Our away support

beds cherry said:
There was a thread on the Brighton Big Board about the Boxing Day match.

First proper crowd trouble seen at the Goldstone Ground apparently
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Most memorable, BOURNEMOUTH (H)

There's always been rivalry between not just the clubs but the towns. As rival resorts and both chasing the conference trade (though hopefully not the Conference!) so planty of spice in these fixtures. My favourite, and one of my most memorable Albion games EVER, was on Boxing Day 1971. A...
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The Bournemouth fans, in their thousands, arrived early. When I arrived (and there was little segregation, Bournemouth had taken the (empty) north Stand. As the crowd built, by KO, they had the right hand half of the north and we had the left. It was packed solid, the atmosphere was electric and hostile with missiles flying and crowd surges. The police were in the middle and they brough dogs in, although they didn't stay long, driven mad by the noise.

'I remember Bournemouth had a firm back in the day!'
 
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red_house said:

Most memorable, BOURNEMOUTH (H)

There's always been rivalry between not just the clubs but the towns. As rival resorts and both chasing the conference trade (though hopefully not the Conference!) so planty of spice in these fixtures. My favourite, and one of my most memorable Albion games EVER, was on Boxing Day 1971. A...
www.northstandchat.com

The Bournemouth fans, in their thousands, arrived early. When I arrived (and there was little segregation, Bournemouth had taken the (empty) north Stand. As the crowd built, by KO, they had the right hand half of the north and we had the left. It was packed solid, the atmosphere was electric and hostile with missiles flying and crowd surges. The police were in the middle and they brough dogs in, although they didn't stay long, driven mad by the noise.

'I remember Bournemouth had a firm back in the day!'
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BCE Bournemouth casual element
 
afcdibby said:
I can remember being at the Vetch on a Friday night with low numbers.

Can also remember being at Oldham this century with only about 100 of us.
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Oldham was the 5th of November 2003 - a bitterly cold day. Hollands Balti Pie the only highlight.
 
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Matt Stevenson said:
My wife and I were there, it was one of her first games. I thought it was 89 though. I was sold a pie at half time that was still frozen
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I love the random things people remember from games that would otherwise be erased from the memory

It helps with the "I've got the program so I must have been there" problem that seems to appear as you get older
 
retro red said:
I would also add, 75% of the coaches parked at the Greyhound Stadium at Brighton were smashed up.
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They were. Remember them systematically putting bricks through every bloody windscreen. I was on John and Lucille Bartlett’s coach and the driver stood at the front with his crowbar making it quite clear he was ready to use it.

He made his point very well and it did at least get us into the 25%.
 
RobTrent said:
The game when we won at Portsmouth early eighties I reckon we only took a hundred or so, whereas they brought thousands to Dean Court.

Elsewhere, Weymouth v Torquay had a crowd of 2,009+ on Saturday. I heard an interview with Terras manager Bobby Wilkinson lamenting the fact that ‘big’ clubs no longer support non league by playing pre-season friendlies. He mentioned AFCB particularly.

He has a point.
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Problem is (some) non league teams treat it as their 'Cup final' and play friendlies in a pretty full blooded manner. Ie 'get stuck' in overly enthusiastically.

That may factor into the decision for ckubs.

Plus further up the pyramid a club goes they no longer need to drop that far down to get a half decent/competitive as stature of club and quality of players has improved. So why bother taking the risk, when they no longer need to. But yes, it does likely harm non league ckubs from financial perspective.
 
In All Departments said:
They were. Remember them systematically putting bricks through every bloody windscreen. I was on John and Lucille Bartlett’s coach and the driver stood at the front with his crowbar making it quite clear he was ready to use it.

He made his point very well and it did at least get us into the 25%.
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I did many away trips on John and Lucille's coach. Happy days.
 
Also remember being at Oldham with very few of us there. Cannot remember what year… if it helps to narrow it down it was really really cold… ;)


There was also Stockport on a Tuesday night, half a coach, I don’t remember many of us being there even with the tantalising prospect of booing an injured Warren Feeney. Drew 2-2 and were mocked for being French…
 
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