Flying Fokker
Well-Known Member
There’s more to this than he lets on…
It's hard for some fans to understand but unless your team has been so poor for so long , and have had stadium groundshares and multiple administrations inbetween .. you truly can't comprehend how hard it was for people to follow a club that in truth looked hopeless in every way .There’s more to this than he lets on…
It's hard for some fans to understand but unless your team has been so poor for so long , and have had stadium groundshares and multiple administrations inbetween .. you truly can't comprehend how hard it was for people to follow a club that in truth looked hopeless in every way .
We are a well supported club with huge growing potential still .
It takes years to build a club up again and a fraction of the time to chuck it away. Which is why when you finally hit on something that's working, you rip it up at your peril.it used to wind me up no end hearing people say a capacity of 20,000 would be fine, and that we’d struggle to ever fill the ground even in the Premier League. It’s a different game now and if by some miracle we did go up a capacity of 32,000 would not nearly be enough. Potential is huge, we were just very late to start realising it.
It takes years to build a club up again and a fraction of the time to chuck it away. Which is why when you finally hit on something that's working, you rip it up at your peril.
You could argue Portsmouth to be fair, but they at least won a trophy before falling down the pyramid.don’t disagree at all.
In my view we were an anomaly for decades, I don’t think any other club in the league had as long a run of depressing crap as us, and our crowds still held up compared to ‘similar’ clubs. Promotion and every game would comfortably sell out, no doubt about it.
You could argue Portsmouth to be fair, but they at least won a trophy before falling down the pyramid.
don’t disagree at all.
In my view we were an anomaly for decades, I don’t think any other club in the league had as long a run of depressing crap as us, and our crowds still held up compared to ‘similar’ clubs. Promotion and every game would comfortably sell out, no doubt about it.
Pretty sure they would sell out.Intrigued to why you think every game sells out? I think we would sell out a lot more but not every game I don't think.
We couldn't sell out against spurs in the cup just a few weeks ago. A top 6 team, at home. Of course that was mainly put down to prices but I will bet it will be significantly more when we get to the premier
Intrigued to why you think every game sells out? I think we would sell out a lot more but not every game I don't think.
We couldn't sell out against spurs in the cup just a few weeks ago. A top 6 team, at home. Of course that was mainly put down to prices but I will bet it will be significantly more when we get to the premier
Let's hope we get relegated thenThe Prem would be a nightmare, ground would be too small, demand would see ticket prices rise dramatically, plastic fans ruining the atmosphere, getting smashed by the big billionaire clubs, VAR !
Not sure it floats my boat
I’m not sure where the 11k comes from. By my calculations (which may be wrong), 5 years ago we were in our League One Championship season playing at St Andrews. I think our average attendance there was in the region of 6k? I would have thought our average at the moment is about 25k at least? Therefore increase is about 19k.
The season after this was the COVID season so attendance zero. The season before, the last before the St Andrews move, we averaged 12k. Whichever season he is looking at our attendance has increased by more than 11k.
And usYou could argue Portsmouth to be fair, but they at least won a trophy before falling down the pyramid.
AbsolutelyIt’s time they took Coventry out of the West Midlands, and put it back in Warwickshire where it belongs.
It’s 8 months old.it’s an old video I suspect, seeing as it has Ipswich as a non-premier team
Intrigued to why you think every game sells out? I think we would sell out a lot more but not every game I don't think.
We couldn't sell out against spurs in the cup just a few weeks ago. A top 6 team, at home. Of course that was mainly put down to prices but I will bet it will be significantly more when we get to the premier
Intrigued to why you think every game sells out? I think we would sell out a lot more but not every game I don't think.
We couldn't sell out against spurs in the cup just a few weeks ago. A top 6 team, at home. Of course that was mainly put down to prices but I will bet it will be significantly more when we get to the premier
it used to wind me up no end hearing people say a capacity of 20,000 would be fine, and that we’d struggle to ever fill the ground even in the Premier League. It’s a different game now and if by some miracle we did go up a capacity of 32,000 would not nearly be enough. Potential is huge, we were just very late to start realising it.
The club realised in the late 90s as to where football was going. Had we not gone down in 2001, HR would've been very restrictive by about 2004.
It was right to look at a new ground, its just how it was managed that was the problem
All my correspondence is Coventry, Warwickshire, I've never used WM at all.It’s time they took Coventry out of the West Midlands, and put it back in Warwickshire where it belongs.
Very badly, the whole thing was a fiasco. Certainly looks better now Frasers have it. Coventry City Council were a disgrace from the start. Glad they now have nothing to do with the running of itThe club realised in the late 90s as to where football was going. Had we not gone down in 2001, HR would've been very restrictive by about 2004.
It was right to look at a new ground, its just how it was managed that was the problem
All my correspondence is Coventry, Warwickshire, I've never used WM at all.
Intrigued to why you think every game sells out? I think we would sell out a lot more but not every game I don't think.
We couldn't sell out against spurs in the cup just a few weeks ago. A top 6 team, at home. Of course that was mainly put down to prices but I will bet it will be significantly more when we get to the premier
Not Spurs first 11 though. That is why it didn't sell out.
Very badly, the whole thing was a fiasco. Certainly looks better now Frasers have it. Coventry City Council were a disgrace from the start. Glad they now have nothing to do with the running of it
I’m sure there were people on here defending the council. Labour supporters, presumably.How bad is it though that the people we elect to supposedly run the city in our interest, care so little about a civic asset (and one of the oldest organisations in the city) that it makes a man who was once described as Britain's worst employer look favourable to our club?
Very bad, dinosaurs springs to mind.How bad is it though that the people we elect to supposedly run the city in our interest, care so little about a civic asset (and one of the oldest organisations in the city) that it makes a man who was once described as Britain's worst employer look favourable to our club?
I’m sure there were people on here defending the council. Labour supporters, presumably.
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