Congratulations to AFC Bournemouth on securing promotion to the Premier League

seagullsovergrimsby said:

Up north they're regarded as the team that's replaced Wigan as the small club in the Premier League. No one really comments on football or players but always mentions the Always Ultras.

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El Presidente said:

When was promotion more or less in our hands?

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stevejoneslegend said:

Erm... Isn't that just called great vocal support... and belief in what your team can do... aka positivity...? Although judging by your atmosphere last Friday you'd know little of that...



Really? Give it up... You guys' obsession with FFP and AFC Bournemouth passing it is bordering on 'really scary'...



...and you know this how exactly...? what's that?? Oh, ok... you don't.. Thought so...!!!!!

It's nice to see that some posters on this thread/board are reasoned enough to see that we are where we are because 'currently' we are the best in the league... Yep, we've played pretty averagely for the past few games, but we're still picking up points as we go along...

You'd have thought you'd have better and bigger thing to worry about than 'lil old tinpot' us...

PS...

Coming for someone that lives in Southampton...

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Bwian said:

The Palace season. You know we blew it and I doubt we'll have that opportunity again.

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SDG said:

Indeed, absolutely no-one has heard the calls for Dann and Ward to be in contention for the England squad.

No-one has commented on Bolasie, Zaha or even Murray.

No-one at all.

For such a loyal Brighton fan, why do you live up north?

Back on topic, I would like Bournemouth to come up as they are a decent team, with a very good young manager who has succeeded in 2 different spells there now. Like Burnley, I hope if Bournemouth come up, they stay up.

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hans kraay fan club said:

David has a point though. If you are a Bournemouth fan you should be relishing your moment in the sun, not getting your pants wet because a few fans of another club are saying uncomplimentary things about them on a message board they don't need to visit or read.

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rgb said:

Yor 'avin a laff mush!

The moment in the sun comes about, because football being a tribal thing, is about getting one over on the other tribe(s)
When it's the neighbours, or near-neighbours, there is a piquancy involved and such a thing is best savoured, more often than twice a year.

You could wander over to our board and see plenty of comments acknowledging Sussex bods who are realistic but the real fun is in the splutterings of those who believe in a correct order of things and that any upsetting of said order engenders curmudgeonly and churlish viewpoints.

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Prettyboyshaw said:

Think its more to do with the fact that they have highlighted how we have ****ed up our big chance and have been run by clowns. Stadium, training ground, big crowds, PLR and we will still be the last of the South Coast clubs to experience PL football. After years of shit we finally thought a bit of glory and glamour was on the way but blew but little Bournemouth will get there.

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We have sand said:

the figures you see include segregation, away fans that don't sell out and season ticket holders who apparently don't turn up at every game, the vast majority of our games this season have been sold out as in there are no more tickets for sale despite many people wanting to buy them, then the attendance is called out as 10,600 etc, but we could have sold many more home tickets this season if we had the room.

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rgb said:

yor 'avin a laff mush!

The moment in the sun comes about, because football being a tribal thing, is about getting one over on the other tribe(s)
when it's the neighbours, or near-neighbours, there is a piquancy involved and such a thing is best savoured, more often than twice a year.

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rgb said:

you could wander over to our board and see plenty of comments acknowledging sussex bods who are realistic but the real fun is in the splutterings of those who believe in a correct order of things and that any upsetting of said order engenders curmudgeonly and churlish viewpoints.

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sheebo said:

No offence but why are you even posting on a thread about Bmouth in an Albion message board? And bringing palace into it - seeing the same boring palace names on this thread is annoying. We're not actually obsessed with you and are concentrating on our own issues so do move on - try bbs..

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One Teddy Maybank said:

Still doesn't explain your poor away showing, as per my previous post, for a club on the charge and on the verge of promotion, I would have thought you would have comfortably sold out your allocation, Sky or not.[/QUOTE

what answer are you looking for ? everyone knew it was going to be slightly lower than it should have been, as its been a bit of a slog recently what with sky having a hard on for us, and moving so many games, then as has been said we had Reading which was 3 days later not on sky and easier to get too, so it seems Brighton became "the one to miss" despite that 1800 tickets were sold out then there was pay on the gate, so despite 1700 odd that was quoted Bournemouth said "over 2 thousand" traveled so although not impressive its not low enough to need explanation, but i hope this helps

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SDG said:

For such a loyal Brighton fan, why do you live up north

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We have sand said:

One Teddy Maybank said:

Still doesn't explain your poor away showing, as per my previous post, for a club on the charge and on the verge of promotion, I would have thought you would have comfortably sold out your allocation, Sky or not.[/QUOTE

what answer are you looking for ? everyone knew it was going to be slightly lower than it should have been, as its been a bit of a slog recently what with sky having a hard on for us, and moving so many games, then as has been said we had Reading which was 3 days later not on sky and easier to get too, so it seems Brighton became "the one to miss" despite that 1800 tickets were sold out then there was pay on the gate, so despite 1700 odd that was quoted Bournemouth said "over 2 thousand" traveled so although not impressive its not low enough to need explanation, but i hope this helps

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No answer required just quoting facts. Given from a health and safety perspective we have to accurately record (tickets sold), I am inclined to believe the 1744.

But the point is (again), it is a poor turnout for a team going for promotion, I'm not after a response....

You are clearly the best team in the league (based on the current table) and some of your wins (in terms of goals scored) have been exceptional, however, your support is poor and more fitting of a league 1/struggling championship club, vocally as has been highlighted by others it was very quiet. Even Brentford sold-out their end and they have smaller attendances than you I believe.

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rgb said:

Yor 'avin a laff mush!

The moment in the sun comes about, because football being a tribal thing, is about getting one over on the other tribe(s)
When it's the neighbours, or near-neighbours, there is a piquancy involved and such a thing is best savoured, more often than twice a year.

You could wander over to our board and see plenty of comments acknowledging Sussex bods who are realistic but the real fun is in the splutterings of those who believe in a correct order of things and that any upsetting of said order engenders curmudgeonly and churlish viewpoints.

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One Teddy Maybank said:

We have sand said:

No answer required just quoting facts. Given from a health and safety perspective we have to accurately record (tickets sold), I am inclined to believe the 1744.

But the point is (again), it is a poor turnout for a team going for promotion, I'm not after a response....

You are clearly the best team in the league (based on the current table) and some of your wins (in terms of goals scored) have been exceptional, however, your support is poor and more fitting of a league 1/struggling championship club, vocally as has been highlighted by others it was very quiet. Even Brentford sold-out their end and they have smaller attendances than you I believe.

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It was a decent turnout for a Friday night game also being shown live on Sky.

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We have sand said:

i know as much everyone else about his companies and finances-nothing, he seems very secretive, so much so when we played Liverpool last year they had some special photo taken where every single person in the stadium could see themselves, his box was blurred out.

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