On being the 9th best supported team in ENGLAND.

[Mental Lental]

I've been having a bloody field day with this over in expat land. Surrounded by Leeds, Forest, Middlesborough and Leicester fans. Nonchalantly raising a glass to the 22 and a half thousand season ticket holders and declaring to the supporters of these "big" clubs that "our hard core support is bigger than yours" has caused me no end of mirth these last few weeks.

The days of "we should be beating teams like Brighton" have been replaced by "Shit! We're smaller than Brighton!" in the space of pretty much 2 years.

I do think we need some serious official season ticket saleage tabling to rub their noses right in it though.

 

[sir albion]

The actuall attendances are what matters,so we're far from being 9th

 

[Albion Dan]

Be very careful. We are way off the size of many teams with less sth. Definitely Leeds. A few bad seasons and it be be rubbed back in your face plus some.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Chris Cattlin many decades ago: "Brighton have the potential to be one of the big nine" (biggest clubs in the English leagues)

Maybe he was right.

 

[sir albion]

Chris Cattlin many decades ago: "Brighton have the potential to be one of the big nine" (biggest clubs in the English leagues)

Maybe he was right.

Certainly do have that potential

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Chris Cattlin many decades ago: "Brighton have the potential to be one of the big nine" (biggest clubs in the English leagues)

Maybe he was right.

Catlin was correct in my opinion but the key word there is 'potential' Cheeky.

 

[Jack Daniels]

I've been having a bloody field day with this over in expat land. Surrounded by Leeds, Forest, Middlesborough and Leicester fans. Nonchalantly raising a glass to the 22 and a half thousand season ticket holders and declaring to the supporters of these "big" clubs that "our hard core support is bigger than yours" has caused me no end of mirth these last few weeks.

The days of "we should be beating teams like Brighton" have been replaced by "Shit! We're smaller than Brighton!" in the space of pretty much 2 years.

I do think we need some serious official season ticket saleage tabling to rub their noses right in it though.

Steady on. Give it 5 years and see if we still have 22k season ticket holders or more then.

 

[Notters]

Our hard core support is about 5k.

 

[Mental Lental]

Be very careful. We are way off the size of many teams with less sth. Definitely Leeds. A few bad seasons and it be be rubbed back in your face plus some.

The simple fact of the matter is that right here, right now, we have more season ticket holders than all but 8 other teams in the land. Enjoy the now!

Wind up your office mates big time, we can do this for an entire YEAR at LEAST!

 

[sir albion]

Our hard core support is about 5k.

No it's not,you are basing that on the withdean which is very unfair.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Our hard core support is about 5k.

Only because you want to be an 'uberfan'.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

No it's not,you are basing that on the withdean which is very unfair.

Surely Withdean is the finest indicator of hardcore support. Not many other teams have had the chance to measure up (lucky them!).

 

[Mental Lental]

The actuall attendances are what matters,so we're far from being 9th

And that is EXACTLY the first retort from every supporter of these "bigger" clubs. However, if you're canny, and good at turning the wind up key you can get some serious blusterage out of the "season ticket" FACT!

 

[kevo]

Surely Withdean is the finest indicator of hardcore support. Not many other teams have had the chance to measure up (lucky them!).

If you're going down that route, then you may as well say Gillingham. What did we average there - about 3k? Pretty amazing given that our home ground was 75 miles away and we were struggling at the bottom of the football leage with the worst set of players in the club's history.

 

[owenthemonkey]

what does it matter? All that I care about is that as many people turn up and show support as possible. I never get all this 'my club is bigger than your club' So many people are obsessed about being a 'big club'.

 

[somerset]

Our hard core support is about 5k.

Yawn

 

[Ernest]

Surely the biggest number of JCL's and bandwagon jumpers not real supporters

 

[LU7 RED]

Also because it is also so impossible to measure - I did see a thread on a general website about the biggest teams in the midlands. All fans said Villa first and 90% said Forest second - after that it all went potty!

Us (Bmth) have a 3/3.5 k hardcore, which is pretty poor (chronic for the size of local population, possibly the worst in the country..). I quite like Millwalls crowd - just fluctuates between 10-15k all the time, not so many floating fans..

 

[Mental Lental]

If you have any brummy based fans in your work place it's good fun to support the Villa fan's claim to superiority over Birmingham City based on the fact that Villa have more STHs. And then when the City fan concedes that point, start giggling inanely and inform them that by that very same argument they are BOTH smaller than Brighton.

 

[16bha]

Our hard core support is about 5k.

What is the criteria to be a hard core fan?