I'm quite a JCL, but it's pissing me off too. Social media is one thing ('Hughton out' etc) but some of the crap coming from fans in the ground during games (typically not STHs) is ridiculous. Not sure what they're expecting
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[Albion] Does anyone else miss the days when we were crap?
- Thread starter jamie (not that one)
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I'm quite a JCL, but it's pissing me off too. Social media is one thing ('Hughton out' etc) but some of the crap coming from fans in the ground during games (typically not STHs) is ridiculous. Not sure what they're expecting
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
We're just crap now with more money unlike 10 years ago or so when we were crap with no money
dejavuatbtn
Well-known member
Unfortunately there is no business model for being an average div 1 or championship team. If there was I would be more than happy to support it and watch any premier league matches that took my fancy on the telly.
There’s too much of a win at all costs attitude and a disparity between Premier league and the rest. I still have a problem with the fact that the development of our national football is impacted by the money swilling found premier league football. We are starting to see our own better players going abroad to get recognition - it’s a sad state of affairs.
There’s too much of a win at all costs attitude and a disparity between Premier league and the rest. I still have a problem with the fact that the development of our national football is impacted by the money swilling found premier league football. We are starting to see our own better players going abroad to get recognition - it’s a sad state of affairs.
Worthing exile
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- May 12, 2009
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Agree. When a player gets an International Cap before a league appearance, it shows how our talent is being stiffled.
Blue Valkyrie
Not seen such Bravery!
No.
But I see the point that there is a difference in experience and those days can be looked back on with a fondness.
Go back to it - we then miss what we have now.
The only solution is to have 2 teams ( boo !) - the Albion and one in league 1 or 2.
Nottingham has it right with both Forest and County - there are plenty that follow both teams. The closest we have is Crawley( boo !?) - not ideal for a lot of fans. If Whitehawk->Brighton United ( or whatever it was ) had happened - and they would have needed a ground upgrade as well - then maybe we'd have similar options.
Surrey Phil
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- Aug 3, 2010
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Whilst I have great memories of the "crap" days, I know we are at the promised land and I am cherishing every second, good or bad. Remember, you never realise the good things until you no longer have them!
Kalimantan Gull
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Yeah, I can relate to this. I always liked that Brighton were 'my' team - no-one else knew anything about our players. Whereas I could tell the Man Utd fan next to me the names of everyone in his squad, where they played, how good they were - his team wasn't unique to him.
I also miss away days being just that - reserved only for those who went. We'd have 'back from the game' threads on here where you'd tell everyone else how we played, and if you didn't go and we lost 3-0, well it could just be forgotten about, if you didn't see it, it probably didn't happen..... Nowadays every game is streamed and in some masochistic way we are forced to watch every dire away performance, which I think serves to exacerbate the moaning about our form, all teams tend to play badly away from home but not many fans outside the prem actually watch those games ... definitely results in a change of mindset in my opinion
TSB
Captain Hindsight
No.
We have been crap mostly over the last few months and no I don’t like it
Exactly. 'crap' is a relative term and since Christmas we have indeed been crap. I'm waiting for the days when we're crap to end and us to go back to being 'adequate' again!
And I'd much rather be crap in the PL than crap in League two. It's a bit like the difference between being poor in Britain or being poor in a Third World country.
Whitechapel
Famous Last Words
I didn’t realise how much I missed the ‘old days’ until I tried to start the Michel Kuipers song in the Green Man before the pub. Just a sea of blank faces. One lad; bless him, obviously cottoned on to it being an old player song so he racked his brains for something similar...
“Oh Steven Sidwell...”
“Oh Steven Sidwell...”
I still believe Stafford Browne will come good
- Thread starter
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I remember meeting a lad in uni who supported Swindon and it was like two outsiders finding each other.
If anyone genuinely misses following a team that were absolutely crap, had huge shortcomings in talent, and took regular pastings from mediocre opposition, then there is help at hand for you:
https://www.northstandchat.com/show...-at-Chester-le-Street-Apr-11-14-2019***/page3
https://www.northstandchat.com/show...-at-Chester-le-Street-Apr-11-14-2019***/page3
Monkey Man
Your support is not that great
I get what you mean and you're probably not alone. But my god those matches were bleak. Those floodlights. That font on our badge. Star player Jeff Minton. A two-hour drive home before you can have a beer. After defeat to Halifax.
I do remember a guy I knew who supported Bolton, he had similar thoughts and missed the fun. When they were relegated from The Premier League he was looking forward to smashing teams in the Championship
Paul Reids Sock
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Yeah i miss it. I loved Withdean (I have mentioned this many times before so people may find my love boring!) It is where I first watched proper football as a 13year old exile. I got so excited to travel an hour and a half to a home match and see that as such i will always look back on those times with fond memories.
These days the football is so much better and I don't see that the cost has gone up too much. Adult tickets at Withdean in League 1 were £24/25 I am sure. i guess it is the tiering of matches that makes the massive difference whereas i tend to go to the games against the lower teams that I think we will win.
I am a tad jealous of my eldest son who has seen the last 5 years play out like a perfect childhood dream of a club rising to prominence but I think it is the fact we were crap for so long that grew my love for this club. Don't get me wrong, I love where this club is, Wembley last weekend was like a dream and I still love us, I guess it was just fun supporting someone so crap that people would ask 'Who are your actual team' whenever you mentioned you supported Brighton.
These days the football is so much better and I don't see that the cost has gone up too much. Adult tickets at Withdean in League 1 were £24/25 I am sure. i guess it is the tiering of matches that makes the massive difference whereas i tend to go to the games against the lower teams that I think we will win.
I am a tad jealous of my eldest son who has seen the last 5 years play out like a perfect childhood dream of a club rising to prominence but I think it is the fact we were crap for so long that grew my love for this club. Don't get me wrong, I love where this club is, Wembley last weekend was like a dream and I still love us, I guess it was just fun supporting someone so crap that people would ask 'Who are your actual team' whenever you mentioned you supported Brighton.
Worried Man Blues
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My problem, amongst many, is in the past I didn't expect good football a win was nice however it was won but now Premier league I expect good attractive football played by the best in the world. 
Behind Enemy Lines
Well-known member
Hell no. I've wasted far too much of my life worrying about the Albion. I still have minor worries, of course but not anywhere near as in the same league of anxiety as when we were crap.
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Spiros
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If NSC had been around in 1980 I wonder if anyone would have asked the same question then? Just because we might be in the 'promised land' of the top flight doesn't mean we'll stay there.
Look at Reading - under Madjeski they had a sensible business model of 'let the rich man build the stadium but don't overstretch on transfers/wages'. It kept them in the prem for a short while but now they're scrapping around the bottom of the Championship. I know you might think they're tinpot but they're a possible future for us if things don't go well / TB no longer involved / other change of circumstance* (delete as appropriate)
Look at Reading - under Madjeski they had a sensible business model of 'let the rich man build the stadium but don't overstretch on transfers/wages'. It kept them in the prem for a short while but now they're scrapping around the bottom of the Championship. I know you might think they're tinpot but they're a possible future for us if things don't go well / TB no longer involved / other change of circumstance* (delete as appropriate)