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Skyblueweeman · Dec 4, 2017

In terms of attendance, I’d be surprised if this gets over 10,000. Just can’t see a big following for this one.

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steve82 · Dec 4, 2017

sw88 said:
Crouch V Vincenti! Tallest man wins!

Only one sparky will be smiling at the end of the tie too!

matesx · Dec 4, 2017

Skyblueweeman said:
In terms of attendance, I’d be surprised if this gets over 10,000. Just can’t see a big following for this on

I reckon 11 to 12k

Hopefully more

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skybluesam66 · Dec 4, 2017

still waiting for the answer to the question earlier in the thread of the list of teams we wouldnt want!!

MusicDating · Dec 4, 2017

Not sure what the downer is on this draw!

10 years since we played them and they'll bring a large away following so should be a good atmosphere. Plus we have half a chance of winning.

My boy was very excited to be playing a Premier League club. He'll probably know more of their players through them Match Attax cards than I do.:woot:

CCFC54321 · Dec 4, 2017

I know it’s a premier league side but fuckin boring Stoke!

Good thing is Hughes will play a second string as I have a feeling they will be fighting to stay away from that third relegation spot.

Totally underwhelmed.

no_loyalty · Dec 4, 2017

steve82 said:
Only one sparky will be smiling at the end of the tie too!

Can hear it now, Mark Hughes complaining about every decision which went against them

Moff · Dec 4, 2017

Quite happy with the draw and to see a PL side at the Ricoh, Stoke have a decent team and some good players. Think it will be a 18k or so crowd.

Rather Stoke at home than something like Port Vale, Brentford or Doncaster away. Happy for a bit of a midlands derby as well.

Ranjit Bhurpa · Dec 4, 2017

play_in_skyblue_stripes said:
Anyone remember this?
It was a great game.

Coventry City Saturday, 30. April 1977 Stoke City

5:2

goals
0 : 1 John Ruggiero 45.
1 : 1 John Beck 45.
2 : 1 Barry Powell 45.
3 : 1 Ian Wallace 45.
4 : 1 Ian Wallace 45.
4 : 2 John Ruggiero 90.
5 : 2 Ian Wallace 90.

Les Sealey
Graham Oakey
Mick Coop
Bobby McDonald
Jim Holton
John Beck
Barry Powell
Leslie Cartwright
Tommy Hutchinson
Michael Ferguson
Ian Wallace

Peter Shilton
Denis Smith
Alan Dodd
Jackie Marsh
Alan Bloor
Geoff Salmons
John Mahoney
John Ruggiero
John Tudor
Terry Conroy
Garth Crooks

Manager: Gordon Milne Manager: Tony Waddington

Highfield Road (Coventry / England)

15.720

Seem to recall a nothing challenge on hardman Denis Smith in front of the Main Stand and he got carried off with a broken leg.

Fergusons_Beard · Dec 4, 2017

Great draw for us!

Typical Coventry mongs already fucking moaning about special offers and low attendances.

Fuck me lads you may as well slit your wrists now...

Great draw-good premiership club who ARE beatable and we at home.

All you knobheads who want half price tickets or moan about 11k attendance for this match should stay at home-where you can moan even more about how shit we were.

Ffs

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Sky Blue Harry H · Dec 4, 2017

Skyblueweeman said:
In terms of attendance, I’d be surprised if this gets over 10,000. Just can’t see a big following for this one.

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Stoke will definitely sell their allocation - so 6k of them - assuming police allow it - surely we can sell getting on for 9k. Embarrassing if there are only 10k in attendance, with 6k being from Stoke!

Skyblueweeman · Dec 4, 2017

I’m not moaning at all. I think any PL team is a good draw but would’ve been better (financially) as an away game.

I’m just saying that I don’t think we’ll have a massive surge in gate to anything over 10-12k.

That’s all.

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Sky Blue Harry H · Dec 4, 2017

Fergusons_Beard said:
Great draw for us!

Typical Coventry mongs already fucking moaning about special offers and low attendances.

Fuck me lads you may as well slit your wrists now...

Great draw-good premiership club who ARE beatable and we at home.

All you knobheads who want half price tickets or moan about 11k attendance for this match should stay at home-where you can moan even more about how shit we were.

