Brighton forum

[bartons baggage]

Bitter as ever.
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[Sidney1st]

Some really good comments on there about us tbh.

One really confused me when he said we are clearly missing Heaton.
Last time I checked, we haven't missed him at all.

[HatfieldClaret]

Aye, agree Sydney; a few fair posts interspersed with some daft bile.

A bit like here really.

[IanMcL]

Normal footie fan comments.

[Goodclaret]

Ha ha, love it. Upsetting the Brighton fans is very comforting.

To be fair to a couple of posters on there they obviously knew it was a slight off day for us and were critical of their team that we were "so sh1te" yet still couldn't beat us.

Most of their fans really are a set of whinging plastics though.

[Spike]

There nickname used to be the Dolphins! I thought Dolphins were intelligent

[BabylonClaret]

I hope they go down. Clueless berks

[Iloveyoubrady]

There nickname used to be the Dolphins! I thought Dolphins were intelligent

That's why they are seagulls now. Seagulls are greedy buggers

[FactualFrank]

You don't need to read past the first page of that thread. They pretty much disagree with the OP.

[NickBFC]

Most of their fans have ideas way above their station. Makes for comical reading on there. File under Middlesbrough fans.

[ClaretTony]

The ones we spoke to yesterday, particularly after the game, were fine. They were clearly beginning to realise that some of their players were good Championship players but not good enough for the Premier League. The two most often referred to in this category were Bong & Knockaert.

[SparkyClaret]

Most of their fans have ideas way above their station. Makes for comical reading on there. File under Middlesbrough fans.

Seem to remember them crowing about guaranteed European football in their first season, and that was around the time they looked like getting promoted from the Championship.

[NickBFC]

Seem to remember them crowing about guaranteed European football in their first season, and that was around the time they looked like getting promoted from the Championship.

I remember a quote including Real Madrid

[boiledclaret]

Most of their fans have ideas way above their station. Makes for comical reading on there. File under Middlesbrough fans.

A decent side would have seen us trailing at HT. They had to cheat but still couldn't score, when we were, overall, fairly poor.
They don't look a good side, unfortunately I think they'll be 3 teams worse.

[yorkyclaret]

Sooner their sugar daddy goes bust and they end up back in Sunday league, or wherever it is they have come from, the better.

[Dark Cloud]

We actually stayed over in Brighton and spoke to a number of their fans. They were all complimentary about SD and about where we are as a club being what they can aspire to in a couple of years or so and they did accept our honest assessment that yesterday we weren't anywhere near our best and we can play a lot better. We found them sound tbf.

[Clarets4me]

Sooner their sugar daddy goes bust and they end up back in Sunday league, or wherever it is they have come from, the better.

Slightly harsh, but I do recall a club of a rather similar name, sending supporters up with collection buckets to stand outside Turf Moor, some years ago !

[yorkyclaret]

To be fair, one freezing day when I went to that silly athletics track they were collecting in buckets for Wrexham. Different fans now though.

[mickleoverclaret]

A good chunk of the 20,000 Brighton fans that seemingly appeared from nowhere when they got the new ground have them as their second team after Arsenal or Spurs. Was discussing this with a Brighton season ticket holder who revealed he was a Liverpool fan and had to work hard not to go mad when they got trounced 5-1 at home by the Kopites the other week!

[ClaretRock]

The ones we spoke to yesterday, particularly after the game, were fine. They were clearly beginning to realise that some of their players were good Championship players but not good enough for the Premier League. The two most often referred to in this category were Bong & Knockaert.

Love how after less than half a season with players who have never played in the PL they have already written players off as not good enough for the prem.

[boiledclaret]

We actually stayed over in Brighton and spoke to a number of their fans. They were all complimentary about SD and about where we are as a club being what they can aspire to in a couple of years or so and they did accept our honest assessment that yesterday we weren't anywhere near our best and we can play a lot better. We found them sound tbf.

I think it's fair to say that the North bank forum (or whatever it's called) might be blinding our view towards BHA. I'm sure the majority of their fans would just regard it as crass.

[Hantsclaret]

Agree with a few of the posters above - We stayed over in Brighton and, in general, the fans that we spoke to went out of their way to compliment our team and manager (maybe a little less so after the game!)

[hampsteadclaret]

We stayed over and had an excellent 27 hours in Brighton. I like the City, it has really come on in the last 25 years or so; loads of young people about lots of small thriving independent businesses and a proper buzz about the place. The stadium is fine with me and we avoided any aggro with the trains by setting off up to Falmer at about 1.30pm [free return train ride!] and drinking and chatting with fellow Clarets, inside and outside the stadium...spoke to a few home fans, they were fine. A couple of pints after the match, in the home fans bar, again avoided queueing for trains..On the pitch we were off the boil and were outplayed in the first-half; we came back well in the last 45 - pretty happy with a point, and we are definitely missing Brady.

[JohnDearyMe]

We stayed over and had an excellent 27 hours in Brighton. I like the City, it has really come on in the last 25 years or so; loads of young people about lots of small thriving independent businesses and a proper buzz about the place. The stadium is fine with me and we avoided any aggro with the trains by setting off up to Falmer at about 1.30pm [free return train ride!] and drinking and chatting with fellow Clarets, inside and outside the stadium...spoke to a few home fans, they were fine. A couple of pints after the match, in the home fans bar, again avoided queueing for trains..On the pitch we were off the boil and were outplayed in the first-half; we came back well in the last 45 - pretty happy with a point, and we are definitely missing Brady.

Agree with that assessment. I thought the Brighton fans after the game had a real air of resignation about them. Clearly sense they're in for a long slog this season

[superdimitri]

Didn't sense any resignation from the Brighton fans at all, just the usual bitterness and "we we're robbed" as you get from them. Maybe its because finding a real BHA fan though is probably rarer than a Burnley one waiting for the trains, I wonder how many there actually used to Journey up to Priestfield or even go to the Withdean.

Tony Bloom (rich fan) paid for the stadium and their academy, he must have spent at least 50m on them. To me they are just the Blackburn Rovers of the South Coast...except with no success at all.

They will always go on about how they were never in debt, how they paid there way and how they were stripped of their old stadium. I have every sympathy for those fans back then, but as its been said already, its a very different fan base now.

[Sidney1st]

Didn't sense any resignation from the Brighton fans at all, just the usual bitterness and "we we're robbed" as you get from them. Maybe its because finding a real BHA fan though is probably rarer than a Burnley one waiting for the trains, I wonder how many there actually used to Journey up to Priestfield or even go to the Withdean.

Tony Bloom (rich fan) paid for the stadium and their academy, he must have spent at least 50m on them. To me they are just the Blackburn Rovers of the South Coast...except with no success at all.

They will always go on about how they were never in debt, how they paid there way and how they were stripped of their old stadium. I have every sympathy for those fans back then, but as its been said already, its a very different fan base now.

You're not even close, he admitted a few months ago the club 'owes' him about £180 million.