[Football] Giving up my season ticket.
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There were a huge amount more of midweek games in the EFL
Cheeky bugger; a win now and again, especially at home isn’t too much to wish for is it?
Once you start blaming your ‘customers’ for your shortcomings, you are in trouble.
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Totally understand this. If I didn't have young kids that are getting really interested in Brighton, I think I'd do the same. I almost always enjoy a day at non-league football more than I do a day at the Amex. Less expensive, less rules and regulations, less dicks, less hassle getting there / home and less disappointment at the result.
If my kids weren't fussed then I think I'd go to non-league games most week and then do one day a year at the Amex as a Premier League day-tripping fan. Might even buy a half and half scarf.
el punal
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“Just wondering is it just me?” - Yes, it’s you.
As a fan of any football club your hopes and desires are for your club to be the best they possibly can be. If twenty odd years ago you were watching the Albion play in League Two on a cold, wet evening up north and were told that they would end up in the Premier League you would have laughed your head off.
Sorry, but I find your reasoning absurd. As in any division we play in you take the rough with the smooth. The Premier League is the toughest league in the world and more than not we will be struggling against some of the “top” sides, that’s the nature of the beast. Accept it, it makes the successful days taste even sweeter.
I can’t even begin to understand your description of “sanitised support”. It definitely wasn’t that when I saw the Albion at Liverpool, or at the 98th minute at Southampton, or our second half performance at home to ManCity.
Still, if your gig is to watch non-league football along with one man and his dog so be it. Best of luck and all that.
It’s poor. The only unified song these days “GP’s blue and white fkn army”
Something about the Amex NS has never quite worked. A million miles away from the big Kops being created at new or refurbished grounds, with many of the raucous fans banned in the early Amex years by an army of heavy handed stewards. Whilst other clubs weren’t so anal, turning a bit of a blind eye, encouraging the 12th man.
You only have to look at the North Stand to see why it doesn't work. It looks like a tiny afterthought.
Gabbafella
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- Aug 22, 2012
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I've waited the best part of 30 years to get a season ticket, I've either not been financially stable enough to afford one or worked Saturdays so there wasn't any point, and I have to say that so far it's been a huge disappointment.
This is by far the most frustrated I've ever felt as an Albion fan. Last night was an absolute shit show, we played like tossers, no atmosphere, the ref was a joke, and I know it's an overused cliché but I genuinely can't see where our next win is coming from.
Premier League football is soulless, it's purely there for making rich people even richer. The wages, the transfer fees, it's all disgusting and I'm very quickly falling out of love with football.
I hope something changes my mind because I do love the Albion, the club has been a huge part of my life and it's been a bizarre journey over the years, but the passion is definitely waining.
This is by far the most frustrated I've ever felt as an Albion fan. Last night was an absolute shit show, we played like tossers, no atmosphere, the ref was a joke, and I know it's an overused cliché but I genuinely can't see where our next win is coming from.
Premier League football is soulless, it's purely there for making rich people even richer. The wages, the transfer fees, it's all disgusting and I'm very quickly falling out of love with football.
I hope something changes my mind because I do love the Albion, the club has been a huge part of my life and it's been a bizarre journey over the years, but the passion is definitely waining.
nwgull
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This isn't a facetious or rhetorical question, but what has Barber specifically done that has stopped you from enjoying the social - presumably meeting up with your mates on a match day and enjoying a few pints before and after the game? I haven't found it a problem at home or away games in the 9 years he's been CEO.
This.
Look, I'm 63 and it is a 160 mile round trip for me and, bad fan, I watched us on the telly last night (albeit this was due to being covid-averse). I could easily convince myself that for 1000 reasons it is time to pack it in.
However....I have never had such a great time at the football as I do, now. It is easy to forget how shit it all was way back when, even though it seemed exciting, with all the yoof, the fighting, the constant jeopardy, and the endless stream of goals against mediocre opposition. Occasionally we would play a decent side and they would throw us through the windows. We pretended we didn't know our place but we did really.
