Quote Originally Posted by goats View Post
Clubs who did ok in the 70’s/80’s all have a core following, all those midlands clubs for example, Derby, forest Leicester. Even Coventry were in the top division forever when I was growing up. Both Sheffield clubs, Ipswich, Norwich too. The generations follow on in those places, we haven’t got that here as we were terrible for 25 yrs….and before that crowds were never great (70’s)…the odd big one.
Nevermind grangetown and riverside, two of cardiffs poorest area’s, I doubt we are going to attract much support from there less we give away free tickets, it’s way too expensive. Wander around the city centre in a match day, there must be 1000’s of potential fans just milling about…..The club should be giving away tickets to schools to fill the red seats every game, they’d still make money from all the other stuff families buy and then you might hook them in, not by playing like we have of late mind.
Good post.

I think our core home support holds up pretty well when you consider that the average away attendances at CCS are around 1,200 per season. Coventry’s average away attendance at their home ground is around 2/3,000 more per match as is most other teams on the championship.

Being located where we are probably loses 2,000 visiting fans per match , which would take our average gate close to 23,000.

Not bad at all