Birmingham v Forest - 16,000. Birmingham population = 1.1m. Granted, there's Villa, so halve it you get 550,000.
And, by the way, the population of Wigan is 317,000. For some strange reason pundits go along with 'Little Wigan from a small town, incredible what they've done'. Here's the link from the government. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...-of-the-north-west/censusnorthwestnr0712.html
Doncaster is another - 302,000 according to the government. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...-of-the-north-west/censusnorthwestnr0712.html
Birmingham v Forest - 16,000. Birmingham population = 1.1m. Granted, there's Villa, so halve it you get 550,000.
And, by the way, the population of Wigan is 317,000. For some strange reason pundits go along with 'Little Wigan from a small town, incredible what they've done'. Here's the link from the government. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...-of-the-north-west/censusnorthwestnr0712.html
Doncaster is another - 302,000 according to the government. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...-of-the-north-west/censusnorthwestnr0712.html
Birmingham v Forest - 16,000. Birmingham population = 1.1m. Granted, there's Villa, so halve it you get 550,000.
And, by the way, the population of Wigan is 317,000. For some strange reason pundits go along with 'Little Wigan from a small town, incredible what they've done'. Here's the link from the government. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...-of-the-north-west/censusnorthwestnr0712.html
Doncaster is another - 302,000 according to the government. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...-of-the-north-west/censusnorthwestnr0712.html
on that basis Millwall is in london which has a population of 10million+
I'm going of what the government has published which I believe is accurate as they have no reason to lie.
No it isn't - the actual towns are tiny. The government figures are for the borough, Doncaster in the last census was 67,000 I think.
If you are going on the borough argument you need to factor in Nuneaton, Bedworth, Stratford, leamington etc - everyone in the Cv postcodes and are population I believe escalates to something ridiculous like 600 - 700,000.
Wiki is correct;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Doncaster
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Wigan
Wigan again as a town is small. Bigger than Nuneaton but not by much.
Yep, that's fine if you want to quote the population of the Metropolitan Borough and not that of the actual towns.
I'm guessing when Coventry joins the West Midlands Combined Authority people will flood to CCFC games from Wolverhampton, Brum, Solihull etc, so seems like a fair barometer!
As you know everything, more than the government, can you explain why?
I must admit I don't know much about this subject. However, for the Midlands, the government do not count Bedworth and Nuneaton for Coventry nor do they count Dudley separate for Birmingham.
http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...he-west-midlands/censuswestmidlandnr0712.html
As you know everything, more than the government, can you explain why?
It's not me quoting anything. The government are the ones who have posted this online and believe it to be correct.
Really on the fence with this one.
On the one hand we had the highest attendance in league one yesterday and league one being the key point here. It's division 3 football and when we have had all the troubles in the past 4 years with a relegation and Northampton (not to be underestimated and seems forgotten by many) it's a great attendance.
On the other hand it's our only game at the Ricoh in September on a lovely day for that matter and it's the best start for years. We have an exciting team and the best manager in the league and we work on a more fans that turn up the better basis. Self sufficient.
I guess the truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Yes we have an exciting team at the moment and it's great fun winning but some people will always have a dislike for the owner and that will keep them away rightly or wrongly.
things are going well at the moment which is normally a sign for one of the pair of arseholes that run the club to come and and shove their great big foot in their mouth both have been very quiet recently I s it because they are saying nothing or nobody is listening to them.
Or that the on field excitement is nicely masking the off field problems for them.
The fans have to be won back. That's the key point ! and will it happen with our current owners at the helm ? there are thousands who won't because of them . it was even said on the Friday night phone in, certain fans simply refuse to return until they're gone .
It's an old chestnut, I know, but it's valid; if we drew a big team in the cup the place would be packed and CWR would have constant phone calls from people: "have supported City all my life and I couldn't get a ticket, it ain't fair", etc etc
Last season the arguments on here seemed to be that people wouldn't attend because the football was shit or it was too expensive. Well, we've crossed those two off the list and people still won't attend.
11K on Saturday was rubbish.
Yes we have an exciting team at the moment and it's great fun winning but some people will always have a dislike for the owner and that will keep them away rightly or wrongly.
things are going well at the moment which is normally a sign for one of the pair of arseholes that run the club to come and and shove their great big foot in their mouth both have been very quiet recently I s it because they are saying nothing or nobody is listening to them.
I honestly don't believe that it has a great deal to do with the owners at the moment. Whilst the current form and standard of football is admittedly encouraging, it's not yet sustained enough to entice a whole swathe of support back to the Ricoh. The fans have been let down and disappointed over decades and a run of eight games, however positive, isn't yet sustained enough. If the team replicate this form over the next 8, 16, 24 games then I think we will see attendances gradually creeping up, with the opportunity for them to hit 15k+ towards the back end of the season. In fact, if a top 2 challenge is maintained then we could see 20k in the last few games.
The club basically died last year and you could argue it has for the last 15 years too. In the last 10 years we've only been losing support because of rubbish finishes and nothing to excite.
2006 - 21,280
2007 - 20,342 (DOWN)
2008 - 19,123 (DOWN)
2009 - 17,408 (DOWN)
2010 - 17,305 (DOWN)
2011 - 16,310 (DOWN)
2012 - 15,119 (DOWN)
2013 - 10,997 (DOWN)
2014 - 2,348 (DOWN)
2015 - 9,332 (DOWN ON 2013)
The club basically died last year and you could argue it has for the last 15 years too. In the last 10 years we've only been losing support because of rubbish finishes and nothing to excite.
2006 - 21,280
2007 - 20,342 (DOWN)
2008 - 19,123 (DOWN)
2009 - 17,408 (DOWN)
2010 - 17,305 (DOWN)
2011 - 16,310 (DOWN)
2012 - 15,119 (DOWN)
2013 - 10,997 (DOWN)
2014 - 2,348 (DOWN)
2015 - 9,332 (DOWN ON 2013)
attendences and atmosphere are still better than last year so not end of the world
i was surprised only 11k this week but still think if we are doing well come october then we can aim for 13k plus for shrews and blackpool games
Prior to Saturday, it was 4 points from 4 games. 2 away defeats, an unconvincing home draw and one good performance (Burton away). Some would have seen that as a return to type, hence the impact on the attendance. Those fluctuations will continue until the team are solidly top 6 over 20+ games.
I get that top level rugby is attractive with international players but where we these thousands watching rugby before Wasps came?
Let's just all admit that Cov have the worst fans in the country.
PUSB
I disagree t hat the Southend result was "unconvincing". Our problem was that we underestimated them due to their league position and expected the game to be a pushover. It wasn't and they really came out fighting. They didn't give us any time on the ball at all and were snapping at our heels from the off. We never gave up and our fighting spirit was tremendous and fan power that night spurred the team to get the equaliser. The atmosphere for me was better than the Gillingham game. Tremendous.
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