But are they hard core?? How many would be there (if God forbid) we slid back into League 2? There are so many complaints about being a semi decent Championship side and our best sequence of results for 20 odd years. How many will there be if we have League 2 players added to all the other gripes?
There are a max of 8,000 hard core Brighton fans, the others are not fanatics and therefore more likely to find fault, especially with costs, managerial problems, less than thrilling performances, transport.
Keeping up to 30,000 happy is never going to happen and like it or not the vast...