There's no 'if', but I can't see what a boycott would achieve.

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

Maybe it would highlight the treatment of fans and being demonised by the Sussex Police lies, “the worst violence they have ever witnessed” “gangs of supporters armed with knives and knuckle dusters roaming the streets of Brighton and at the ground looking for trouble” etc etc.

Palace fans were treated like scum, Locked out of the ground, forced onto trains regardless of whether you drove or had a hotel.

Why part with hard earned to be treated like this by BHA and the FA?

Send the U18's down with Paddy M and take no allocation. f*** em.

Yet the majority of our support travelled to the ground and got in with no problems at all; one from the HOL arrived a few minutes before kick off and had no issues whatsoever. It wasn't the police, BHAFC or the FA who entered the ground by force, or forced their own supporters out of their seats and threw fireworks around was it?

It would seem that, if you arrive at Brighton and clearly identify yourself as an away supporter and/or drink in the pubs around the station, you are more than likely (rightly or wrongly) to be taken on a long walk to the ground by Sussex finest. If you behave as a member of Joe Public and/or travel via Falmer it appears less likely you will suffer those problems.

I do not in any way condone the lies told by the Sussex Police and it was clear that the security could have been handled better by both them and BHAFC. Neither do I see the need to reduce our allocation of tickets for these matches.

However, attending football matches dressed in black, wearing hoodies and with scarves over your faces, emulating at least the appearance of extremist European football groups, has connotations that inevitably tar the rest of the support with a similar brush and the behaviour of at least a small number of those, both inside and outside the ground, served to confirm those beliefs with the authorities.

There were a significant number of completely blameless supporters who lost out on seeing the last game and there were very definitely lessons to be learned by the authorities, but let's not pretend that some of our support were entirely innocent in what happened that night and how we're now being treated for the cup game.

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

Don't boycott.
Sing your hearts out for the lads.
Don't take any bloody fireworks ffs.
Make the rest of us who can't go proud of you.

If you want to have it off with Brighton then keep quiet, mingle in with them, wait for them to start singing in the station concourse and bang. They wouldn't know what hit em, but that'll never happen cos it requires nerve and bottle.

May as well carry on quietly and take your chance if it arises than this embarrassing posturing shyte. It's what away fans of lots of clubs do. Let the gobby ones on the other side embarrass themselves behind the safety police cordon.

COYP