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[Astute]

Maybe we're just sinking back to our natural level then after years of punching about our weight, this is where we belong. At least that is what our attendances reflect at the moment, that this is our natural level.

With Shrewsbury and Chesterfield considered to be better than us? 50 other clubs seen as being bigger than us? We haven't found our natural level. We have found the level where people running our club have taken us to.

 

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[Sick Boy]

Most clubs fans would have wanted those relegation battles and 35 years in the top flight.

The attendances are a joke.

Exactly. Our history is a lot better than a lot of other clubs. Our fans need to get a reality check. The majority of clubs in our league would swap our history straight away.

 

[Sick Boy]

With Shrewsbury and Chesterfield considered to be better than us? 50 other clubs seen as being bigger than us? We haven't found our natural level. We have found the level where people running our club have taken us to.

Disagree. Where have ccfc spent most of their history?

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

With Shrewsbury and Chesterfield considered to be better than us? 50 other clubs seen as being bigger than us? We haven't found our natural level. We have found the level where people running our club have taken us to.

League 1 attendances gets a league 1 team

 

[Astute]

Disagree. Where have ccfc spent most of their history?

OMG

Is your history mainly from over 50 years ago?

 

[Astute]

League 1 attendances gets a league 1 team

Non league owners have put us where we are.

 

[torchomatic]

They're not pathetic, they're just sick of being served up shit football and a load of crap and lies from cunty owners !

They weren't "sick" when there was a chance of a trio to Wembley.

£249 isn't cheap? For 23 games and priority sale for cup games? £10.83 per game? I take my grandad £191/£8.30 pg, and 2 JSB's £41 (inc JSB membership) £1.78 pg. other than Bradford I doubt there are many if any with ST's as cheap as us in league two let alone league one.

Aldershot in the conference finished around the same place we did last season is £322 / £14 pg. http://www.theshots.co.uk/tickets/season-tickets/

Gateshead early bird price is £280/£12.17 pg http://www.gateshead-fc.com/tickets

Halifax £319, /£13.87pg http://www.halifaxafc.co.uk/tickets/season-tickets/

3 conference teams picked at random all with higher ST prices than us..

Bloody woe-is-me attitude if people are complaining of prices.

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[Ashdown]

They weren't "sick" when there was a chance of a trio to Wembley.



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Every club in the land, suddenly gains 20,000 fans when there is a trip to Wembley in the offing !

 

[shy_tall_knight]

I think there are a lot of fans on here who totally underestimate the impact that SISU have had on driving fans away from the club and although they seem to be doing the right things there is still no evidence of any decent new signings don't care how far away we are from August other clubs have secured signings SISU abused the fans with Sixfields they owe us and it will take more than a club shop and management structure to bring fans back and unfortunately it is chicken and egg situation if the club is waiting for ST sales to generate funds the fans are waiting for evidence of investment before buying and so the cycle continues.

 

[italiahorse]

It's all about the product , the level of the teams we are playing and the population we can draw from.
A city the size of Coventry should be bottom half of PL .Thats where are current history suggests but Sisu won't get us there.

 

[Samo]

It's all about the product , the level of the teams we are playing and the population we can draw from.
A city the size of Coventry should be bottom half of PL .Thats where are current history suggests but Sisu won't get us there.

The people of Coventry won't get us there.

 

[shy_tall_knight]

Also bored of fellow fans such as Grendel saying our crowds are pathetic etc.. can't think of any club who have had our lack of success and persistent failure who have maintained decend crowds, no promotion challenge in 13 seasons and 2 relegations, Sixfields followed by WASPS.

We played stoke in November at the Britannia in the 07/08 season. We won 3-1, Stoke were mid-table having finished the previous season in 8th after 3 seasons of mid-table finishes. following a promotion. The crowd back in 07/09 was 13,500 including over 1500 city fans. Stoke now sell out in the Premier League. Considering they were making gradual progress and would be challenging for the play-offs in 07/08 their crowds were poor but now with success they are sold out. Why are Cov fans expected to continue to turn out when it is clear we have been on the way down, we need success we need evidence that the club want to achieve success. Your move SISU

 

[chiefdave]

Exactly how I feel. 8k attendances are bloody good for all of the above imo.

