Pre-Match View From Coventry

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HouchensHead said:
6 bad years? Are you joking? 8th in the Championship, 23rd in the Championship (fair enough) and 3rd, 5th, 7th and 5th in League One? Have I missed the other 5?
Our last 6 years we have finished 19th, 18th, 23rd - Championship and 15th, 18th and 17th in League One.
Blimey, if those last 6 years are bad, I reckon you would have topped yourself by now if you had our last 6 years.
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And therein lies the folly of statistics without considering the context
Your situation has been compounded by SISU screwing the club over and the lack of investment.
We can't blame anyone but ourselves and - aside from the cup runs - we have been utterly shite when you consider the budget being used for the playing staff.

Roll in the Ched Evans situation when we finished 3rd (behind our bitter rivals - you guys don't have one) and the pathetic attempts in play off finals and the smell of shite is palpable.
 



Harry's Game said:
There's respecting the oposition which I always do..

...then there is accepting defeat before we kick off at home against a team In the same division as us.

My FFS is aimed at those who who are already writing is off tomorrow and the Trainee Swan, Lane and Kay's so happy to bet on their own team to loose.
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Predicting a loss going into a game when we're off form, up against a team in form and in a much higher position is normal and perfectly reasonable. It's pretty different from "accepting" defeat and, quite honestly, anything else would be optimistic - admirable, but optimistic all the same.
 
HouchensHead said:
6 bad years? Are you joking? 8th in the Championship, 23rd in the Championship (fair enough) and 3rd, 5th, 7th and 5th in League One? Have I missed the other 5?

Our last 6 years we have finished 19th, 18th, 23rd - Championship and 15th, 18th and 17th in League One.

Blimey, if those last 6 years are bad, I reckon you would have topped yourself by now if you had our last 6 years.
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The mis-management of City over the last few years, the cruel impact that had on their fans (many of my friends have endured their support of the team) should be held up as a warning to many a fan of other clubs. City have great potential, and hopefully they will rise up again... but not tomorrow, and not at the expense of the Blades :rolleyes:
 
Alfreton14Blade said:
Lol. We've had 6 bad years & our crowds haven't dropped massively, they've held up!

Didn't you get about 40,000 on your return to the city. A bit strange they've not all got on board this season?
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I guess I could ask where's the 40,000 (?) who turned at Wembley for your FA Cup semi final?

Why will 9,000+ Sheffield United fans pay £50 to go to Old Trafford for a cup game but only 1,400 paid £20 to go to Walsall?

The FA Cup semi final and a trip to Old Trafford are clearly bigger than any other game and are games you can't miss - just like the Gillingham game was.

It's hardly that hard to understand.
 
HouchensHead said:
I guess I could ask where's the 40,000 (?) who turned at Wembley for your FA Cup semi final?

Why will 9,000+ Sheffield United fans pay £50 to go to Old Trafford for a cup game but only 1,400 paid £20 to go to Walsall?

The FA Cup semi final and a trip to Old Trafford are clearly bigger than any other game and are games you can't miss - just like the Gillingham game was.

It's hardly that hard to understand.
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Wow! - that's two goes you've had now at justifying your shit support this season, & both pretty poor. No doubt a third explanation will follow soon.

If you're such a sleeping giant, then knocking on the door of top of the league while playing "the best football you've seen for years" (copyright, your local press) would surely have motivated a large sector of the fanbase that turned out for that "big ... game", the sort of "game you can't miss" against ... er ... Gillingham?

By all means crow about how good your side is right now under Tony Mowbray, but coming on here & trying to claim your support somehow matches ours when, in reality, it's shit (especially for a one club city) is just foolish.

Not that support wins you owt. But your support's failure to follow a winning side after all those lean years suggests a pretty dead football club these days.
 
I think we will get something from the game tomorrow, maybe not a win but a valuable point.
 
