| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game 13:43 - Dec 3 with 1158 views | PatfromPoole |
Amazing what being top of the League will do….. |  |
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| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 13:52 - Dec 3 with 1099 views | franniesTache |
They've always had a good support so it's not a surprise, in fact i'd have been surprised if they hadn't sold it out even if they weren't top |  | | |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 14:07 - Dec 3 with 1067 views | dirk_doone |
They're only 5 places below us in the all-time attendance table. They've had periods when their support has been terrible and others when it's been good. In the 70s, a mate who was a Coventry supporter came with me to a few Saints away games and said that Coventry's support was nowhere near that good. They're currently getting their biggest average home gates for more than 50 years and their away support reflects that. It all depends on results.
https://www.englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk/stats/totalavegate.html [Post edited 3 Dec 14:11]
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| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 14:36 - Dec 3 with 1004 views | PatfromPoole |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 13:52 - Dec 3 by franniesTache |
They've always had a good support so it's not a surprise, in fact i'd have been surprised if they hadn't sold it out even if they weren't top |
I guess some may have given it a miss as it is a 12.30pm kick-off and I believe there are no Cross Country trains as things stand.
But again, when you are winning pretty much every game, people will be busting a gut to go to games. | |
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| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 14:49 - Dec 3 with 984 views | felly1 |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 14:36 - Dec 3 by PatfromPoole |
I guess some may have given it a miss as it is a 12.30pm kick-off and I believe there are no Cross Country trains as things stand.
But again, when you are winning pretty much every game, people will be busting a gut to go to games. |
Just checked out their average attendances over recent years.
17/18 season in League 2 they averaged 9k
22/23 Championship. 19k
25/26 Championship . 29k
Happy days when your a club on the up. |  | | |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 15:20 - Dec 3 with 943 views | IanSouthstander |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 14:49 - Dec 3 by felly1 |
Just checked out their average attendances over recent years.
17/18 season in League 2 they averaged 9k
22/23 Championship. 19k
25/26 Championship . 29k
Happy days when your a club on the up. |
That 17/18 figure is misleading. At around that time Coventry had ownership issues and had to play home fixtures at various stadiums around the midlands.
If you discount those years i think you'll find their attendances aren't that different to ours. |  | | |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 15:32 - Dec 3 with 932 views | PatfromPoole |
Quite interesting.
They are a club who a few on here have stated have always tended to sell their best players over the last few years, and they haven't tended to spend big on players.
But a good manager seems to make all the difference. | |
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| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 15:43 - Dec 3 with 910 views | SalisburySaint |
So what, we’ve already sold out Oxford and Brum away, games after Coventry at St Mary’s |  | | |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 17:30 - Dec 3 with 819 views | franniesTache |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 15:20 - Dec 3 by IanSouthstander |
That 17/18 figure is misleading. At around that time Coventry had ownership issues and had to play home fixtures at various stadiums around the midlands.
If you discount those years i think you'll find their attendances aren't that different to ours. |
I’ve always thought of them as nigh on identical to us really, the difference is they went with SISA and we didn’t.
In terms of support, trophies, leagues they’ve often been in (putting aside when they had their club nearly killed) and even down to the fact their home got flattened in the war, there’s actually a lot more similarities than not.
Saying that their music is a lot f*cking better than ours | | | |
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| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 17:45 - Dec 3 with 792 views | grumpy |
John Sillett who managed Coventry 1986-1990 who lead them to a FA Cup win(their only one just like us) was born in Southampton. [Post edited 3 Dec 17:47]
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| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 18:07 - Dec 3 with 757 views | PatfromPoole |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 15:43 - Dec 3 by SalisburySaint |
So what, we’ve already sold out Oxford and Brum away, games after Coventry at St Mary’s |
Significantly smaller allocations for our 2 away games, as I would expect you to know. | |
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| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 18:12 - Dec 3 with 750 views | yateleysaint |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 17:30 - Dec 3 by franniesTache |
I’ve always thought of them as nigh on identical to us really, the difference is they went with SISA and we didn’t.
