Evo1883
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Before we went up from league 2 , didn't we have no top 6 finish for something like 50 years in any league and around 3 top 10s .
Coventry are a unique club in many ways
Even a club like Ipswich who some of our fans would see as smaller managed 19k in League 1
Ipswich have the whole Bobby Robson thing plus the league championship which is engrained into their fans, again things we don’t have. They’re really well supported for where they are based tbh, I wouldn’t class them as a small club. We’re potentially bigger but potential is very different to actually doing something.
Forest spent 3 seasons
Before we went up from league 2 , didn't we have no top 6 finish for something like 50 years in any league and around 3 top 10s .
Coventry are a unique club in many ways
Again, look at their history, you might not like it but Nottingham Forest are a much bigger name than us, and you can’t just erase their achievements as they weren’t last year.
It takes time to get that ‘tradition’ and Forest have it, we don’t.
Again, look at their history, you might not like it but Nottingham Forest are a much bigger name than us, and you can’t just erase their achievements as they weren’t last year.
It takes time to get that ‘tradition’ and Forest have it, we don’t.
No Ipswich and Norwich have a unique catchment area which means you are drawn to those clubs
Ipswich is not big enough to attract 20k every week, that comes from history and tradition.
I think coventry are a club rebuilding to be honest .
And that includes its fanbase .
Norwich being a yo yo club has actually helped them maintain high attendances I reckon, they know every 2 or 3 years they will win a promotion
Norwich being a yo yo club has actually helped them maintain high attendances I reckon, they know every 2 or 3 years they will win a promotion
Rubbish it comes from geography
Got what wrong, you mean prices?
Not so otherwise Burnley would have about 2,000 fans.
But their history and tradition means they kept their support and while they’re never gonna be a Man Utd, for the size of the town they have amazing support.
Norwich and Ipswich have intense rivalry and zero competition - if you want to watch a game in Norfolk it’s kings lynn or Norwich. In the West Midlands the choices are endless
Norwich and Ipswich have intense rivalry and zero competition - if you want to watch a game in Norfolk it’s kings lynn or Norwich. In the West Midlands the choices are endless
No he’s right.
When you have something to fight for every single season that’s obviously going to attract people.
Aiming to come 17th every season creates apathy and mediocrity, we still haven’t shaken that yet- but it’s happening and you can see it happening eg in our brilliant away support, and that why Evo is right, our support is almost being ‘rebuilt’.
No it comes from a catchment area for Ipswich as you can support no one else but Colchester
No you said catchment isn’t important — it’s essential for Norwich and Ipswich
No he’s right.
When you have something to fight for every single season that’s obviously going to attract people.
Aiming to come 17th every season creates apathy and mediocrity, we still haven’t shaken that yet- but it’s happening and you can see it happening eg in our brilliant away support, and that why Evo is right, our support is almost being ‘rebuilt’.
The entire population of Suffolk is 300k less that that of Cov and Warwickshire, but yet Platf was pointing out they can pull in 20k no matter what?
Comes from tradition, history, pride etc. Ours was ripped to pieces but it’s coming back.
I mean you are correct about location but it doesnt explain them having wank support before their return back to the top flight ...which they then maintained through being basically a prem / yo yo club View attachment 21090
Because of catchment and I’m still waiting for your explanation that we, forest, Leicester, Derby have identical average crowds virtually over history?
We actually had more than all 3 as an all time average until sisu came.
Leicester is easily explained through having phenomenal owners that have changed the clubs fortunes totally.
Derby have been in the prem and pushed for promotion a few times in the least 20 years too .
Forests attendances have grown through expectation more than anything .
Ours nosedived
I disagree, our attendances as a Championship club in the bottom half will be more than if we were top of League 1.
According to ROS forest increased as people remember Brian clough
We actually had more than all 3 as an all time average until sisu came.
Leicester is easily explained through having phenomenal owners that have changed the clubs fortunes totally.
Derby have been in the prem and pushed for promotion a few times in the least 20 years too .
Forests attendances have grown through expectation more than anything .
Ours nosedived
2, for all the great things going on at the club in the last few years, their marketing has been bloody aweful! I think there is so much more that can be done to raise interest locally.
Maybe that's something that the owners can look at going forward.
Exactly. You can’t look at “across history” because things have changed so much. We have had zero expectation until now and even now it’s tempered with a lot of cynicism.
Your average Cov fan is way, way, way more cynical than your average of most other clubs.
We don’t really have any “good times” to look back on compared with most clubs, definitely not recently.
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