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Post by Linx on Aug 23, 2014 12:29:24 GMT
In the world? I don't just mean those who go to games, it would include everyone who follows SCFC, or declares them as their team. Impossible to calculate, I suppose, but if you assume that a fair proportion of the population of North Staffs/ South Cheshire, or people who were brought up there over the last 80 years or so, plus foreign fans like the longstanding Scandinavians and more recent Americans. The exiles, the ex-pats, et al.
Is a million sounding like too many?
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Post by agingerstokie on Aug 23, 2014 12:34:35 GMT
If there are a million Stoke City FC fans i will be fucking shocked
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Post by mailman44 on Aug 23, 2014 12:41:24 GMT
I saw about 30 in Reit im Winkl.
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Post by Gods on Aug 23, 2014 12:43:34 GMT
Dunno in the wider sense but it felt to me we were maxing out on the number willing to actually attend games with the 2 Wembley visits in 2011.
The "neutral" areas of Wembley had a distinctly pale blue hue to them which suggested to me were near enough maxed out with our allocation.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 13:17:45 GMT
Probably somewhere around 100k.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 13:27:49 GMT
More Stokies than you think! Trust me  |
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Post by PotterLog on Aug 23, 2014 13:42:13 GMT
Funny, I was just thinking about this yesterday and was going to post something similar. Let's start with the population of Stoke, what percentage, given a survey of what football team you support and no 'none' option, would answer Stoke City? Half?
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Post by Linx on Aug 23, 2014 13:52:46 GMT
Funny, I was just thinking about this yesterday and was going to post something similar. Let's start with the population of Stoke, what percentage, given a survey of what football team you support and no 'none' option, would answer Stoke City? Half? Which would add up to about 130.000. Then there's a significant percentage of people who have answered that criterion who move away from the city into exile. I would reckon that it's at least 10% every year, with students and job relocations. Multiply that trend over the last 80 years (an averge generational lifetime). |
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Post by elystokie on Aug 23, 2014 13:53:11 GMT
Funny, I was just thinking about this yesterday and was going to post something similar. Let's start with the population of Stoke, what percentage, given a survey of what football team you support and no 'none' option, would answer Stoke City? Half? I suppose we'd need to define 'fan' first? Is it someone who looks out for our results first in the hope we've won? Someone who takes a casual interest but has never attended? Is a 'follower' classed as a fan? If the above are included then we've probably got many thousands in the US alone imo. I'm always surprised when I see the number viewing this website, especially in the middle of the night. |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 23, 2014 13:55:56 GMT
Dunno in the wider sense but it felt to me we were maxing out on the number willing to actually attend games with the 2 Wembley visits in 2011. The "neutral" areas of Wembley had a distinctly pale blue hue to them which suggested to me were near enough maxed out with our allocation. With all due respect Gods that nonsense. We had an allocation of 25k for the final? We had nearly 40k for the semi and sold that. It being blue would be down to Man City fans being more willing to pay a ridiculous fee for a ticket in that section! |
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Post by Linx on Aug 23, 2014 13:56:43 GMT
Funny, I was just thinking about this yesterday and was going to post something similar. Let's start with the population of Stoke, what percentage, given a survey of what football team you support and no 'none' option, would answer Stoke City? Half? I suppose we'd need to define 'fan' first? Is it someone who looks out for our results first in the hope we've won? Someone who takes a casual interest but has never attended? Is a 'follower' classed as a fan? If the above are included then we've probably got many thousands in the US alone imo. I'm always surprised when I see the number viewing this website, especially in the middle of the night. My original idea was along those lines, ely. It's people who, if asked, would declare Stoke as the team they follow, support or watch, regardless of how tenuously. |
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Post by pinoypotter on Aug 23, 2014 14:15:36 GMT
A couple of years ago someone put together a world map of Stokies ,(or at least members of Oatcake message board)each person 'pinned' themselves to it.
Don't know if that still exists on here somewhere, anyone know where I'd find it?
Not as though that will answer your question mind!
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Post by pyrus on Aug 23, 2014 14:27:56 GMT
Round here there's me and my son and a bloke up the way who I've seen riding by on his bike wearing a Broxap era home shirt. So that's three for sure.
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Post by Staying up for Grandadstokey on Aug 23, 2014 14:28:53 GMT
52,387.
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Post by torquaypotter on Aug 23, 2014 14:36:54 GMT
Round here there's me and my son and a bloke up the way who I've seen riding by on his bike wearing a Broxap era home shirt. So that's three for sure. There are 7 in torquay/ Exeter/ newton abbot 1 in paris / so that's 8 more its getting better every minute lol  |
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Post by pyrus on Aug 23, 2014 14:56:14 GMT
Round here there's me and my son and a bloke up the way who I've seen riding by on his bike wearing a Broxap era home shirt. So that's three for sure. There are 7 in torquay/ Exeter/ newton abbot 1 in paris / so that's 8 more its getting better every minute lol My brother lives down that way, in Ashburton. He's a Stoke fan, so that's another. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 15:00:37 GMT
3 gazillion and 14
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Post by Staying up for Grandadstokey on Aug 23, 2014 15:04:07 GMT
There are 7 in torquay/ Exeter/ newton abbot 1 in paris / so that's 8 more its getting better every minute lol My brother lives down that way, in Ashburton. He's a Stoke fan, so that's another. Sorry forgot all about him 52,388. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2014 15:06:53 GMT
Round here there's me and my son and a bloke up the way who I've seen riding by on his bike wearing a Broxap era home shirt. So that's three for sure. In some remote Canadian village? I'd mow the bastard down just so I could chat football with him. |
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Post by capto on Aug 23, 2014 15:33:31 GMT
in the wider sense, we will have a lot of fans / followers - couch spuds around the world need to have a 'team' when they watch a game; so when they watch American footy it'll be one, one for aussie rules, one for Scottish / french / german / Spanish etc & one for the prem - we will be in the low nbrs, but there will be a lot (altho' we won't maybe be there first choice sports team) - but would be interesting to spot the stokie in the most remotest unlikeliest place?
