Yes I know it seems (and at the moment it is) light years away, but let's put our doubts to one side for a moment and pretend and dream for a minute that we have a Premiership club, playing in a 21st century state of the art stadium, who are in the top half dozen teams in the country and are vying for a place in Europe, are still in the FA Cup (for once!!) etc With the size of the city and catchment area we have and some of the financial resources at our disposal, it's not all a pipe dream and should be something we should be aiming for... What sort of crowds do you think we'd be getting in this hypothetical positionis my question ? I reckon we'd get at least 35,000 per home game as an average. Your go
Difficult to say because Bristol does not seem to be a football city as such even when we were in the top flight after the novelty wore off we hardly sold out the Gate apart from the big games. unless we were in European football and at the top end of the table year in year out probably 30,000 if we were super sucessful 40/45,000.
We would need to sustain a top flight status to change the fickle fans in the City. I think we would average between 25-28,000 for the season.
Ah well back to Football Manager where Bristol City have just won their 3rd premiership title European Title European Super cup and world club championship perhaps I should quit now it can't get any better can it? Forgot to add have a new 60,000 stadium that is being extended as it fills out for every game.
Even though Supcon 72 upset me with his Welsh comment the other day, I have to agree with him on the attendances 25-28000 average. As a city we don't have a great footballing support, fans are too fickle and full of Man U, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea tops with Man City on the rise. A lot of us older fans have second clubs we admire I always liked Man U, but only ever seen them twice and both times I wanted City to win. But t now a lot of the younger fans have second clubs who get their full support. I should know in my family I have cousins who say they support City or Rovers (I'm sure this was just to wind up my uncle but has just stuck) but would rather watch their so called bigger clubs. I'm not talking about teenagers but 23-30 year olds.
Depends really. I we were like wigan and had a 30k stadium then we would only get about 18k as anyone would because the fans would get bored of seeing them lose and fighting for survival. If we were a mid table team and had a 40k seater then we would sell out every week. The amount of fans you have at the game always depends on how well the team is playing.
25k - shame the "missing 10k" don't come every week - we would have a better chance of actually gettiong there - still every club is the same I suppose
More like the missing 12K mind you we couldn't get them into Ashton Gate at the moment what is the maximum for matches just under 20,000?
That's the problem we are talking about Fans who would turn up if things are doing well. What about us silly ****ers who go when things aren't going well does that make us super fans or just sadist
If any Bristol club got to the plastic leagues they would sell out 40000 for the bigger games easily due to the amount of fair weather fans/glory hunting knobs just look at both clubs wembley/millistad attendances in the past
For the first season perhaps for the novelty value then it would drop off markedly unless the team was successful towards the top of the table and reaching cup finals etc, if they were at the bottom of the table doing a Wigan year in year out they would be lucky to keep an average over 20,000
