COV
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SlowerThanPlatt
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COV
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Don’t be too confident about the walk up either
2011/2012 we had 9,600 season ticket holders, and I’d say we had an average of 2.5k away fans.
We only averaged 15k meaning that there was minuscule walkup, hardly any for some matches.
Walkups are generated by something worth watching, so they’ll climb on board after a few games if we do ok
The number of season tickets gives you a guaranteed minimum, it’s what happens on the pitch that gets the crowds up beyond that
2011/2012 we had 9,600 season ticket holders, and I’d say we had an average of 2.5k away fans.
We only averaged 15k meaning that there was minuscule walkup, hardly any for some matches.
Walkups are generated by something worth watching, so they’ll climb on board after a few games if we do ok
The number of season tickets gives you a guaranteed minimum, it’s what happens on the pitch that gets the crowds up beyond that
SlowerThanPlatt
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Don’t know what the saving was?
The flipside to that, in 2005/6 and 2006/7 we had just under 10K season ticket holders yet averaged 21K and 20K.
Cannot see an average of 2.5K away fans across the season also, in 2019/20, only 2 clubs in the entire championship averaged more than 2.5K (Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday). They'll be plenty of teams who bring sub 1K this season.
Grendel
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It actually highlights the errors of pricing strategy in the 2011 season
Grendel
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I’m sure that year we massively reduced season ticket prices by making it sane price wherever you actually sat. Also big concession reductions. We ended up with the biggest season ticket sales and the lowest per person revenue in our championship decade
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It's more than that I think. If you compare the ground plan for Forest and Northampton you can see a fair few have been shifted over and above season tickets.
lordy_87
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Be prepared to be disappointed then
SlowerThanPlatt
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Be surprised if we have 20k of our fans anytime this season, well at full price anyway
COV
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you may be right, I was factoring in the 6ks from a few clubs bumping it up.
shmmeee
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I think we’ll do that if we’re competitive at all at the right end of the league post Christmas. That’s one hell of an if though.
SlowerThanPlatt
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I disagree, how many times have we had 20k home fans at full price in the last 20 years? Even under Mowbray when we were flying playing great football we had 15k
Evo1883
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We also now have the added situation where we have to remortgage just to buy 2 pints and some cheesy chips at the ground
ccfcmad1
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Come on you can't compare a league one fixture under mowbray to a opening day fixture in the championship a first for the club in what eight years? After playing away from the city for two seasons and with covid stopping fans attending......
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SlowerThanPlatt
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Top Ricoh attendances:
Crewe JPT £5 (Wembley tickets)
Chelsea FA Cup
Gillingham Ricoh return £10
Accrington family/community day free tickets
Crewe JPT £5 (Wembley tickets)
Chelsea FA Cup
Gillingham Ricoh return £10
Accrington family/community day free tickets
SlowerThanPlatt
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CCFC have very rarely had 20k home fans at full price in my time following them, the Gillingham and Crewe games makes people’s expectations unrealistic, the truth is half of them wouldn’t have been there if it wasn’t £5
fernandopartridge
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Agreed. We were generally getting around 16 tp 18k home fans in the late 90s, not sure why people expect better than that
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In the latter years at HR that was impossible, the home capacity was only 18,500.
At the Ricoh, between 2005 and 2012, I'd say only 15-20 times 20K+ home fans. After relegation it was never going to happen outside of special occasions.
COV
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I don't think you can't judge it by what was happening 20 years ago, the game itself is virtually unrecognisable now, crowds up everywhere... except us... and no prizes for guessing why- whoever you want to blame we have been one of the most catastrophically managed clubs in the entire league. Yet we get more following us away now than we did most weeks in the top division.
If we were in the Premier League we'd be pushing 30k most weeks, if we have a similar season to last season we'll average about 20k, and thats ok. For the 'casual' supporter what is there to be that excited about? Its another season in the Championship where we'll probably be just above the relegation zone.
There's no doubt there are many thousands of CCFC "fans" out there waiting for an excuse to get on a bandwagon (or failing that a ticket deal), its just shit that our best run in so many years happened in the backdrop of more off-the-field dramas meaning hardly anyone got to see it and "catch the bug".
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Saddlebrains
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Someone else mentioned it earlier in the thread but fuck me behind the goal is barren.
Doesnt seem like hardly any tickets been sold for the forest game bar ST's.
I dont think we will hit 20k city fans. Really think the Wolves friendly knocked a few hundred off
Doesnt seem like hardly any tickets been sold for the forest game bar ST's.
I dont think we will hit 20k city fans. Really think the Wolves friendly knocked a few hundred off
COV
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We were never going to get 20k cov fans in there at full price with the match on TV on a Sunday, never going to happen.
I don't see what the Wolves game has to do with it?
Sky Blue Harry H
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Persuading a fairweather fan to come along to see us play at home to Shrewsbury, Gillingham, Swindon etc is a much harder sell than a raucous game against Blues, West Brom, Sheff Utd etc where there will be a completely different matchday atmosphere. I also think it is easier to persuade said supporters to return. A bit like having had a good experience at a restaurant. More likely to return.
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Saddlebrains
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Sky Blue Harry H
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Why would the Wolves friendly reduce the Forest attendance? No comprendez.
COV
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I doubt it will have made any difference whatsoever, it was a meaningless friendly, what were people expecting?
COV
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Its just something else to complain about
Saddlebrains
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Say a fairweather was thinking of going just to see us back in cov.
£12 for a nice sunday lunchtime kick off or £30 for a shit kick off time on a Sunday evening that's on sky.
Not the majority on here of course but i reckon there will be a few that did that
