Mellor 3 Ward 4
Well-known member
Kev - what league we are in will have no influence on whether we get/don't get Falmer.
Some geezer on the phone in a couple of weeks ago droned on about the same thing, the "we don't need Falmer if we're in Division 1/2 blah blah fu**ing bollocks."
Utter and total crap.
Build it and they will come.
Reading had piss poor crowds before they moved - however we are potentially a much bigger club than they are - yet they now want to extend the Mad Stad by a minimum of 10,000, and good luck to them.
Of course it would be a slow process for Albion - after the initial excitment I would expect with decent marketing 10-12k average in League 1 - going to say 15k for Champioship
Get those sort of revenues in, get back the lost generation of Albion fans accross Sussex and we'll be pushing for the Prem within 4 years of moving into Falmer.
Oxford is a non starter as comparison. Non league club, no history of note, no decent fan base.
Whatever outsiders may think we could (though we're not at the moment) be a big club. People in Sussex on the whole have cash and want to spend it - they just don't want to come to Withdean to get soaked whilst spending it!
Brighton is a great City, and people coming to live here have money to spend - they must have to afford the house prices!
Build us a Stadium and we'll (nearly) fill it!
Some geezer on the phone in a couple of weeks ago droned on about the same thing, the "we don't need Falmer if we're in Division 1/2 blah blah fu**ing bollocks."
Utter and total crap.
Build it and they will come.
Reading had piss poor crowds before they moved - however we are potentially a much bigger club than they are - yet they now want to extend the Mad Stad by a minimum of 10,000, and good luck to them.
Of course it would be a slow process for Albion - after the initial excitment I would expect with decent marketing 10-12k average in League 1 - going to say 15k for Champioship
Get those sort of revenues in, get back the lost generation of Albion fans accross Sussex and we'll be pushing for the Prem within 4 years of moving into Falmer.
Oxford is a non starter as comparison. Non league club, no history of note, no decent fan base.
Whatever outsiders may think we could (though we're not at the moment) be a big club. People in Sussex on the whole have cash and want to spend it - they just don't want to come to Withdean to get soaked whilst spending it!
Brighton is a great City, and people coming to live here have money to spend - they must have to afford the house prices!
Build us a Stadium and we'll (nearly) fill it!
