Coventry following today ..

[Johnno]

If players play shit cos the opposition fans are loud, they should wear earplugs!
Did our players at Wembley suddenly get shit as they got towards the Cardiff fans half?

 

[JJpool]

If players play shit cos the opposition fans are loud, they should wear earplugs!
Did our players at Wembley suddenly get shit as they got towards the Cardiff fans half?

We conceded that goal and I think it was pretty quiet just before half time, so no noise put them off there.

 

[TangerineBayern]

We're building the stadium for decades ahead and hoping to grow.

We can already muster about 12k home fans for big games when not doing shit, 4k away and your up at 17k when segregation is factored in already.

We could do woth a bit of room to grow into, 16k isn't enough.

Most clubs build bigger stadiums on the assumption they will hit the Promised Land even big city clubs and look how many empty seats they have on match days and l include Coventry when they’re at home. Others such as Stoke, Blackburn, Cardiff and a good few others even some in L1. SS stated he’d sooner have a smaller capacity full rather than a larger ground, we’re currently in the championship and can’t get anywhere near filling 3 sides, yes we’re shite at the moment but if successful we’d still struggle!

 

[Loco]

Maybe the players would prefer to play behalf closed doors?

Well, we did get promotion in the lockdown season!

 

[JJpool]

Most clubs build bigger stadiums on the assumption they will hit the Promised Land even big city clubs and look how many empty seats they have on match days and l include Coventry when they’re at home. Others such as Stoke, Blackburn, Cardiff and a good few others even some in L1. SS stated he’d sooner have a smaller capacity full rather than a larger ground, we’re currently in the championship and can’t get anywhere near filling 3 sides, yes we’re shite at the moment but if successful we’d still struggle!

Either way, could do with a small expansion.

18k would do it for now for the short term, the usuable capacity goes up massively too.

We could then capitalise if things went well for us which has to be the plan.

If we got promoted with fans in attendance from league 1 for eg. Then had some good seasons in the championship, there's enough room growth and the stadium is largely full.

 

[TangerineBayern]

Either way, could do with a small expansion.

18k would do it for now for the short term, the usuable capacity goes up massively too.

We could then capitalise if things went well for us which has to be the plan.

If we got promoted with fans in attendance from league 1 for eg. Then had some good seasons in the championship, there's enough room growth and the stadium is largely full.

I think at the SDM SS said that expansion would be considered in the design of the new East, be interesting to see what the final design looks like though

 

[thedevilsadvocate]

Oh I can read but your posting utter dribble we lost today because we where shite and them good fuck all to giving away home advantage.

The atmosphere was cracking first half but you wouldn't know not being there.

Dribble or drivel ? I wasn't there but I was at Bristol City last week, were you superfan ? So you cite Burnley and Stoke ? How about Boro, and Sheff Utd ?

 

[Dark_Side_of_the_Lune]

Wests bottled it today.,.you know who you are.

 

[BigHandsOliverKahn]

Football is played on the pitch at the end of the day. We still had many more fans than them in the stadium. People looking for links to things that are just excuses for a bad result on the pitch.

 

[Martonmosser]

Are you seriously suggesting we put a limit on away fans? Not only does it add to the atmosphere it brings in the money which funds the players we can bring into the squad. Insanity.

Yep limit away fans and also take the roof back off

 

[AngelBFC]

Make £200k this season on seat Sales but lose £2m tv and sponsorship and that makes sense...** hell!

Atmosphere is one thing but the advantage, however slight, is crucial/critical

these games are marginal and any advantage needs to be taken to stay in this division

There was nothing marginal about yesterdays game

Their performance was head and shoulders above nothing to do with the crowd

2 k or 4 k the result would have been the same

 

[Blackpool_Gaz]

Hilarious that some want us to NOT sell tickets.

You really couldn't make it up.

So you want the opposition to be roared on at BR making the job more difficult for our players?

