You may have over-inferred and taken it too literally, but the point stands: a large (but admittedly unquantifiable) number of Amex STHs are not 100% Brighton fans, and if they hadn't bought tickets and didn't attend then the ground would be much emptier.
But that happens every game.
We know that our support didn't magically increase six-fold almost overnight. Not every Amex STH was a Withdean regular or a lapsed fan who stopped going to the Goldstone in about 1981. A large number of Amex STHs don't have Brighton as their first club. They go...
Exactly. Also some people are never happy are they? Fans of big clubs don't attend the actual games and they're 'plastics'. So they make an effort and go 'above and beyond' to see their team (and we've all snuck into home areas when we couldn't get official tickets for the away end) and they're...