How Many 'Fans' are currently banned?

[The Wookiee]

Does anybody know the actual number of fans that are banned from watching the Albion?

The reason I ask is, if there aren't that many then why have the AMS ?

Surely it is there to prevent these fans from getting tickets for away games?

Is there that many banned 'fans' to warrant such a scheme?

 

[Harold]

No idea. I do recall being at a supporters/board meeting years ago when Richard Hebbard was unveiled as Withdean stadium safety officer. He told us then that there were 80 odd currently banned (if I remember rightly) and said "Brighton is (was) a 3rd division club with 1st division hooligans".

Admittedly those were early days at Withdean and perhaps included historical bans from Bellotti's days and as such may have included Liz Costa and the old Argus seller.

 

[dwayne]

...on a side note how many people are banned from NSC?!?

 

[Harold]

Do you mean banned from using NSC, or NSC users banned from home game ?

 

[Albion Rob]

...on a side note how many people are banned from NSC?!?

Maybe that should say: How many people have lied about the death of their 'sister'.

 

[dwayne]

Maybe that should say: How many people have lied about the death of their 'sister'.

talk about beating a dead horse....oooops

 

[Albion Rob]

Never to be forgotten, Dwayne, never to be forgotten.

 

[Brovion]

.... "Brighton is (was) a 3rd division club with 1st division hooligans". ...

We haven't got 1st Division hooligans! We're the ultimate pussycat club - and long may it remain that way. There was an attempt last year to get a 'firm together but it was a failure. Palace 'ran' them twice and they never even showed for Wolves.

Thankfully we've more gay fans than hoolies.

 

[byf]

There's a nice youth group forming.

Think to the future people!

 

[alan partridge]

There's a nice youth group forming.

Think to the future people!

the only thing they'll get banned for is their jokes

 

[byf]

We will see alan,We will see.

 

[tinx]

When we arrived at victoria for the QPR LDV game there was about 30 or 40 casual types of which I recognised a fair few fomr home games. They were all gathered together dicussing what the plan was. Whole range of ages as well from young to midle aged.

Needless to say I was more interested in getting to the pub for opening so didn't hang aorund to see what they were up to.

As much as I don't approve of the whole hoolie thing we'd be naive in thinking that we don't have our own set of them.

 

[alan partridge]

We will see alan,We will see.

cooking up some good jokes? excellent, post em up on here

 

[byf]

shocked alan?

 

[Marc]

shocked alan?

thats not a joke

THIS is a joke:

Two fish in a tank, one fish says to the other:






How do you drive this thing?

 

[Harold]

We haven't got 1st Division hooligans! We're the ultimate pussycat club - and long may it remain that way. There was an attempt last year to get a 'firm together but it was a failure. Palace 'ran' them twice and they never even showed for Wolves.

Thankfully we've more gay fans than hoolies.

Have to agree in terms of any sort of real organised disorder, but from what I've seen by chance from time to time on a match day (Palace, Peterborough, Southend, Cardiff, QPR) the numbers of active participants or interested observers under the Albion banner can occassionally be quite sizeable. No doubt there have been others which I have missed too.

Hardly the ULTIMATE pussycat club as you suggested but I am not saying we've got anything like a massive regular problem either.

In regard to the safety officers (made during our 3rd division days remember) comments I suspect they were based on :

1. actual numbers banned at that time,
2. info provided by the clubs Police liason officer,
3. his own briefing when he joined BHAFC,
4. his own oppinion.

It wasn't that long after his comment that we finished about 3rd for arrests in the 2nd division.

This is the man who had the stadium safety responsibilities for Wembley Cup Finals and North London derbies so I assumed he knew what he was talking about.

 

[The Wookiee]

My original point of this thread was re: Away Members Scheme and is it worthwhile if we only have a handful of 'fans' that are banned.

 

[Albion Rob]

I think the point of the AMS was to make it a bit fairer on people. It masde those who wanted tickets register with the club and stopped people who just wanted a day out and didn't follow the team just walking in and denying them to real fans.

However, I think it was instigated after with the Aldershot game in mind, so no doubt the scope for preventing trouble was also an issue.

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

I know 2 people who were banned this season,for non hooligan related things,and one of them has been to every away game!

The other one gets into various home and away games as well.

Certainly proves the AMS system works

 

[byf]

The fans that are banned can get tickets anyway by using other peoples names,Not rocket science.