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[Moff]

Birmingham v Forest - 16,000. Birmingham population = 1.1m. Granted, there's Villa, so halve it you get 550,000.

And, by the way, the population of Wigan is 317,000. For some strange reason pundits go along with 'Little Wigan from a small town, incredible what they've done'. Here's the link from the government. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...-of-the-north-west/censusnorthwestnr0712.html

Doncaster is another - 302,000 according to the government. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...-of-the-north-west/censusnorthwestnr0712.html

It seems Armybike has based his figures on Wikipedia, which can be innaccurate.

Buisness Doncaster had the population as 290K in 2010, so the 302k figure seems pretty spot on, and they could only muster just over 5,000 fans.

I was still dissapointed with our crowd though, but consistency will bring the fans back.

 

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[armybike]

Birmingham v Forest - 16,000. Birmingham population = 1.1m. Granted, there's Villa, so halve it you get 550,000.

And, by the way, the population of Wigan is 317,000. For some strange reason pundits go along with 'Little Wigan from a small town, incredible what they've done'. Here's the link from the government. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...-of-the-north-west/censusnorthwestnr0712.html

Doncaster is another - 302,000 according to the government. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...-of-the-north-west/censusnorthwestnr0712.html

You're making reference to the Metropolitan Boroughs population and not that of the actual home town/city population.

 

[Grendel]

Birmingham v Forest - 16,000. Birmingham population = 1.1m. Granted, there's Villa, so halve it you get 550,000.

And, by the way, the population of Wigan is 317,000. For some strange reason pundits go along with 'Little Wigan from a small town, incredible what they've done'. Here's the link from the government. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...-of-the-north-west/censusnorthwestnr0712.html

Doncaster is another - 302,000 according to the government. http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...-of-the-north-west/censusnorthwestnr0712.html

No it isn't - the actual towns are tiny. The government figures are for the borough, Doncaster in the last census was 67,000 I think.

If you are going on the borough argument you need to factor in Nuneaton, Bedworth, Stratford, leamington etc - everyone in the Cv postcodes and are population I believe escalates to something ridiculous like 600 - 700,000.

Wiki is correct;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Doncaster

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Wigan

Wigan again as a town is small. Bigger than Nuneaton but not by much.

 

[skybluesam66]

on that basis Millwall is in london which has a population of 10million+

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

I'm going of what the government has published which I believe is accurate as they have no reason to lie.

 

[Grendel]

on that basis Millwall is in london which has a population of 10million+

http://millwall.localstats.co.uk/census-demographics/england/london/tower-hamlets/millwall

 

[Kingokings204]

Really on the fence with this one.

On the one hand we had the highest attendance in league one yesterday and league one being the key point here. It's division 3 football and when we have had all the troubles in the past 4 years with a relegation and Northampton (not to be underestimated and seems forgotten by many) it's a great attendance.

On the other hand it's our only game at the Ricoh in September on a lovely day for that matter and it's the best start for years. We have an exciting team and the best manager in the league and we work on a more fans that turn up the better basis. Self sufficient.

I guess the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

 

[armybike]

I'm going of what the government has published which I believe is accurate as they have no reason to lie.

Yep, that's fine if you want to quote the population of the Metropolitan Borough and not that of the actual towns.

I'm guessing when Coventry joins the West Midlands Combined Authority people will flood to CCFC games from Wolverhampton, Brum, Solihull etc, so seems like a fair barometer!

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

No it isn't - the actual towns are tiny. The government figures are for the borough, Doncaster in the last census was 67,000 I think.

If you are going on the borough argument you need to factor in Nuneaton, Bedworth, Stratford, leamington etc - everyone in the Cv postcodes and are population I believe escalates to something ridiculous like 600 - 700,000.

Wiki is correct;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Doncaster

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Borough_of_Wigan

Wigan again as a town is small. Bigger than Nuneaton but not by much.

