Crowd at Falmer

[jevs]

having a long chat with the blokes at work today (all BHA) and i personally cannot see Brighton getting 12,000 every home game when you get the new stadium.

I appreciate what division you will be in and how you're playing but after the initial interest from floating supporters, i think it will settle down to an average of 7-9 k per home game. I can just see it returning to how it was in the early 90's at the Goldstone.

I prey i'm wrong and hopefully you'll do like Hull have done, but i just can't see it.

What are your comments

 

[Edward Scissorhands]

IMO average over a season will be about 12,000 a season.

Provided we are playing in the championship

 

[BensGrandad]

If in the CCC 12,000 average if we are doing OK or the other team bring a lot i.e Leeds Sunderland etc. If not in CCC 9,000 unless top of Div 1 then 10,000

 

[Brixtaan]

i,m convinced it'll sell out every week.silly me

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

I would imagine the first few seasons would attract about 14k - capacity, and if we were relatively successful, that would keep up. Otherwise, I reckon it'd slip to about 12k.

 

[*Gullsworth*]

Cant see it going less than 10k for championship games, even when the novelty wears off, think of how many "away" fans we can provide for.............i reckon most of the games will attract about 14-18k with the real low crowd around 10k............If we were flying high........sell outs for the big games down to 12k ...........wishful thinking? :mexican: :mexican:

 

[Gully]

I reckon an average of about 12k is round about what we could expect, there are obviously a few games that would sell more and probably a few that would create less interest, I can't see us selling out for the likes of Crystal Palace, Leeds or Pompey on a wet Tuesday in February.

 

[BensGrandad]

I would imagine the first few seasons would attract about 14k - capacity, and if we were relatively successful, that would keep up. Otherwise, I reckon it'd slip to about 12k.

Change that from seasons to weeks as BHA fans are very fickle until they get a Cup Final or similar and then 'I have been supporting them for 50 years but cant get to the games as I work or play pool on a Saturday'.

 

[Stinky Kat]

Its got to have a sensible price struture

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Depends on:

Price

division we are in

How easy it is to get tickets - ie can you pay on the day. VERY important IMO

Opposition

I reckon IF we are in CCC then 12k will be well wilthin our reach - providing the club gets it's marketing dept organnised.

 

[Paul Reids Sock]

reckon itll be an average of over 12K if we are near top of league 1 or in CCC, we'll get the same people we get in now and then i reckon there will be a lot of students that come in for the football. ill make sure im there if i get into brighton

 

[Infernal Optimist]

having a long chat with the blokes at work today (all BHA) and i personally cannot see Brighton getting 12,000 every home game when you get the new stadium.

I appreciate what division you will be in and how you're playing but after the initial interest from floating supporters, i think it will settle down to an average of 7-9 k per home game. I can just see it returning to how it was in the early 90's at the Goldstone.

I prey i'm wrong and hopefully you'll do like Hull have done, but i just can't see it.

What are your comments

Sorry mate, but I think you know very little about the Albion if you think we can't get 12,000+ as demonstrated by the spurs and southampton away games, we could probably have sold twice as many tickets for those games, the interest in the club is still there. We could probably get, 15,000 for the high profile games, Palace, if either of us are doing well will attract a full house.

Brighton are and always will be a bandwagon club. If we were in Reading's postion at the moment we would be playing to sell outs and if we had the capacity it would be nearer 30,000.

That said, a couple of seasons down the line we are in mid table in League One we are capable of getting 7,000 too.

This is a club who amongst other crowds sold out 18,500 for a League Two game not so long ago. I've also been to the Goldstone for a 36,000 crowd, several 30k+ attendences
A sell out 19,000 for a friendly with thousands locked out. If the product is right the support is there.

A key for me will be to try and make it as easy as possible to buy seats for games, especially outside of Brighton. One area where we have always been poor in my opinion is in marketing the club as the team of Sussex rather than just Brighton. Although, a fair percentage of our support still comes from around the county, I think that this is an area where we have lost a lot of our support over the years, especially from the Eastbourne/Hastings area and Burgess Hill/Hayward Heath areas where support has noticeably dwindled...

 

[KNC]

Re: Re: Crowd at Falmer

Sorry mate, but I think you know very little about the Albion if you think we can't get 12,000+ as demonstrated by the spurs and southampton away games, we could probably have sold twice as many tickets for those games, the interest in the club is still there. We could probably get, 15,000 for the high profile games, Palace, if either of us are doing well will attract a full house.

