| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? 11:25 - Apr 25 with 1979 views | unstableblue |
Clearly we lost fans through the Marcus era as a continuation of the demise from the premier league
Our fan base was in a healthy position early 2000s with average home attendances having risen through the previous decade.
The hardcore base and the wider ‘occasional blue’ base had a huge injection in the Burley/Sheesphanks era, building on those who had witnessed the Robson glory days
Portman Road was developed
But for me it’s a concern where the fan base is now at
TWTD is a compete bubble, but I’m noting even on here people are opting not to pay for iFollow or ‘go and do something less boring instead’ on Saturday afternoons
And my wider blues friends and contacts seem to just be completely disconnecting with the club, yes some interest in the takeover, but only passing. Seeing Ipswich as a basket case not worthy of attention
Mick took us down to 16k average around 2016 with the anti football (please look on the Cardiff forums if you continue to live in a la la land with regard micks brand), even with the dire sideways passing of Lambert in 19/20 we got 19.5k average... but god knows where we’d be this season? Back to 16k, less?
Unstable junior and his mates, encouraged by rabid dads, would perhaps return just for the crack of the north stand lower. But they just see us as an embarrassment, a comical thing to be derided... 10hrs without a goal.... counting down to 71mins... never watching iFollow
Come September and the hopes for funded Cook squad and Cooks brand - can we attract fans back? I know many who haven’t returned after mick, even for the early success of league one
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| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 11:47 - Apr 25 with 1909 views | LancsBlue |
The club need to recognise this and I think the new owners and CEO are very much in favour of improving the matchday experience and liaising with the local community. The ticket pricing needs to be right and perhaps creative. In the end though it will all depend on what happens on the pitch. New signings and a good start to the season wil be the biggest boost. It's no good offering £1 tickets and then boring fans to death as has happened previously - you've got to make them want to come back! |  |
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| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 11:52 - Apr 25 with 1873 views | longtimefan |
| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 11:47 - Apr 25 by LancsBlue |
The club need to recognise this and I think the new owners and CEO are very much in favour of improving the matchday experience and liaising with the local community. The ticket pricing needs to be right and perhaps creative. In the end though it will all depend on what happens on the pitch. New signings and a good start to the season wil be the biggest boost. It's no good offering £1 tickets and then boring fans to death as has happened previously - you've got to make them want to come back! |
If you have a team winning matches and playing decent football, and especially as you go up the pyramid, you’ll get the fans turn up. Look where the attendances were in the mid 90s before Burley turned up and even his first couple of seasons, it was around the 12K level. Same in the late 80s under Duncan and Ferguson’s last season.
Edit: Should have been reply to OP not LancsBlue [Post edited 25 Apr 2021 12:36]
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| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 12:00 - Apr 25 with 1838 views | trncbluearmy |
top of this league, good team playing attractive football 20k plus
chasing promotion to prem 25k plus
in the prem only limited by size of ground
add in some yank razzamtazz for those who like that sort of thing then ITFC will be really Cooking |  | | |
| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 12:36 - Apr 25 with 1768 views | Fixed_It |
I was one of the few at Northampton midweek, and there were a few exiled Town fans there - a few just passing because they used to follow Town. The interest is still there in my opinion - just lying dormant. A bit of success on the pitch is what is needed to draw people back. |  |
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| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 13:28 - Apr 25 with 1634 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
It is difficult to assess fan base as opposed to attendance. Attendances will always be down when the club is playing at a lower level, playing unattractive football and not winning. If we were to get back to the Premier League playing attractive football we would be selling out PR again.