Hamburg Blade said:
We might as well be, Harry's game. As far as league games go, this is as big as it gets for us. We are a third division team. They are a third division team. More to the point, they are a top third division side, we are a mid table third division side closer to relegation than promotion places. Your FFS implies we are too big to treat them with such respect, but the truth is they demand our respect, we can't demand any from them.
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It's another opportunity for us to kick start our, so far, wretched season.

Just looked at the league table, first time for ages, we're now 15 points behind the leaders & 12 behind Coventry in 2nd - automatic promotion is a big big ask given current form & momentum.

We need a "game changing" shift.
 
Sheffield United time spent in the top 2 divisions = 102. All time attendance = 18,939.

Coventry City time spent in the top 2 divisions = 63. All time attendance = 17,930.

Barely a 1,000 in it with Sheffield United being in the top 2 divisions for 39 more years than Coventry City.

Last 50 years:
Sheffield United highest: 30,512 (Premier League)

Coventry City highest: 34,705 (1st division)

Sheffield United lowest: 9,992 (2nd division)

Coventry City lowest: 9,332 (3rd division)

Obviously you can include Sixfields if you desperately want!

Alfreton14Blade
 
Houchenshead, please shut up or go away, nobody really gives a damn.

Deaneandagana, absolutely, this could be a watershed game. Losing sees us drop to, what, 15th? Winning keeps us in touch with at least the play-offs. If the team are suddenly going to start showing some effort, this would be the game. It's not a six pointer, it's an all-or-nothing match.
 
HouchensHead said:
Sheffield United time spent in the top 2 divisions = 102. All time attendance = 18,939.

Coventry City time spent in the top 2 divisions = 63. All time attendance = 17,930.

Barely a 1,000 in it with Sheffield United being in the top 2 divisions for 39 more years than Coventry City.

Last 50 years:
Sheffield United highest: 30,512 (Premier League)

Coventry City highest: 34,705 (1st division)

Sheffield United lowest: 9,992 (2nd division)

Coventry City lowest: 9,332 (3rd division)

Obviously you can include Sixfields if you desperately want!

Alfreton14Blade
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#missingthepoint

#wanksupport2015
 
Lane Ender said:
They had many years in the top flight think you could say they are at this level especially.
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Not wanting to come across all Wendy like, but It takes a special kind of effort to have spent so many years in the top flight and have such shit support.

UTB
 
alcoblade said:
Not wanting to come across all Wendy like, but It takes a special kind of effort to have spent so many years in the top flight and have such shit support.

UTB
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Err..not sure how to tell you this but Sheffield United have spent 102 years in the top 2 divisions compared to City's 63. There is about a 1,000 difference over time in favour of Sheffield United. Sheffield United have always be an established top 2 league club since existence, we have only been since 1968. Therefore you currently have better support but over time, all things considered, we do.
 
HouchensHead said:
What point am I missing? Football didn't start in 2015. Our support is obviously not better recently but over time it is as shown by my last post.
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FFS. You're about top of the league. You're getting a bit more than 10,000 for home games. The city's hardly getting whipped into a fever pitch of excitement over this vibrant young, classy side gunning for promotion.

I can imagine Walsall getting bigger crowds than you by April.
 



Alfreton14Blade said:
FFS. You're about top of the league. You're getting a bit more than 10,000 for home games. The city's hardly getting whipped into a fever pitch of excitement over this vibrant young, classy side gunning for promotion.

I can imagine Walsall getting bigger crowds than you by April.
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Woah, calm down. Your best player is a Cov reject and one of your biggest icons is a player who had his best years, in the Premier League, at Coventry City. Do you want any more rejects or players who are already past the best from us?
 
HouchensHead said:
Sheffield United time spent in the top 2 divisions = 102. All time attendance = 18,939.

Coventry City time spent in the top 2 divisions = 63. All time attendance = 17,930.

Barely a 1,000 in it with Sheffield United being in the top 2 divisions for 39 more years than Coventry City.

