[Albion] Brighton Players - Creating New Fans Everywhere

Guinness Boy said:

And yes, yes I have been on holiday.

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knocky1 said:

Does 7 days classify as a holiday?

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Guinness Boy said:

It does when you've got two kids

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Guinness Boy said:

It does when you've got two kids

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Triggaaar said:

It doesn't if you took them with you

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Guinness Boy said:

A heartwarming story from my holibobs.....

Just spent a week at The Manor sports and activities hotel in Devon. On the second to last day I went and played cricket with my kids and the wife went off to do an air rifles session. She met us back in the bar with a mum and her two kids, one of whom was in full Brighton kit and we all sat together so he could chat to me and my Brighton mad son. "So where in Sussex are you from...?" I asked to giggles. My wife looked at them and said "tell them",

Turns out they are from Warwickshire and their nearest big town or city is Coventry. Last season, before the Wolves game our players were staying at the same hotel in the West Midlands as the family. As the mum explained with no local team and Coventry now not playing in Coventry her boys didn't have a team but recognised the Premier League stars they were sharing a hotel with.

They got a load of pictures with the players and the kid told me he had a long chat with Muzza who was "really, really nice".

Net result for taking the time out to have photos with a curious kid? A new member of the seagull family, a sale of a brand new full junior kit and someone who wants to go to our aways in the Midlands and North.

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Publius Ovidius said:

Hang on...you sent your wife out rifle shooting!

She is the reading sniper and I claim my £5

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Stat Brother said:

Apologies for the intervention, I require a MOD ruling.

Amazingly there are people less gifted than me, in the ways of the 21st century.
Can I explain to my fellow technophobes how easy it is to watch live Kabaddi?

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Guinness Boy said:

My wife is, unfortunately, lethal with an air gun. This obviously makes me behave myself. However she has passed this talent on to my 8 year old daughter and I am saving all my daughter's target cards as evidence of this to show her first boyfriend

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Guinness Boy said:

Net result for taking the time out to have photos with a curious kid? A new member of the seagull family, a sale of a brand new full junior kit and someone who wants to go to our aways in the Midlands and North.

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Harry Wilson's tackle said:

Good thread @Guiness boy

One non-local who got the bug I came across is a lad who grew up and lived near Chester, and who started following us after FansUnited. He was about 15 at the time. I remember giving him a lift back home after an away game (at Tranmere or Blackpool. Could have been Burnley). He still follows the Albion, and posted on the Mailing List. He's probably on here but has disguised himself well

One down, a thousand million to go - we will achieve world domination.

And here is some music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDXlrhktTLU

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Nottseagull said:

We may now have the ironic situation of any Coventry City fans he may acquire as friends, referring to him as a 'plastic'.....

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Guinness Boy said:

A heartwarming story from my holibobs.....

Just spent a week at The Manor sports and activities hotel in Devon. On the second to last day I went and played cricket with my kids and the wife went off to do an air rifles session. She met us back in the bar with a mum and her two kids, one of whom was in full Brighton kit and we all sat together so he could chat to me and my Brighton mad son. "So where in Sussex are you from...?" I asked to giggles. My wife looked at them and said "tell them",

Turns out they are from Warwickshire and their nearest big town or city is Coventry. Last season, before the Wolves game our players were staying at the same hotel in the West Midlands as the family. As the mum explained with no local team and Coventry now not playing in Coventry her boys didn't have a team but recognised the Premier League stars they were sharing a hotel with.

They got a load of pictures with the players and the kid told me he had a long chat with Muzza who was "really, really nice".

Net result for taking the time out to have photos with a curious kid? A new member of the seagull family, a sale of a brand new full junior kit and someone who wants to go to our aways in the Midlands and North.

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Guinness Boy said:

A heartwarming story from my holibobs.....

Just spent a week at The Manor sports and activities hotel in Devon. On the second to last day I went and played cricket with my kids and the wife went off to do an air rifles session. She met us back in the bar with a mum and her two kids, one of whom was in full Brighton kit and we all sat together so he could chat to me and my Brighton mad son. "So where in Sussex are you from...?" I asked to giggles. My wife looked at them and said "tell them",

Turns out they are from Warwickshire and their nearest big town or city is Coventry. Last season, before the Wolves game our players were staying at the same hotel in the West Midlands as the family. As the mum explained with no local team and Coventry now not playing in Coventry her boys didn't have a team but recognised the Premier League stars they were sharing a hotel with.

They got a load of pictures with the players and the kid told me he had a long chat with Muzza who was "really, really nice".

Net result for taking the time out to have photos with a curious kid? A new member of the seagull family, a sale of a brand new full junior kit and someone who wants to go to our aways in the Midlands and North.

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