboro, just because we aren't now, doesn't mean we weren't then and it doesn't mean we won't be int he future.
Look at the teams that were in the Top division in the fifties. The giants like Blackpool - where are they now? Blimey, Bolton were huge and then faded away into nothing before making their comeback. Hell even Acrington Stanley were a big club once. Just because a club is big now doesn't mean they always will be does it?
Man U have been the biggest club in Britain for years, much bigger than Chelsea, but that doesn't necessary stay static does it? Liverpool were once the biggest; not anymore.
You have to judge things as they are today, not by living in the past, and by today's standard Hull have a lot more going for them than we do. However, this doesn't mean that this won't change in the near future!
This is one of those age old pointless arguments! How do you measure who is the biggest club? By current gates? By potential gates? By annual turnover? By league position?
Perhaps in the late 70s we were bigger than Sheffield United, Leicester, Southampton, Sunderland and Middlesboro, just because we aren't now, doesn't mean we weren't then and it doesn't mean we won't be int he future.
Look at the teams that were in the Top division in the fifties. The giants like Blackpool - where are they now? Blimey, Bolton were huge and then faded away into nothing before making their comeback. Hell even Acrington Stanley were a big club once. Just because a club is big now doesn't mean they always will be does it?
Man U have been the biggest club in Britain for years, much bigger than Chelsea, but that doesn't necessary stay static does it? Liverpool were once the biggest; not anymore.
You have to judge things as they are today, not by living in the past, and by today's standard Hull have a lot more going for them than we do. However, this doesn't mean that this won't change in the near future!
i have seen seasons were hull's average attendance was less than 3 or 4 thousand. and that was not to long ago. the only time we averaged less than that was when we were playing miles away at gillingham.
i know our attendances are not brilliant at the moment but then who would get great attendances in a ground as good as withdean. hull wouldn't! boothferry park had quite a high capacity but their attendances at the latter end of their stay there were pretty poor.
i know our attendances are not brilliant at the moment but then who would get great attendances in a ground as good as withdean. hull wouldn't! boothferry park had quite a high capacity but their attendances at the latter end of their stay there were pretty poor.
Tommy Cook reporting
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Okay, Weezle, I agree it is a pointless argument!
However, the point that I was trying to make all along is that too many people (Albion fans that is!) talk us down. That is what I find so irritating, coming on here saying how great Hull are, what potential they have, so much bigger than us etc.
Whatever, I still think it is crap, they may have potential but they have never reached it. Whereas at times, we have - although not enough!
If people sit on here and talk up a club like Hull as being bigger than us (who as I'll say again have won NOTHING, been NOWHERE and are currently NOWHERE!) then it is no wonder that Government inspectors call us a provincial club.
WE, that's us, NOT Hull City can be a massive club. We can certainly be the biggest on the South Coast - historically when doing well, we always had bigger gates than Pompey or The Saints. Let's not forget that, eh!
However, the point that I was trying to make all along is that too many people (Albion fans that is!) talk us down. That is what I find so irritating, coming on here saying how great Hull are, what potential they have, so much bigger than us etc.
Whatever, I still think it is crap, they may have potential but they have never reached it. Whereas at times, we have - although not enough!
If people sit on here and talk up a club like Hull as being bigger than us (who as I'll say again have won NOTHING, been NOWHERE and are currently NOWHERE!) then it is no wonder that Government inspectors call us a provincial club.
WE, that's us, NOT Hull City can be a massive club. We can certainly be the biggest on the South Coast - historically when doing well, we always had bigger gates than Pompey or The Saints. Let's not forget that, eh!
Hydro Driven
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He should come back to Brighton!
Brighton Breezy
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They are a bigger club then us at the moment.
Of that there is no doubt.
Of that there is no doubt.
The Laughing Bluebird
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Some attendance statistics for you. Brighton and Hull have been in the same division for fifteen of the last thirty seasons. Of those fifteen seasons, two were the seasons Albion spent in exile at Gillingham, so the crowd figures for those years are not relevant and I won't bother to list them. These are the average attendance figures for the other thirteen seasons (with the clubs' final league positions in brackets):
77/78 (Div 2): Brighton (4th) 25,265, Hull (22nd) 6,835
85/86 (Div 2): Brighton (11th) 9,726, Hull (6th) 7,672
86/87 (Div 2): Brighton (22nd) 8,293, Hull (14th) 6,683
88/89 (Div 2): Brighton (19th) 9,048, Hull (21st) 6,666
89/90 (Div 2): Brighton (18th) 8,679, Hull (14th) 6,518
90/91 (Div 2): Brighton (6th) 8,386, Hull (24th) 6,165
92/93 (Div 2): Brighton (9th) 6,710, Hull (20th) 4,672
93/94 (Div 2): Brighton (14th) 7,730, Hull (9th) 5,943
94/95 (Div 2): Brighton (16th) 7,563, Hull (8th) 4,721
95/96 (Div 2): Brighton (23rd) 5,255, Hull (24th) 3,803
96/97 (Div 3): Brighton (23rd) 5,844, Hull (17th) 3,413
99/00 (Div 3): Brighton (11th) 5,740, Hull (14th) 5,736
00/01 (Div 3): Hull (6th) 6,684, Brighton (1st) 6,591
Therefore, over the last 30 years, Hull have recorded higher average attendance figures than Brighton on only three occasions when the teams have been in the same division, regardless of their final league positions. Two were the seasons Albion spent at Gillingham, while the other was the Third Division championship season when Albion's crowds were restricted due to the small capacity of the Withdean Stadium.
77/78 (Div 2): Brighton (4th) 25,265, Hull (22nd) 6,835
85/86 (Div 2): Brighton (11th) 9,726, Hull (6th) 7,672
86/87 (Div 2): Brighton (22nd) 8,293, Hull (14th) 6,683
88/89 (Div 2): Brighton (19th) 9,048, Hull (21st) 6,666
89/90 (Div 2): Brighton (18th) 8,679, Hull (14th) 6,518
90/91 (Div 2): Brighton (6th) 8,386, Hull (24th) 6,165
92/93 (Div 2): Brighton (9th) 6,710, Hull (20th) 4,672
93/94 (Div 2): Brighton (14th) 7,730, Hull (9th) 5,943
94/95 (Div 2): Brighton (16th) 7,563, Hull (8th) 4,721
95/96 (Div 2): Brighton (23rd) 5,255, Hull (24th) 3,803
96/97 (Div 3): Brighton (23rd) 5,844, Hull (17th) 3,413
99/00 (Div 3): Brighton (11th) 5,740, Hull (14th) 5,736
00/01 (Div 3): Hull (6th) 6,684, Brighton (1st) 6,591
Therefore, over the last 30 years, Hull have recorded higher average attendance figures than Brighton on only three occasions when the teams have been in the same division, regardless of their final league positions. Two were the seasons Albion spent at Gillingham, while the other was the Third Division championship season when Albion's crowds were restricted due to the small capacity of the Withdean Stadium.
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Bluejuice
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My point proven with lovely stats to back it all up.
Thank you Mr Bluebird
Thank you Mr Bluebird
crawley jets ARE the only rugby league side in sussex !Richie Morris said:
or WERE the only rugby league side in sussex we moved to reigate at the start of last summer and folded after just a few games and before anyone asks yes i was in the natonal conference winning team !
*breathes on his nail and brushes them on his shirt*
