Championship attendances

[Valley Blade]

Cheap shots again. You struggle to get a ticket for the home end at Coventry. There's 26,000 STH's and the away allocation which was recently reduced to give the home support more tickets. The STH's that can't make a game put their tickets on a platform and they are resold. We can never reach our full capacity because of segregation problems.

Isn't it amazing how finishing in the top 6 for the first time in nearly 50 years has an upturn in attendances.

When you were at your lowest ebb, when the club needed you, when if you really were a supporter, your lot deserted you. That is a fact.

 

[The Fox]

THey do it every game!

I doubt it but id suspect its analysed calculated and worked out within the boundaries ( ST pricing , category etc ).

They'll not get it right every game but within the restrictions they have probably get it more right than wrong .. other they need firing .

 

[Kenilworth]

Cheap shots again. You struggle to get a ticket for the home end at Coventry. There's 26,000 STH's and the away allocation which was recently reduced to give the home support more tickets. The STH's that can't make a game put their tickets on a platform and they are resold. We can never reach our full capacity because of segregation problems.

Isn't it amazing how finishing in the top 6 for the first time in nearly 50 years has an upturn in attendances.

Fair weather fans those Cov lads and lasses.

Ghost town when shit.

 

[Sky Blues]

When you were at your lowest ebb, when the club needed you, when if you really were a supporter, your lot deserted you. That is a fact.

Oh yes you should continue to give your money to owners that put you in administration just so they could cancel a contract and also take your club out of your own city twice.

Are you a happy clapper that's happy with your ownership?

 

[Valley Blade]

Oh yes you should continue to give your money to owners that put you in administration just so they could cancel a contract and also take your club out of your own city twice.

Are you a happy clapper that's happy with your ownership?

I support my club. I do not abandon it when it is tough. Your lot did. It is fact. Your attendances were pathetic. I do not believe ours would be so. We are more loyal than your lot will ever be. To those who stood by you, i am genuinely pleased for them, that you are doing well.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Cheap shots again. You struggle to get a ticket for the home end at Coventry. There's 26,000 STH's and the away allocation which was recently reduced to give the home support more tickets. The STH's that can't make a game put their tickets on a platform and they are resold. We can never reach our full capacity because of segregation problems.

Isn't it amazing how finishing in the top 6 for the first time in nearly 50 years has an upturn in attendances.

Not saying you have shit support but I don't agree with the attendance figures when I see spare seats. You played wba other month hardly any away fans but over 29k EH

 

[Davalon]

Oh yes you should continue to give your money to owners that put you in administration just so they could cancel a contract and also take your club out of your own city twice.

Are you a happy clapper that's happy with your ownership?

Over the last 10 to 15 years, irrespective of justifiable anger against owners, Coventry fans have shown themselves to be the biggest fairweather supporters in a lifetime.

I can't think of any club going from a few thousand to 30,000 in such a short space of time.

 

[AWetFlannel]

I support my club. I do not abandon it when it is tough. Your lot did. It is fact. Your attendances were pathetic. I do not believe ours would be so. We are more loyal than your lot will ever be. To those who stood by you, i am genuinely pleased for them, that you are doing well.

I would absolutely stop going to the Lane if I thought it was in the best interests of the club, as any proper supporter should.


To keep going through boycotts is to value your own entertainment over that of the club.

 

[Valley Blade]

I would absolutely stop going to the Lane if I thought it was in the best interests of the club, as any proper supporter should.


To keep going through boycotts is to value your own entertainment over that of the club.

How is depriving the club of money in its best interests? Its not working out well at Wednesday is it? If the self appointed moral arbiters were honest they'd admit its because the team is losing, that's why they don't go. Vast majority don't care a jot who is in charge,as long as the team is winning.

 

[Ndiayewillalwaysloveyou]

Cheap shots again. You struggle to get a ticket for the home end at Coventry. There's 26,000 STH's and the away allocation which was recently reduced to give the home support more tickets. The STH's that can't make a game put their tickets on a platform and they are resold. We can never reach our full capacity because of segregation problems.

