16,000 where were you? (42 Viewers)
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letsallsingtogether
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Yes very disappointed with the turn out looked like it would be a big crowd with all the queues outside? 
The Casino was rammed the season ticket/collection queue looked like they wouldn't even make kick off.
But the ones that did turn up were in good fettle tonight helped the team to push on especially after the equaliser.
So well done Sky Blue Army.
The Casino was rammed the season ticket/collection queue looked like they wouldn't even make kick off.
But the ones that did turn up were in good fettle tonight helped the team to push on especially after the equaliser.
So well done Sky Blue Army.
letsallsingtogether
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Same used to happen in the prem and championship When there was a large away following home fans turn up?
Happens at most clubs?
Happens at most clubs?
SkyBlue_Bear83
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Yes very disappointed with the turn out looked like it would be a big crowd with all the queues outside?
The Casino was rammed the season ticket/collection queue looked like they wouldn't even make kick off.
But the ones that did turn up were in good fettle tonight helped the team to push on especially after the equaliser.
So well done Sky Blue Army.
That's half the problem, 11k and the turnstiles and tickets offices were in meltdown.
It gives them two weeks to sort out the basics now till the Preston match, which is only the beginning. After that it's about introducing and putting in place new initiatives to bring back the fans.
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ccfc1234
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While I agree with you thats its a pointless debate especially on this board , where 99% are loyal fans. But I do care that 16k fans can abandon a team they support. If they were in the ground each week it would have a knock on effect to the team through atmosphere and to SP in funds for bigger wages or player purchases.
Del Boy 82
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Let's guage it after the Preston game, 10 working days to get tickets sorted for those who want to attend an things should be better organised with ticket sales an collections. Then we will see what the likely following will be.
Astute
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Sounds good to me.
Then we can moan about the Rochdale turnout
Reasons....excuses.....whatever we call them. We are all Sky Blues at the end of the day.
Sky Blue Pete
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People have made other plans. They need to extricate themselves from plans
oscillatewildly
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No, sorry not good enough. We need to be asking the question why the majority who shared in the glory just over a week ago on an inconvenient timing, with the game being shown live, after a win, couldn't make it today.
Finance mate, finance. I live away from Coventry and can only budget for so many games a season. Do not however call me a part time fan!!!!
Kingokings204
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You ask the question and we have all gave you our answers.
The reasons I have heard and seen on here for it not being 27k today is:
Money - people haven't loads of cash.
Fans - face it a lot of people went last Friday just because it was a be there game. Sadly.
Family - people have wives, children, parents to consider. That's life.
Ticket prices - is £22-27 (dependant on stand and day) value for money? Most will argue not. I am excluding family stand of £18 due to lack of fans will want to sit here.
Opposition - all due respect who wants to watch yeovil town? They are not a big draw. Fact. Brought what 400 fans. What would SU bring?
2 games in a week doesn't help due to some of the above mainly family life and money.
Work - yes people work on a Saturday you know.
Distance - not all Cov fans live in Coventry. Just ask astute. This makes it very hard for some. Extra costs and more time needed.
Ticket office - it's well documented it's been bad this week and people can't get tickets and posting problems. Long queues and angry fans don't help. Website is not great and many fans don't know to use chrome or Firefox.
That enough reasons for you?
I actually think 11k fans is a decent turn out for a league 1 fixture and considering all of the above. Just my opinion.
torchomatic
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They did it for Gillingham. I know a lot who went to Gillingham went for the occasion more than anything but even with the ticketing issues, etc a drop of 16K on the previous match is pretty bad. The team are doing well, the club is back at the Ricoh...
skybluelee
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It looked like 11k to me. 500 Yeovil fans in the south stand. The west and north stands were very sparse. It was only the east stand that had reasonable numbers.
Great atmosphere though.
Only success will bring out the fairweathers, of which we have a huge number. It just annoys me when people try and justify their non-attendance by blaming ticket prices. Just admit it is because you dont care enough now we are in L1.
Great atmosphere though.
