[Albion] How much of the match day programme do you actually read?

[Moshe Gariani]

Following Hans Kray's logic, I only buy a programme after a game that I've really enjoyed or is particularly memorable. They're sold in the shop, so maybe 3 or 4 a season. I read the vast majority of one when I do get it.

This "post hoc" approach is GENIUS...

The whole point of a programme, for me, is to act as a permanent momento of the match I've attended. I'd always get one at an away match (don't go to many these days) and now am going to start picking up 3 or 4 a season for home games I've particularly enjoyed... e.g. this Saturday

(An even thriftier method would be to leave it a few years and then pick them up for buttons secondhand... )

 

[father_and_son]

Do you read:
- Oscar's ghostwritten piece YES
- BN1 Hotline: news section YES
- Paul Barber's essay YES
- The Big Picture: Albion player reflects on aspects of his life USUALLY
- Profiles of opposition players USUALLY
- The Blaggers Guide to... the day's opposition YES
- Other features on the day's opposition
- Review of previous games SOMETIMES
- Young Seagulls pages
- Snap Happy - Paul Hazlewood's behind the scenes on being a photographer
- Hiney's 'Get with the programme' feature
- Pages on women's team, Under-21s and Under-18s
- My Greatest Game
- Next at the Amex + Seagulls travel
- Time tunnel - a look at world events from a significant day in Albion history
- From the vaults - a look at a past game between the day's teams YES
- Three Minute Hero
- AITC pages
- Stats pages YES
- Mullers page


I'd say I read about 1/3 to 1/2 in total. Depends on how early we get to the ground and how quickly my son reads it as to how much time I get to read.

 

[house your seagull]

I see our glorious radio show mentioned, and I respond.

But I'm sorry to say, I don't understand what you're saying.

I think he might be getting his wires crossed.

If it's what I think it is, and if someone has to ask if it's worth it, a quid, then I doubt they'll be in to it.

 

[crodonilson]

I don't make many home games nowadays but I always buy the official matchday magazine when I'm in town. A good hours worth of reading material when I'm on the bog or the other half gives me some free time.

 

[Greavsey]

None: Lowered the quality raised the price I stopped buying them.

Ditto

 

[Guinness Boy]

I only get one if I'm taking the boy as he always wants one even though the most he looks at are the player names and numbers. I'll borrow it back off him and read whatever seems interesting. If I'm going just with my mates I never get one.

I always get a TSLR though

 

[tigertim68]

i dont get a programme any more the print is too small

 

[hans kraay fan club]

i dont get a programme any more the print is too small

Pardon?

 

[brightonmark1234]

none dont buy one

 

[TheJasperCo]

Used to buy them mainly for the sentimental and nostalgic value, and would flick through them before KO, but now I find they're too expensive to justify buying. I mean, how much of them is taken up with sponsors' adverts and commercial promos? Surely that should offset the price somewhat?

 

[Oscar]

This has been my first season in 26 that I haven't bought a programme for each and every match I attend. I've even got rid of a lot from home. The freeing up of space and the saved cash has been rather liberating.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Too expensive. Interesting to know how many they shift per match because no one around us ever seems to have one.

Around 3.5 to 6k per game.

 

[Garage_Doors]

I see our glorious radio show mentioned, and I respond.

But I'm sorry to say, I don't understand what you're saying.

Bit like the show then really.

 

[severnside gull]

I have the full set for the season so far in the cludgie for contemplation at leisure whilst having a dump so eventually get to read rhem cover to cover

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

I always buy away programmes to keep as a record of where I have been

Couldn't you just buy a diary?

 

[Machiavelli]

(This is for people who purchase it, obviously!)

Do you read:
- Oscar's ghostwritten piece
- BN1 Hotline: news section
- Paul Barber's essay
- The Big Picture: Albion player reflects on aspects of his life
- Profiles of opposition players
- The Blaggers Guide to... the day's opposition
- Other features on the day's opposition
- Review of previous games
- Young Seagulls pages
- Snap Happy - Paul Hazlewood's behind the scenes on being a photographer
- Hiney's 'Get with the programme' feature
- Pages on women's team, Under-21s and Under-18s
- My Greatest Game
- Next at the Amex + Seagulls travel
- Time tunnel - a look at world events from a significant day in Albion history
- From the vaults - a look at a past game between the day's teams
- Three Minute Hero
- AITC pages
- Stats pages
- Mullers page

Just interested in how much of the programme is considered essential reading and how much is thought of as filler....

I read Oscar/Oscar's GW, but shouldn't because it's bland.
News, sometimes
Barber, which is long and often boring, but informative.
Profile of opposition, which sometimes gets referred to during the game, the only time it gets picked up during the game.
Other features of opposition, sometimes.
Young Seagulls page. Me and my boy like this.
Snap Happy. Like this, especially if it can let me know things like how injured players recovery is coming along.
Next at Amex, etc, sometimes.
Once home, the boy nabs it, and I see it no longer.
Stats pages

 

[withdeanwombat]

I have a fairly large collection of programmes, but all modern ones are the same. Large, too expensive, clagged out with adverts, ghost written columns, rubbish columns, and stuff you just cannot be bothered with.

We could do with a four pager akin to the 50's and 60's programmes for a quid as an alternative to the door stops on offer these days.

I haven't bought one this season and probably won't. And I really do not have the space to collect these mini-books, not even in the various outbuildings on my manorial grounds.