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[theferret]

Nuneaton has always been full of Leicester and Villa fans.

There has always been some, but 'full', behave.

 

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[theferret]

I just went off http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/ for the 2005 season.

Yep I'll do 2006 now, that was the Ricoh move year wasn't it?

Aye. Following season it was about the same. We never took advantage of that new stadium boost, whereas the likes of Leicester and Southampton did. We just went on a long downward spiral.

 

[Nick]

There has always been some, but 'full', behave.

When I was at school / younger and played against Nuneaton teams and played with lads from Nuneaton, there were always villa, leicester and even stoke fans. Mostly villa back then.

That was when we were prem too.

Even at school then city fans were very rare, I think there was about 3 or 4 I can remember in my class at primary school. The rest was man utd / liverpool.

 

[theferret]

When I was at school / younger and played against Nuneaton teams and played with lads from Nuneaton, there were always villa, leicester and even stoke fans. Mostly villa back then.

That was when we were prem too.

Even at school then city fans were very rare, I think there was about 3 or 4 I can remember in my class at primary school. The rest was man utd / liverpool.

It's not really the case, because a large portion of Nuneaton's population originate from Coventry is you go back a few generations. I remember after we won the cup CCFC flags were hanging out of windows all over the town. We've seen a bit of that with Leicester this week, but fortunately not on that scale. The longer we spend in the wilderness, the less that people of Warwickshire identify with CCFC as being their club, and that could be very damaging. Leicester doing what they have done hasn't helped.

The pub I drink in after work would often advertise trips to away City games, but this season they started doing trips to Leicester games. Go figure.

 

[robbiethemole]

Watching the 'Boro game this afternoon, the commentator said promotion to the Prem for Burnley and Boro was worth £170m!!!

given the bottom side next season will get £90m and parachute payments for 3 years, wouldn't you think it would be worth a major effort to get out of this league?

surely SISU could put a bit more into the team.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

It's not really the case, because a large portion of Nuneaton's population originate from Coventry is you go back a few generations. I remember after we won the cup CCFC flags were hanging out of windows all over the town. We've seen a bit of that with Leicester this week, but fortunately not on that scale. The longer we spend in the wilderness, the less that people of Warwickshire identify with CCFC as being their club, and that could be very damaging. Leicester doing what they have done hasn't helped.

The pub I drink in after work would often advertise trips to away City games, but this season they started doing trips to Leicester games. Go figure.

I work in Hinckley and drive through Nuneaton every day to pick up a mate haven't seen one flag yet.

 

[Hobo]

I just went off http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/ for the 2005 season.

Yep I'll do 2006 now, that was the Ricoh move year wasn't it?

Us - 21180
Palace - 19567
Watford - 15450
WBA - 25404
Stoke - 14738
Norwich - 24952
Southampton - 23614
Bournemouth - 6472

Southampton, Norwich have always had good turnouts.

Southampton's lowest since 2001 (it doubled then, I guess new stadium??) is 17849, Norwich 18987

What is interesting though, is that we lost 5000 going from championship to League 1, Norwich gained 120, Southampton gained about 3000, Leicester lost 3000, Man City in 1999 gained 100 or so.

Since our return to level 3 I suggest we lost fans through having a poor season. The other teams you mention were probably in a promotion challenge, that can sustain your support or even increase it.

 

[Skyblueweeman]

Lets put it another way. Ten years ago were leicester, bournmouth, southampton, crystal palace, stoke, watford, wba, bournmouth and norwich bigger clubs with better crowds than us.

the answer is no. Whilst their owners have moved their clubs forward on similar fan bases and income to ours and are all sitting in the premiership we have sunk to the third tier of english football, dont own our own ground, have a team made up of loans and out of contract players and no long term plan or investement to get us out this league. Sisu refuse to financially back the club. Enough said

Similar fan bases? Norwich have about 26k season ticket holders! Southampton were taken over by a billionaire who was rumoured to be after a large contract on the Solent, Leicester escaped sanctions or financial penalty for going into administration, Bournemouth were bought by a wealthy Russian and Stoke were bought by a wealthy Icelandic family (If i remember correctly).

We were unlucky that we were bought by a hedge fund but other than that, I think some of the comparisons are unfair.

Just my opinion...

 

[torchomatic]

Even in Warwickshire when I grew up in the 70s I remember being the only City fan in my class. Everyone supported Liverpool back then as they were the big team plus lots of Forest fans too.

When I was at school / younger and played against Nuneaton teams and played with lads from Nuneaton, there were always villa, leicester and even stoke fans. Mostly villa back then.

That was when we were prem too.

Even at school then city fans were very rare, I think there was about 3 or 4 I can remember in my class at primary school. The rest was man utd / liverpool.

 

[Hobo]

Running through my mates in Hinkley and Nuneaton.
Leicester x 1
Leeds x 2
Chelsea x 1
Sunderland x 1
Wolves x 1
Villa x 1
Man United x 2
Arsenal x 1
Coventry x 1

 

[Ashdown]

We're not similar in fans and haven't been for years. Their support didn't ditch them whereas ours did.

All a very different situation though, they've had ups and downs and we've just sunk slowly down for 15 years, plus for the last 5 years our owners have decided that we can languish as we are whilst they work out how to get their money back.

 

[Hobo]

The answer is yes, Leicester, Norwich, WBA, Soton all had better crowds.

Why do you think SISU are responsible for backing the club? The club is the fans as people like you bleat on. Relying on a benefactor is not sustainable.

People often look at the size of Coventry as a City. Let's look at it another way, Warwickshire as a county 22nd out of 27.....Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, East Anglia and Hampshire suddenly seem bigger.