Ffs

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I used to like Fergie (& Wallace was my hero) but lay off the 'mong' stuff?

Travs · Dec 4, 2017

I don't think we're really in a position to be moaning that we've "only got Stoke" in the cup. They're 3 divisions above us and relatively local for god's sake...

Yeah it's not a Wolves/B'ham/Villa but it's far better than it could've been. To be absolutely honest, as much as I'd have loved to get Villa, Wolves or Leicester, we'd get absolutely spanked, and really the only derby in which we could realistically have any chance of progression would have been Birmingham City.

Also it doesn't say much for us as a fanbase if we can't shift a decent number for this.certainly not expecting a sellout, but considering the majority opinion seems to be that we'd be packing the Ricoh out in the Premier League, we really should be aiming at 18-20000 even in our shambolic current situation.

Deleted member 5849 · Dec 4, 2017

Travs said:
I don't think we're really in a position to be moaning that we've "only got Stoke" in the cup. They're 3 divisions above us and relatively local for god's sake...

Yeah it's not a Wolves/B'ham/Villa but it's far better than it could've been. To be absolutely honest, as much as I'd have loved to get Villa, Wolves or Leicester, we'd get absolutely spanked, and really the only derby in which we could realistically have any chance of progression would have been Birmingham City.

Also it doesn't say much for us as a fanbase if we can't shift a decent number for this.certainly not expecting a sellout, but considering the majority opinion seems to be that we'd be packing the Ricoh out in the Premier League, we really should be aiming at 18-20000 even in our shambolic current situation.

Isn't that the whole problem though? We'll most likely get walloped by Stoke, but it's hardly a glamour thrashing...

curly_tom · Dec 4, 2017

Legia Sky Blue said:
No that was in his Forest time. I'll be surprised if our match is picked for TV, & I reckon the crowd could be 15,000+, but I don't think they are a big enough draw for a 25,000 crowd.

I was there for a game where everyone chanted "Tina" at Shilton and it was definitely against Derby, I think we won 3-0 with a lob by Gallacher. I never saw him play for Forest. I never knew the story but just remember being confused by the chant as young lad...

Travs · Dec 4, 2017

Yes possibly, but what more can we really ask for. A local premier league side. We really do seem to be the epitome of fair weather fans. Always harping on about our massive fanbase, and getting a premier league side up at the Ricoh, now we're moaning that it's not a glamorous enough premier league side. Another excuse not to get behind the side.

Reminds me of a couple of years back when everyone was moaning that we'd got "shitty Barnsley" in the next round of the cup, conveniently forgetting they were a division above us.

matesx · Dec 4, 2017

Fergusons_Beard said:
Great draw for us!

Typical Coventry mongs already fucking moaning about special offers and low attendances.

Fuck me lads you may as well slit your wrists now...

Great draw-good premiership club who ARE beatable and we at home.

All you knobheads who want half price tickets or moan about 11k attendance for this match should stay at home-where you can moan even more about how shit we were.

Ffs

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What a helmet

steve82 · Dec 4, 2017

We've a fan base that's largely never pleased anyway what ever the scenario.
Could give away a free hotdog and a cup tea or coffee with every ticket and people would moan there's no green tea available or the water was too hot.

There's always something!

better days · Dec 4, 2017

Just checked Stoke 3rd round line up for last season
They put a strong side out but still lost 0 2 at home to Wolves
21,000 there which I guess would have included a big number of Wolves fans

dadgad · Dec 4, 2017

letsallsingtogether said:
Then there was the cup game in 1987.
What a game that was, and it was a sell out of I remember
That was my late fathers first ever away game.

Agreed, an epic encounter. So often that was the sort of game where we’d come unstuck. I knew then we’d win the Cup.

rupert_bear · Dec 4, 2017

I wouldn’t worry about gates or how much we make, we could draw st Home win the replay at Stoke, draw the big boys Man United get a full house at Old Trafford and not one penny will find itself towards the football side of things, remember Spurs away, Arsenal away and Man United away and the 13000 Sky Blue fans who made the trip to Old Trafford where did all those receipts go ? and I won’t even start on last seasons Wembley exploits.

oscillatewildly · Dec 4, 2017

CCFC54321 said:
I know it’s a premier league side but fuckin boring Stoke!

