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Post by Pugsley on Aug 31, 2014 16:22:44 GMT
Plucky Stoke 4000 less. It needs sorting.
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Post by lordb on Aug 31, 2014 16:23:17 GMT
Yes
Stoke losing out on revenue.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 31, 2014 16:23:21 GMT
Leicester are a bigger club with a bigger fanbase than us?
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Post by Pugsley on Aug 31, 2014 16:24:46 GMT
Leicester are a bigger club with a bigger fanbase than us? I would class them similar size to us. Only laziness is stopping us expanding.
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Aug 31, 2014 16:25:13 GMT
Leicester bigger than us?! Are they fuck!
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Post by sportsman on Aug 31, 2014 16:26:31 GMT
Have Leicester had 31k sellouts for the last 3 years?
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Post by coates on Aug 31, 2014 16:27:46 GMT
We look a small club when we only have a 27k capacity.
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Post by Pugsley on Aug 31, 2014 16:28:15 GMT
Have Leicester had 31k sellouts for the last 3 years? What's your point?
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Post by boskampsflaps on Aug 31, 2014 16:29:00 GMT
We look a small club when we only have a 27k capacity. Will look even smaller when we don't fill it.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 31, 2014 16:29:20 GMT
Leicester are a bigger club with a bigger fanbase than us? I would class them similar size to us. Only laziness is stopping us expanding. We are similar but they edge it. Don't think we'd sell 31,000 out against the big boys tbh unless it was full of away fans.
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Post by coates on Aug 31, 2014 16:30:11 GMT
We look a small club when we only have a 27k capacity. Will look even smaller when we don't fill it. We maybe wouldn't.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 16:31:03 GMT
lets see how many they get v hull on a wet weds night before we start moaning? ffs the club have done most things right in the last 6 seasons. i am pretty sure they have done their research if they were confident of selling out for the majority of the season then i am pretty sure they would fill in at least one corner. however you only have to look at the attendance last wednesday to see why they arent prepared to expand the stadium
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Post by Gods on Aug 31, 2014 16:31:07 GMT
Leicester averaged 25k in the Championship last season didn't they?
So I don't suppose we should too surprised they get 31k when it is Arsenal in town rather than say Rotherham.
One club city a similar size to Stoke and in fairness a fair bit of dosh washing round that corner of the South East Midlands to pay the Prem prices.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 31, 2014 16:38:33 GMT
Leicester averaged 25k in the Championship last season didn't they? So I don't suppose we should too surprised they get 31k when it is Arsenal in town rather than say Rotherham. One club city a similar size to Stoke and in fairness a fair bit of dosh washing round that corner of the South East Midlands to pay the Prem prices. Leicester has double the population of Stoke-on-Trent! Probably very similar if you take in the whole reach of Stoke City though but have no idea how wide their reach is...
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Post by sportsman on Aug 31, 2014 16:41:04 GMT
Have Leicester had 31k sellouts for the last 3 years? What's your point? Point is, we are told we won't increase ours until we know we can fill them. When the going is good teams fill them. If Leicester held 35k would they have filled them today? Possibly If stoke had 30k capacity would we sell out? Possibly. So just do it.
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Post by mattythestokie on Aug 31, 2014 16:42:55 GMT
Leicester averaged 25k in the Championship last season didn't they? So I don't suppose we should too surprised they get 31k when it is Arsenal in town rather than say Rotherham. One club city a similar size to Stoke and in fairness a fair bit of dosh washing round that corner of the South East Midlands to pay the Prem prices. 25k compared to out 13/14k when we were in the Championship.
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Post by kidcrewbob on Aug 31, 2014 16:46:36 GMT
A right Leicester love- in going on on Sky as well - even a special programme on tonight about the fall and rise of Leicester City...
Did they not build their stadium and promptly dissolved the club owing pretty much the cost of said stadium ie funded by tax payers and other creditors
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Post by boskampsflaps on Aug 31, 2014 16:47:07 GMT
Point is, we are told we won't increase ours until we know we can fill them. When the going is good teams fill them. If Leicester held 35k would they have filled them today? Possibly If stoke had 30k capacity would we sell out? Possibly. So just do it. Great bit of research you did there
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 16:49:13 GMT
Bigger fanbase,comfortably.