Pompey had a season very similar to ours in the division below. They were favourites for promotion with the biggest budget in the division yet were getting drawn into a relegation battle leading to the sacking of their manager and eventually finishing 16th. They also had an embarrassing FA Cup exit to local non-league team (Aldershot).

Despite this they averaged over 15K at home and with season tickets £70 more expensive than ours are on course to sell over 10K.

Edit: Population of Pomey is 2/3 of the population of Cov.

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

The people of Coventry won't get us there.

They would if they see something they can relate to on and off the pitch

 

[italiahorse]

It's all about the product , the level of the teams we are playing and the population we can draw from.
A city the size of Coventry should be bottom half of PL .Thats where are current history suggests but Sisu won't get us there.

The people of Coventry won't get us there.

We already know they will.
Full house for Crewe in a poxy cup and again for our Ricoh return.
Are you oblivious to the facts?

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

It was the first time since 1928 (apart from the Sixfields season) that we had an average below 10,000 last season. So it appears to me we have a strong core of 10,000 who have been there throughout the clubs history however we are even losing them now. It's alright losing your floaters who will go to the 2 or 3 games a season but when you're losing your hardcore there's a problem.

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

We had 21,000 average 2006, 21,000 2007 and 19,000 2008. So that's about 15k/16k season ticket holders I'm guessing? That's a remarkable drop off. You can blame our supporters all you want but the stats don't lie since SISU have came in attendances have decreased every season and so has the product on the pitch.

 

[Samo]

We already know they will.
Full house for Crewe in a poxy cup and again for our Ricoh return.
Are you oblivious to the facts?

And the following game? Despite the fact we'd won that game? Who is oblivious?

 

[Kingokings204]

Pompey had a season very similar to ours in the division below. They were favourites for promotion with the biggest budget in the division yet were getting drawn into a relegation battle leading to the sacking of their manager and eventually finishing 16th. They also had an embarrassing FA Cup exit to local non-league team (Aldershot).

Despite this they averaged over 15K at home and with season tickets £70 more expensive than ours are on course to sell over 10K.

Edit: Population of Pomey is 2/3 of the population of Cov.

Great point but Aren't they fan owned and got rid of their sharks? I believe so. If Cov was fan owned then the community of the city would instantly become more involved

 

[italiahorse]

And the following game? Despite the fact we'd won that game? Who is oblivious?

We are talking potential.
Sisu actions will take years to get people back regularly. They continue to take the piss and most people won't play along.

 

[Grendel]

We are talking potential.
Sisu actions will take years to get people back regularly. They continue to take the piss and most people won't play along.

Except when it suits them.

 

[Samo]

We are talking potential.
Sisu actions will take years to get people back regularly. They continue to take the piss and most people won't play along.

What was our average gate prior to the 87 cup run? Cov folk will show up for the big occasion but struggle to get there week in week out. It's funny how 'most people' play along with SISU just fine when a big game rocks up.

 

[italiahorse]

Except when it suits them.

That's life.
An occasional high is not enough.
I'd say I'm 1 of 5000 hardcore people who have turned up for most games home and away. It used to be 10000 but those missing 5000 have now moved into the big occasion camp.

 

[Grendel]

We had 21,000 average 2006, 21,000 2007 and 19,000 2008. So that's about 15k/16k season ticket holders I'm guessing? That's a remarkable drop off. You can blame our supporters all you want but the stats don't lie since SISU have came in attendances have decreased every season and so has the product on the pitch.

We've never had that number of season ticket holders in my memory.

In our first season post relation fans had already started to drift and we experienced gates of 12,000

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

What was our average gate prior to the 87 cup run? Cov folk will show up for the big occasion but struggle to get there week in week out. It's funny how 'most people' play along with SISU just fine when a big game rocks up.

It was 16,000 whilst Chelsea had 17,000. Every clubs attendances were at a low then let's be honest. Weren't we the 6th or 7th best supported team in the country then?

 

[shy_tall_knight]

What was our average gate prior to the 87 cup run? Cov folk will show up for the big occasion but struggle to get there week in week out. It's funny how 'most people' play along with SISU just fine when a big game rocks up.