I must admit I don't know much about this subject. However, for the Midlands, the government do not count Bedworth and Nuneaton for Coventry nor do they count Dudley separate for Birmingham.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...he-west-midlands/censuswestmidlandnr0712.html

As you know everything, more than the government, can you explain why?

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

Yep, that's fine if you want to quote the population of the Metropolitan Borough and not that of the actual towns.

I'm guessing when Coventry joins the West Midlands Combined Authority people will flood to CCFC games from Wolverhampton, Brum, Solihull etc, so seems like a fair barometer!

It's not me quoting anything. The government are the ones who have posted this online and believe it to be correct.

 

[armybike]

As you know everything, more than the government, can you explain why?

Because (sigh) Coventry and Birmingham aren't currently in Metropolitan Boroughs.

When the West Midlands Combined Authority forms, do you believe the population of Coventry will increase to several millions, as you'd need to add all the other towns/citys in?

 

[SkyBlue_Bear83]

It seems the 300k figure includes surrounding villages

The Metropolitan Borough of Wigan is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, in North West England. It is named after its largest component town and former county borough, Wigan and includes the towns and villages of Leigh, part of Ashton-in-Makerfield, Ince-in-Makerfield, Hindley, Orrell, Standish, Atherton, Tyldesley, Golborne, Lowton, Billinge, Astley, Haigh and Aspull.

So when it says 300k, it includes all these villages and towns as well in the population count.

 

[Grendel]

I must admit I don't know much about this subject. However, for the Midlands, the government do not count Bedworth and Nuneaton for Coventry nor do they count Dudley separate for Birmingham.

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/mro/n...he-west-midlands/censuswestmidlandnr0712.html

As you know everything, more than the government, can you explain why?

Because the borough is effectively the West Midlands includes Birmingham at its 2.8 million.

We were separated from Warwickshire in the 70's but their population is 560,000 so our borough really is 800,000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwickshire

The borough I've linked to shows the towns including Doncaster that make up the total population of the borough. Doncaster is tiny. It's like those people who look at Wikipedia that shows Wakefield at over 300,000 - it's the borough. The actual town is small.

 

[Grendel]

It's not me quoting anything. The government are the ones who have posted this online and believe it to be correct.

Look up Borough in the dictionary - the government are at one with me on this.

Here are the towns. They are a bit bigger than I thought but as I said around the size of Nuneaton

http://lovemytown.co.uk/Populations/TownsTable1.asp

 

[Otis]

Really on the fence with this one.

On the one hand we had the highest attendance in league one yesterday and league one being the key point here. It's division 3 football and when we have had all the troubles in the past 4 years with a relegation and Northampton (not to be underestimated and seems forgotten by many) it's a great attendance.

On the other hand it's our only game at the Ricoh in September on a lovely day for that matter and it's the best start for years. We have an exciting team and the best manager in the league and we work on a more fans that turn up the better basis. Self sufficient.

I guess the truth lies somewhere in the middle.

Yeah, but we didn't have an exciting team last week and put in an inept performance. Like it or not, that does have an impact foe some fans. Had we beaten Scunthorpe last week and played exciting football, we most certainly would have had a bigger crowd on Saturday.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Yes we have an exciting team at the moment and it's great fun winning but some people will always have a dislike for the owner and that will keep them away rightly or wrongly.

things are going well at the moment which is normally a sign for one of the pair of arseholes that run the club to come and and shove their great big foot in their mouth both have been very quiet recently I s it because they are saying nothing or nobody is listening to them.

 

[Otis]

Yes we have an exciting team at the moment and it's great fun winning but some people will always have a dislike for the owner and that will keep them away rightly or wrongly.

things are going well at the moment which is normally a sign for one of the pair of arseholes that run the club to come and and shove their great big foot in their mouth both have been very quiet recently I s it because they are saying nothing or nobody is listening to them.

Or that the on field excitement is nicely masking the off field problems for them.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

Or that the on field excitement is nicely masking the off field problems for them.

Maybe but that pair can normally rise above such trivial matters as good form to make their non important information/bull shit heard.

