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Albumen

Albumen

Don't wait for me!
Jan 19, 2010
11,495
Brighton - In your face
Next season there'll be a headline for every word from CH, pressurising him to get the sack if we start losing some games, and every movement our player does off the pitch. Every columnist will suddenly have a view what's best for our club.

You'll be wishing we were left alone. Enjoy the silence.
 


portlock seagull

portlock seagull

Why? Why us?
Jul 28, 2003
17,071
But everything counts in large amounts?
 




Albion Dan

Albion Dan

Banned
Jul 8, 2003
11,125
Peckham
Some people are never happy. Feels like We've been on tv more this season than the previous 20 combined!!


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edna krabappel

edna krabappel

Well-known member
NSC Patron
Jul 7, 2003
47,221
If you go on social media after every episode of MOTD or the Channel 5 Football League highlights programme, you'll find fans of every single club moaning that "We'll be on last as usual", "THIRTY SECONDS? IS THAT ALL?" and so on. They can't all be missing out, surely?

Personally, I think we've had plenty of coverage: we've had enough bloody games moved to suit TV for starters. I've seen supporters of other clubs referring to us as "media darlings" (admittedly this usually comes from Northerners who are biologically programmed to whine about "The London Media" and their blatant favouritism of teams based within 50 miles of the capital).


Frankly I'd anticipate wall to wall coverage if we make it: the media love a rags-to-riches story. Look at how they fawned over Plucky Little Bournemouth. Swansea, Hull and Burnley have all recovered from dire times to make the Premier League and received plenty of credit for it at the time. It might have taken us twenty years, so a bit longer than the others, but the whole Archer- Bellotti- Gillingham-Withdean thing will be mentioned in pretty much all the national media outlets when the time comes.

Sure, certain clubs will always receive greater coverage than their league position may justify, because these people have to sell papers and advertising and Sky contracts, and they know Newcastle, and The Leeds United for example have huge, gullible fan bases. It doesn't mean we're missing out though. Our time will come...
 


C

CP 0 3 BHA

Well-known member
Nov 28, 2003
2,256
Northants
Reaching the Promised Land 20 years after being on the verge of oblivion will be too good a story for the nationals not to be all over it once we are over the line.
 






LamieRobertson

LamieRobertson

Not awoke
Feb 3, 2008
46,675
SHOREHAM BY SEA
portlock seagull said:
Watched it. Great wasn't it?!
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Yes...i picked it up after the football...missed the first half hour ...but i saw all of the concert in Scotland (?) and it moved me enough to go and get my headphones so i could turn the volume up without annoying the rest of the household...very impressive!
 


Badger

Badger

NOT the Honey Badger
NSC Patron
May 8, 2007
12,779
Toronto
I won't be happy until I see an Albion history MONTAGE on Football Focus, with some poetry read over the top.
 


Wrong-Direction

Wrong-Direction

Well-known member
Mar 10, 2013
13,417
Talk sport were talking about us throughout the day

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warmleyseagull

Well-known member
Apr 17, 2011
4,219
Beaminster, Dorset
Albumen said:
Next season there'll be a headline for every word from CH, pressurising him to get the sack if we start losing some games, and every movement our player does off the pitch. Every columnist will suddenly have a view what's best for our club.

You'll be wishing we were left alone. Enjoy the silence.
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Personally I have become all green as in praying O'Neill takes Ireland to 2018 World Cup. He is bound to get at least 2 years after that so that keeps danger from that angle away.
 


Not Andy Naylor

Not Andy Naylor

Well-known member
Dec 12, 2007
8,798
Seven Dials
edna krabappel said:
If you go on social media after every episode of MOTD or the Channel 5 Football League highlights programme, you'll find fans of every single club moaning that "We'll be on last as usual", "THIRTY SECONDS? IS THAT ALL?" and so on. They can't all be missing out, surely?

Personally, I think we've had plenty of coverage: we've had enough bloody games moved to suit TV for starters. I've seen supporters of other clubs referring to us as "media darlings" (admittedly this usually comes from Northerners who are biologically programmed to whine about "The London Media" and their blatant favouritism of teams based within 50 miles of the capital).


Frankly I'd anticipate wall to wall coverage if we make it: the media love a rags-to-riches story. Look at how they fawned over Plucky Little Bournemouth. Swansea, Hull and Burnley have all recovered from dire times to make the Premier League and received plenty of credit for it at the time. It might have taken us twenty years, so a bit longer than the others, but the whole Archer- Bellotti- Gillingham-Withdean thing will be mentioned in pretty much all the national media outlets when the time comes.

Sure, certain clubs will always receive greater coverage than their league position may justify, because these people have to sell papers and advertising and Sky contracts, and they know Newcastle, and The Leeds United for example have huge, gullible fan bases. It doesn't mean we're missing out though. Our time will come...
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Plucky little Bournemouth got less coverage in their promotion season than we have this time. Part of the reason is that it's so far from London, where about half of all the national papers' sportswriters live. And that's also the case for us to a lesser extent. If we persist in 9am press conferences next season then only agencies and people like me will go because Lancing is a lot further to go than the London clubs' HQs, which are mostly scattered along the M25. When Norwich were in the Premier League there were seldom any features about them in the Saturday or Sunday papers because nobody wanted to drive up the A11 with a 6am start to do them. Ditto Southampton and Bournemouth this season.
 


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dangull

Well-known member
Feb 24, 2013
5,110
Jim White and guests were quite complimentary of Brighton on talk sport today.

'they play entertaining football, and will hold their own next season. Will be a welcome addition to replace Sunderland and Boro with their negative football'

Cant argue with that.
 










looney

looney

Banned
Jul 7, 2003
15,652
I see it as media coverage as a go to thing like clichés, you want decent Albion coverage you go to sky or ITV, want to be ignored? Go to the BBC.

One problem is ingrained low expectations among fans and further, all the years bouncing along the bottom. Fans expectations will rise before anyone elses but it still is a major problem.
 






El Presidente

El Presidente

The ONLY Gay in Brighton
Helpful Moderator
Jul 5, 2003
39,707
Pattknull med Haksprut
looney said:
I see it as media coverage as a go to thing like clichés, you want decent Albion coverage you go to sky or ITV, want to be ignored? Go to the BBC.

One problem is ingrained low expectations among fans and further, all the years bouncing along the bottom. Fans expectations will rise before anyone elses but it still is a major problem.
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Agreed, so long as you ignore the coverage we get on Radio Sussex, Five Live and BBC1, there's hardly any mention of the Albion on Auntie. Radio Coventry, for example, never give us a mention, and don't get me started on BBC2, 3 or 4. Clearly a conspiracy against our club.
 


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