Good thing is Hughes will play a second string as I have a feeling they will be fighting to stay away from that third relegation spot.

Totally underwhelmed.

I kind of get it, but still love the fact that we, lowly Coventry City still feel sufficiently big enough to 'ppfffttt' the visit of Prem Lg Stoke City!

pusbccfc · Dec 4, 2017

I love all these people having the attitude of not going because it's Stoke and they are supposedly not a big club, but are happy for us to get near outnumbered at home.

The most typical Coventry thing ever.

chiefdave · Dec 4, 2017

Do they still play at Ricoh? 32k and 15% = 4500 and some if we get full allocation. Excellent

On their forum they're working out how many tickets we have to give them because they expect them to be in demand. We're moaning about a shit draw and half empty ground.

You'd think we were there PL team and they were the ones getting excited about playing a team with some big names.

Not exactly a great sign for any potential buyers if we only get 15K for our first home game against a PL side in nearly 9 years.

Otis · Dec 4, 2017

Really don't get the 10,000-12,000 thinking.

Stoke will bring a large following.

15,000 I think is quite a reasonable conclusion to come to. City vs a Premier club and they are only an hour or so straight up the M6.

Ricketts · Dec 4, 2017

My initial reactions: home draw, excellent, avoided a league one or two club, excellent.

Stoke, oh well, 17000 crowd and any Mark Hughes team generally are thugs so our kids will struggle.

Would be good for £15 tickets and try and get 20k there, especially if we can string some results together over Christmas.

ovduk78 · Dec 4, 2017

rupert_bear said:
I wouldn’t worry about gates or how much we make, we could draw st Home win the replay at Stoke, draw the big boys Man United get a full house at Old Trafford and not one penny will find itself towards the football side of things, remember Spurs away, Arsenal away and Man United away and the 13000 Sky Blue fans who made the trip to Old Trafford where did all those receipts go ? and I won’t even start on last seasons Wembley exploits.

Yes, what did Robinson, Elliott & co do with the share of the gate receipts from Old Trafford?

Londonccfcfan · Dec 4, 2017

Judging by the so called home fans attendance in previous rounds (2500) we won’t get get more than 10k fans total , and Stoke may even out number us. Most of our so called Arm chair fans will always find excuses to stay away. They expect the perfect draw. Lol

The true hard core fans will always turn up majority of the time ( although not many of them left).

Very sad days indeed when Mansfield, High Wycombe and Notts county all got over 4K at home to non league teams.

Yet we struggled to barely got just over 2k home fans (fair play Boreham bringing close to 600).

covcity4life · Dec 4, 2017

Not a bad draw. Home vs prem team with stars like shaqiri, allen,chuba moting,diouff and crouch

Should get 25k plus?

Londonccfcfan · Dec 4, 2017

covcity4life said:
Not a bad draw. Home vs prem team with stars like shaqiri, allen,chuba moting,diouff and crouch

Should get 25k plus?

No chance mate. If you judge by previous rounds. Or by 6k league attendances.

We have no fans left at home.

covcity4life · Dec 4, 2017

This is a prem team coming to town though. Changes things

Otis · Dec 4, 2017

covcity4life said:
This is a prem team coming to town though. Changes things

Exactly.

Cannot judge what has come before it. The Checkatrade Trophy final being a case in point. Look at the attendances in the competition prior to that.

The fact it is a cup game against much higher opposition will appeal to many to come along.

Londonccfcfan · Dec 4, 2017

covcity4life said:
This is a prem team coming to town though. Changes things

Sad really, when three points vs Chesterfield at home on New Year’s Day is arguably more important.

Agreed Stoke will be a pressure off game. But hardly in the big scheme of things anything as important as Three massive points vs Chesterfield.

Yet no doubt we may get more For Stoke.

Otis · Dec 4, 2017

Londonccfcfan said:
Sad really, when three points vs Chesterfield at home on New Year’s Day is arguably more important.

Agreed Stoke will be a pressure off game. But hardly in the big scheme of things anything as important as Three massive points vs Chesterfield.

Yet no doubt we may get more For Stoke.

Chesterfield should be a good crowd. They will bring a few (again not too far away). I reckon it may well be 10,000+ as long as we are still right up there and doing well.

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