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Saint Lennard

Prawn Sarnie Casual
Sep 30, 2004
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Attilio the Hun said:

Remind me which team gave the Spunkgulls one of their biggest gate receipts at the Gallstone

Biggest gates receipts!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please define biggest as i have a feeling there were quite a few (well more than a few!) bigger games than the Crawley game or did we double the prices for that game?:lolol:
 
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Bluejuice

Lazy as a rug on Valium
Sep 2, 2004
8,270
The free state of Kemp Town
I am very pleased for Crawley, and for the Rooks.

Having two league clubs has hardly stifled Hampshire has it?

Saints and Pompey are both premiership teams, with very respectable gates week in week out. Admittedly they may not both be in the Premiership next season but that has yet to be decided.

Why can't we be happy for a team like Crawley who are working proof of what a good ground can do for a club. They are part-timers with very little money yet are challenging for promotion in a league they have only recently joined. Fair play to them I say.

Furthermore any good players they breed are likely to draw the Albion's attention before any other teams get a look in, a la Albert Jarrett from Lewes. And they also provide a useful farm to loan our less experienced players out to. We could loan them to Bognor and Worthing or we could let them play for a team pushing for promotion into the football league. Which do you think would be the more valuable experience?

Up the Reds

Up the Rooks

Hurrah for Sussex
 


Seagulls over Lewes

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Jul 5, 2003
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Rodmell
Bluejuice said:
Furthermore any good players they breed are likely to draw the Albion's attention before any other teams get a look in, a la Albert Jarrett from Lewes. And they also provide a useful farm to loan our less experienced players out to. We could loan them to Bognor and Worthing or we could let them play for a team pushing for promotion into the football league. Which do you think would be the more valuable experience?

Up the Reds

Up the Rooks

Hurrah for Sussex

Albert Jarrett was offered to the Albion by Lewes manager Steven King after seeing him play for the Rooks against Northampton in a pre season friendly. King decided he was to good for Conference South football and gave Mark Mcgee a ring. IMHO i don't think Brighton would have got Jarrett if it was not for this guesture.
 




fatboy

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Jul 5, 2003
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Seagulls over Lewes said:
Albert Jarrett was offered to the Albion by Lewes manager Steven King after seeing him play for the Rooks against Northampton in a pre season friendly. King decided he was to good for Conference South football and gave Mark Mcgee a ring. IMHO i don't think Brighton would have got Jarrett if it was not for this guesture.


Perhaps King might give Mark McGhee another ring and remind him that we still have Albert Jarrett.
 




LEWES CLIFF

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Mar 7, 2004
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I dont know what creature it is but theres some little animal that goes inside a crocodlies mouth and feds off the scraps on his touth,Dile happy for free tooth pick, little animal happy for free food.Thing is little clubs like Lewes can help the big clubs as we have this year in return we have been helped,it works.
Good stuff this:smokin: :smokin: :smokin: !!!!!!
 




Wardy

NSC's Benefits Guru
Oct 9, 2003
11,219
In front of the PC
Uncle Buck said:
The ground?

It never used to be 6000 or have adequate segregation on one of the sides.

You also need to have seperate toilets and catering facilities.
 


Dick Knights Mumm

Take me Home Falmer Road
Jul 5, 2003
19,736
Hither and Thither
Great to see Sussex clubs doing things. When you think of the number of years teams like Woking have been kicking around the Conference - to get up into the play-off positions is a great achievement.
 


Attilio the Hun

New member
Dec 14, 2004
108
Too close for comfort
Saint Lennard said:
Biggest gates receipts!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please define biggest as i have a feeling there were quite a few (well more than a few!) bigger games than the Crawley game or did we double the prices for that game?:lolol:

I, too, was surprised at the time - but it's true. And I've just had a quick look in Rothmans. . .

You've had much bigger crowds - but not surpassed the £109,615 taken at the turnstiles on January 4, 1992. FA Cup 3rd Round v CTFC.

Source: Rothmans.

HTH
 
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Uncle Buck

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Jul 7, 2003
28,077
Attilio the Hun said:
I, too, was surprised at the time - but it's true. And I've just had a quick look in Rothmans. . .

You've had much bigger crowds - but not surpassed the £109,615 taken at the turnstiles on January 4, 1992. FA Cup 3rd Round v CTFC.

Source: Rothmans.

HTH

Pretty sure that was topped the following season when we played Pompey in the third round.
 




Attilio the Hun

New member
Dec 14, 2004
108
Too close for comfort
Barnet Seagull said:
Super, Super Barnet.

Come on you Bees.

I was at Broadfield for the visit of your boys. I was impressed. Even though Crawley had an off night and ought to have made more of a game of it, Barnet looked stronger and quicker all over pitch.

I thought Grazioli (sp?) was your laziest player - but I suppose when he bangs in two superb goals when he does look interested you put up with his apparent lack of workrate!
 








Paddy B

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
2,084
Horsham
Saint Lennard said:
Biggest gates receipts!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please define biggest as i have a feeling there were quite a few (well more than a few!) bigger games than the Crawley game or did we double the prices for that game?:lolol:

Nope that is correct.

Can you think of a game when we got a higher gate after that?

Obvioulsy we had many games with higher attendances but they were all many years before so prices would have been substantially less.

I for one am very happy at the success of Crawley & Lewes this season long may it continue and lets not forget Horsham 2nd in Ryman 1, only behnd AFC Wimbledon
 


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