vegster
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I remember the Palace game in 75-76, all ticket on a tuesday night I think. 33,000 sell out. Had to stand on the East.
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I remember the Palace game in 75-76, all ticket on a tuesday night I think. 33,000 sell out. Had to stand on the East.
Dougie
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Vegas Seagull
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Arsenal had two choices 60k or 70k, they bottled it & went for the 60 and every game for a decade has sold out with £1,000 ST...turning down £10/20m a year
Mackenzie
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Do you think that prices are too expensive at The Amex now then BoF ?
Working class pride
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dont tell him that mate, its a blindness to support a press myth that forms opinion, dont tell him my family remember 30,000 plus against Rochdale in div 3 also.. but the crowds since archer are all he remebers
Barrel of Fun
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You mean the season we averaged 19,000 when entry was dirt cheap? Massive.
Pretty pink fairy
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Pretty pink fairy
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You really are tiresome the way you bang on about our crowds. They've been good at times. They've also been piss poor. We got to the Championship playoffs in 1991 and our gates were 8,000 - which was about 19th best in the division.
Working class pride
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I remember Sunderland and Newcastle getting 15000 crowds and Brighton being the 11th best supported side in the country (in the late 70s), so compare like with like, we were 3rd division, no success so yes, 30,000 against say Rochdale in div 3 was pretty massive, really mate, you and all the "we wont fill the Amex brigade" because you didnt remember the Albion before Archer have been proved so wrong, so just think about it. When you do, remember to come on here and list the clubs you think would get 30,000 for a relegation scrap in December against Fulham, after you have made your list, look at it and think of the lubs missing from it. You dont have a clue about this club, and that is the worst thing that Archer did to this club.
Creaky
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I like Ric Turner's comments in his piece in the Mail - sums up my position as well
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Imagine being a grown man and mocking another club for the size of their crowds? I don’t feel superior to, say, a fan of Bury because they only get 3,000 at their games. You’d be an idiot if you did.
Rather than resorting to cheap point scoring, fans across the country should be working together to address the real issues at hand here: namely the rampant commercialisation of the game, and exponential ticket price increases that are preventing many working-class fans from attending football matches."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...eats-Man-City-game-against-Bayern-Munich.html
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Imagine being a grown man and mocking another club for the size of their crowds? I don’t feel superior to, say, a fan of Bury because they only get 3,000 at their games. You’d be an idiot if you did.
Rather than resorting to cheap point scoring, fans across the country should be working together to address the real issues at hand here: namely the rampant commercialisation of the game, and exponential ticket price increases that are preventing many working-class fans from attending football matches."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...eats-Man-City-game-against-Bayern-Munich.html
Working class pride
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Yes that was a bad year, but even then the club had been in decline for what 9 years, and crowds of course were already down in that period. Around that time palace finished 3rd in the top flight and were getting 14000. Im sorry you find it tiresome
Working class pride
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Im not mocking just asking people to stop buying into the northern fans myth that all, but as the press say, never let the truth get in the way of a good story
No they weren't - they were on the up. Just not at the Albion. Oh and I can't be arsed to check, but I'd bet any money Palace were averaging well over 14k (which incidentally is nearly twice what we were averaging at the time). It's this re-writing of history that makes you so tiresome - because you talk bollocks.
Superphil
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Where did all these wonderful, faithful, Brighton fans **** off to in the seasons after 1991 at a Wembley then?
Think I remember more like 3000 in division three back then.
Think I remember more like 3000 in division three back then.
Working class pride
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what is rewriting history, brighton were the 11th best supported club in the late 70s, crowds dipped in the 80s like everywhere, albion did go on the skids from 84 onwards and have only now got back on its feet. Its the serial, "wont fill the amex" who still whine on despite being proved wrong that I find tiresome
Working class pride
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I was a season ticket holder, it was not 3000 but the Albion was in almost terminal decline, and we all knew it. Where did they go, well thousands of them protested, marched, invaded pitches, some played fiddle (Attila in the West Stand) and much much more. One heck of a support.
Yes we were 11th best - in 1978, nearly 35 years ago. Where were Palace ? Ah yes, above us.
We then spent 1989 to 1997 getting some of the shittest crowds you could imagine a city of this size ever attracting at a time when crowds ROSE. As superphil says, 3,500 for the visit of Chesterfield in league one on a Tuesday night in 1995 for example. So yes, Palace have times of shit gates, but so have we. So please, STFU about it - because you are proper boring.
Barrel of Fun
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Absolutely. How many minimum wage hours would one have to work to meet the ticket price. Five?