Isn't it amazing how finishing in the top 6 for the first time in nearly 50 years has an upturn in attendances.

26k ST holders you sure? Our highest in the PL is around 22k.

 

[VictoryBlade]

I support my club. I do not abandon it when it is tough. Your lot did. It is fact. Your attendances were pathetic. I do not believe ours would be so. We are more loyal than your lot will ever be. To those who stood by you, i am genuinely pleased for them, that you are doing well.

Agreed, For example over 23k in the third division and one game (Wigan) 25k in the old fourth?

 

[VictoryBlade]

And, 23k at Hillsborough? Really, or was that the number of empty seats?

 

[AWetFlannel]

How is depriving the club of money in its best interests? Its not working out well at Wednesday is it? If the self appointed moral arbiters were honest they'd admit its because the team is losing, that's why they don't go. Vast majority don't care a jot who is in charge,as long as the team is winning.

If you have an nutjob owner who is running the club into the ground, you want them to sell up. One way to encourage them to sell up is to boycott games, which hits their pocket and makes clear the discontent of their customers.

Not even worth countering your remarks about those that boycott because you've just made it up.

 

[Valley Blade]

If you have an nutjob owner who is running the club into the ground, you want them to sell up. One way to encourage them to sell up is to boycott games, which hits their pocket and makes clear the discontent of their customers.

Not even worth countering your remarks about those that boycott because you've just made it up.

Which club's fans have boycotted whilst their team was winning? It doesn't happen. It nearly always boils down to the team losing. That's the real reason they don't go.

 

[AWetFlannel]

Which club's fans have boycotted whilst their team was winning? It doesn't happen. It nearly always boils down to the team losing. That's the real reason they don't go.

Surely it's not surprising that awful owners running clubs into the ground is correlated with poor results?

Apologies, but I don't think you (or anyone) is qualified to explain the motivations of hundreds of thousands of fans that have engaged in boycotts. It tends to be selfish people that assume the motives of everyone else are selfish because you they don't do anything other than for themselves.

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

It is on their end. We don't have the seats spare. The club gave Forest both tiers for the play offs and got murdered for it. The last time before that was Liverpool for the first PL game under Warnock. Cup rules are different.

How many millions did that stupid decision to give forest both tiers cost us?..

 

[Valley Blade]

Surely it's not surprising that awful owners running clubs into the ground is correlated with poor results?

Apologies, but I don't think you (or anyone) is qualified to explain the motivations of hundreds of thousands of fans that have engaged in boycotts. It tends to be selfish people that assume the motives of everyone else are selfish because you they don't do anything other than for themselves.

I don't think anyone is selfish by not attending. Completely up to the individual. Just find it disingenuous when some people cite the owners for non-attendance, as the only reason. Obviously, for some that will be true but for the vast majority its all about the results. We've had enough dodgy chairmen/directors over the years to have had numerous boycotts.

 

[Keen Blade]

Should really give us the whole of the North Stand.

What ?
So we can bring it down upon our own heads ?

 

[AWetFlannel]

I don't think anyone is selfish by not attending. Completely up to the individual. Just find it disingenuous when some people cite the owners for non-attendance, as the only reason. Obviously, for some that will be true but for the vast majority its all about the results. We've had enough dodgy chairmen/directors over the years to have had numerous boycotts.

Fair enough. The only football I've ever boycotted is that Bolton game which sold out and the EFL Trophy competition after they introduced academy teams and then dishonestly kept them even after fan backlash. We've never been in the situation I'm describing (in my lifetime) and hopefully we never will.

There's a difference between a shit owner that is skint but willing to sell the club, and a shit owner who is skint and is intent on running the club into the ground. I think Chansiri fits into the latter category and I would have absolutely boycotted during the latter stages of his ownership. (What a fucking legend he is, by the way )

 

[Gareth Kay]

Coventry fans have and always be shite. They know it and so do we.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Watch efl highlights every week and there's only Ipswich ground which looks full regular but...

