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We're all guessing of course, but I think you're behind unduly pessimistic. We're currently selling 50-80 season tickets a day and that rate isn't slowing. It's about 1100 from what we can see, and corporate is on top, and because hospitality tickets are relatively cheap this year, that'll be...

I don't understand those who say 'away games only'. Their choice, and I guess this is their way of supporting the club. What they are saying in effect though, is that they want to support the club, but also want others to fund the club on their behalf. They'll go away and cheer on players who...

I think 1st game will surprise a few people. Any prediction is just a guess, but I think it will exceed most people's expectations.

Car parking season tickets now on sale for those interested.

Exactly, it is about brand awareness and recognition. They sell houses, and a quick sideways glance at a for sale sign and you immediately recognise the agent. I think it is quite clever branding, and how that brand might look on the front of a football shirt was probably not on their mind...

Nobody in the media has mentioned the comment from Duggins about SISU's stated intention of building a stadium just outside the city border being "an act of hostility". Of course, SISU then subsequently entered talks with CRFC about a joint venture at The Butts, very much IN Coventry. What...

Yeah, that was a lot earlier. CRFC were still playing at Coundon Road at the time iirc.

I'll always remember the time Jim Twyneham announced over the PA mid-game that Mike Hunt needed to call home urgently. I like to think he wasn't fooled and just said it for a laugh.

At 8.30pm on a Sunday night the entire retail park is closed. I'm not sure how strict they will be given that the entire car park would be empty otherwise. To be honest, they're missing a trick, they could charge and make a few quid.

Agree with the first point, but not sure I understand the second one. There was very little stick given to the players last season, I can only recall one game where the line was crossed (the stick given to Burge), other than that nothing of note, and certainly nothing you don't get at any club...

Yeah, but with Easter Monday and Boxing Day it's only 3 proper midweek games.

He's been at me all night. It's exhausting. He's fucking relentless.

This is true, but both of those clubs benefit from geography to a degree. Norwich is remote, is 45 miles from the nearest club and really represents the whole of Norfolk and its 800,000 residents. Sunderland have a couple of other big clubs in the area, but in a region of 2.6 million people...

You hear that a lot, and there is an element of truth in it, but actually Coventry's population growth was a lot earlier than that. In 1908 the city had a population of 88,000 but by 1951 it was 260,000. Leicester by contrast was 220,000 in 1908 and 285,000 by 1951. Coventry grew massively in...

We'll just have to agree to disagree then, because the point is that the populations of the places you listed are not correct in many cases - that's even before you stretch the areas out to include towns outside of the main conurbation (conurbation being the true size of a town/city, not the one...

How are you defining catchment area though? Birkenhead the town is 88K, Birkenhead the metro area is over 300K. Forest Green are really a Stroud team and not just Nailsworth. Lincoln is notably bigger than the figure quoted. You can make these figures look very different by using different...

The worse one I can recall was Chelsea away in the PL in 1993. They were playing in the FA Cup final just a few weeks later and only 8,000 at Stamford Bridge.

If people want to see how attendances go in cycles for all clubs and fluctuate massively, the EFS website is interesting, because it shows that all clubs have massively fickle supporters if that's how we are judging things. Our all time averages: England historical attendance and performance To...

You can take these snapshots at given times and scratch your head as to why, but these things change over time. Pompey averaged 8,500 in the Championship in 1997. Why?

Coventry has the entire population of Warwickshire to fall on. Does it really though? Even if you believe that people in Shipston-on-Stour and those living on the Gloucestershire border somehow identify with Coventry, the same can be said of the other places too. The population of...