Local support (6 Viewers)

[bigfatronssba]

There were a few people moaning on here before the Hull game, saying that our support is poor due to the fact that were a big city. I do think some on here believe the Coventry area to be bigger than it actually is.

Interestingly there is a table going around Twitter showing how well a team is supported per head of the local area.

It shows that we're actually a pretty supportive bunch around here:

 

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[bigfatronssba]

For reference the population figure is for how many people that team is the closest club.

 

[skybluelee]

It's pretty meaningless. All it shows is the population that is closest to which given club in our league. It would mean a bit more if they added in all club's from all leagues.

 

[bigfatronssba]

It's pretty meaningless. All it shows is the population that is closest to which given club in our league. It would mean a bit more if they added in all club's from all leagues.

It is all 92 clubs, but just focusing on the Championship.

 

[Peter Billing Eyes]

This report is inaccurate and by the looks of things based on wildly inconsistent data. Assuming for e.g. that Sheffield Utd‘s supporter base is restricted to the city of Sheffield, ignoring South Yorkshire but ironically the fact it also shares Sheffield with Wednesday. There also seems to be an assumption that our support is limited to Coventry, Nuneaton and Bedworth, excluding the rest of Warwickshire and parts of the West Midlands, but that Berkshire is entirely the dominion of Reading FC. I’d call these stats absolute sh*te. Someone with a compass and a complete lack of understanding in demographics, population, and fan bases has plucked this information out of their ass.

 

[bigfatronssba]

This report is inaccurate and by the looks of things based on wildly inconsistent data. Assuming for e.g. that Sheffield Utd‘s supporter base is restricted to the city of Sheffield, ignoring South Yorkshire but ironically the fact it also shares Sheffield with Wednesday. There also seems to be an assumption that our support is limited to Coventry, Nuneaton and Bedworth, excluding the rest of Warwickshire and parts of the West Midlands, but that Berkshire is entirely the dominion of Reading FC. I’d call these stats absolute sh*te. Someone with a compass and a complete lack of understanding in demographics, population, and fan bases has plucked this information out of their ass.

I think you misunderstand. It’s the amount of people for who the club is closest.
Our “local” support is pretty much restricted to Coventry, Nuneaton, and Bedworth (along with Warwick, Rugby etc), as anyone supporting us from further afield are not supporting their local club.

 

[Peter Billing Eyes]

I think you misunderstand. It’s the amount of people for who the club is closest.
Our “local” support is pretty much restricted to Coventry, Nuneaton, and Bedworth (along with Warwick, Rugby etc), as anyone supporting us from further afield are not supporting their local club.

Understood. I’d still say the numbers are skewed, however. On that basis, you could consider pretty much the whole of Warwickshire to be our territory and the combined numbers of Coventry and Warks are over 900,000 and not 488,000?

 

[shmmeee]

Understood. I’d still say the numbers are skewed, however. On that basis, you could consider pretty much the whole of Warwickshire to be our territory and the combined numbers of Coventry and Warks are over 900,000 and not 488,000?

Its a Voroni polygon created around each club, it’ll have nothing to do with county boundaries.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Its a Voroni polygon created around each club, it’ll have nothing to do with county boundaries.

Would be quite interesting if the club could overlay the polygon with postcodes of people with season tickets or over 5 ticket purchases on record

 

[tomreagan84]

For reference the population figure is for how many people that team is the closest club.

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It is all 92 clubs, but just focusing on the Championship.

Are you sure?

The figures don’t look right.

 

[tomreagan84]

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Are you sure?

The figures don’t look right.

Blackburn and Burnley are almost equidistant to Manchester.

Yet, their polygons vary significantly.

 

[fernandopartridge]

Blackburn and Burnley are almost equidistant to Manchester.

Yet, their polygons vary significantly.

Is it not because Burnley is further to the east and to its east is semi rural yorkshire / lancashire border (Calder 'Happy' Valley is a bit of a hotbed of Burnley support), whereas Blackburn has Preston to the West and Burney / Nelson / Padiham / Accrington the its east.

 

[skybluelee]

It is all 92 clubs, but just focusing on the Championship.

Ah ok, it's slightly different to what I saw on Twitter. So its saying of the country's population, 489k have Coventry as its closest league club?

 

[Ashdown]

All a bit pointless. Coventry is nearer to me where I live in Burbage than Leicester but because we are in Leicestershire the majority of fans round here affiliate more with Leicester City.

 

[Grendel]

Ah ok, it's slightly different to what I saw on Twitter. So its saying of the country's population, 489k have Coventry as its closest league club?

Wigan is a bit odd as it’s pretty close to Bolton

Ours seems fairly low - leamington Warwick Stratford Southam etc must all be in as well as Nuneaton and possibly Hinckley?

 

[CoundonClaret]

Is it not because Burnley is further to the east and to its east is semi rural yorkshire / lancashire border (Calder 'Happy' Valley is a bit of a hotbed of Burnley support), whereas Blackburn has Preston to the West and Burney / Nelson / Padiham / Accrington the its east.

True that .. Pendle - Craven - Calderdale - Rossendale are all hotbeds of Burnley support … and parts of CV6

 

[Robinshio]

All a bit pointless. Coventry is nearer to me where I live in Burbage than Leicester but because we are in Leicestershire the majority of fans round here affiliate more with Leicester City.

Not sure. Also in burbage. I would say more 50/50 with many having moved over. Hinckley is probably more Leicester

 

[Ashdown]

Not sure. Also in burbage. I would say more 50/50 with many having moved over. Hinckley is probably more Leicester

That’s very optimistic. There are quite a lot of us here and many moons ago they used to run buses back to the Coventry car factories to encourage ex coventrians to move out…..but 50/50 nah, I’d say still 70/30 Leicester but then saying that the biggest supported team in Burbage is actually Leicester Tigers.