Honestly. All this flouncing and hankering for simpler times is a bit like saying that the relationship with the missus can be a bit of a challenge so I'm going to move into the shed and rely on forraging in the garden for food, talking to myself, and *******.
Dave the hatosaurus
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I can see you now on that day trip to the amex in february hunkered down in the south east corner with your BHA/palarse half and halfer getting dogs abuse from both sets of fans ..............happy days !
OK, I'm going to ask people how they felt when we won promotion to the EPL. It was only a few years ago. Did you think 'that's ruined it now'? No. Nobody thought that. But if anyone thought life would be easy thereafter they are fools. I expected us to be relegated immediately. The fact we are still here 5 years on without ever having been in the bottom 3 is astonishing, frankly.
This is a different world. The professionalism, the demands, the scrutiny, the inevitable struggle for a small town club like Brighton with no history (of success). So the solution is what? Moan about the lack of goals and then give up? Complain you can't have a fag and a fight because there are cameras everywhere? Watch Southwick instead?
Beware grumpy old man syndrome. We all get it (even women get it). That's fine. If you want to flounce, that's OK. But please don't smash the place up on the way out.
This is a different world. The professionalism, the demands, the scrutiny, the inevitable struggle for a small town club like Brighton with no history (of success). So the solution is what? Moan about the lack of goals and then give up? Complain you can't have a fag and a fight because there are cameras everywhere? Watch Southwick instead?
Beware grumpy old man syndrome. We all get it (even women get it). That's fine. If you want to flounce, that's OK. But please don't smash the place up on the way out.
el punal
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F*** me!! What a load of whinging, moaning minnies this thread has produced. We’re in the Premier League, going through a bit of a rough patch with a load of key players out, and yet we’ve achieved the highest position in our history. But no, that’s still not good enough. It’s too sanitised - whatever that means. There’s no atmosphere. We’re customers not fans. Barber out. Potter’s not doing right thing. And so on and so forth.
FFS people!! Get a grip. Most of you sound like you’re doing auditions for Arsenal Fan TV and God knows they’re whiney enough. Know what I mean blud.
FFS people!! Get a grip. Most of you sound like you’re doing auditions for Arsenal Fan TV and God knows they’re whiney enough. Know what I mean blud.
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
F*** me!! What a load of whinging, moaning minnies this thread has produced. We’re in the Premier League, going through a bit of a rough patch with a load of key players out, and yet we’ve achieved the highest position in our history. But no, that’s still not good enough. It’s too sanitised - whatever that means. There’s no atmosphere. We’re customers not fans. Barber out. Potter’s not doing right thing. And so on and so forth.
FFS people!! Get a grip. Most of you sound like you’re doing auditions for Arsenal Fan TV and God knows they’re whiney enough. Know what I mean blud.
Aaaaand breathe.....
el punal
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Don't even think about it.
Giving up that is.
What you do in your shed, ******* or otherwise, is up to you.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
This grumpy old woman said, at the time, fans would enjoy the journey more than the destination.
It's a combination of covid, restrictions (size of bag, bottle tops etc etc) travel, cold, times of kick offs, poor results, and many factors.
My mojo is currently at 1 out of 10.
el punal
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Heart rate back to normal, steady breathing, chilling out - I now feel completely sanitised.
Perfidious Albion
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I do see the points that others are making , I don’t like the Premiership very much. Call me a bad fan if you like but my disability, lack of an able bodied carer and being covid at-risk (so I am told ) has stopped me from attending live games .
I have always preferred lower leagues, but what do you do? You want our club to be winning and if they do that the get promoted and end up in in the Prem…..
Come what may, watching other clubs , be it Liverpool or Lewes is good but never grabs my heart. The fact is I am Albion . Can’t change it if I wanted to and whatever rubbish league they are in , I will follow them .
I’d be there every week if I could
I have always preferred lower leagues, but what do you do? You want our club to be winning and if they do that the get promoted and end up in in the Prem…..
Come what may, watching other clubs , be it Liverpool or Lewes is good but never grabs my heart. The fact is I am Albion . Can’t change it if I wanted to and whatever rubbish league they are in , I will follow them .
I’d be there every week if I could