Coventry City - 29,981

Leicester City - 29,730

Derby County - 28,400

Southampton - 28,368

Ipswich Town - 28,213

Sheffield United - 27,729

Yeah they count ST holders but I highly doubt thousands buy ST to not go often.​

Fair play to Derby, their crowds are consistently high wherever they are in the league…The three relegated teams are still living high on the hog from Prem attendances, Cov have always had the potential to attract bigger crowds…We, are just being us.

 

[HOT CURRIE 10]

Some of our supporters on here are beginning to sound like those scrubbers at the other side of the city. Who cares,people buy season tickets,sometimes don’t go,added in the attendance,it happens at the lane and many others outside the premier. A bit of success and crowd levels grow.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Over the last 10 to 15 years, irrespective of justifiable anger against owners, Coventry fans have shown themselves to be the biggest fairweather supporters in a lifetime.

I can't think of any club going from a few thousand to 30,000 in such a short space of time.

Yeah but with such a rapid increase in crowds, it just shows the punters have always been there…Whereas we’ve had to work hard over the last 25 years to get our crowds to this level in a two club city.

 

[Sky Blues]

Not saying you have shit support but I don't agree with the attendance figures when I see spare seats. You played wba other month hardly any away fans but over 29k EH

We only allocate just over 2,000 tickets to away supporters now as we need as many as we can get for ourselves.

 

[Sky Blues]

Over the last 10 to 15 years, irrespective of justifiable anger against owners, Coventry fans have shown themselves to be the biggest fairweather supporters in a lifetime.

I can't think of any club going from a few thousand to 30,000 in such a short space of time.

We didn't go to home games in big numbers but every away game was a sellout. In one of the away games at MK Dons we sold well over 7,000 tickets. They were going to let us have more at first then changed their minds.

Hopefully your downfall will be shortlived. Otherwise you will see what happens when the time comes to try and do something about it.

 

[Sky Blues]

I don't think anyone is selfish by not attending. Completely up to the individual. Just find it disingenuous when some people cite the owners for non-attendance, as the only reason. Obviously, for some that will be true but for the vast majority its all about the results. We've had enough dodgy chairmen/directors over the years to have had numerous boycotts.

How many times have your club had to play your home games outside your own city because of your owners? They did it to us twice.

 

[Sheffsteel]

How many times have your club had to play your home games outside your own city because of your owners? They did it to us twice.

Ignore some of the negativity….its just fans giving their opinion.

My early opinion of Coventry in the 70’s was fairly negative….nothing personal but always remember Match of the Day and from 1975 to 1985. Coventry were ALWAYS involved in a relegation scrap but you always seemed to win your last match of the season to miraculously stay up.
Even Jimmy Hill used to talk about your great escapes.

I had a similar negativity towards Liverpool as I’d see on teletext that were surprising losing with 5 minutes left.
Would really annoy me how when the final whistle came….Liverpool always seemed to score 2 goals in the final minutes to win
And of course 1 of the goals would be a penalty.

I worked with a temp in 2015….he told me he was from Coventry and a big Cov fan. Told him the truth that I thought Coventry were quite beige…..as my only memory over the past few decades was the constantly surviving a relegation battle in the 70’s and 80’s, the classic brown away kit, Tommy Hutchison and the Keith Houchen header in the FA cup final goal at Wembley….told him I didn’t think your support was that great either.

He replied that in the circumstances Coventry had really impressive loyal support….i asked how?

He then replied that he was 40 years old and he’d NEVER seen Coventry in a promotion battle.
I asked him what he meant and he replied supporting Coventry has always been supporting a team in the bottom half of the table EVERY single year. I didn’t believe him so checked the internet and he was correct.

