NormOwl Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Seen several threads previously questioning if we could manage a 30000 average in the premiership, looking at the paper today some of the attendances from 23 years ago were Everton v pigs - 18,285 Leeds v Chelsea - 31,263 QPR v Spurs - 20,678 West Ham v Norwich - 16,895 Us v Man City - 32,138 We'd smash 30k easy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattitheowl Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Seen several threads previously questioning if we could manage a 30000 average in the premiership, looking at the paper today some of the attendances from 23 years ago were Everton v pigs - 18,285 Leeds v Chelsea - 31,263 QPR v Spurs - 20,678 West Ham v Norwich - 16,895 Us v Man City - 32,138 We'd smash 30k easy! What were the AVERAGES? Not just for one game. Just not bothered... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain Owl Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Its not just that we would attract a lot of our own fans back out of the woodwork but if we were the only premiership club for miles around it would attract your average footy fan who might want to see some of the best players in the world perform in a local stadium. My guess is that for most games we would pull well in excess of 30k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormOwl Posted April 12, 2015 Author Share Posted April 12, 2015 Its not just that we would attract a lot of our own fans back out of the woodwork but if we were the only premiership club for miles around it would attract your average footy fan who might want to see some of the best players in the world perform in a local stadium. My guess is that for most games we would pull well in excess of 30k. It's a good point re average other fans, a lot of none attending Liverpool, Man Utd fans throughout south yorks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 No chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Kagoshimaowl Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 What a load of tripe. When we were a Premier League club our average attendance was not that good. I am no statto but I remember going to the ground around half full during the late 90's. My guess is that our Premier League average would be about 24,000. Not bad but nowt to shout home about. Many of our fans are part time glory hunters, lets not kid ourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiJ Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 I reckon we'd get around the 30k mark in our first season back, heck we may get a bit more (34k?). But, if we were to stagnate in that division (quite likely), then I'd see us dropping to an average of the mid to high 20s. Most teams in the Prem are just there to make up the numbers and we, unless Chansiri is planning on going mental with his spending, would probably end up doing something similar. First thing to do it to actually have a team capable of finishing in the top 6 of the Championship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIG D Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 24000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clud17 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 City are always well supported away, even back then so it's no surprise it was a larger crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ash76 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Attendances on the whole are higher since then, lowest attendance of the season would be about 25k with an average of over 30k and at least 5 sell outs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asteener1867 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Chelsea in the top league in the 90's..averaged 19'000 at times...its 40 odd thousand now Southampton in the 90's averaged 15000..its doubled now Everton....20000...its 37'000 now... footballs changed....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nethertonowl Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 The game may have changed I agree, shame, too many of our fans haven't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james o connor Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Chelsea in the top league in the 90's..averaged 19'000 at times...its 40 odd thousand now Southampton in the 90's averaged 15000..its doubled now Everton....20000...its 37'000 now... footballs changed....... Chelsea was an unfashionable dump and the dell only held 15k. Mid to late 90s we would sell out for Man U Liverpool 30 odd for Newcastle arsenal and as low as 16 for cov Wimbledon etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrickyTrev Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 (edited) Considering the last time we were promoted to the top flight we were the 4th best supported side in the country the following year, I'd expect us to average around 35k. Edited April 12, 2015 by TrickyTrev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asteener1867 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 (edited) Chelsea was an unfashionable dump and the dell only held 15k. Mid to late 90s we would sell out for Man U Liverpool 30 odd for Newcastle arsenal and as low as 16 for cov Wimbledon etc Ok then.. Stoke Spurs West Ham West Brom ................................ http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/englandcontent.htm Edited April 12, 2015 by asteener1867 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latemodelchild Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 We would average over 33k minimum in our first season back. Probably over 35k if syp allow us to set our ground up properly. Football has changed. United averaged over 30k, we would too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulsar Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Considering the last time we were promoted to the top flight we were the 4th best supported side in the country the following year, I'd expect us to average around 35k. This^^ I don't understand how some fellow Owls don't get that our crowds would be impressive. The last time we were in the Prem with the pigs our average was a few thousand higher than theirs. Considering they averaged 30,000 there in 2006 it's a no brainer that we would average around 35,000 We have historically been the bigger club with the ability to pull in massive crowds when it mattered. Sure, we have had low crowds in the past as have all teams. I remember Everton pulling in only 13,000 against Coventry in the early to mid 80's and Newcastle around 14,000 against us on the Tuesday night i went up there when they beat us 1-0 with a wind assisted Kevin Brock goal. The following Sunday John Sheridan performed his 'Dink' for us at Wembley. The fact is where us and the Blunts are concerned, however low we've been, they've been lower, however high they've been, we've been higher, and that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is a statistical fact! UTO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OasisOwl72 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 What a load of tripe. When we were a Premier League club our average attendance was not that good. I am no statto but I remember going to the ground around half full during the late 90's. My guess is that our Premier League average would be about 24,000. Not bad but nowt to shout home about. Many of our fans are part time glory hunters, lets not kid ourselves. So you think a Sheffield Wednesday side currently 13th in the Championship would only attract just over 2,000 more fans playing in the Worlds biggest league?? Really?. SYP permitting with current capacity I am wiling to bet anyone we would average 34k minimum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OasisOwl72 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 This^^ I don't understand how some fellow Owls don't get that our crowds would be impressive. The last time we were in the Prem with the pigs our average was a few thousand higher than theirs. Considering they averaged 30,000 there in 2006 it's a no brainer that we would average around 35,000 We have historically been the bigger club with the ability to pull in massive crowds when it mattered. Sure, we have had low crowds in the past as have all teams. I remember Everton pulling in only 13,000 against Coventry in the early to mid 80's and Newcastle around 14,000 against us on the Tuesday night i went up there when they beat us 1-0 with a wind assisted Kevin Brock goal. The following Sunday John Sheridan performed his 'Dink' for us at Wembley. The fact is where us and the Blunts are concerned, however low we've been, they've been lower, however high they've been, we've been higher, and that, Ladies and Gentlemen, is a statistical fact! UTO! Spot on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeteG_1984 Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 If the pigs averaged 30k we would easily do so in our first season back. Premiership teams seem to get more tourist fans these days Then as we got more mediocre, attendances might dwindle (as they did in the 90's). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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