Only success will bring out the fairweathers, of which we have a huge number. It just annoys me when people try and justify their non-attendance by blaming ticket prices. Just admit it is because you dont care enough now we are in L1.
rightumpty
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Quite right
Nick
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Again, who only goes to watch the opposition, coventry city were playing so why does it being yeovil matter? Why does the amount of fans the opposition bring come into it when going to watch your club.
Ticket prices, doesn't make sense. Just get an 18 ticket if you can't afford an expensive one and sit where you want anyway.
Family reasons, work and distance I can totally understand.
bigfatronssba
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So are you saying that yesterday at the Ricoh was the only example of that in the entire 125 year history of the Football League?
Can I just ask, do you consider the football club to have organised the last two games well? Do you think massive queues are acceptable for an 11k gate?
Otis
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Agree with much of that Nick.
Don't understand why someone would say 'Oh, it's Yeovil today, I'm not going, but the next game is Walsall, I'm well up for that!'
Surely we should go because we want to watch Coventry City play shouldn't we? Could understand it a little more if it was Birmingham or Wolves or a really close rival, where there is more riding on the game, but at the end of the day we want Coventry City to do well and to win.
I really fancied a win yesterday anyway, so if anything I wanted to go to this game even more.
Evans1883
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Maybe its about time we realised as supporters exactly what we are ... A medium sized club playing in its lowest division for 50 years enjoying its lowest home gates averages (in cov ) for 40 odd and 90 odd years .
we should use this as a starting block , we are currently a 10k team , things can only get better hopefully on and off the pitch , lets stop worrying about the attendances as im sure with this squad we will do well this season and supporters will slowly start coming back .
after all , we havnt exactly had a great 15 years that warrant big gates
we should use this as a starting block , we are currently a 10k team , things can only get better hopefully on and off the pitch , lets stop worrying about the attendances as im sure with this squad we will do well this season and supporters will slowly start coming back .
after all , we havnt exactly had a great 15 years that warrant big gates
Otis
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But I think you are missing the point slightly there, Evans, that after 18 months away and a 27,000 crowd for that first game, at the moment we shouldn't be a 10,000 fan team!
Surely the feelgood factor and euphoria of coming home has to last for more than just one single game hasn't it?
I find it quite shocking. No-one was expecting another 27,000, but surely we could have managed 15,000 or 16,000.
After so long away and people being so delighted for us to be back, I find it beyone beilef that fans could desert the club in such numbers in such a short space of time, and that's what we are talking about here, a 16,000 drop in one single week.
Forget about history and where we have been in the past, this is about the here and now and a more than alarming drop in numbers. The feelgood factor should still be in place and the city should still be buzzing and the clamour for any tickets for any City game should still be great.
It's all very sad.
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And the fact that 27,000 had a great time the week before, too!
Not like we can use the excuse we were annihilated then either.
It's getting confused here with some having a go at individuals for not going and that's not the case; given I don't go to every single game (and cheerfully boycotted a couple of seasons before we left the Ricoh
) it's not like I can order people to go, is it?But it is massively concerning that good feeling, good result, good times ends up equating to same old, same old just a week later.
bigfatronssba
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Surely it wasn't that much of a surprise.
What do you all think city fans have been doing with their Saturday afternoons for the last 16 months? People have found other things to do, and you cant just click your fingers and expect them all to come running back. The only way they will come back is through good football, good results, encouragement (ie none of this I'm a better fan than you shite), and Tim Fisher keeping his fat gob shut.
It has been said on here by many that it would be unreasonable to expect the club to host games at a few weeks notice without a few teething problems. Yet we expect people to all come flocking back at a few weeks notice? Many will have new hobbies, plans, made promises to family members.
Not everyone just sat in a chair hoping that one day their club might come back, some people moved on.
What do you all think city fans have been doing with their Saturday afternoons for the last 16 months? People have found other things to do, and you cant just click your fingers and expect them all to come running back. The only way they will come back is through good football, good results, encouragement (ie none of this I'm a better fan than you shite), and Tim Fisher keeping his fat gob shut.
