Getting it stocked in our own club shop would be a good f***ing start
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[Albion] Why do so many of our fans think we are still a 'small club'?
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TomandJerry
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- Oct 1, 2013
- 11,532
You've done it now, expect massive fans to be crawling out the woodwork
very similar size as us.
Well supported , 1 x FA Cup win , similar seasons top flight.
People on here over the past 25 years used to get misty eyed over the one or two 30,000 crowds they were part of. Rochdale in the 60s or whatever, Blackpool in 1977. The Derby league cup game etc. You can almost name them as I pretty much have done.
Now we get 30,000 every single week, and actually that is on the low side. Proof - if needed - that club size is quite fluid.
As for club size, I don't care. All I do care about is that my club reaches its potential, and apart from trophy wins it is finally doing that for the first time in my 45+ years supporting the club. League matches get sold out weeks in advance, to the extent that the ticket exchange is now absolutely vital to the running of the club.
As for club size, I mean who cares? Consider this: Portsmouth will be considered a bigger club than us by 90% of football fans you'll ever meet, yet they haven't averaged 30,000 since 1953. Yes there are reasons why they are considered a bigger club, but honestly even ignoring their all round bumpkin scumminess, who would you rather support these days?
Now we get 30,000 every single week, and actually that is on the low side. Proof - if needed - that club size is quite fluid.
As for club size, I don't care. All I do care about is that my club reaches its potential, and apart from trophy wins it is finally doing that for the first time in my 45+ years supporting the club. League matches get sold out weeks in advance, to the extent that the ticket exchange is now absolutely vital to the running of the club.
As for club size, I mean who cares? Consider this: Portsmouth will be considered a bigger club than us by 90% of football fans you'll ever meet, yet they haven't averaged 30,000 since 1953. Yes there are reasons why they are considered a bigger club, but honestly even ignoring their all round bumpkin scumminess, who would you rather support these days?
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Very much, historically. But again, look at our infrastructure, personnel and standing in the game compared to theirs. Club size is fluid but right now Ansu Fati isn't looking at Bradford and thinking "they may be division 4 but they've got potential to compete for a European spot"
Justice
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We are so massive now we can afford to ban our own fans for having the audacity to buy a ticket for a sons girlfriend, throw some beer ( we were all young once) and accidentally step over the advertising board whilst celebrating a goal with a player.
i agree infrastructure , personnel and standing which could be traded off with the major trophy win of theirs.
I'd rather be us but size wise , pretty similar
I remember my first visit to Zanzibar in the 90s. It appeared 1 in 3 men were wearing (knockoff) shirts. I was disappointed to see someone walking around in a palace shirt (I think they must have had a popular African player at the time as they were also lower league) and could not find a Brighton top having scoured the market (ended up with a green ajax shirt - which every ajax fan I've shown says has never existed).
Times have changed, a couple of months ago, my ex brought me this back from Prague.
(Should we start a tatt thread?)
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every time I go through Gatwick I pop into the sports shop to see if they will finally stock our kit. still no. They have Rangers kit, but not ours!
[Edit: I should have read ahead before posting this ... still it feels like a lost opportunity, so close to home]
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TomandJerry
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- Oct 1, 2013
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Funny looking Russian dolls....
Frankie
Put him in the curry
I got this lovely item from Gibraltar well somebody got it for me as a gift,we certainly are starting to make a name for ourselves as everyone's second team according to Sky.
serendipity
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- Feb 14, 2012
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Interesting, re Sussex and beyond now being Albionised. When I was at school, in Burgess Hill, in the late 60s-early 70s, we all supported the Albion and a London based team. Mine was West Ham. We went to all of the Albion home matches, and occasionally to home matches of our London based team, splitting up at Victoria, to go to the various, different grounds, and meeting back at Victoria after the game. Most kids (not me) identified themselves as supporters of the London club, more than Albion fans. I suspect that this has now changed, quite drastically.
The red pepper kid
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- Dec 30, 2014
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what a stupid statement
fly high
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ER, I'd say we have always been the number one club in Sussex. I think maybe you mean more fans living in Sussex support one of the' big 6', well they are very much still around. As for overseas fans they will soon move on when/if we fall or when their favourite player moves on. Sell Mitoma & all those Japanese fans will disappear overnight to his new club.
GT49er
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Flounce
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- Nov 15, 2006
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But it’s OK to let opposition fans flood the 1901 Mayo Wynne Baxter lounge which was supposed to be an Albion fans upmarket lounge. So over crowded now that you won’t get a seat unless you arrive two hours before kick off. So much for the guff on the launch of 1901 on which the facilities, for Albion fans, have been downgraded on every renewal as the club try and boost the corporate side of the club in the pursuit of money.
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KZNSeagull
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All this obsession about size. We are a grower not a shower* 
* pronounced to rhyme with grower if you hadn't realised
* pronounced to rhyme with grower if you hadn't realised
Fitting that groß should be the biggest doll.
- May 8, 2018
- 9,278
Well you can get a saints shirt at Gatwick but not an Albion one