In terms of support, trophies, leagues they’ve often been in (putting aside when they had their club nearly killed) and even down to the fact their home got flattened in the war, there’s actually a lot more similarities than not.
Saying that their music is a lot f*cking better than ours |
How dare you?!
I’ve just come from a work Xmas party where they were playing the Benny Hill theme.
I didn’t hear them playing The Specials. |  |
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| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 19:29 - Dec 3 with 677 views | dirk_doone |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 15:20 - Dec 3 by IanSouthstander |
That 17/18 figure is misleading. At around that time Coventry had ownership issues and had to play home fixtures at various stadiums around the midlands.
If you discount those years i think you'll find their attendances aren't that different to ours. |
As I said, they are 5 places below us in the all-time attendance table.
https://www.englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk/stats/totalavegate.html
You can see every season of their attendances here. Like Pompey, they had a ground capacity of more than 50,000, and like Pompey, it was usually half-empty. I remember their halcyon days in the late 60s/early 70s when they got their biggest home gates, but their away support wasn't very good back then. This season is probably the best away support they've ever had.
https://european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/league/covc.htm [Post edited 3 Dec 19:36]
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| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 20:21 - Dec 3 with 596 views | felly1 |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 15:20 - Dec 3 by IanSouthstander |
That 17/18 figure is misleading. At around that time Coventry had ownership issues and had to play home fixtures at various stadiums around the midlands.
If you discount those years i think you'll find their attendances aren't that different to ours. |
Just checked this out.
They actually played at the Ricoh arena that season and finished 6th.
Lowest home attendance 6k , highest was against Accrington Stanley 28k. | | | |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 20:44 - Dec 3 with 554 views | SalisburySaint |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 18:07 - Dec 3 by PatfromPoole |
Significantly smaller allocations for our 2 away games, as I would expect you to know. |
So what, would have sold 3k easy for Oxford if available
But we are consistently selling out away allocations, most weeks before the game concerned, no different to what Coventry are doing.
More impressive are Ipswich who took over 3,000 to Blackburn last night | | | |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 23:24 - Dec 3 with 405 views | PatfromPoole |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 20:44 - Dec 3 by SalisburySaint |
So what, would have sold 3k easy for Oxford if available
But we are consistently selling out away allocations, most weeks before the game concerned, no different to what Coventry are doing.
More impressive are Ipswich who took over 3,000 to Blackburn last night |
You keep saying so what for some reason 🤷♀️
It will be interesting to see if games sell out so quick when people have stopped bothering about getting sufficient away games in their name for Fratton. | |
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| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 00:13 - Dec 4 with 374 views | Southamptonfan |
I went to Highfield Road, when Saints lost 1 nil in 97 I think. I also remember beating Coventry 3 1 Ronnie Ecklund and Le Tissier wasn't it that day? Bruce Grobellar let in a terrible goal. Only been their new ground once, again I think we lost. Also remember Le Tissier scoring a cracker in a 1 all draw, in the Souness year.
Always remember a huge game against them, a relegation 6 pointer at the Dell, when we were two nil up. Benali gave the ball away to Peter Ndlovu, who made it 2 each. Strachan kept them up a few times before they went down. Their fans packed out the pubs directly outside the Dell that day and they were a very noisy bunch in the ground that day. It was a big game. We then went on to beat Sunderland away at Roker Park I think and we pulled off another great escape.
Go back a little before that, we beat Coventry at the Dell and big Ron Atkinson kicked off at the sky pundits after the game. [Post edited 4 Dec 0:13]
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| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 07:18 - Dec 4 with 268 views | SalisburySaint |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 23:24 - Dec 3 by PatfromPoole |
You keep saying so what for some reason 🤷♀️
It will be interesting to see if games sell out so quick when people have stopped bothering about getting sufficient away games in their name for Fratton. |
It’s a fact
Shame you seem to only see the downside of everything Saints wise | | | |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 07:35 - Dec 4 with 245 views | saintwizzler |
| Cov have sold out the away end already for St. Mary’s game on 07:18 - Dec 4 by SalisburySaint |
It’s a fact
Shame you seem to only see the downside of everything Saints wise |
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