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Post by stokefaninde on Aug 23, 2014 19:46:24 GMT
550 followers and growing on the the USA fan Facebook page. wonder what the overseas sales looks like from the official shop.
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Post by Miles Offside on Aug 23, 2014 20:11:24 GMT
Funny, I was just thinking about this yesterday and was going to post something similar. Let's start with the population of Stoke, what percentage, given a survey of what football team you support and no 'none' option, would answer Stoke City? Half? I suppose we'd need to define 'fan' first? If by "fans" we mean people who actively go to Stoke games (even if it's only a couple of times per season, or turn out for the big Cup games) then we've probably got in the region of 40,000. If we include people who haven't been for years but still look out for Stoke's results and want us to win, and people (mainly locals and ex pats) who don't go but want Stoke to do well, then it's probably a quarter of a million plus. When the Stoke bus paraded through the Potteries with the League Cup in 1972 it was estimated that between 250K and 500K turned out along the route. |
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Post by pyrus on Aug 24, 2014 0:22:36 GMT
Round here there's me and my son and a bloke up the way who I've seen riding by on his bike wearing a Broxap era home shirt. So that's three for sure. In some remote Canadian village? I'd mow the bastard down just so I could chat football with him. I do need to update my status. I'm back in the uk. But back then I did try my best. I have to say the Inuit for 'He scores goals Odemwingie and we swapped him for a useless cunt' translates as 'i'll trade you a seagull in return for a fuck with a menopausal Eskimo'
To clarify, the bloke with the Broxap shirt lives near Upton Upon Severn in Worcestershire. Although I am about to be sent to Chechnya in September, not quite the Canadian wilderness and solitude that I enjoyed back then. |
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Post by whereami on Aug 24, 2014 1:47:54 GMT
I suppose we'd need to define 'fan' first? If by "fans" we mean people who actively go to Stoke games (even if it's only a couple of times per season, or turn out for the big Cup games) then we've probably got in the region of 40,000. See I'd say its more than that - if a lot of casual fans who could go to every game were the ones that made up for the leap in season tickets from championship to premier league, theres gonna be a few times that for people who cant afford every game, who work weekends too often to make it more often, whos "stoke going" friends dont/cant go any more so they'd be sitting on their own and would prefer to watch it in the pub etc.. I'd say the amount of people who got themselves registered so they could go to a game would be 6 figures, easily. Thats not even thinking of the likes of Belorussian people say, who picked Stoke for "their" English team based on a player they liked/knew playing for us. Or the people who bought into the whole "wet windy Wednesday up the Britannia" thing and have an affinity for the subborn bastard underdogs. I doubt a quarter million would be too much of an exaggeration, if at all/ I lived in a sleepy little port in Spain a few years back when a few of us moved out there for work, and the local sports bar quickly became a Stoke bar because of it. nothing better than a bunch of Chelsea fans walking in at ten to 3 asking what game was on, expecting it to be them, and being told "ooh its Stoke vs Portsmouth"  . Even from the surrounding 2 or 3 miles of sleepy Spanish countryside towns a few ex pats somehow knew and started turning up for every game. Fucking appreciated being thrown a pack of oatcakes after a visit home too You've got to remember - Stokies here, Stokies there... |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 24, 2014 1:53:40 GMT
In some remote Canadian village? I'd mow the bastard down just so I could chat football with him. I do need to update my status. I'm back in the uk. But back then I did try my best. I have to say the Inuit for 'He scores goals Odemwingie and we swapped him for a useless cunt' translates as 'i'll trade you a seagull in return for a fuck with a menopausal Eskimo'
To clarify, the bloke with the Broxap shirt lives near Upton Upon Severn in Worcestershire. Although I am about to be sent to Chechnya in September, not quite the Canadian wilderness and solitude that I enjoyed back then. Nice part of the world! What the bloody hell do you do? |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 24, 2014 1:58:02 GMT
218,000 followers on Twatter.
319,000 likes on Facebook.
Some indication? I have no idea!
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Post by Sweeper on Aug 24, 2014 2:39:00 GMT
218,000 followers on Twatter. 319,000 likes on Facebook. Some indication? I have no idea! Yes, the 319,000 on Facebook would seem to be the floor to this answer, and you would assume there's a good portion of fans who haven't liked the Facebook page or don't have Facebook (older generation). I would venture at least 400,000. |
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Post by decs on Aug 24, 2014 4:25:39 GMT
Now seen 3 Chinese fellas in Stoke shirts over the last year in Hong Kong. All wearing different away shirts from the past few years. I think the theory about people overseas adopting premier league teams is probably correct, although most still follow top 6 teams.
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Post by kernowstokie1 on Aug 24, 2014 7:57:14 GMT
Four of us in Bude.. and a guy about 15 miles away who is a season ticket holder. He and 3 more en route travel up every game Respect due to them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2014 8:03:43 GMT
Now seen 3 Chinese fellas in Stoke shirts over the last year in Hong Kong. All wearing different away shirts from the past few years. I think the theory about people overseas adopting premier league teams is probably correct, although most still follow top 6 teams. That's the cunt who stole my luggage from HK Airport, must have given his mates my shirts....Next time you see him, ask him if I can have my camera back... |
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. Even from the surrounding 2 or 3 miles of sleepy Spanish countryside towns a few ex pats somehow knew and started turning up for every game. Fucking appreciated being thrown a pack of oatcakes after a visit home too 
