I expressed similar sentiments to some Brighton blithering idiot who was being disparaging about our club at a local football match.
His voice was reduced to 'Mute' after I expressed my viewpoint.

Before people get too envious of those current media darlings, there are other things to consider.

Their current success didn't happen overnight. Bloom financed a series of duff player purchases, mainly from the Dutch League, before hitting on the data driven formula that's working for them now. Bloom has absorbed all the losses then and continues to prop them up financially now.

The Amex ? A ballache to get to and from. The promised transport improvements failed to materialise. That's why even on their European debut, they had supporters sitting in coaches going back to Brighton because they were scheduled to depart earlier than the game finished ! That's why you have the mass exodus on 80 minutes as well.

Their support ? Probably the same hard core number as Palace. The rest are all fans of other clubs that see no problem in supporting two teams. Plastics.

Yes I envy their European adventure, the ability to work the transfer market as they do, and their play - at the moment.

Let's see if they can stay in the Premier League for 11 consecutive seasons.

Old, Ungifted and White

Star lizard obviously provides both intelligence and finance to move them up. However we have got shareholders with far deeper pockets who may be doing more than we realise. We are also led by a Palace fan who has easily the same lev l of football knowledge as Bloom. Who knows, maybe we are also a client of the Star Lizard data room.

Brighton are so good these days even Danny Welbeck is scoring goals, who would have thought?

More progressive ownership.
Bigger stadium.
Better scouting network.
Manager who has a system, switches players in and out and bloods youngsters and new acquisitions.
I don't expect it will last long-term, but they seem to have more ambition than survival each year.

We cant get one new stand built, a decent right back, or a half reasonable striker. Bought a reserve keeper instead. Owners not interested in moving things forward, more interested in being part of a consortia to takeover Chelsea - says it all.

It took Brighton awhile to get it right. They did spend alot of money initially on players which simply didn't work out.

To think they would have been relegated had WE not beaten Cardiff that season.