The Derby home crowd/tickets sold/seats remaining thread [Merged]

Simster said:

You do talk rubbish. In the very FIRST year at Withdean, we had a crowd of 5049 (nearly 1,000 under capacity) for the home defeat v Rochdale. .

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knocky1 said:

Are you sure? I counted the dots at 22 minutes and 32 seconds past 8 and there were 2,987 left.

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Mellor 3 Ward 4 said:

Was that the Friday Night game when the level of rain was of Biblical proportions?

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Wilka said:

Might it have been a mistake for the club to say in the initial communication that tickets were unlikely to go on general sale. Could have put a few casual fans off

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saafend_seagull said:

Should have made that clearer!

I can't see how the form of the opponent would impact anything when we are probably in the top 4 form in the league.

Could add the buzz of a last minute winner could help bring a few extra.

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Simster said:

Yes. And we were shit enduring a barren spell of results.

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Working class pride said:

You are so hard on this football club. Actually 8000 gates at the time was not too bad, I recall Arsenal getting 18000 at times and Sunderland in the old 3rd div with us (the Goldstone Gaz year) were getting about 11000. Football went into decline in the 1980s and Brighton did also. However with that, Brighton also went into decline on the pitch which made the decline at Brighton even more stark. Brighton have pretty much always played lower league football and the support the club gets is quite remarkable despite that, the Archer years, the Gillingham years, The Withdean years and the lost generations. Not quite as remarkable as the campaign embarked on by Brighton fans and the thousands that week in week out went to Gillingham (even midweek) to watch us finish second from bottom (the second year running) of the entire football league. If you think that is "talking shit" then we have to agree to differ. I think perhaps you have to leave Sussex and look at it from the outside to really appreciate just how lucky the are with its support. Honestly, it really is quite remarkable and there is always a reason or collection of reasons why. The main reason I think is the Sussex identity.

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Bozza said:

They've awarded 20 for the away leg, which I'm sure is incorrect. However, I've not pointed it out yet because, well, it just doesn't seem important right now.

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Brighton Lines said:

Form table since 1st April has Derby County on top of the table, us in 6th as an expression of points per game. Not a lot in it though.

Form table since the start of the year has Derby County in 4th, us in 8th. Again only 4 points in it, not a lot.

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HenryC said:

A mini table of the top 6 for the season has Leicester top with BHA in second. Derby 3rd... We do do much better against the top teams...

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Working class pride said:

You are so hard on this football club. Actually 8000 gates at the time was not too bad, I recall Arsenal getting 18000 at times and Sunderland in the old 3rd div with us (the Goldstone Gaz year) were getting about 11000. Football went into decline in the 1980s and Brighton did also. However with that, Brighton also went into decline on the pitch which made the decline at Brighton even more stark. Brighton have pretty much always played lower league football and the support the club gets is quite remarkable despite that, the Archer years, the Gillingham years, The Withdean years and the lost generations. Not quite as remarkable as the campaign embarked on by Brighton fans and the thousands that week in week out went to Gillingham (even midweek) to watch us finish second from bottom (the second year running) of the entire football league. If you think that is "talking shit" then we have to agree to differ. I think perhaps you have to leave Sussex and look at it from the outside to really appreciate just how lucky the are with its support. Honestly, it really is quite remarkable and there is always a reason or collection of reasons why. The main reason I think is the Sussex identity.

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Simster said:

Actually, they were absolutely dreadful. So I've put this list together to stop you embarrassing yourself (and us, by association) with this rubbish. Please, just stop.

Source: http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/

Division 2 table, with average attendances:

Oldham Athletic (13,247)
West Ham United (22,551)
Sheffield Wednesday (26,605)
Notts County (8,164)
Millwall (10,846)
Brighton & Hove Albion (8,326)
Middlesbrough (17,023)
Barnsley (8,937)
Bristol City (13,495)
Oxford United (5,780)
Newcastle United (16,834)
Wolverhampton Wanderers (15,837)
Bristol Rovers (5,929)
Ipswich Town (11,772)
Port Vale (8,092)
Charlton Athletic (6,548)
Portsmouth (9,689)
Plymouth Argyle (6,851)
Blackburn Rovers (8,126)
Watford (9,576)
Swindon Town (9,353)
Leicester City (11,546)
West Bromwich Albion (11,993)
Hull City (6,165)

How many "similar sized" clubs had lower gates than us that season? I think there are only SEVEN clubs in the whole league that year with a lower average gate. Even Barnsley and Swindon had better gates, with Port Vale and Notts County within a couple of hundred of our gates.

The rest of this post is waffle that we'd all love to agree with, but is merely an attempt to hide the truth - we have had periods where our support has been terrible. We're not a small club and never have been, but you constantly talk as if our support has always been massive. It simply hasn't.

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Badger said:

That can't be right for The Greatest Fan in the World ©, surely there is a zero missing.

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Badger said:

That can't be right for The Greatest Fans in the World ©, surely there is a zero missing.

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Vegas Seagull said:

A mini mini table of us and Derby....?

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