Do we have the best fans or the worst in football? (1 Viewer)

[covcity4life]

I try

I avoid most social media anyway apart from this site.

Yeah me too. I deleted Facebook and X. I use the web version of wanna see a particular tweet or comments.

I've said it before but think alot of posters on here have fallen into the trap of being old but forgetting what life was like before the internet.

 

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[wingy]

Not me sunshine!

 

[pusbccfc]

Most football fans are fickle. Look at the arsenal fans a couple of seasons back. Not only moaning on social media, they were on every phone in. Once you are not at whatever your perceived high is it can feel as a failure.
start of the season I thought following a rebuild and what can happen to teams missing out on the playoffs 12th would be realistic and I’d be happy with that. I hoped for the playoffs but still think we are doing ok.
I expect there will be a drop in ST sales next season, I’ll be renewing mine but know a couple of people saying they won’t due to the number of games that are moving to non weekend. The cup run is actually making that worse, but for me I think the cup run as a success.

Shame if season tickets drop.

Will be the same people angry they don't get a ticket to the Wolves game.

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

Yeah me too. I deleted Facebook and X. I use the web version of wanna see a particular tweet or comments.

I've said it before but think alot of posters on here have fallen into the trap of being old but forgetting what life was like before the internet.

My kids who were born in the 2001/2 would have no idea

 

[MikeyMoo]

If 2023/24 average attendance is over 21.3k it would be our best ever at this stadium, up from around 20k last year. Still well below Highfield Road prior to the 1981 all-seating which capped the stadium at 20k. The fans peaked in 1968, but this switch is what seems to have set our fan base ceiling. Lowest ebb of around 9k in 2016/17, so I think it's right to say our fans tend to walk away when we're not doing well. I personally know multiple supporters who switched to Aston Villa after we got relegated from the Premier League, often because they had kids who wanted to watch Premier League football. That's cost us a significant chunk of the fan base as well I'm guessing. Go up, and stay up, glory days.

 

[Skyblue Bangkok]

If 2023/24 average attendance is over 21.3k it would be our best ever at this stadium, up from around 20k last year. Still well below Highfield Road prior to the 1981 all-seating which capped the stadium at 20k. The fans peaked in 1968, but this switch is what seems to have set our fan base ceiling. Lowest ebb of around 9k in 2016/17, so I think it's right to say our fans tend to walk away when we're not doing well. I personally know multiple supporters who switched to Aston Villa after we got relegated from the Premier League, often because they had kids who wanted to watch Premier League football. That's cost us a significant chunk of the fan base as well I'm guessing. Go up, and stay up, glory days.

I think this seasons average gate will be well over 21.3 k

 

[shmmeee]

Yeah me too. I deleted Facebook and X. I use the web version of wanna see a particular tweet or comments.

I've said it before but think alot of posters on here have fallen into the trap of being old but forgetting what life was like before the internet.

Crazy people left in the corner of the pub rather than given a podcast, porn mags in bushes…

 

[messiahrobins]

We have always had a reputation of having fickle fans. In the 90s in the PL our away following was awful and often less than 1000. Doug King needs to be very careful here as if he turns the club into an established upper mid table championship side that keeps selling its best players but not replacing them with top players to take the club to the next level, the support will rapidly dwindle. Stoke City is a good example. Once that was one of the most hostile places to go whereas now the apathy at that ground makes it like a morgue inside and that could easily happen at the CBS in the next couple of seasons.
This summer is huge. KIng needs to spend and spend big to send a signal to the fans that the club is genuinely aiming for the PL. I actually can understand not spending much in January as it is a risk and Hull will find that out.

 

[2024/25 League 1 Champs?]

the fact we’ve only had a handful of home fixtures on a Saturday at 15.00 hasn’t helped either for some, the odd weekday is fine but if you’ve got to travel, park etc and make the game on a Tuesday night it’s difficult for some

 

[Earlsdon_Skyblue1]

It doesn't really sit right with me that the fans are being blamed for the players being petrified. For the most part we are encouraging fans and generate a lot of noise. Our team is pretty weak mentally and lack fight. It is one thing that really needs to be worked on and as a fan that's frustrating to watch. They need to own it better.

