Why is nonone going....

[Seagull over SW France]

To withdean..........well I made one of my very rare visits there last Saturday,and unless what I see on the pitch improves vastly it will unfortunately be my last. What I witnessed was a performance by what could only be described as a youth team with three permitted overage players playing a league side of no great quality,but a lot of nouse.......
It was absolutely dire....it cost more than double my flight ........and was the worst attendance at Withdean.............when is someone in authority at the club going to realise that we will never get Falmer unless we do it on the pitch and have a decent manager in charge instead of taking the cheap option??
We must be spending bundles on babysitters.............and why was the targetman we have searched for so long taken off AFTER HE SCORED

 

[B.M.F]

fair point and has been getting worse as the season progresses mate

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

What division we are in bears no relation to the Falmer decision.

Build it and they will come.

 

[Lander]

I haven't been going all season but am now trying to get to all games. I want to go but i just cant afford it

 

[Rougvie]

What division we are in bears no relation to the Falmer decision.

Build it and they will come.

23,000 in L3

Yeah for the first few games, try nearer 8000 for the rest, history points to that.

 

[Billy the Fish]

23,000 in L3

Yeah for the first few games, try nearer 8000 for the rest, history points to that.

The ground won't be 23,000 at first though, there will only be two sides

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

The ground won't be 23,000 at first though, there will only be two sides

I think you'll find the plan has changed to build the whole stadium in one phase rather than the original 2 phase plan to start at 14k and build up to the 23k.

 

[Rougvie]

The ground won't be 23,000 at first though, there will only be two sides

Thats interesting, in all the Falmer meetings etc I have attended I didnt actually know that.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Sorry but does History does not point to that at all.

How can you compare the shit heap that was the Golstone in the later years and Withdean to a brand new stadium.

Crumbling terraces, awful food/toilets etc and a board that didn't care.

We used to get 25 - 30,000 in the old 3rd Division- and that was before football became fashionable and whilst hooliganism was rife.

With a ground we can invest in players etc. remember Reading - that club that got 4,000 at Elm Park. Look at them now. And we are POTENTIALLY a much bigger club than them.

even if we were in the bottom tier when we play the first game at Falmer within 3/4 years we'll be a top half championship side.

KTF

 

[Rougvie]

We used to get 25 - 30,000 in the old 3rd Division- and that was before football became fashionable and whilst hooliganism was rife.

Er, for the odd FA cup game, yes we got 30,000, but the average from about 1965 onwards at the Goldstone was 17,000 ish. Even in Div 1 I remember some pretty poor attendances,

Sorry, but I've been around about longer than the Kevesque pondlife that populate this board these days.

Saying that a challenging CCC team at Falmer would be getting 20,000 crowds, shame that almost every other club our size has ambitions to build 23,000+ stadiums, Is there now room for 50 clubs in the top flight

 

[Billy the Fish]

Thats interesting, in all the Falmer meetings etc I have attended I didnt actually know that.

It was originally anyway. Joey jo jo jo jo thingybob could have a mind which is more up to date than mine.

 

[Del Boy]

Were are all at Kev's house trying to put up the dart board...

 

[Paddy B]

Keep up boys!

When the original plans were revealed (in 1999!!!) the plan was for a phased development. However that option was swiftly abandoned and Falmer will be built in one go.

You do make some fair points except the totally inacurate Falmer comment. We could be playing in the conference and still would have no bearing on Ruth Kelly's decision.

There is a general apathy around the club at present which can only be solved by either Deano working some magic or some more positive news on the Falmer front.

 

[chips and gravy]

I hate going to Withdean. Had a season ticket there for five years and gave it up when my daughter was born. Don't really miss it to be honest and haven't much enjoyed the odd game that I have been to at home.

Away trips are far more interesting

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

What division we are in bears no relation to the Falmer decision.

Build it and they will come.

Rubbish. If the Albion are playing in the Conference, Falmer becomes a non-starter. Allowing the playing side to be run down with a view to somehow effortlessly achieving mid-table is a VERY dangerous game for the board. It's a hard trick to pull off, and the downward spiral scenario was predicted earlydoors last season by some of the smarter posters on NSC.

 

[British Bulldog]

Allowing the playing side to be run down with a view to somehow effortlessly achieving mid-table is a VERY dangerous game for the board.

Maybe the whole board is not to blame? Maybe the board members who wanted McGhee sacked in the summer had a little bit more foresight than Dick Knight? Letting McGhee carry on into this season with no big signings in the summer and then sacking him after the transfer window closed was a bit short sighted to say the least. DK should've spotted the signs in the summer when the season ticket sales went down but he stuck to his guns so has to take a large portion of blame. A new manager in the summer would've rekindled interest for this season. But what's happened has happened and I fully support Dean Wilkins. It's now up to Dick Knight to back him with the finances he needs to pull us around.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Maybe the whole board is not to blame? Maybe the board members who wanted McGhee sacked in the summer had a little bit more foresight than Dick Knight? Letting McGhee carry on into this season with no big signings in the summer and then sacking him after the transfer window closed was a bit short sighted to say the least.

Quite agree with you there. Though jumping straight in and signing Wilkins as full time manager appears to me to be equally short-sighted. Cos if the current run of defeats extends to one of Hinshelwoodesque proportions, DK will have no option but to hold his hands up, admit he's made a mistake and sack Wilkins also.

 

[Seagulltonian]

I would love to go, but family problems are keeping me away at the moment.

If the weather is rubbish on Sunday, I'm sure that will keep the crowd figure on the low side.

I think the club should be offering some free tickets to the community on Sunday morning if they have more than 1,000 to 1,500 spare, to try and create an atmosphere for the cameras.

Or advertise it as we're playing Chelsea Youth! That would get a crowd

Ironically the biggest crowd that I was in at the Goldstone was the 33,000 that attended the last home game of the season against Blackpool, when we had a chance of promotion to the old first division. We had to rely on other results and Southampton and Tottenham managed to contrive a 0 - 0 draw to both go up!
Bastards

 

[Da Man Clay]

Maybe the whole board is not to blame? Maybe the board members who wanted McGhee sacked in the summer had a little bit more foresight than Dick Knight? Letting McGhee carry on into this season with no big signings in the summer and then sacking him after the transfer window closed was a bit short sighted to say the least. DK should've spotted the signs in the summer when the season ticket sales went down but he stuck to his guns so has to take a large portion of blame. A new manager in the summer would've rekindled interest for this season. But what's happened has happened and I fully support Dean Wilkins. It's now up to Dick Knight to back him with the finances he needs to pull us around.

Emlpoying DW is more short sighted IMO. His record is worse than MM's. I have the feeling we are going to end up with a very Hinshelwood like situation in a couple of months time.

 

[algie]

What division we are in bears no relation to the Falmer decision.

Build it and they will come.

Have to agree with that