pishhead
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For the first year at Falmer attendances will be good regardless of what division/how we're playing. After the first season it will depend on the above entirely, much the same as all teams with new grounds.
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BensGrandad
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Obviously some people stopped going to watch BHA because of Gillingham Withdean etc but in the main I would suggest that they have not followed another team just got out of the habit of goinmg to football on a Saturday. These are the ones that we have to target the few that have drifted to Lewes Eastbourne Worthing etc will drift back firstly to see what Falmer is like then if the football played is ok they may become regular supporters again
pishhead
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I'd actually agree on the whole I don't think we have lost any significant support to local clubs, more worrying is the whole generation we may never get back due to being at withdean.
BensGrandad
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We have lost as you say a generation who start watching football as a 5yr old and are then hooked for life. Fortunately I took Ben to The Goldstone when he was very young and then to Gillingham and Withdean so he is hooked, although he lives in Guildford where as most of his mates support Chelsea. He did however ask for some money to go to watch Aldershot with one of his mates on Saturday to watch Hinsh and as we are up in Carlisle, which I am not going to, he wants to go to see Aldershot.
Billy Mays
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I see Reading as a pretty decent parallel here. Ok they had a bit of momentum going in the few years before they moved to the Mad Stad but their crowds were , on the whole , pretty small. Build a nice shiny new stadium with decent facilities and people will go. I know the stated aim is to be a Championship side when Falmer opens but in a way I think it could do us better to still be a League One side that year. Go up as champions with liberal sprinklings of 4-0 home wins and I think the average home crowd could well be higher than mid table/struggling in the division above. Obviously not suggesting that we tread water next season if RS has assembled a squad that can take us up by then (which I think he will do) but just if it works out that way it might be the best outcome.
was talking top wycombe fans on the bus to the match last week, and all 3 of them sais the park and ride was a brilliant idea and that more clubs should do something similar, obviously wycombe isn't a big club by any stretch - but the point i 'm making is that sometimes we don't see what is right under our noses. the park and ride system we use is actually quite good IMHO
supaseagull
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Sitting in the pub on sunday,I got chatting to an Albion fan regarding Falmer, and local football. He put it to me that alot of the local clubs will suffer from reduced attendances once the stadium is built, as all the Brighton fans of old will go flocking back.
Totally disagree with this. If you're willing to sit/stand at a county league ground for 2 hours then you're going to go to Withdean if you're a Brighton fan. Falmer won't make the slightest bit of difference to county league clubs.
What will make a difference is those lads who play saturday pub football as you'll find that they'll start going to the albion instead of playing.
Besides, it all depends on who the opposition are on the day. You're not going to get big gates for the likes of Carlisle, but you are for Southampton or Leeds and thats regardless of whether we play at Falmer, Withdean or Victoria Park!!!