No, I didn’t start going to games until the early 90s
It wasn’t always relegation battles though. I know the early to mid 80s was bad but prior to that we were very good for most of the 70s
One of the websites has the attendance against Blackpool as being 6k, so its not showing the right average.
This one is the correct figure: Sky Bet Championship | Average Attendances | Home Matches | Football Web Pages
Here's how I would rate them
Sillett - Gave us our highest honour. Coventry City peaked (to date) under Sillett.
Hill - Made Coventry City the club it is today. Without him we would still be playing in a ramshackle Highfield Road, eaking out an existence as a 2nd or 3rd tier club. A...
No is is disparaging the FA Cup win. Just that it was easier for Sillett to take an established top flight team and win the cup than it was for Robins to take a club on the verge of extinction back to the PL.
The top ten thing is a bit silly. Bobby Gould & Phil Neal were only 1 point off...
One thing I would say is Robins got lucky as to when he took over. Sisu were so hated that almost all frustration over a bad performance was directed at them rather than him
But the thing is JH didn’t have to deal with that.
We can’t judge on hypotheticals. Otherwise we could say that Phil Neal would’ve coped just as well with what Robins has had to deal with
Not after we’d already been in the division for 20 years.
Thinking that an established top flight team finishing in the top 10 is a success is exactly the mentality that has held us back for the past 50 years
I’d say Robins is the best.
Jimmy Hill did a great job, but he was backed by a supportive chairman. Plus it was in an era where money wasn’t so important.
Sillett again did a great job. But we were an established top flight team. Winning the FA cup was something that we should’ve been...