Glyn Rileys Mullet Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 My eldest has just asked the question “how many fans do City have dad?” My guess is that it’s about 40-50k. Rationale being those who class City as their 1st choice. What do you reckon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slacker Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 39,999 to 49,999. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamski Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 No idea, but you can bet the Sags will claim they have at leat twice that number - of which all but 6500 will be locked out of the equation ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 21 minutes ago, Glyn Rileys Mullet said: My eldest has just asked the question “how many fans do City have dad?” My guess is that it’s about 40-50k. Rationale being those who class City as their 1st choice. What do you reckon? Depends on how the team is doing.......and how you describe a fan. True fans or fair weather fans? Do they attend matches on a regular basis? I can remember attendances at AG of around 6k in the early 80s. Now City regulary attract around 20k most games. The redevelopment helps of course and the team is doing pretty well in the last two seasons. These days I’d reckon a core of thrue fans of around 8 - 10k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBFC II Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 I'd say a core of 25k, rising to 50k when Wembley plus big occasion fans are included Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 2.85 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pongo88 Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 When City reach a Wembley final (play offs etc), or are drawn against a good team in the cup, it’s amazing how many there are. When the club has, in the past, fallen on hard times they all seem to disappear, particularly on a cold winter evening at home to Grim Utd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyredredrobin Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 A teams true fans at any one time is the sum of their average gate less the average number of away fans. Any others are not true fans (e.g. those who only turn up to a big game every few years or never attend at all). This means of course that Bristol is now three quarters red with a thin speckling of blue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East End Old Boy Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 163,200 “followers” on Twitter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Septic Peg Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 All this true fan bollocks. Last time I watched a City game live was when the Williams stand was up. I can't go every week for a number of reasons so I'm not a true fan? I've been a City fan since the days of Stockport County or Grimsby Town away. If City were rock bottom of L3, I'd still be a supporter. There's no such thing and I hate that people are labelled as a "true fan" because they have a ST and have done so for 30 odd years or whatever. Get off your high horses. You're the same as me. A fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyredredrobin Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 10 minutes ago, East End Old Boy said: 163,200 “followers” on Twitter! That many gasheads? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natchfever Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 50 minutes ago, Glyn Rileys Mullet said: My eldest has just asked the question “how many fans do City have dad?” My guess is that it’s about 40-50k. Rationale being those who class City as their 1st choice. What do you reckon? You're joking ! Well over 100,000 if pressed about who "they support" would say City. An unhealthy amount might actually confess to be gasheads i'm afraid. Not the same as being even an occasional attendee, but just like the millions of Man U etc types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddogkev Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 We all know City are an internationally supported club, who are easily the biggest club of the SW of England. I'd have a wild estimate of at least 250,000 folks around the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 minute ago, reddogkev said: We all know City are an internationally supported club, who are easily the biggest club of the SW of England. I'd have a wild estimate of at least 250,000 folks around the world. I agree , and that’s just in Australia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddogkev Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 31 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said: A teams true fans at any one time is the sum of their average gate less the average number of away fans. Any others are not true fans (e.g. those who only turn up to a big game every few years or never attend at all). This means of course that Bristol is now three quarters red with a thin speckling of blue. Wow that is such nonsense! Perhaps if tickets were free for each game, this would be a fair marker. Not always being able to afford the extortionate cost of football does not mean someone is not a true fan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddogkev Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 minute ago, BobBobSuperBob said: I agree , and that’s just in Australia I guess we can thank the original Aussie trio of Seal, Agostino and Wilshire for allowing us to build such a large Australian fan base! Also built upon by Bailey Wright, of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 16 minutes ago, reddogkev said: I guess we can thank the original Aussie trio of Seal, Agostino and Wilshire for allowing us to build such a large Australian fan base! Also built upon by Bailey Wright, of course. Yep And don’t forget the Aboroigines. , they know their football I see on Twitter this is latest post by the Marlon Pack Appreciation Society (Torres Strait Branch) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
East End Old Boy Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 39 minutes ago, wendyredredrobin said: That many gasheads? The Gas have 81,300 Twitter followers with, I would assume millions “blocked” outside? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamski Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 30 minutes ago, reddogkev said: Wow that is such nonsense! Perhaps if tickets were free for each game, this would be a fair marker. Not always being able to afford the extortionate cost of football does not mean someone is not a true fan! Very true, pointless discussion in some ways, but fun. I think the only true definition of a supporter is one who claims to support a club. Whether they ever visit the ground to watch a game, or even ever watch a game is irrelevant . How you catagorise or determine ones “fandom” is purely a measure of nerdyness!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Cyril Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Robbored said: Depends on how the team is doing.......and how you describe a fan. True fans or fair weather fans? Do they attend matches on a regular basis? I can remember attendances at AG of around 6k in the early 80s. Now City regulary attract around 20k most games. The redevelopment helps of course and the team is doing pretty well in the last two seasons. These days I’d reckon a core of thrue fans of around 8 - 10k ....and what number in the ranking are you @Robbored? Number 10,001 would be ironic. Sorry you missed out. Cyril. (#28,768) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chivs Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 33 minutes ago, BobBobSuperBob said: Yep And don’t forget the Aboroigines. , they know their football I see on Twitter this is latest post by the Marlon Pack Appreciation Society (Torres Strait Branch) They don't look very strait to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CiderHider Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 We can't be accused of being glory hunters. Fan or supporters though? We have more fans than supporters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, Septic Peg said: All this true fan bollocks. Last time I watched a City game live was when the Williams stand was up. I can't go every week for a number of reasons so I'm not a true fan? I've been a City fan since the days of Stockport County or Grimsby Town away. If City were rock bottom of L3, I'd still be a supporter. There's no such thing and I hate that people are labelled as a "true fan" because they have a ST and have done so for 30 odd years or whatever. Get off your high horses. You're the same as me. A fan. You partimer you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, reddogkev said: I guess we can thank the original Aussie trio of Seal, Agostino and Wilshire for allowing us to build such a large Australian fan base! Also built upon by Bailey Wright, of course. Nick Carle... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 Can't find it now but, sometime back in the nineties (I think), they gave figures for the crowd make up, re: how many went to every match. These are from memory and very roughly. A 15,00 average attendance was made up of 8k that went to every game, 4k that went to every other game, 3K that went every other third game and so on. The conclusion figure of regular attendees for an average 15,000 attendance was 20,000 regular attendees. So a lot of people that some might call part timers. Obviously for bigger games, those that attend less, turn up. When Sextone was CEO, the club counted our fan base at that time. This was when our attendances were much lower and, we had a fan base then of 20.000. Please don't crucify me if you disagree, these are very approximate figures. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBFC II Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 2 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said: Nick Carle... Neil kilkenny... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastonboy Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 3 minutes ago, JBFC II said: Neil kilkenny... Thanks, I'd almost forgot about him - I 'm so glad that you POINTED him out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeneys Penalties Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 How many fans have we got? I don't know, and quite frankly it makes our fanbase look a bit "needy". A bit like How many facebook friends have you got? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenkibby. Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 Exactly. All the years I lived in Devon and played football for the same team for years, I took great pleasure in being the only City fan in the club as opposed to all the so called supporters of the BIG sides. Bit annoying tho when my son got older and doubled our fan base. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid in the Riot Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 I remember the old circular that used to get sent to fans 'Gatepost' had a circulation of 40,000 and that was over 20 years ago. I agree with the poster above who estimated 100k...at least IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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