What an amazing stat…,to go 30 years without any involvement in even chasing or being contenders in a promotion battle.
This is something us Blades take for granted because our history is…..outside the PL we are often chasing a promotion place.
We’ve also been promoted and relegated loads of times….so there’s always been something to get excited/ nervous about.

 

[Sky Blues]

Ignore some of the negativity….its just fans giving their opinion.

My early opinion of Coventry in the 70’s was fairly negative….nothing personal but always remember Match of the Day and from 1975 to 1985. Coventry were ALWAYS involved in a relegation scrap but you always seemed to win your last match of the season to miraculously stay up.
Even Jimmy Hill used to talk about your great escapes.

I had a similar negativity towards Liverpool as I’d see on teletext that were surprising losing with 5 minutes left.
Would really annoy me how when the final whistle came….Liverpool always seemed to score 2 goals in the final minutes to win
And of course 1 of the goals would be a penalty.

I worked with a temp in 2015….he told me he was from Coventry and a big Cov fan. Told him the truth that I thought Coventry were quite beige…..as my only memory over the past few decades was the constantly surviving a relegation battle in the 70’s and 80’s, the classic brown away kit, Tommy Hutchison and the Keith Houchen header in the FA cup final goal at Wembley….told him I didn’t think your support was that great either.

He replied that in the circumstances Coventry had really impressive loyal support….i asked how?

He then replied that he was 40 years old and he’d NEVER seen Coventry in a promotion battle.
I asked him what he meant and he replied supporting Coventry has always been supporting a team in the bottom half of the table EVERY single year. I didn’t believe him so checked the internet and he was correct.

What an amazing stat…,to go 30 years without any involvement in even chasing or being contenders in a promotion battle.
This is something us Blades take for granted because our history is…..outside the PL we are often chasing a promotion place.
We’ve also been promoted and relegated loads of times….so there’s always been something to get excited/ nervous about.

It's hard to put across what it was like being in a relegation battle nearly every season. People used to say that if the Titanic was painted Sky Blue it would never have gone down. One season we had to win our last 3 games just to have a chance of staying up. The last game was against Liverpool who had already won Division 1 at a canter and were still blowing sides away and strolled to a European cup win. We beat them 4-0 to stay up.

When we got relegated from the Prem we thought we would finally get a top 6 finish. There was only 3 sides that had been there longer than us. Arsenal, Everton and Liverpool who had been there 2 seasons longer. But we ended up in League 2 still without a top 6 finish and by that time it became 46 years since our last top 6 finish. We were then poor yet again but no surprise because of our owners. But Robins got the players to put a run together and we finished 6th. We celebrated the top 6 finish as much as making the playoffs.

It was a continued climb back up where we did better each season. By the time we were taken out of our city for home games for the second time Robins had put a decent side together although we sold anyone as soon as an offer came in. We were having a great season when Covid came along. We were top of League 1 with a decent gap to the other sides when they finished the season early. Typical So we couldn't watch the games then we couldn't celebrate our first top of the table finish.

I've been going to games since the 70's so have seen it all. It's a way of life but it doesn’t get to me like it used to. I even expected something to go wrong when we scored the winner against Manchester United in the FA cup semi final against few seasons ago after being 3-0 down with 11 minutes to go. And yes they eventually claimed offside by a few millimeters during the buildup to the goal where the line was drawn over both players toes although their players body was clearly further back.

We still haven't won anything of note since 87 but we're now involved in something each season. We now have a new generation of supporters that only know the rise from League 2 and a few Wembley appearances. I'm dreading their reactions to getting stuffed most games if we ever get to the Prem.

 

[Dkc]

Don't get the dislike of Coventry. Very decent support given the size of the city. Friendly fans who have seen their club exiled and their old traditional stadium demolished. And not much to cheer on the pitch apart from a cup win 39 years ago.

Saying that, there is always one club that bottles automatic. Used to be Leeds. It was us last season. Could well be them this time around

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

Fair weather fans those Cov lads and lasses.

Ghost town when shit.

For what it's worth I get the reference Ken