It has been said on here by many that it would be unreasonable to expect the club to host games at a few weeks notice without a few teething problems. Yet we expect people to all come flocking back at a few weeks notice? Many will have new hobbies, plans, made promises to family members.
Not everyone just sat in a chair hoping that one day their club might come back, some people moved on.
Evans1883
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I do believe if the team continue playing well , we will see 15-16 k up at the ricoh this season , i understand the frustration of the crowd , lets see what we get v preston ... There is actually no excuse for people not being able to get tickets , not being able to get tickets in advance to save the £2 , and no excuse for the club to continue cocking things up , if we go to scunny and rochdale and do well , then get 10-11k v preston , then i just give up tbh
I do believe if the team continue playing well , we will see 15-16 k up at the ricoh this season , i understand the frustration of the crowd , lets see what we get v preston ... There is actually no excuse for people not being able to get tickets , not being able to get tickets in advance to save the £2 , and no excuse for the club to continue cocking things up , if we go to scunny and rochdale and do well , then get 10-11k v preston , then i just give up tbh
Astute
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What alarming drop in numbers? How many were we getting in this division before our club was removed from Coventry?
Some seem to struggle with the idea of there being several reasons why only 11k turned up. I know of a few that will still only do away games. I know of a couple (family members) that have not been because of what Richardson did to our club and won't return until our club is run properly. We even have a few that never went yesterday having a go at those that never went to the Yeovil game.
Yes it was not a good turnout, but under all the circumstances it wasn't a bad one either.
Some seem to struggle with the idea of there being several reasons why only 11k turned up. I know of a few that will still only do away games. I know of a couple (family members) that have not been because of what Richardson did to our club and won't return until our club is run properly. We even have a few that never went yesterday having a go at those that never went to the Yeovil game.
Yes it was not a good turnout, but under all the circumstances it wasn't a bad one either.
Evans1883
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you must have been a little suprised at the attendance yesterday
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Deleted member 5849
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But they hadn't moved on a week earlier. If we'd got 11k for Gillingham, that argument would be a lot easier to accept. Especially when Gillingham was moved to a Friday evening and was on the telly.
As it stands, the club may as well charge £500 a season ticket, £30 for a match day ticket and forget about any offers.
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Kingokings204
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Gillingham was a "be there" game. How many families went with kids? Never seen so many. They won't go every week.
I'm sorry but I can't get the posters who say they go to watch Coventry city. Well obviously we all do. But surely who we plays matters? Please agree with that. It's the same at every club and has been throughout history. Why do clubs catorgory games for?
Why do attendances increase when we get a big team or a local derby? It's fregin because of the opposition. It can't be that hard to comprehend surely?
bigfatronssba
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That was one game, easy to rearrange stuff for the one off. A bit like me going into work on Monday and saying I need to leave early that day. That would be fine. If I went in and suddenly said I need to leave early every day from now on that would cause an issue.
Surely as a fellow football fan you realise that people go to games out of habit? And that habit has been broken.
Astute
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I thought it would be about 16k.
Nick
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Sorry, I am just trying to find in those lines you made bold where I said they had organised things well? They were probably in the posts I have made saying they have been shocking.
What I was saying was who goes to watch THEIR team based on who they are playing?
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Deleted member 5849
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Not so easy to arrange for a one-off when they move it to Friday.
Also not so much point to arrange as a one-off if it's on the telly.
You could argue the habit clearly hasn't been broken for some, as we're back to exactly the same as before we left in terms of crowds... in other words, a scaled up Sixfields!
But... for there to be that big a drop in a week means if that's not just the exception, a one-off, there's a danger that we're looking forward to 8,000 rattling round in January and February.
And then our ground will indeed be too big for us!
bigfatronssba
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I wasn't trying to have a go, it was a genuine question. My whole point of asking that was the club haven't managed it well imo. However I somewhat understand the difficulties in rearranging things at short notice, which applies to both fans and club.
As for your next bit, that casual fans goes to games based partially on the opposition. And that is the same at all 92 clubs.