Great support no doubt, but I still fecking HATE Dirty Leeds.
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worthingseagull123
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Great support no doubt, but I still fecking HATE Dirty Leeds.
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After Millwall, probably the most despised club in the land are Leeds. Vile supporters.
Firstly Newcastle aren't as an attractive a match as a top Prem side. Secondly London's only about just over half the distance and thirdly the vast majority of Brighton fans don't give a toss about the Cups (there's thread after thread season after season saying that) so there is NO WAY we would take 6000 to anybody for an early-round midweek League Cup game. Probably not even if the tickets were free.
Believe you me I wish I were wrong.
You think that it's painful to many on here that Leeds are a bigger club than Brighton? That's a bit weird.
Neither is Reading from Brighton.....
So does syphillis.
worthingseagull123
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How many did we take to Spurs a few years ago?
somerset
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5000 to spurs, 6500 to Villa, 6000 to Liverpool.
countryman
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And there were a lot of people who couldn't get tickets as we sold out.
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It depends on what you consider the criteria to be a big club.
Coldeanseagull
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For any club languishing mid table in the championship, 6000 for a weekday lower status cup game against any premier league side other than the big six, has got to be applauded
brightn'ove
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Are people completely forgetting that we took 9,000 to Villa? Not far to go though eh 
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Are people completely forgetting that we took 9,000 to Villa? Not far to go though eh
9,000
It was 6,000, or thereabouts.
watsongooal
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Are people completely forgetting that we took 9,000 to Villa? Not far to go though eh
Where did you pluck that figure from! We took 6
Worth pointing out, again, that those weren't mid-week games. Plus we did consider them to be 'big' games (quite right too, they were). We also took over 30,000 to Cardiff for a match against Bristol City - that's irrelevant too.
We'll have to disagree then because if we were playing at any club within an hour and a half of me in an evening game I would go and not consider it a long trip.
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liverpool was on a sunday though. I remember countless threads about people worrying about getting back as the trains were a nightmare
plus we could have sold more
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I know that. I wasn't making a direct comparison because anyone that does is foolish. Just the same that anyone who suggests Leeds are a bigger club than us just because of the support. They are a bigger club but that is because of their history.
Not sure why some people are falling over themselves about the away support of another team!!!
I'm genuinely pleased you'd do that midweek for a League Cup game. The depressing attitude of most is "Don't care, would rather get three points on Saturday"
Still not midweek so still not the same. Also, as I pointed out, we (and I include the players) did consider a match at Anfield to be a big game and worth making special arrangements for. You may call Leeds fans deluded, but they don't consider a match against a team who have only one one trophy in over fifty years to be a 'big' game.
What a bizarre discussion. To my mind, I can't see many would disagree with...
- Leeds being a bigger club than the Albion. (Yes, I know 'bigness' is difficult to define, but all football fans are able to give a quick A > B when asked about 2 teams)
- Leeds travel in numbers far in excess of the Albion, and most other clubs for that matter.
- Albion's away support is certainly decent - better than some and worse than some. Probably above average, all things considered.
- Albion's home support is excellent. The Amex effect? The ease of Direct Debit payments? A community starved of decent footballing facilities for a long time? Probably all of those and more, but Albion's home support will be the envy of all but about 10-12 clubs across the entire football league.
- Leeds being a bigger club than the Albion. (Yes, I know 'bigness' is difficult to define, but all football fans are able to give a quick A > B when asked about 2 teams)
- Leeds travel in numbers far in excess of the Albion, and most other clubs for that matter.
- Albion's away support is certainly decent - better than some and worse than some. Probably above average, all things considered.
- Albion's home support is excellent. The Amex effect? The ease of Direct Debit payments? A community starved of decent footballing facilities for a long time? Probably all of those and more, but Albion's home support will be the envy of all but about 10-12 clubs across the entire football league.