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btw - I haven't said anything - just posted 'facts'. Keep up the good work though :)
btw2 - let me know if you want me to extend the graph further back so we can see when you had massive support !
see attached especially 1991. Average just under 20K. If we had got crowds of 14K the other matches must have had mega crowds (just doing the maths !!)
I don't think its hypocrisy tbf. TB and PB are businessmen and although they initially tried a valiant attempt at complying they quickly realised that its almost impossible to comply to some (lets face it) arbitrary amount that is totally meaningless dreamt up by people totally divorced from...
Tbh no one really thinks Brighton are 'cheating' running up losses. They are no different from practically all clubs in the Championship who are running at a loss since as we all know football is screwed financially (it was just we used to get lambasted for living outside our means but I think...
I don't think they are worth billions. Most info suggests combined they are prob worth a few hundred million but a lot of that is on paper via the value of their shareholdings in their companies. They said up front that they were not willing to chuck away their fortunes on the Club, more like...
1. The rules don't change for 2 years.
2. Brighton have been making losses for years
3. Whatever FPP adjusted accounts look like they don't change the real world losses that your Chairman have to bear ie why on earth do any rule changes on artificial accounting mean you will have more money to...
I know many on NSC are so precious so I'm going so don't worry :smile:
But I honestly wasn't lecturing just stating the facts (source; your accounts YE2013). Take a look at them sometime and please please someone ask Barber for a breakdown of the Administration & Operational costs. It's the...
Yep but the key is that you are being massively subsidised by your chairman and living massively outside of your means. That's a great bit of luck and not that much different to us (although nowhere near to the same extent at the moment). Just don't get why so many of your fans think you are...
But you must see Brighton are up as being bankrolled ?!!
Of your 25m income 4.8m of it came from the Premier League central payouts. Your wages salaries, social security costs were 21m so that's 112% of non premier league income !!! You lost 14m which excludes interest payments of 8-10m pa...
All the clubs in the Championship rely massively on the Premier League handouts. It was how they managed to bribe the Championship clubs on EPPP (the academy thingy)
Although Brighton get good crowds, out of their 23.5m income only 8.7m came from tickets. 4.8m came from the Premier League...
From his point of view it was a win win short term situation ie big bonus if we stay up (alleged 1m) and no one would blame him if he failed. We had the Prem money to chuck away whereas you haven't got the funds he requires.
As for the style of play - that's just a lazy myth. I don't remember...
Like Palace, Brighton are extremely lucky to have owners that are real fans and treat the club like a member of the family ! Its interesting to see these threads that mirror a lot of what happens at our place and the BBS ie Brighton and Palace are almost unique in that the owners/chairman have...