I don't think there would be such a reaction if we play well and put up a scrap but still lose, it is the nature of it, along with some players putting out performances that can at times come across as half-hearted.

 

[long way home]

Best fans in football, comes with many parts to the question for me.

Supported in numbers : No
Created Atmosphere: No
General support of a club through bad times: id say YES
As for individual opinion on social media or general knowledge of the team and players: Same as every other club in the land.

This game is an opinion, we all have one and have the right to air it. Which is fine, it makes conversation and a creates healthy debate if we can except sometimes we agree to disagree. Nothing said should be personal insult including calling players shit.. They are very talented individuals, but as time goes by clubs progress and sometimes certain players get left behind as they hit the max level the ability, age can take them, its just the way it is. As a fan base we are very good and right up there with the best which is why we have a good reputation within the EFL. This season we may be hitting realism after comin into the season with high expectations, but we will stick by the players and support in numbers and see where it take us.

 

[Ashdown]

Considering everything over the last 15 years….some of the best !

 

[COVKIDSNEVERQUIT]

Yeah me too. I deleted Facebook and X. I use the web version of wanna see a particular tweet or comments.

I've said it before but think alot of posters on here have fallen into the trap of being old but forgetting what life was like before the internet.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

It doesn't really sit right with me that the fans are being blamed for the players being petrified. For the most part we are encouraging fans and generate a lot of noise. Our team is pretty weak mentally and lack fight. It is one thing that really needs to be worked on and as a fan that's frustrating to watch. They need to own it better.

I don't think there would be such a reaction if we play well and put up a scrap but still lose, it is the nature of it, along with some players putting out performances that can at times come across as half-hearted.

I mean in recent league games we’ve conceded in the opening 10 minutes, twice after a pretty rousing rendition of WLADITT. Not sure what else fans can do to help encourage the players.

 

[shmmeee]

I mean in recent league games we’ve conceded in the opening 10 minutes, twice after a pretty rousing rendition of WLADITT. Not sure what else fans can do to help encourage the players.

Yeah of reminding them they’re stuck in Cov doesn’t do it what will?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

Yeah of reminding them they’re stuck in Cov doesn’t do it what will?

 

[Flying Fokker]

Will be the same people angry they don't get a ticket to the Wolves game.
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At what point does the line get drawn? Are we talking thousands of extra ST holders? Most of them are long term supporters. All of them make consumer choices.

If a team performs well on and off the pitch fans will want tickets. City needs to keep the momentum up.

It happens throughout the league anyway. It’s taken years to build the ST holding back up so is any drop off seen as failure?

 

[Flying Fokker]

Best fans in football, comes with many parts to the question for me.

Supported in numbers : No
Created Atmosphere: No
General support of a club through bad times: id say YES
As for individual opinion on social media or general knowledge of the team and players: Same as every other club in the land.

This game is an opinion, we all have one and have the right to air it. Which is fine, it makes conversation and a creates healthy debate if we can except sometimes we agree to disagree. Nothing said should be personal insult including calling players shit.. They are very talented individuals, but as time goes by clubs progress and sometimes certain players get left behind as they hit the max level the ability, age can take them, its just the way it is. As a fan base we are very good and right up there with the best which is why we have a good reputation within the EFL. This season we may be hitting realism after comin into the season with high expectations, but we will stick by the players and support in numbers and see where it take us.

I just support city. I don’t like the dissing of players to the extent that they are called shit, wank (as seems to be the word some people cannot seem to keep out of their minds) or any other derogatory remark. I then reach for my…Ignore tab,

 

[Flying Fokker]

Yeah of reminding them they’re stuck in Cov doesn’t do it what will?

Hmm, so that’s why players move