I just noticed a comment yesterday about us having no divine right to be top of this league, us not being a big club, our small crowds etc. It might be interesting to note that our gate yesterday was 13, 427. That was nearly twice the total average of all our competitors, not including Wolves. How some of the teams in this league are managing to survive on gates of 3â4 000 is beyond my comprehension. That Wolves had a massive gate yesterday of over 30 000 is incredible for a Division One club and an enormous contrast to the rest. I don´t think we have a divine right to be top of any league but our support has been good everything considered. We are a big club in this league and we will be an even bigger club in the Championship in 18 months time.
If you go on gates we are probably mid table championship our best average gate in my lifetime was the season after we lost to hull in the play offs we averaged 17.5 we would of had higher too, as we had several sell outs that season but ashton gates restricted to around 19k
the biggest gate down the gate I've seen would be around 25-26k against the gas,liverpool,newcastle,everton,forest though the gas game there was more like 30k
42,000 plus v Blackpool 1958 So many over 30,000 difficult to find the time to enter them all. I know it has been said many times throughout my lifetime but we are a sleeping giant waiting to wake up. Away days with 10,000 plus at Spurs 1967, Aston Villa 1958, Anfield 1994 Plus the times we have taken 40,000 to Wembley/Millennium.
didn't we take a large following to watford under ward during our promotion season think we had the who of one of the big stands behind the goal must of been 6k?
If were in the top two next season then id think mk dons could have a huge away following am sure they gave wolves 10/12k tickets though we wouldn't get that figure unless it was last game of the season automatic promotion depending on it i should think 3/4k is possible Am sure my old man use to go on about cites first game against arsenal in the old first and coventry in the first as games that had huge followings
Thanks for the welcomes and background information about past gates. Curious to know what you think of this seasons support though. Have the numbers been as you would have thought them to be ? Strikes me that they haven't been that bad considering the poor start to the season.
when we got promotion from league 1 last time our gates only averaged 12.5k so this seasons been great really as in the years we've been out this league we've gained a good 3k i reckon i think if we went up next season wed average 15k but saying that our capacity will be reduced the next 2 years it could mean if we do well we could get a bigger away following as home games will always sell out once the eastend and lower dolman are demolished
12000 coventry when we stayed up in old first division. 5500 against sheff wed upper and lower tier in recent championship years. 4500 plus at forest when it kicked off. 6000 plus to liverpool. This club has massive potential i mean massive.
Big club................Man Utd and Co.. Small club............Bristol Rovers.. My and Our club....Bristol City FC.. Up the City.
Anyone who thinks Bristol City are a big club needs to get out more. That doesn't stop em being lovely, but lets tell it like it is
When I did research about a month ago, based on average gates this season we were the 44th best supported team
City attendance figures have been pretty good this season. In fact compared with any of the previous six seasons after a relegation that I have seen, the average gate has been much closer to the previous years in the higher division than I can ever remember. We have not lost too many. And a successful next season if we are knocking on the promotion door, will bring many back to the Gate.
Our problem and the reason why we have one of the poorest attendance figures in England as a percentage of the city's population is very simple. We have never in the last ninety years had more than a couple of years success at most for every ten years. Thus we have never managed to convert the floating fans to regulars. So making a real challenge for promotion next season is essential if we are to build on the regular 11,000 and should we get to the Championship, to be top eight every season and get some cup runs to quarter finals and better. Just a dream? Others smaller than us can do it so why not City?
