My old man used to live in Eastbourne and we regularly got the train to Brighton.
You can get from Eastbourne to the AmEx in 30 minutes by train with services actually running to accommodate the football.
We’re not competing with that because our train service is shocking and not running with...
I think there are a few good indictors in how you can judge a team's catchment area.
1. Urban area
2. Satellite towns
3. Public transport between those towns
4. Rival clubs
Based on those I am not surprised they bring in more punters than we do.
Hastings and Eastbourne are incredibly well connected by public transport directly to their stadium. Much better than Rugby, Stratford and Warwick are to ours.
They also don't have any other league teams to support.
It isn't nonsense.
People go on about Newcastle having great crowds for their city size when that doesn't include Gateshead.
Urban area is a much better indicator of a team's pull than just within city boundaries.
So is their urban area bigger or not?
I don't give a shit how far it is, the question was, for clarification, who has a bigger urban are.
Bromley and Watford are really far apart, still the same urban area.
Who has a bigger urban area?
The initial point was that Brighton has an out of town stadium and they don't suffer with their attendances.
The counter to that is that they have a much larger urban area than us and that their stadium is easily accessible by public transport to the wider area.
You may not want to use public...
They'll throw some stones, say it was us throwing stones and then a week later they'll be complaining that our Newcastle police let us shoot bazookas at them.