More investment to be able to attract and retain better players.
Take Arsenal as an example. Their turnover for 23/24 was £15m - but over £9m of that was money given by the men’s team.
Whereas Brighton women team’s turnover in the same year was £1.3m.
If we put more of the money the men’s...
Yes. How dare the club spend that much money and bring new recruits in including a new manager and it not pay off instantly! It’s almost like the club have a long term strategy of developing young talent that involves… development…
Sport involves both winning and losing. You can’t have one...
I think that’s already begun to happen. And if the success of the Premier League sustains itself and we maintain our position within it, this is probably inevitable and justified as a means to an end.
I don’t think it encapsulates the club, I think it’s what the club want people to think of them. Like when we used to go on about being “Premier League ready”.
I think it says a lot that the club are pushing that ahead of many of the other phrases you mention, which actually do talk to the...
Who needs the establishment? The phrase is not about us at all really. It’s saying look at these big clubs, I wish we were them.
Well, f*** ‘em I say. I don’t want Brighton to be Chelsea or United, if that’s what you want f*** off and support a big club.
A simple We Are Brighton would be far...
But those are three words which are part of a song that has been in the club’s history for decades, as opposed to three meaningless words derived from corporate nonsense.
And let’s be honest, for the majority of the clubs’s history, we haven’t “challenged the establishment” much.
I saw this phrase in a photo plastered over the wall behind Tzimas presumably somewhere at the club’s training ground. What a load of bullshit.
That is all.
Saw Starsailor at the Brighton Dome in 2003, supported by Electric Soft Parade and first on the bill was a little known band called Keane, always worth getting there for the support bands.