[Lord Snooty]

Brighton & Hove Albion v Huddersfield Town
The Sky Bet Championship
Tuesday April 14th - 7:45 ko
at The American Express Community Stadium

Huddersfield Town travel south to Brighton to the Amex Stadium on Tuesday night, having secured Championship football for another season with a superb victory at Nottingham Forest on Saturday. Town will be looking to extend their magnificent unbeaten run to four matches, while the hosts will be hoping to end a run of three defeats, which hasn't exactly put them back into the relegation dogfight. They are still 9 points clear of the bottom three.


How much?  
Tickets are priced at: £25 for adults, £20 for over 65s, £10 for under 18s and £5 for under 10s.

Coaches will be departing from PPG Canalside at 12:30pm, priced at £22 per person.



A brief history of Brighton & Hove Albion FC: They beat us to the League One title in 2011. Apart from that, they finished runners up in Division Two in 1979 and spent four years in English football's top flight. That culminated with relegation in the same season as they got to the FA Cup Final, which they lost to Man Utd in a replay after the famous "and Smith must score" miss by Gordon Smith in the last minute of extra time of the first match.
Those four years were the highlight of a very non eventful club history. The club almost went out of business and out of the league in the mid 90s. The directors sold off their Goldstone Ground as the team plummeted to the bottom of the 4th division. On the last day of the 1996/97 season, having clawed back a 13 point deficit, they needed a draw against Hereford Utd to stay up. They managed it, only just though with a late equaliser from Robbie Reinelt keeping them safe. Safe, but homeless.

Goldstone Ground

Without a home ground to play on, they shared the Priestfield Stadium with Gillingham for three years, before moving back to Brighton to play at the delightful Withdean Stadium, which would become their temporary home for eleven years.
Then, after much fannying about with judicial reviews and incorrect planning and red tape running riot, they finally got the go ahead to build this new stadium and moved in in 2011.

Withdean Stadium

Head to Head




Town trail in the overall head to head with 16 wins to Brighton's 20, with 13 draws. That's in all competitions. In league matches it's 14 Town wins to their 19, with12 draws.

The first meeting of the two clubs was back in 1922 when we met down at Brighton in the FA Cup. A goalless draw was then followed by a 2-0 Town win. Of course we then went all the way to the final, beating Preston 1-0 to lift the Cup for the only time to date in the club's history. 
The biggest victory margin came as recently as 2009 when Town hammered the poor Seagulls 7-1. Their keeper, Michel Kuipers, got sent off, but we were already 2-1 up by that time and they did have a proper sub goalie, so that was no excuse. His first job was to pick the ball out of the net as super Lee Novak buried a penalty past him to add to earlier goals from Anthony Kay and Peter Clarke. Town went on to add second half goals from Gary Roberts, Danny Drinkwater and a couple from sub Theo Robinson.
The following season though, Brighton had turned it around in dramatic style and were League One champions by the time Town went down there and won 3-2. That was our last win over them though and in the three seasons of Championship football we have drawn three times and lost twice.


So what have modern day Brighton got?

They come into this match on the back of a 2-0 defeat at home to Bournemouth on Friday night.
Managed these days by Chris Hughton, the former Newcastle, Birmingham and Norwich boss. He was appointed on New Years Eve, following the sacking of previous boss Sami Hyypia.
They have the likes of Craig Mackail-Smith in their ranks, who needs no introduction to Town fans, but he has been on the subs bench recently and has only scored twice this season. Chris O'Grady is also there, another who likes scoring against us. And £2m rated Sam Baldock, who they signed from Bristol City in the summer. Also Mustapha Carayol on loan from Boro and Leon Best on loan from Blackburn, all prolific strikers. It's quite a surprise then that their leading scorer is Lewis Dunk, a defender, with only 7.

Recent Form: Last 5 matches


Brighton 0-2 Bournemouth
Rotherham 1-0 Brighton
Brighton 0-1 Norwich
Blackburn 0-1 Brighton
Millwall 0-0 Brighton


Nottingham Forest 0-1 Town
Town 2-1 Ipswich
Sheff Wendy 1-1 Town
Town 0-2 Fulham
Town 2-2 Norwich


Town are 16th in the Championship table with 51 points. The Seagulls are behind us in 19th with 45.

Leading scorer - Lewis Dunk  with 7.

[MNTerrier]

seemingly a meaningless game but its still technically possible for both teams to be relegated brighton more so than town who are basically safe

town have been playing a lot better recently , unbeaten in 3 and only 1 loss in the last 6 games , this however is exactly the type of game we struggle in

a very winnable game but i wouldn't be unhappy with a point, honestly in the last 4 games i'd take 5 points

[EastLondonTerrier]

Really think I should have written this thread seeing as I'm in my last year at sussex university and live in Brighton until July that is. Always annoys me going to campus and walking past that stadium knowing they just copied ours in every single way and filled the corners in. Coupled with the fact we play in the same bloody kit just makes it worse. I would highly recommend getting there in good time chaps as the train queues at Brighton station are a bit of a pain although I don't expect there'll be a big crowd. Postponing dissertation work to go to this on my own as the old man is still on the mend and would take it out of him too much travelling down on a Tuesday night then staying over-night. There's sod all pubs next to the stadium unless you want to go to falmer bar which is sussex's student bar I sometimes frequent so have a few from the couple outside Brighton station if you want a few bevvies. Hope to see a few of you there, I'll be giving it the big un even if it's just me i attendance. Tried to get a few pals to come to this with me but they're either buried in dissertation work or absolute melts. Also , 25 pound for a ticket is an absolute joke. No student offers in a city filled with the world's worth of students.

[Lord Snooty]

We'll pencil you in for next season's thread then, ELT. I've done two Brighton aways now and most of this is just copied from the last one.

[EastLondonTerrier]

I'll be leaving Brighton in July Snoots so all could change in a year. Very emotional to be graduating. It's a fantastic city so I'll annoy me if anyone comes out with the 'i want to go home' rubbish. It's one of the best places you can live. Great thread though I forgot to mention Snoots, no played for both category but Leon Knight would be one. Can't think of many others. He's a joker on social media and talks like me when I go back home to East London at thirty odd years of age still.

[Lord Snooty]

Played for both: the legend, Kieran O'Regan.

[WakeyTerrier]

I've always enjoyed my trips to Brighton, had 1 visit to the old Goldstone ground to see Town draw 2-2, several visits to Withdean...some good, some not so good including a drab 0-0 draw about 4/5 years ago on a Tuesday night and more recently a couple of visits to the impressive new stadium. Yes it out of Town but beer is available in the ground before during and after the game and connections to Brighton are regular. If Mitzi was still living in London I'd be there tomorrow

[theo_luddite]

One of a few on the South Coast I've not yet been to, I won't be breaking that duck anytime soon. Quite liked what bit I saw of Brighton a few years back when I was down there for a sales meeting. 3 welcome points on Saturday, another 1 or more from this trip wouldn't go amiss and is do-able. They aren't the side that beat us in the last two seasons when they were chasing play-off spots.

[ARTERRIER]

Any lunatic making the trip, aside from the Brighton resident? Hope we can win,it'll give a rather poor season a sheen of respectability for me, winning and maybe going unbeaten until the end of the season, we could do with some momentum to carry on into next season. Radio for me tomorrow, I'm done with these mad midweek trips after the 5-0 caning at Southampton I went to a few year ago.

[Lord Snooty]

Yes I went to that Southampton match too. Long way back!
I have been to the Goldstone for a midweek match. A League Cup tie in the 80s. 1-0 up on aggregate in the last minute and we ended up losing 2-1 in injury time.
That were a long way back as well.