There will be a generation of potential fans that is thin on numbers. Those who could have got into following Town over the past decade or so but have not had the encouragement of seeing something to attract them. However, there is also the tribal we are from Suffolk and my parents support the Town that cannot be underestimated. My son has seen nothing to encourage supporting this club but his commitment to them is as strong as mine ever has been. For their sake, those are the fans who most deserve this new regime to succeed. |  |
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| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 14:46 - Apr 25 with 1546 views | unstableblue |
| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 11:47 - Apr 25 by LancsBlue |
The club need to recognise this and I think the new owners and CEO are very much in favour of improving the matchday experience and liaising with the local community. The ticket pricing needs to be right and perhaps creative. In the end though it will all depend on what happens on the pitch. New signings and a good start to the season wil be the biggest boost. It's no good offering £1 tickets and then boring fans to death as has happened previously - you've got to make them want to come back! |
That ticket offer point is such a critical factor in our recent history, and perhaps a reason to think we have damaged the fan base
Just how many times over the last five seasons, especially tail end of championship did we put on a ticket offer, attract back a few thousand lapsed blues and put on a display of woeful entertainment
I remember a home ticket promotion game under Mick... we got lots of people along, 8, 10ish, we had such a buzz on the practice pitch... the football over the following 90mins was soul destroying
None of those extras have been back!! | |
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| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 16:07 - Apr 25 with 1424 views | Harry_Palmer |
| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 12:00 - Apr 25 by trncbluearmy |
top of this league, good team playing attractive football 20k plus
chasing promotion to prem 25k plus
in the prem only limited by size of ground
add in some yank razzamtazz for those who like that sort of thing then ITFC will be really Cooking |
Agree with those numbers. As a fan base we have been absolutely starved of any sort of success or decent football for a LONG time. Add to that the general lack of live football for everybody during the pandemic and I think the appetite is definitely there.
All we need is a half decent team on the pitch that is entertaining and genuinely challenging and the place will be 3/4 full and rocking. |  | | |
| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 16:16 - Apr 25 with 1401 views | Enigma_Blue |
What you failed to realise is that the ave attendance went up under MM from just over 16k when he first came in to just below 19k after his first 3 & half years due to the relative success he was achieving. The ave attendance went down to 16k in his last couple of seasons, so you could argue we only lost the fans who had decided to jump on the bandwagon of his early success.
As for his football style, it may not have been pretty at times but I would take it over the largely insipid football we have played subsequently under Hurst, Lambert & currently Cook any day of the week. At least we scored a decent number of goals under MM. [Post edited 25 Apr 2021 16:20]
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| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 17:34 - Apr 25 with 1249 views | gainsboroughblue |
The amount of Norwich fans I see popping up in places like Stow and BSE are boiling my p1ss.
Tendring used to be blue as well but probably nowhere near like it was. |  |
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| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 17:53 - Apr 25 with 1166 views | HighgateBlue |
| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 11:52 - Apr 25 by longtimefan |
If you have a team winning matches and playing decent football, and especially as you go up the pyramid, you’ll get the fans turn up. Look where the attendances were in the mid 90s before Burley turned up and even his first couple of seasons, it was around the 12K level. Same in the late 80s under Duncan and Ferguson’s last season.
Edit: Should have been reply to OP not LancsBlue [Post edited 25 Apr 2021 12:36]
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You're completely right. If one examines the facts, including by going back 30 years rather than just 10, one quickly finds that we've had much bigger lows in attendance numbers than were allegedly caused by Mick (and as has been pointed out, MM actually increased attendance from when he arrived, but some people just want to hate him for the sake of it...) |  | | |
| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 18:18 - Apr 25 with 1111 views | benrhyddingblue |
| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 13:28 - Apr 25 by Nthsuffolkblue |
It is difficult to assess fan base as opposed to attendance. Attendances will always be down when the club is playing at a lower level, playing unattractive football and not winning. If we were to get back to the Premier League playing attractive football we would be selling out PR again.
There will be a generation of potential fans that is thin on numbers. Those who could have got into following Town over the past decade or so but have not had the encouragement of seeing something to attract them. However, there is also the tribal we are from Suffolk and my parents support the Town that cannot be underestimated. My son has seen nothing to encourage supporting this club but his commitment to them is as strong as mine ever has been. For their sake, those are the fans who most deserve this new regime to succeed. |
“My son has seen nothing to encourage supporting this club but his commitment to them is as strong as mine ever has been.”
Same with both my sons (10 and 14) and we live in Yorkshire - I’ve lost count of the times in the last few years that i have apologised to them for encouraging them to be Ipswich fans.
But soon as we’re able to go to games we’ll be back to as many as we can (usually about 15 a season). | | | |
| Thoughts on Town fan base exodus?? on 20:02 - Apr 25 with 971 views | Bluespeed225 |
And were the soft filling in a Norwich /West Ham sandwich, whereas they used to be our side dishes. Although Sham have shown their ‘vocal/12th man/passionate’ supporters do nothing for them on this seasons showing! However, from Capel downward now would all claim to be related to the Krays. | | | |
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