Last 50 years:
Sheffield United highest: 30,512 (Premier League)

Coventry City highest: 34,705 (1st division)

Sheffield United lowest: 9,992 (2nd division)

Coventry City lowest: 9,332 (3rd division)

Obviously you can include Sixfields if you desperately want!

Alfreton14Blade
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Just adds weight to my theory that any fans who go on other team's message boards are deadly dull.
 
HouchensHead said:
Woah, calm down. Your best player is a Cov reject and one of your biggest icons is a player who had his best years, in the Premier League, at Coventry City. Do you want any more rejects or players who are already past the best from us?
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Oh yeah, and a bit of a nob; still, gives me something to get irritated about since I made my peace with Barney.
 
HouchensHead said:
Err..not sure how to tell you this but Sheffield United have spent 102 years in the top 2 divisions compared to City's 63. There is about a 1,000 difference over time in favour of Sheffield United. Sheffield United have always be an established top 2 league club since existence, we have only been since 1968. Therefore you currently have better support but over time, all things considered, we do.
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In our golden years of the mid 70s Coventry would be lucky to bring a coach full
In fact I remember a Friday night game and there one Cov fan on the lane end.
Always a joke Coventry support.
 
HouchensHead, look forward to greeting you and the other Cov fans to our ground tomorrow for hopefully a great game of football. And no matter what the result, please take time to have a look around a ground where sections have not been shut to fans in order to corral them into sections in a valiant effort to improve the atmosphere. Unless of course the stadium is being used for egg chasing.
 
HouchensHead said:
Woah, calm down. Your best player is a Cov reject and one of your biggest icons is a player who had his best years, in the Premier League, at Coventry City. Do you want any more rejects or players who are already past the best from us?
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Haha, Che Adams is not close to being our best player yet, and that's in a struggling squad of players.

Nuddy is more of a cult figure, "one of your biggest icons" takes it a bit far...
 
HouchensHead said:
Sheffield United time spent in the top 2 divisions = 102. All time attendance = 18,939.

Coventry City time spent in the top 2 divisions = 63. All time attendance = 17,930.

Barely a 1,000 in it with Sheffield United being in the top 2 divisions for 39 more years than Coventry City.

Last 50 years:
Sheffield United highest: 30,512 (Premier League)

Coventry City highest: 34,705 (1st division)

Sheffield United lowest: 9,992 (2nd division)

Coventry City lowest: 9,332 (3rd division)

Obviously you can include Sixfields if you desperately want!

Alfreton14Blade
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Coventry City highest: 34,705 (1st division) What year was this,got to be before seating laws and at Highfield.

We have had far bigger numbers in our ground before the seating laws and in the last 50 years.
 
blade67 said:
yes only 34 years in the top flight since the 60's and 1 miserly FA Cup win in the 80's - small time compared to us
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Fair point but that's also their achievements as a club since they started - ours 4 FA cup wins, 1 top tier league title and 55 seasons in the top flight, so yeah they are small time compared to us. Without wanting to sound too much like the other lot, we were getting higher crowds in the 4th division than Cov in the top flight.
 
Silent Blade said:
Wrong, 33,189 in 1971-72
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Our best season average attendance is 33.189 in 71/72 in the last 50 years in the top league...............Highest attendance that season 45,045 against Man U

Their best season average attendance is 34,705 in 67/68 in the last 50 years in the top league...............Highest attendance that season 47,111 against Man U

Looks like Coventry have it.
 



SUFC Handsworth said:
Fair point but that's also their achievements as a club since they started - ours 4 FA cup wins, 1 top tier league title and 55 seasons in the top flight, so yeah they are small time compared to us. Without wanting to sound too much like the other lot, we were getting higher crowds in the 4th division than Cov in the top flight.
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But, mate, not wanting to have a go or anything, that's exactly how you are sounding, and the others. I can't believe people are feeding the troll on, of all things, attendance.
 
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