Well done Barber

[Bob!]

Cracking atmosphere? Are you having a laugh? The atmosphere on the tv sounded awful and like being at a morgue.

Perhaps you should have been at the game then!

 

[Driver8]

It can't be a coincidence that the atmosphere was great today and loads of whingers were watching on their sofas.

They should stay away more often.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Why is it well done Barber?? What the f*** did he have to do with the attendance. Unless you are congratulating him for maximising profit, which seems an odd thing to do.

How about well done to the 19000ish Albion fans and 2000ish geordies who forked out top dollar to watch a game just after christmas.

 

[Beach Hut]

Looking at some of those attendances they are shocking.

I wonder what sort of prices there would have been not live and say Huddersfield at home ?

 

[seagullondon]

It can't be a coincidence that the atmosphere was great today and loads of whingers were watching on their sofas.

They should stay away more often.

Indeed, also seemed to be fewer empty seats at 90 minutes too

 

[Paddy B]

We had the most attractive fixture in that list by a long long way. Especially considering our clubs recent history and lack of top flight opposition over the years.

If we had any of the other opponents on that list I believe we would still have had far more than the 2nd best

 

[Guinness Boy]

What an utterly pointless thread.

- We have the highest average attendance in the division anyway
- Precisely THREE of those games were against Premiership opposition and two of those were two of the least attractive

Now list that attendance figure against all our other home games this season....

 

[Guinness Boy]

If we had any of the other opponents on that list I believe we would still have had far more than the 2nd best

And in the interest of balance this is also true I would think. However it's baffling that we can sell out against Watford and not Newcastle.

 

[u'vebeenamexed]

Cracking atmosphere? Are you having a laugh? The atmosphere on the tv sounded awful and like being at a morgue.

You must live in a morgue. Good noise in the stands today - feel sorry for all the stay at homes, missed a good un.

 

[Billy the Fish]

Amazingly, there were 15 home ties for Championship teams today.

Some of the attendances were real shockers:

21740	Brighton v Newcastle
14463	Leicester v Burton
13693	Palace v Stoke
13198	Peterborough v Norwich
12370	Middlesborough v Hastings
12204	Bolton v Sunderland
11740	Derby v Tranmere
11462	Sheffield Wed v MK Dons
11447	Leeds v Birmingham
11293	Nottm Forest v Oldham
8585	Hull v Orient
6657	Charlton v Huddesfield
5364	Millwall v Preston
5091	Barnsley v Burnley
5054	Blackburn v Bristol City

Cracking game, cracking atmosphere, cracking attendance, living the dream, so glad I went.

Thinking about it, this actually throws up an intersting sociological debate about the current demographic of the Amex crowd and about football in general. Also about how much Barber will be able to milk us based on the amount of disposable cash the locals have. From his point of view he is definitely getting it right, but it just worries me that we are going to end up alienating our more traditional support.

We live in one of the affluent areas of the country, and it seems that alot of the Amex JCLs are more than willing to part with their cash. Compare that to one of the northern shitholes listed above, for example blackburn where most of the population are unemployed, and it's no wonder that the locals aren't turning up. People just can't afford it.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

What an utterly pointless thread.

- We have the highest average attendance in the division anyway
- Precisely THREE of those games were against Premiership opposition and two of those were two of the least attractive

Now list that attendance figure against all our other home games this season....

And pointless comments from you. We beat the nearest by over 7000. Why don't the moaning stay aways just admit it. The club was right with the prices and made more money than expected. I bet if we were playing the jcl's teams (manure or chelski) we would have had a sell out and suddenly the funds would have been found to buy their so over the top ticket price.

 

[Diego Napier]

Why is it well done Barber?? What the f*** did he have to do with the attendance. Unless you are congratulating him for maximising profit, which seems an odd thing to do.

How about well done to the 19000ish Albion fans and 2000ish geordies who forked out top dollar to watch a game just after christmas.

Don't be so obtuse.

I do think that it was well done of 19000 of us and 2000 Geordies who paid top Pound to watch a game, it's what fans do to support their team but that's beside the point

In spite of all the moaning minnies on here, the attendance was great and the income will help Brighton secure better players (which a lot of the moaning minnies on here are particularly hung up about) so Barber got it right.

TB hired Barber, Barber is TB's man and the pricing will have been agreed by TB (repetition I know but appreciation of irony clearly isn't your strong suite) so knocking Barber is simply knocking Tony Bloom. Why should he keep dipping his hands into his pockets to fund our new ground and our new training facilities and our expensive new players?

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Don't be so obtuse.

I do think that it was well done of 19000 of us and 2000 Geordies who paid top Pound to watch a game, it's what fans do to support their team but that's beside the point

In spite of all the moaning minnies on here, the attendance was great and the income will help Brighton secure better players (which a lot of the moaning minnies on here are particularly hung up about) so Barber got it right.

TB hired Barber, Barber is TB's man and the pricing will have been agreed by TB (repetition I know but appreciation of irony clearly isn't your strong suite) so knocking Barber is simply knocking Tony Bloom. Why should he keep dipping his hands into his pockets to fund our new ground and our new training facilities and our expensive new players?

Well put.

 

[Albion Dan]

Didn't you call them a lower prem reserve team, on another thread?

That was the team that took the field. Nobody knew that was going to be their line up when they purchased a ticket.

 

[Albion Dan]

Burton & Leicester are just down the road, and Peterboro & Norwich isn't too far

I cant see Leicester fans getting excited about Burton and Peterboro had a cracking attendance for them.

 

[tweenster]

Sorry but I disagree, I thought it sounded good and had a bloody good time on the sofa.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much info there Bigbelly!

 

[tweenster]

And lets not forget that the club pocketed £125K of ITV's money for being a live game, so a few thousand tickets sales down won't really make a difference.

 

[Albion Dan]

And pointless comments from you. We beat the nearest by over 7000. Why don't the moaning stay aways just admit it. The club was right with the prices and made more money than expected. I bet if we were playing the jcl's teams (manure or chelski) we would have had a sell out and suddenly the funds would have been found to buy their so over the top ticket price.

I am certain if tickets were cheaper we would have sold out and made more money. There were six and a half thousand empty seats when we normally almost sell out. Almost all the other clubs on that list come NO WHERE NEAR to selling out almost every league game and most were playing crap teams so the comparison is the sort an utter fuckwit would make. The club got it wrong, we should sell out against a club that finished in the European places last season and are in the biggest ten clubs in the country. If the price was right being on TV would be an irrelavance.

 

[Bob!]

I cant see Leicester fans getting excited about Burton and Peterboro had a cracking attendance for them.

6,000 Norridge at Peterboro though.

 

[sams dad]

Cracking atmosphere? Are you having a laugh? The atmosphere on the tv sounded awful and like being at a morgue.

Did you have the sound turned down?