6,013

[B. Oddie]

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There'd be at least double that if it was the FA Cup. I'd be there for one!

I've no interest in the League Cup and have probably been to about 20 of them over the years.

[Dave Blue]

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The crowd (bigger than I thought it would be) is a reflection of the apathy- first by the club and naturally followed by the fan base - shown to the cup since we got to 2 finals. Why such heights brought on this abject policy defeats me.

[Ivortheengine]

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Those who chose not to go obviously had more sense.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Three home games in a week, one to one of our biggest rivals coming up on Saturday.

If you had a chance to watch 2 out of the 3, would you choose a league game against Millwall, a league game against Bristol City or a league cup tie against a side we've played quite often over the last few decades, who we did the double over when we were last in the PL and, even though they're a PL side, are hardly an attractive name?

15 years ago, playing a lower, less established PL side would have generated some sort of crowd. Not any more.

[The Hooded Claw]

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7,491 - Swansea City v Plymouth

I don’t think it’s just down to the opposition. Our recent track record in the competition is dire. Swansea won it a while back.

Maybe there’s just more to do in Cardiff on a Tuesday night than in Swansea?

[RichardM]

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Says something about the competition when I saw the attendance and thought good crowd.

Norwich crowd is incredible. Dont believe they are a bigger club than us though.

Just seen the Forest highlights. Looked a few thousand Wolves fans there.

Saying that if we were playing Man U reserves I reckon 20k there last night.

There were 3510 at Lincoln last night to see them play Man Utd U21s in something called the Papa John Trophy

[The Lone Gunman]

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Three home games in a week, one to one of our biggest rivals coming up on Saturday.

Back in November 2011, City had three home games in just over a week. The attendances were:

22,556 v Nottingham Forest (Championship)
19,436 v Blackburn (Carling Cup)
22,010 v Birmingham (Championship)

Admittedly the Carling Cup game was later in the competition, but I do think a crowd of just 6,013 for a game against a Premier League opponent is significant. Indeed, it was City's lowest attendance for such a match since the late-Eighties. I don't believe there's any one main factor at play, though. I think it's a combination of lots of things, including the unsatisfactory ticket office situation judging by what a couple of friends I was talking to last night were saying.

[Mario Miethig]

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Back in November 2011, City had three home games in just over a week. The attendances were:

22,556 v Nottingham Forest (Championship)
19,436 v Blackburn (Carling Cup)
22,010 v Birmingham (Championship)

Admittedly the Carling Cup game was later in the competition, but I do think a crowd of just 6,013 for a game against a Premier League opponent is significant. Indeed, it was City's lowest attendance for such a match since the late-Eighties. I don't believe there's any one main factor at play, though. I think it's a combination of lots of things, including the unsatisfactory ticket office situation judging by what a couple of friends I was talking to last night were saying.

The ticket office situation is shocking! Wanted to get extra tickets for my daughter and wife and wanted to move my seat to be next to them. Couldn’t work out how to do that online, so went to the ticket office last Thursday to find it closed. Thankfully got through over the phone eventually. A total ball ache!

[KingOfSiamIAm]

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I didn’t go to the game in the previous round because of being worn down by witnessing recent years cup games, mostly because of the following reasons:
Lack of respect shown by the club towards the competition (and FA Cup) in recent years.
Previous managers saying they respected the history of the competition and wanting to progress to the next round… only to contradict that by selecting weakened teams.
The impression that the managers team talks before previous games were half-arsed, which seemed to carry over to players motivation/performances.

However, after seeing that a relatively strong line-up named in the previous round, combined with listening to he commentary of an entertaining game on the radio, and the efforts of the players to actually try to win… well that persuaded me to go to the game last night.

[The Lone Gunman]

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The ticket office situation is shocking!

I go to a pub quiz in Barry most Tuesday evenings, but under normal circumstances it doesn't go ahead if City are home as the organiser is a diehard Bluebirds fan and several of the quiz regulars are supporters too. However, it went ahead as usual last night as none of the guys were going to the game, which surprised me. These are people who've been following the club for decades.

It transpires that all of them had encountered problems in recent weeks, either with their season tickets or with trying to get additional tickets for friends or family members, and as a result they decided to give last night's game a miss. A couple of them were genuinely angry about the situation. I didn't get the exact details, but these are guys in their sixties and seventies and it sounded like the technology side of things was proving a problem.

[life on mars]

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Decent crowd .

Brighton are not likely to attract Premiership sofa watchers in thier droves .

[FungoFurore]

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I'm going down for the first time in ages on Saturday, took me about 25 minutes to get the tickets online because the system is so shite!

Attendances for cup games have been poor for years. Not sure why the club don't just do tickets for £5, or at least some creative deals (like u16s go free with paying adult) to get a more people in.

[ferrari_andretti]

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7,491 - Swansea City v Plymouth

I don’t think it’s just down to the opposition. Our recent track record in the competition is dire. Swansea won it a while back.

Maybe there’s just more to do in Cardiff on a Tuesday night than in Swansea?

We made the final not long ago...

[Eric the Half a Bee]

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Back in November 2011, City had three home games in just over a week. The attendances were:

22,556 v Nottingham Forest (Championship)
19,436 v Blackburn (Carling Cup)
22,010 v Birmingham (Championship)

Admittedly the Carling Cup game was later in the competition, but I do think a crowd of just 6,013 for a game against a Premier League opponent is significant. Indeed, it was City's lowest attendance for such a match since the late-Eighties. I don't believe there's any one main factor at play, though. I think it's a combination of lots of things, including the unsatisfactory ticket office situation judging by what a couple of friends I was talking to last night were saying.

I think the fact that the Blackburn game was a quarter final is also significant! We had just over 8.5k for the previous round against Leicester.

It's interesting that a winnable quarter final in the league cup attracted a lower crowd than 2 league games. 4 seasons before when we reached the FA cup final, we played Norwich and Leicester in the league at home with the Wolves 5th round game somewhere in between. More people watched the FA cup tie than the two league games.

[The Lone Gunman]

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7,002 at Newport’s game against Southampton this evening. County getting a bigger crowd than City. Strange times indeed.