Brighton are and always will be a bandwagon club. If we were in Reading's postion at the moment we would be playing to sell outs and if we had the capacity it would be nearer 30,000.

That said, a couple of seasons down the line we are in mid table in League One we are capable of getting 7,000 too.

This is a club who amongst other crowds sold out 18,500 for a League Two game not so long ago. I've also been to the Goldstone for a 36,000 crowd, several 30k+ attendences
A sell out 19,000 for a friendly with thousands locked out. If the product is right the support is there.

A key for me will be to try and make it as easy as possible to buy seats for games, especially outside of Brighton. One area where we have always been poor in my opinion is in marketing the club as the team of Sussex rather than just Brighton. Although, a fair percentage of our support still comes from around the county, I think that this is an area where we have lost a lot of our support over the years, especially from the Eastbourne/Hastings area and Burgess Hill/Hayward Heath areas where support has noticeably dwindled...

What he said.

 

[Beach Hut]

A great challenge for the club to put bums on seats and I did fear the worst.

However having just done two block bookings of over 100 plus in the designated new family stand hope springs eternal the club will rise to this challenge.

 

[algie]

If Swansea can go from 3-4000 up to 12000-sell outs in there new ground then i'm sure we could otherwise pull in 14-16000 on an average.If we can't get those figures then are we really a big club like what we make us out to be?

 

[BensGrandad]

Re: Re: Crowd at Falmer

Sorry mate, but I think you know very little about the Albion if you think we can't get 12,000+ as demonstrated by the spurs and southampton away games, we could probably have sold twice as many tickets for those games, the interest in the club is still there. We could probably get, 15,000 for the high profile games, Palace, if either of us are doing well will attract a full house.

Brighton are and always will be a bandwagon club. If we were in Reading's postion at the moment we would be playing to sell outs and if we had the capacity it would be nearer 30,000.

That said, a couple of seasons down the line we are in mid table in League One we are capable of getting 7,000 too.

This is a club who amongst other crowds sold out 18,500 for a League Two game not so long ago. I've also been to the Goldstone for a 36,000 crowd, several 30k+ attendences
A sell out 19,000 for a friendly with thousands locked out. If the product is right the support is there.

A key for me will be to try and make it as easy as possible to buy seats for games, especially outside of Brighton. One area where we have always been poor in my opinion is in marketing the club as the team of Sussex rather than just Brighton. Although, a fair percentage of our support still comes from around the county, I think that this is an area where we have lost a lot of our support over the years, especially from the Eastbourne/Hastings area and Burgess Hill/Hayward Heath areas where support has noticeably dwindled...

I think that you are being very optomistic and the examples that you give are irrelevant.

We will always sell tickets for prestigous games home or away or at The Millenium but that is not a reflection of the average fan at Brighton.

Like you I have been to all the big games that the records show at The Goldstone but you ignore the fact that we didnt once get a full house when we were in Division 1 not once did the crowd reach 30,000 and yes the capacity was greater than that.

Fans will follow Brighton if they are successful other than that we will get our usual hard core of 6 - 7 ,000 + if pay on the day etc another 2 or 3,000 even up to 4,000. If we are successful in any division we will get around 13,000 but if still in the Championship with the added attraction of some of those teams and their away support probably around 15,000. After the CCC who knows.

 

[trueblue]

12000 seems realistic to me. The last few years at the Goldstone were very difficult times in a very shabby ground - hardly comparable to the Falmer experience, regardless of division.

Football has rarely been more fashionable and popular, and the chance to watch live games in a modern stadium will bring a lot of new support IMHO.

I lived in Southampton when St Mary's opened, and the ground had a massive effect. People I knew with very little interest in football were buying season tickets. As for Falmer, i can immediately think of 4 friends who are not STH currently who want to get seats. (If every STH at Withdean brings a friend, that's the 12000 average for starters).

Of course, long term the crowds will be affected by the standard of football... but if the last few years had been at Falmer, we'd have been in the 15-20000 mark I reckon.

 

[Beach Hut]

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+ if pay on the day etc another 2 or 3,000 even up to 4,000.

That option does not exist in the Falmer Business Plan.

 

[Cian]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Crowd at Falmer

That option does not exist in the Falmer Business Plan.

I thought "pay at filling station or train station some way from Sussex let alone Falmer" was an option that was possible?

 

[BensGrandad]

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That option does not exist in the Falmer Business Plan.

I thought that I read somewhere that they were considering selling combined rail / entrance tickets and also tickets on the day at the shop but nothing at Falmer itself.