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Post by desman2 on Aug 31, 2014 16:52:05 GMT
I would class them similar size to us. Only laziness is stopping us expanding. We are similar but they edge it. Don't think we'd sell 31,000 out against the big boys tbh unless it was full of away fans. We are a two team city.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 16:52:06 GMT
I don't see how another 4000 empty seats at Stoke make us look better.
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Post by kev1060 on Aug 31, 2014 16:54:16 GMT
Leicester £31K. Stoke £27K, Port Vale £4K..
Looks like we have about the same number of loyal fans in each City to me!
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Post by miggo on Aug 31, 2014 16:55:03 GMT
We sold out our category A games in our first season too, go get the season review out of last year plenty of empty seats all over the stadium in every one of the top 6 teams.
No need to expand when you'd have too reduce prices to fill the stadium.
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Post by sportsman on Aug 31, 2014 16:56:52 GMT
Not rocket science is it? There's nothing scientific about how big a ground a club builds.
mk dons filled theirs the other night. If they were in the prem would they sell out 30k. Bet they would.
a club is as big as it wants to be.
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Post by Gods on Aug 31, 2014 16:58:16 GMT
Leicester averaged 25k in the Championship last season didn't they? So I don't suppose we should too surprised they get 31k when it is Arsenal in town rather than say Rotherham. One club city a similar size to Stoke and in fairness a fair bit of dosh washing round that corner of the South East Midlands to pay the Prem prices. Leicester has double the population of Stoke-on-Trent! Probably very similar if you take in the whole reach of Stoke City though but have no idea how wide their reach is... According to wiki Stoke "built up area" 372,000 and Leicester "built up area" 508,000. Factor that in along with the fact that we have 2 league clubs and you can pretty quickly see a greater proportion of the citizens of Stoke attend football games than those of Leicester do.
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Post by alansuddick on Aug 31, 2014 16:58:21 GMT
We look a small club when we only have a 27k capacity. Will look even smaller when we don't fill it. It didnt seem to matter when we first went in the stadium and there was between 10 and fifteen thousand empty seats everyweek.get another corner filled in , then when we play manu, city, chelsea both scousers etc give them the whole away end.
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Post by mrcoke on Aug 31, 2014 17:01:35 GMT
Leicester has seen the highest growth in population in 10 years after London, Manchester and Milton Keynes. Between 2001 and 2011, the number of people went up by 47,100 (almost 17%), from 282,800 to 329,900, according to the latest 2011 Census figures. Leicester has excellent communication links and can draw on a large area. Unlike Stoke there are no other nearby Premiership clubs, whereas at Stoke once you get out of the immediate area you are in the drawing area of Premiership clubs and other clubs that have large traditional followings.
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Post by sifta on Aug 31, 2014 17:02:41 GMT
Don't understand this??
Population of Stoke = 370K Population of Leicester = 510K
No Of clubs in Leicester = 1 No Of clubs in Stoke = 2
Average Attendance of Stoke A last year = 26.5K Average attendance of Stoke B last year = 6.5K Average attendance of Leicester last year = 31.5K
Why should we be getting bigger attendances than Leicester??
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Post by bayernoatcake on Aug 31, 2014 17:02:52 GMT
Leicester has double the population of Stoke-on-Trent! Probably very similar if you take in the whole reach of Stoke City though but have no idea how wide their reach is... According to wiki Stoke "built up area" 372,000 and Leicester "built up area" 508,000. Factor that in along with the fact that we have 2 league clubs and you can pretty quickly see a greater proportion of the citizens of Stoke attend football games than those of Leicester do. Indeed but they're still the bigger club imo. Always have been in my lifetime anyway. In an all time top flight would you put Stoke in it? I wouldn't.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2014 17:03:13 GMT
Leicester averaged 25k in the Championship last season didn't they? So I don't suppose we should too surprised they get 31k when it is Arsenal in town rather than say Rotherham. One club city a similar size to Stoke and in fairness a fair bit of dosh washing round that corner of the South East Midlands to pay the Prem prices. Leicester has double the population of Stoke-on-Trent! Probably very similar if you take in the whole reach of Stoke City though but have no idea how wide their reach is... The ground is also far easier to access, it's inner city. And next to 2 uni's, it's no surprise that Leicester sells out. It was a 10 minute walk from our uni halls and there were a lot of student deals as well (fiver a ticket etc)
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