Can't compare 80s crowds to now for any club, hooliganism poor stadia pre-PL crowds were down everywhere just look at the crowds Arsenal and Newcastle used to get. Post Italia 90 the whole scene changed and crowds improved everywhere.

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

1987:
1 Manchester United Manchester United 853.167 21 40.627
2 Liverpool FC Liverpool FC 762.954 21 36.331
3 Everton FC Everton FC 692.517 21 32.977
4 Arsenal FC Arsenal FC 610.176 21 29.056
5 Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham Hotspur 544.105 21 25.910
6 Newcastle United Newcastle United 519.741 21 24.750
7 Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday 486.100 21 23.148
8 Manchester City Manchester City 460.372 21 21.922
9 West Ham United West Ham United 431.453 21 20.545
10 Nottingham Forest Nottingham Forest 399.824 21 19.039
11 Aston Villa Aston Villa 381.613 21 18.172
12 Norwich City Norwich City 376.803 21 17.943
13 Chelsea FC Chelsea FC 371.576 21 17.694
14 Coventry City Coventry City 337.258 21 16.060
15 Watford FC Watford FC 335.137 21 15.959
16 Southampton FC Southampton FC 313.923 21 14.949
17 Queens Park Rangers Queens Park Rangers 294.331 21 14.016
18 Leicester City Leicester City 255.643 21 12.173
19 Oxford United Oxford United 217.694 21 10.366
20 Luton Town Luton Town 215.479 21 10.261
21 Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic 199.254 21 9.488
22 Wimbledon FC Wimbledon FC 163.652 21 7.793

 

[Grendel]

It was 16,000 whilst Chelsea had 17,000. Every clubs attendances were at a low then let's be honest. Weren't we the 6th or 7th best supported team in the country then?

I highly doubt we were.

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

I highly doubt we were.

Yep I was wrong. Couple 1,000 less than Chelsea and Villa. More than Saints and Leicester though who are probably the most similar clubs to us.

 

[Grendel]

Yep I was wrong. Couple 1,000 less than Chelsea and Villa. More than Saints and Leicester though who are probably the most similar clubs to us.

Was this the season before the F A cup win?

 

[WiganSkyBlue]

NOPM . Away games only for me !

Is that because you live in ..... er, Bury?

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

I would guess that the attendances increased through the year as people started to think about Wembley so any average would have been unbalanced but it was nearly 30 years ago and I can't remember what happened 30 minutes ago

 

[Samo]

Can't compare 80s crowds to now for any club, hooliganism poor stadia pre-PL crowds were down everywhere just look at the crowds Arsenal and Newcastle used to get. Post Italia 90 the whole scene changed and crowds improved everywhere.

Fair enough. I'm just saying that the Coventry public might like to shoulder just a small share of the blame for the club's plight, myself included. Having said that, it is an area with great potential and with consistent improvement on the pitch, who knows.

 

[Astute]

Can't compare 80s crowds to now for any club, hooliganism poor stadia pre-PL crowds were down everywhere just look at the crowds Arsenal and Newcastle used to get. Post Italia 90 the whole scene changed and crowds improved everywhere.

Spot on. I remember gates of 8k in the top flight. Families stopped going together. Some games you had to fight your way in and then out again. We did have the occasional full house. But it was because of a sea of red tops not sky blue. Those that never went in the 80's will have heard what it was like. But hearing about it and being there are two different things.

How about an away game? Drink in a pub together and it could get attacked. Have anything to do with your club on your car and it would get smashed up. Go on a train and you could get attacked by supporters of clubs you were not playing. You only got the ones you were playing as you got off. Go on a coach and watch the bricks come in.

Good idea. Lets compare the 80's crowds.

 

[Samo]

Spot on. I remember gates of 8k in the top flight. Families stopped going together. Some games you had to fight your way in and then out again. We did have the occasional full house. But it was because of a sea of red tops not sky blue. Those that never went in the 80's will have heard what it was like. But hearing about it and being there are two different things.

How about an away game? Drink in a pub together and it could get attacked. Have anything to do with your club on your car and it would get smashed up. Go on a train and you could get attacked by supporters of clubs you were not playing. You only got the ones you were playing as you got off. Go on a coach and watch the bricks come in.

Good idea. Lets compare the 80's crowds.

It was the same for everyone.