 

[1974seasider]

I’ve heard it all now. If the argument put forward here had any validity then surely we would win most home matches and lose most away matches, as would every other club in the division. It makes you wonder how promotion and relegation is ever decided. We lost yesterday because Coventry are a better team than us and they played well. Why they are a better team is an interesting point - maybe if we had got some decisions things would have been different but we didn’t.

 

[Scratcher67]

So you want the opposition to be roared on at BR making the job more difficult for our players?

I can see we aren't going to agree on this.

 

[Leither]

So you want the opposition to be roared on at BR making the job more difficult for our players?

Rubbish . . . the noise coming from the North stand was louder than normal due to the fact that Coventry were there in numbers and loud.

Every credit to their fans but we responded well and for most of the first half out sung them.

How is it more difficult for the players when our fans are louder? It gives our players a lift.

 

[Wizaard]

Over 4,000 Poverty fans in today...must of felt like a home game to them (circa 30% of gate)
We may well cream a couple of hundred thousand from away tickets this season with the current strategy but if we had literally no away fans and stay up it would be worth at least a couple of million to the club

I want away fans at the ground but let's be honest our 12th man can get outgunned by so many in the East

Big nail in coffin today for me...if we can't produce a display after a 6-1 Tuesday win I just can't see us getting the points we need in remaining games as we just can't string performances together

There was 3,700 actually.

 

[BFC_BFC_BFC]

Rubbish . . . the noise coming from the North stand was louder than normal due to the fact that Coventry were there in numbers and loud.

Every credit to their fans but we responded well and for most of the first half out sung them.

How is it more difficult for the players when our fans are louder? It gives our players a lift.

Our players end up getting abused down that entire side of the pitch. I’m aware that certain players have said that they don’t like it when that entire side is packed with away supporters.

There’s absolutely no question that it diminishes our home advantage.

Whether the financial rewards outweighs the impact on home advantage is a matter for the Club to decide…

 

[poolseasider]

Our players end up getting abused down that entire side of the pitch. I’m aware that certain players have said that they don’t like it when that entire side is packed with away supporters.

There’s absolutely no question that it diminishes our home advantage.

Whether the financial rewards outweighs the impact on home advantage is a matter for the Club to decide…

Utter myth otherwise we wouldn't have beaten Stoke and drew against Burnley the best side in the Championship by a long way selling out all of the East recently.

Blackburn, Barnsley and our biggest win of the season against Birmingham last season we all won.

 

[BFC_BFC_BFC]

Utter myth otherwise we wouldn't have beaten Stoke and drew against Burnley the best side in the Championship by a long way selling out all of the East recently.

Blackburn, Barnsley and our biggest win of the season against Birmingham last season we all won.

Why wouldn’t we have beaten Stoke or drawn against Burnley? That’s illogical nonsense…

Are you trying to say that football sides never manage to win or draw away from home or despite home advantage ?


The point of home advantage is to gain some marginal benefit, not to guarantee the result…

 

[SomersetSeasider]

So you want the opposition to be roared on at BR making the job more difficult for our players?

I agree. It’s like saying that our 12th man doesn’t have an affect on the opposition. Noisy, passionate fans do have an effect. Coventry players would have been buoyed by the site of a whole side of the ground being populated by noisy Coventry fans. They played better than us but their fans played their part in the victory. They were their twelfth man - and their noise reduced any advantage the North stand’s noise made.

 

[SomersetSeasider]

I’ve heard it all now. If the argument put forward here had any validity then surely we would win most home matches and lose most away matches, as would every other club in the division. It makes you wonder how promotion and relegation is ever decided. We lost yesterday because Coventry are a better team than us and they played well. Why they are a better team is an interesting point - maybe if we had got some decisions things would have been different but we didn’t.

If we had a bigger ground with more support your argument might be ok, but giving a team nearly a third of the gate, down a complete side of the stadium, works in their favour. They were a good side, who got some important decisions, who were also bolstered by their noisy support. If you don’t agree, then you may as well say there’s no such thing as a twelfth man!