Would you travel 45 miles to watch Cov play their home games? (16 Viewers)

[torchomatic]

I support Coventry City. I have for 40 years and if I live long enough for the next 40.

 

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[stupot07]

Why do you think that is?

Because we have pretty crap fans. Norwich got relegated, get hammered 7-1 in their first match I league one and still got 23k for the next match. You can blame Sisu but the attendances had already started falling since the first season at the Ricoh.

How many of h 1k+ that said they would not go while King was here have come back since he left? I suspect they found another excuse.

 

[coundonskyblue]

I support Coventry City. I have for 40 years and if I live long enough for the next 40.

If they moved to Northamptonshire it wouldnt be Coventry City.

Each to their own, but if they ever did move, I would take great delight in seeing the business previously known as Coventry City fc Ltd going bust.

A club that has been part of a city for 130 years being ripped from its place in the communtiy is unforgivable and unjustifiable.

 

[coundonskyblue]

Because we have pretty crap fans. Norwich got relegated, get hammered 7-1 in their first match I league one and still got 23k for the next match. You can blame Sisu but the attendances had already started falling since the first season at the Ricoh.

How many of h 1k+ that said they would not go while King was here have come back since he left? I suspect they found another excuse.

10 Sisu board members, along with about another 10 from the previous regime are all in the right.

The other 11k people are wrong.

Norwich fans wouldnt put up with the crap we have so actually you might be onto something.

 

[torchomatic]

Yet, you would take "great delight".

Still, it won't happen anyway.

If they moved to Northamptonshire it wouldnt be Coventry City.

Each to their own, but if they ever did move, I would take great delight in seeing the business previously known as Coventry City fc Ltd going bust.

A club that has been part of a city for 130 years being ripped from its place in the communtiy is unforgivable and unjustifiable.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Because we have pretty crap fans. Norwich got relegated, get hammered 7-1 in their first match I league one and still got 23k for the next match. You can blame Sisu but the attendances had already started falling since the first season at the Ricoh.

How many of h 1k+ that said they would not go while King was here have come back since he left? I suspect they found another excuse.

Norwich are the only major club within a 40 mile radius.

 

[deanocity3]

I support Coventry City. I have for 40 years and if I live long enough for the next 40.

same here my first match was 1968 we lost 2-1 at home to west ham gerry baker scored,Wish I'd scored with his daughter Lorraine

 

[coundonskyblue]

Still, it won't happen anyway.

For once I agree with you on that.

And yes I would take great delight. MK Dons should be wiped from the earth, and the hypothetical situtation CCFC moving would make us no better than them should I would hold the new club in the same regard.

 

[torchomatic]

My first game was on my 7th birthday, 28 October 1972.

same here my first match was 1968 we lost 2-1 at home to west ham gerry baker scored,Wish I'd scored with his daughter Lorraine

 

[coundonskyblue]

The owners of Norwich did a great job in bringing in new fans, as this shows. Are Norwich fans now classed as fickle?

2010–11: 25,386
2009–10: 24,755
2008–09: 24,542
2007–08: 24,527
2006–07: 24,544
2005–06: 24,833
2004–05: 24,350
2003–04: 18,866
2002–03: 20,352
2001–02: 18,670
2000–01: 16,525
1999–2000: 15,539
1998–99: 15,761
1997–98: 14,445

Up 43% in 13 years

 

[stupot07]

Norwich are the only major club within a 40 mile radius.

True but with over 300k in cov and 500k in Warwickshire we should be getting better crowds. Puts the "we're a big club" in to perspective.

 

[stupot07]

10 Sisu board members, along with about another 10 from the previous regime are all in the right.

The other 11k people are wrong.

Norwich fans wouldnt put up with the crap we have so actually you might be onto something.

We'd lost 4k between 2005/06 and 2008/09 season before we even sold the likes of Dann and Fox. There was no real sisu hate until 2009/10 when we sold them.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

True but with over 300k in cov and 500k in Warwickshire we should be getting better crowds. Puts the "we're a big club" in to perspective.

Birmingham, Villa, and Leicester all within 20 miles.

 

[stupot07]

Birmingham, Villa, and Leicester all within 20 miles.

But we still managed to average 21k a couple of years ago, 18k a couple of years ago....15k last season.....now 10,600

Are those 11k missing fans now going to Brum, villa or Leicester?

 

[coundonskyblue]

The same place 10k Norwich fans come from between 1997 & 2004

 

[Jack Griffin]

Once you move outside the city it's no longer my club. Not a chance I would go.

Yay.. got it in one.

 

[neilyboy67]

In a word: NO

 

[superskyblue]

But we still managed to average 21k a couple of years ago, 18k a couple of years ago....15k last season.....now 10,600

Are those 11k missing fans now going to Brum, villa or Leicester?

Was going to make the same point, although you are of course factually correct Brighton Sky Blue, I don't think our missing fans are going elsewhere.

Although the loyalty of our fans is questionable, I personally cannot blame anyone for not going to watch. If you're spending a lot of money on a shit product that you take little to no enjoyment from then why would you keep paying for it. Normally you wouldn't. With football it's slightly different, but with those who are less passionate it's barely surprising they're deserting in their droves.

 

[deanocity3]

But we still managed to average 21k a couple of years ago, 18k a couple of years ago....15k last season.....now 10,600

Are those 11k missing fans now going to Brum, villa or Leicester?

ASDA and TESCO me thinks with the mrs

 

[lordsummerisle]

I only travel to away games now, but I would draw the line at travelling away to home games.
If it's not in Coventry, it's not Coventry City FC.:blue:

If you, and a few others went to home games, instead of putting money in competitors back pockets nobody would be having this discussion in the first place.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Was going to make the same point, although you are of course factually correct Brighton Sky Blue, I don't think our missing fans are going elsewhere.

Although the loyalty of our fans is questionable, I personally cannot blame anyone for not going to watch. If you're spending a lot of money on a shit product that you take little to no enjoyment from then why would you keep paying for it. Normally you wouldn't. With football it's slightly different, but with those who are less passionate it's barely surprising they're deserting in their droves.

I would say that being relegated two divisions and achieving bugger all would be behind that drop in crowds.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

The same place 10k Norwich fans come from between 1997 & 2004

Coincides with when in breeding was last legal so they had something else to do on a Saturday.

 

[CJparker]

As a CCFC based in London, 45 minutes would be a dream! Regularly 3 hours door to door

 

[ampthill_sba]

I would go but it's only 26 miles for me (each way)....

 

[dongonzalos]

I would drive SISU 90 miles away if I could

 

[Mr pot]

Quite a few on here who travel further than that anyway.

Seem to be thousands of City fans who won't travel a couple of miles to see them now because, "the buses aren't convenient", "the pies are too cold", "the beer is too warm", "the queue for the toilet is too long", and "not getting another penny whilst Sisu are in charge".

Never happen anyway.

The beers too cold. On these cold days and night's it turns you into a ice cube