 

[torchomatic]

It's an old chestnut, I know, but it's valid; if we drew a big team in the cup the place would be packed and CWR would have constant phone calls from people: "have supported City all my life and I couldn't get a ticket, it ain't fair", etc etc

Last season the arguments on here seemed to be that people wouldn't attend because the football was shit or it was too expensive. Well, we've crossed those two off the list and people still won't attend.

11K on Saturday was rubbish.

The fans have to be won back. That's the key point ! and will it happen with our current owners at the helm ? there are thousands who won't because of them . it was even said on the Friday night phone in, certain fans simply refuse to return until they're gone .

 

[I_Saw_Shaw_Score]

It's an old chestnut, I know, but it's valid; if we drew a big team in the cup the place would be packed and CWR would have constant phone calls from people: "have supported City all my life and I couldn't get a ticket, it ain't fair", etc etc

Last season the arguments on here seemed to be that people wouldn't attend because the football was shit or it was too expensive. Well, we've crossed those two off the list and people still won't attend.

11K on Saturday was rubbish.

Agree with that I was very very close to not renewing my ST and my plan would have been to give it 5/6 games to see how this season started but I would have looked a right idiot now having enjoyed the 4 home games more than any (Gillingham game excluded) last season.

The pace and domination of Saturday was a joy to behold, yes I know it probably won't happen every week but to know we have it in our locker is fantastic!

I feel for the fans that aren't going but have yet sat through the dire crap ( the Dennis Wise half a season excluded & anyone that got to see Wilson & Clarke at 6F) of the last decade!

 

[Otis]

I would say that I have already liked this season so far than the whole of last season.

How many exciting games did we have last year? How many times did we break at pace and have people out of their seats in anticipation? How many times did we look capable of hammering teams?

 

[SonofErnie]

Yes we have an exciting team at the moment and it's great fun winning but some people will always have a dislike for the owner and that will keep them away rightly or wrongly.

things are going well at the moment which is normally a sign for one of the pair of arseholes that run the club to come and and shove their great big foot in their mouth both have been very quiet recently I s it because they are saying nothing or nobody is listening to them.

I honestly don't believe that it has a great deal to do with the owners at the moment. Whilst the current form and standard of football is admittedly encouraging, it's not yet sustained enough to entice a whole swathe of support back to the Ricoh. The fans have been let down and disappointed over decades and a run of eight games, however positive, isn't yet sustained enough. If the team replicate this form over the next 8, 16, 24 games then I think we will see attendances gradually creeping up, with the opportunity for them to hit 15k+ towards the back end of the season. In fact, if a top 2 challenge is maintained then we could see 20k in the last few games.

 

[Deleted member 5849]

I honestly don't believe that it has a great deal to do with the owners at the moment. Whilst the current form and standard of football is admittedly encouraging, it's not yet sustained enough to entice a whole swathe of support back to the Ricoh. The fans have been let down and disappointed over decades and a run of eight games, however positive, isn't yet sustained enough. If the team replicate this form over the next 8, 16, 24 games then I think we will see attendances gradually creeping up, with the opportunity for them to hit 15k+ towards the back end of the season. In fact, if a top 2 challenge is maintained then we could see 20k in the last few games.

Tend to agree.

At the moment it's a pretty good run of form, and little else.

And we've had those in the past only to end up disappointed.

 

[covcity4life]

attendences and atmosphere are still better than last year so not end of the world

i was surprised only 11k this week but still think if we are doing well come october then we can aim for 13k plus for shrews and blackpool games

 

[SlowerThanPlatt]

The club basically died last year and you could argue it has for the last 15 years too. In the last 10 years we've only been losing support because of rubbish finishes and nothing to excite.

2006 - 21,280
2007 - 20,342 (DOWN)
2008 - 19,123 (DOWN)
2009 - 17,408 (DOWN)
2010 - 17,305 (DOWN)
2011 - 16,310 (DOWN)
2012 - 15,119 (DOWN)
2013 - 10,997 (DOWN)
2014 - 2,348 (DOWN)
2015 - 9,332 (DOWN ON 2013)

 

[armybike]

The club basically died last year and you could argue it has for the last 15 years too. In the last 10 years we've only been losing support because of rubbish finishes and nothing to excite.

