He really hope we do, I love club, but I'm stating a fact that we havnt got that massive home support that people think we have, a lot if it started when went all seater in 1982
Time to bring this song back?
We never, ever had less than 10,000 home fans v Villa in the 90s. That’s just made up.
We probably did in the 80’s
Hard to quantify this one. You say we are historically a championship club, but I am guessing this is the league (Div. 2) we have spent the least time in... But I get your rationale.I think we are historically a championship club though , the one thing i disagree with that our fans say is we belong in the top flight .. we sit 27th for most seasons spent in the top flight and most our history is at this level now .
There are 20 clubs bigger than us historically
That's fine though , we didn't hit the top flight until 67 so we came about really late as opposed to many clubs
Birmingham are our biggest rivals in this league, I'm sure most would agree!Who are these biggest rivals?
I would argue we don’t have any ‘biggest rivals’ apart from quirks of league positions and what’s happening at the time
Our support is no bigger than it was in 1995!Wrong again- remember it, thoroughly depressing game with Steve Morgan’s long range shots our main attacking threat- Villa didn’t sell any in the lower tier at all, under 2k from them. Dire atmosphere (as it often was at HR despite the understandable nostalgia)
And are you saying that our support now is no bigger than it was then? That what happened in 1995 is the only indicator of what will happen now?
10k home fans with 2k away, soz!We never, ever had less than 10,000 home fans v Villa in the 90s. That’s just made up.
I remember the 3-3 draw in 1984, probably around 7k Coventry fans in a crowd of 11kWe probably did in the 80’s
Our support is no bigger than it was in 1995!
Hard to quantify this one. You say we are historically a championship club, but I am guessing this is the league (Div. 2) we have spent the least time in... But I get your rationale.
Our average attendances are slightly higher at the moment yes, think it about 18.5k in 1995, I still feel we have the same amount of supporters now as back then just people go more now, but feel free to send a smile laughy face back!And yet somehow we average 5,000 more now than we did in 1995, in the division below and with less away fans?
Im talking about supporters not averages, our average is slightly higher now, think it was around 18.5k in 1996/96, We had the same support then as we do now, people go more now as mentioned previously, first time I've had a season ticket apart from 1st season at Ricoh since 1988,
Our average attendances are slightly higher at the moment yes, think it about 18.5k in 1995, I still feel we have the same amount of supporters now as back then just people go more now, but feel free to send a smile laughy face back!
The premiership is different but since moving to the Ricoh we've struggled to pull in 20k home fans!I don’t think that you can look at the top attendance by home fans (say 20k against Peterborough) and then make a case for that being our maximum number of attendees. You will always get the fans who come to most, even every home game and I would think that these make up the core of our support. After that though you will have a whole range of supporters from those who go fairly regularly to those who attend perhaps only once or twice. The aggregate of City fans who have attended a match at the CBS this season is going to be much more than 20k. Guessing but it could be as much as maybe 26k to 28k. You then have those sat at home who are interested but still haven’t been tempted back yet. If we got back in the top flight our core support would rocket again. I think it is daft to say 20k is the ceiling.
Definitely in the 80s, it was pitful some games, even away at Villa!Il tell you what is better now than in the 80s and 90s ... our away support
Our average attendances are slightly higher at the moment yes, think it about 18.5k in 1995, I still feel we have the same amount of supporters now as back then just people go more now, but feel free to send a smile laughy face back!
The premiership is different but since moving to the Ricoh we've struggled to pull in 20k home fans!
We havnt averaged 20k home fans for 40 years if that's of any relevanceSo having a new ground is the only factor that’s of any relevance?
Nope, 18.5k 95/96Nope, it was just over 14,500 in 1995
Nope, 18.5k 95/96
What point?So about 3k less home fans than this season, in the division below. You don’t really have any way to prove your point.
Early 80s yes- especially 82 when they were going well, reigning champions and essentially completely took HR over
25k if we are in the play off spots? Surely, they'll be at least another 15k wanting a seat....after all they turned up at WembleyWe have quite a cynical bunch of fans outside of the ones who already go each week- and that’s not a dig in the slightest- you can hardly blame them after all the shit that’s gone on. But if there’s a whiff of a playoff place come the end of the season we’ll easily shift 25k home tickets.
Even now, even on here, there is still a disbelief that we’ll maintain this playoff push (and again, totally understandable), but if it gets to the point where there genuine belief & confidence that “we can do this”- we’d start to get an idea of what type of support we can attract.
I'm definitely going to be singing "Go for it City" at the top of my voice on Saturday....if only to annoy Grendel. Block 19 please join in!please no
only if you sing the whole song, not just the 9 word versionI'm definitely going to be singing "Go for it City" at the top of my voice on Saturday....if only to annoy Grendel. Block 19 please join in!
We are getting closer but bearing in mind we have never had more than a couple of successive seasons of sustained progress for decades it's no surprise. I remember fondly the late 1970s under the great Gordon Milne when , I think, we may have averaged 21,000 and 23,000 in two years when we showed real progress. For all our achievement in the 35 years in the top division it generally was a struggle to stay up. Until we have a few years or so where we as supporters really see progress it's hard to say where we are with potential support. We've had a couple under Robins and we've seen a response. 30,000 regularly in the Prem you'd expect but I'm not sure we'd sustain it. A lot depends on the owners backing the manager.We havnt averaged 20k home fans for 40 years if that's of any relevance
It certainly is. Ipswich are another club that have a good hardcore support.Some on here won't like me mentioning this, but Sunderland are averaging over 30k for L1. Now that's a tremendous show of support.
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