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Hello mate, are you one of the 11000 against Bristol City at home in the championship or one of your newbie glory hunters? Yes mate, clubs who get bigger gates than Leeds when in the same division do look down on clubs like palace and yes we should have bigger fish to fry. Brighton however...

Dont get me wrong, good luck with your win, enjoy your day in the sun. Football is about the minnows beating the bigger teams .

Stoke have Port Vale and we have Palace. You don't have to be a club a similar size to be rivals but the bigger picture is that clubs that get 30000 through the gate will have bigger ambitions than clubs that need to give away tickets to get 14000 or 15000 through the gate. Its just how it is.

A club that gets 10000/15000 more through the gate when lower in the league than the other club clearly should have bigger fish to fry. Bust one minute and now have an asset worth £20 Million the next certainly has helped palace. If they go up and we dont then poor old Gus will feel some...

Thanks Eagle 83 for replying to the thread on issue. I dont agree that a new stadium explains bigger crowds than Leeds United, Shef W and a third of the premier league. It certainly has not for Millwall or Reading. In fact Readings gates went up by about 5000 / 6000 to about 12000 to 13000 when...

Oh you know, how about that the Albion wouldn't be getting as big / bigger crowds than Leeds, Derby, Forest and a third of the premier league. Before you have the usual negative knee jerk reaction, then can I urge you to just try and use some open minded foresight. It is how people make money...

Your fantasy land my friend is everyone else's foresight. It is also the same foresight that I and many many others used to predict the current position even when standing on a terrace at Hereford. Telling those without foresight "I told you so" is something that is a bit harsh but it does make...

It is not arrogant to seek to analyse figures and then make a valued judgment on the future. If, when in the same division and both clubs are doing roughly the same on the pitch, club A gets on average 12,000 to 14,000 each week than club B then if / when club B moves up a division, then the gap...

I think this weekend a good example of the different aspirations. With thousands of tickets given away to schools and a groupon 2 for 1 offer, the palace got home crowd when moving to the top three of 4000/5000 less than the Albion get for midweek game. That is just the fact, its not a snipe at...

I agree with all of this (although the first team to win at The Amex is for me more ironic and funny than anything else). But again that is not the point of the thread. Its how far Bloom can take the Albion. The rivalry will survive but its not arrogant to say the Albion have a natural advantage...

I think the point of this thread has been lost. Its not a go at palace, its trying to ask people to predict the future. Many of us are not surprised by the Albion's rise as some of us knew the size of the support for what is a regional club, even when standing on the terrace at Hereford. The...

I think the point of the tread has been lost a bit. The distinction to make between palace being above us over that last 25 years is that the Albion were in a false position for much of that time because of decline and then the Goldstone being sold. Despite what people say, palace are not in...

Dont get me wrong I was brought up with the palace thing through the 70s and 80s and for me it will always be a great rivalry. But is the reality that the Albion will over the next few years continue to fulfil its regional identity and so will palace be small fry compared to the Albion? Just...