2006 - 21,280
2007 - 20,342 (DOWN)
2008 - 19,123 (DOWN)
2009 - 17,408 (DOWN)
2010 - 17,305 (DOWN)
2011 - 16,310 (DOWN)
2012 - 15,119 (DOWN)
2013 - 10,997 (DOWN)
2014 - 2,348 (DOWN)
2015 - 9,332 (DOWN ON 2013)

I trust they're Government approved figures?!

 

[stupot07]

The club basically died last year and you could argue it has for the last 15 years too. In the last 10 years we've only been losing support because of rubbish finishes and nothing to excite.

2006 - 21,280
2007 - 20,342 (DOWN)
2008 - 19,123 (DOWN)
2009 - 17,408 (DOWN)
2010 - 17,305 (DOWN)
2011 - 16,310 (DOWN)
2012 - 15,119 (DOWN)
2013 - 10,997 (DOWN)
2014 - 2,348 (DOWN)
2015 - 9,332 (DOWN ON 2013)

You have also got to factor in the impact of the new stadium and the general curiosity, as our average at highfield road the 2-3 seasons before in the 2nd tier were around 14-15k, so in some respects an element (not all of it) is the natural drop back down to pre-Ricoh attendance s.


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[SonofErnie]

attendences and atmosphere are still better than last year so not end of the world

i was surprised only 11k this week but still think if we are doing well come october then we can aim for 13k plus for shrews and blackpool games

Prior to Saturday, it was 4 points from 4 games. 2 away defeats, an unconvincing home draw and one good performance (Burton away). Some would have seen that as a return to type, hence the impact on the attendance. Those fluctuations will continue until the team are solidly top 6 over 20+ games.

 

[Covstu]

The attendance will only move significantly come December/January if we are sitting in a similar position. if we get promoted it will be higher but not a major jump.

 

[letsallsingtogether]

Let's just all admit that Cov have the worst fans in the country.

Must be true most on here do nothing but slag off City fans at any opportunity.

We really don't deserve the amount we get, as we really have no appreciation for what we have been given.
PUSB

 

[torchomatic]

I disagree t hat the Southend result was "unconvincing". Our problem was that we underestimated them due to their league position and expected the game to be a pushover. It wasn't and they really came out fighting. They didn't give us any time on the ball at all and were snapping at our heels from the off. We never gave up and our fighting spirit was tremendous and fan power that night spurred the team to get the equaliser. The atmosphere for me was better than the Gillingham game. Tremendous.

Prior to Saturday, it was 4 points from 4 games. 2 away defeats, an unconvincing home draw and one good performance (Burton away). Some would have seen that as a return to type, hence the impact on the attendance. Those fluctuations will continue until the team are solidly top 6 over 20+ games.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

The atmosphere is far better now that we are all nearer together.

 

[davebart]

I get that top level rugby is attractive with international players but where we these thousands watching rugby before Wasps came?

I live in Bath. There are thousands go to see the Rugby that wouldn't dream of attending a footy match. They're not sports fans. They just like the atmosphere around Rugby games. You get a lot more women go.

 

[davebart]

Let's just all admit that Cov have the worst fans in the country.
PUSB

We'd have to go some to be worse than Bristol City fans.

 

[fernandopartridge]

I disagree t hat the Southend result was "unconvincing". Our problem was that we underestimated them due to their league position and expected the game to be a pushover. It wasn't and they really came out fighting. They didn't give us any time on the ball at all and were snapping at our heels from the off. We never gave up and our fighting spirit was tremendous and fan power that night spurred the team to get the equaliser. The atmosphere for me was better than the Gillingham game. Tremendous.

Our problem was that we missed a penalty and found a keeper in great form. The fans who actually turned up would recognise this.