Brighton (A) - Sat 23 Oct 17:30 | Pre-Match Thread

Match Result Prediction

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DMA's said:
We don’t seem too popular over on their forum…

[Albion] - Citeh fans

Who gives a **** what they think?! After the money came in decent City fans were diluted with so many armchair fans that throw a strop when they don’t win every trophy going. Little point in reading and giving value to a lot of their opinions.
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Living near Brighton and Having encountered a lot of their ‘fans’ (most have Liverpool or United as their first team). Can’t fucking stand them hope we smash them
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I don’t mind the fact you can’t f***ing stand us, that goes with the territory, but to say our first team is Liverpool or United you’re having a giraffe. Wash your mouth out.
 
Mr.Teapot said:
I don’t mind the fact you can’t f***ing stand us, that goes with the territory, but to say our first team is Liverpool or United you’re having a giraffe. Wash your mouth out.
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I recall in my days of visiting the Kippax, we used to shout Rangers...Celtic until the cows came home.
 
Could be a tight game , their manager plays a possession game but if we are 100%on our game and pressing their defenders they will make mistakes , they do not have the anywhere near the quality we have playing out from the back. Vital to get an early goal to make it a decent game , otherwise i can see this being a war of attrition and a bit of a bore. Confident we will keep a clean sheet so i am backing 1-0 or 2-0 , and then we can look forward to Sunday and the biggest game in the history of the world and a pair of shithouse football clubs knocking ten bells out of each other.
 
Mr.Teapot said:
Really, how so? I seem to remember we all stayed behind and applauded you when you received the PL trophy in 2019.
Oh well, no accounting for taste.
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I think the dislike for Brighton stems from head band wearing fecker Steve foster who was in every packet on panini stickers making swapsies almost impossible. Only the Stein brothers surpass him in my hatred on my panini sticker scale
 
A J Styles said:
Probably the concourse, the ground is basically in the middle of nowhere.
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The ground, the American Express Community Stadium to give it it’s full name, is in Falmer which is right on the edge of the Brighton & Hove boundary. Thanks to the money grabbing b*stards that ran our club back in the mid 90s they decided to sell the Goldstone Ground but left the club with nowhere to play hence we had two seasons at Gillingham and twelve seasons at the Theatre of Trees aka Withdean Stadium - I would contest the term stadium.
Anyway, the choices were limited as to a suitable site. To the South you had the sea, to the North there were the South Downs which is now a National Park. The choice for Falmer was made and approved after five years or so of objections.

So, yes, your comment about being in the middle of nowhere is kind of apt - it is in Brighton but right on the outskirts. Part of the planning agreement was that it should only be accessed by public transport. Hence the huge emphasis on using trains, buses and Park and Ride operation. It can be a pain in the arse sometimes but nothing compared with having no ground at all.
 
Mr.Teapot said:
The ground, the American Express Community Stadium to give it it’s full name, is in Falmer which is right on the edge of the Brighton & Hove boundary. Thanks to the money grabbing b*stards that ran our club back in the mid 90s they decided to sell the Goldstone Ground but left the club with nowhere to play hence we had two seasons at Gillingham and twelve seasons at the Theatre of Trees aka Withdean Stadium - I would contest the term stadium.
Anyway, the choices were limited as to a suitable site. To the South you had the sea, to the North there were the South Downs which is now a National Park. The choice for Falmer was made and approved after five years or so of objections.

So, yes, your comment about being in the middle of nowhere is kind of apt - it is in Brighton but right on the outskirts. Part of the planning agreement was that it should only be accessed by public transport. Hence the huge emphasis on using trains, buses and Park and Ride operation. It can be a pain in the arse sometimes but nothing compared with having no ground at all.
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Meant nothing bad saying it mate. I've been to the 2 games that we were actually allowed to go and its a nice stadium, normally park at Lewes Station and get the train in.
 
A J Styles said:
Meant nothing bad saying it mate. I've been to the 2 games that we were actually allowed to go and its a nice stadium, normally park at Lewes Station and get the train in.
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Love going to your stadium the trains are great and after the match have a couple of beers to let the queue go down . Put on a great show for us when we won the league
 
I have a lot of time for Brighton. They are a decent club with great supporters. They came back from the abyss of playing home matches in Gillingham. They endured years playing at an athletics track The club could easily have gone under without this support.
 
DMA's said:
We don’t seem too popular over on their forum…

[Albion] - Citeh fans

Who gives a **** what they think?! After the money came in decent City fans were diluted with so many armchair fans that throw a strop when they don’t win every trophy going. Little point in reading and giving value to a lot of their opinions.
www.northstandchat.com

Living near Brighton and Having encountered a lot of their ‘fans’ (most have Liverpool or United as their first team). Can’t fucking stand them hope we smash them
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I have 2 English mates from my time in Hong Kong who are "Brighton fans", but like you say they are United first and then when Brighton do well or United slip (most of the time lately), they are suddenly Brighton's biggest supporters.
 
blue 1959 said:
Love going to your stadium the trains are great and after the match have a couple of beers to let the queue go down . Put on a great show for us when we won the league
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One of my best City games of recent years. Cup final win the weekend before, three days by the seaside in posh Hove, Kompany's last match (they gave him a standing ovation when he was subbed) then handy for Gatwick and the plane home.
 
AliBobbyJ said:
One of my best City games of recent years. Cup final win the weekend before, three days by the seaside in posh Hove, Kompany's last match (they gave him a standing ovation when he was subbed) then handy for Gatwick and the plane home.
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Think you have things about face there mate.

Cup Final was after the Brighton match.
 
Brighton are organised & tight defensively - only City & Chelsea have conceded fewer this season. The fact that Brighton are 4th while averaging just one goal a game underlines this.

So 0-0 wouldn't be a shock ... except this is City, so could just as easily be 0-5.
(May depend on how many of the chances fall to Sterling !)
 
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