The club announced on Tuesday that they would be bringing a new pricing structure for season tickets, include one of £120 for the 16-21 age groups, which virtually equates to around £5 a game, regardless of which division the team are playing in.

Hypothetically, and not wishing to upset any of my friends from the north east of England, with a successful play-off campaign the Albion could theoretically be lining up against Newcastle, probably without Kevin Keegan, in the Championship this August.

In addition, under 16s can sit in the same stand for the whole season for £100.

It's a brave but, unfortunately, necessary move to lure back fans.

Times have moved on since the Albion left the Goldstone 10 years ago.

We now appear to have more live football on television than ever before, and we have a generation brought up on the games consoles of Sony or Nintendo, which appear to give youngsters a different priority and perspective.

Since the bulldozers destroyed the Seagulls' home, they have lost a generation of supporters and, as with a multitude of things, when people get out of the habit of doing something specific, it can be very difficult to get them back into the groove, so to speak.

If — and it's a big if — the Albion were to go up this year (and, while it is a tall order, it is still in their hands), to offer Championship football at the aforementioned prices represents one of the biggest bargains in Seagulls history.

That's why the club has to be congratulated.

It's now up to the youngsters — and in the cases of the under 16s, their parents — to show that the people of Sussex want a successful football team.

The phrase "out of little acorns big oak trees grow" springs to mind because the youngsters who watch at Withdean at this knockdown price will be the people who will help fill the new stadium at Falmer.

And if the Albion restore a core five-figure support at the opening of Falmer, then with the obligatory fair-weather fans who will always turn up when things are going well, the potential of the club, which has been downtrodden by the actions of the asset strippers a decade ago, will finally be realised.

It was appropriate on Monday that, on the evening of the day we said goodbye to Don Read, a man who did so much for local football, Woodside Road hosted a youth final in memory of another who was passionate about all levels of football — Roy Pook.

At a time when we have youngsters in this town smashing up cemeteries with apparently no prospect of punishment, it was refreshing to see some of the overwhelming majority of great youngsters we have in Worthing.

In a great advert for local youth football, played out in front of around 300 spectators, Worthing United narrowly beat their Minors counterparts 1-0 with a Ryan Mullen strike in the last five minutes of extra-time, to lift the Roy Pook Memorial Trophy for their first time.

And plans are already in place for next season's under-13 competition to be extended to eight local sides.

Many thanks to the good people at Worthing Thunder for agreeing to reply to my questions regarding the prospect of top flight basketball returning to the town. Watch these pages.

And finally, the best of luck on Sunday to Alan Herbert's Worthing United Under-16 squad, who play in their last ever county youth cup final, in search of the only honour to elude them.