Chelmsfords Crowds

[Guildford Blue]

Ah, its a shame to see City's crowds falling, all that support they kept telling us about and how 3,000 wasn't going to be enough. Must be the tremendous access roads, keeping the hoards at bay.

 

Still Lee Williams still manages to find his way into the team, things must be bad!

[Balmoral Claret]

Yes the crowds are falling alright, but they've still got a hell of a way to go before they reach 500 (nibble, nibble)

[Keith.P]

Don't worry Balmoral, I think we have all seen a certain quote about how "some Ryman clubs think 500 is a good gate" etc. Heres hoping you will never fall into that category.

[Balmoral Claret]

Yes, I think that was rather cheeky of Sean to make that statement, especially as it wasn't too long ago when we were "enjoying" crowds of only 3/400. I like to think that the MP crowds will hold up, and depending on results, would hope that we can attract a hard core of around 1,000. Still early days however, so it will be interesting to see what happens once the novelty wears off and we've banned the minority of schoolkids that are currently causing concern at MP.

[smallsy]

its been a few weeks now and chelmo had 1500 again saturday! looking good. i think the good times will be back in the not too distant future?

 

how will billericay cope without chelmsfords rent money???

[GazzaBTFC]

We'll "ramble" along quite nicely thank you

[Ryan.c]

I have heard that the milkman is owed two weeks money. The beginning of the end?

[Dillinger]

1,458 terrible crowd eh , concern yourself with your own club , you bitter MUG <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/afro.gif" alt="" />

[Ryan.c]

50% drop in attendance since Jan 2nd. That's a whopping 50% drop in just three weeks. Got to be concerned?

[GazzaBTFC]

A bitter mug....would this be the same as a pint glass?

[Balmoral Claret]

"50% drop in attendance since Jan 2nd. That's a whopping 50% drop in just three weeks. Got to be concerned?"

 

Yes, but when you consider that the attendance on January 2nd was a 750% increase on our previous "home" gate, it brings it a little more into perspective.

[smallsy]

i personally hope billericay pick up and push for promotion as i have been going over as often as possible the last two years.

 

have been to melbourne once where they had 1200 people for an essex senior cup match versus grays....not bad at all.

 

heybridge and braintree doing well so football in the area on the up for sure.

 

shame about maldon <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

[Ryan.c]

Quote:

Balmoral Claret said:
"50% drop in attendance since Jan 2nd. That's a whopping 50% drop in just three weeks. Got to be concerned?"

Yes, but when you consider that the attendance on January 2nd was a 750% increase on our previous "home" gate, it brings it a little more into perspective.

Lets put it this way.
There are 2.7 million people in the Diocese of Chelmsford
Last Saturday you got 1,458 thru the turnstiles.
That represents 0.054% of people in your diocese bothered to turn-up. I'll leave you to come to your own conclusions!

[Iron Bru]

well said Burnham.

Its good to see many Essex sides doing well this season, from Colchester & Southend down to us non league side, we must be doing something right

[Balmoral Claret]

"There are 2.7 million people in the Diocese of Chelmsford

Last Saturday you got 1,458 thru the turnstiles.

That represents 0.054% of people in your diocese bothered to turn-up."

 

2.7 million ? Where do you get that number from Ryan - I've told you 7 million times not to exaggerate!

Besides, your numbers are flawed anyway - even if your population figure were correct, the attendance was actually 1,485 (what we accountants would call an erroneous transposition on your part), and therefore it was a massive 0.055% that "bothered to turn up"

[Ryan.c]

http://www.chelmsford.anglican.org/

[smallsy]

ryan i detect you are bitter. i think in the last few weeks there has been a shift in the powers. as far as i was concerned billericay were a bigger and better club. unfortunately for you guys chelmsford have stepped it up and i dont think it will be long before they get bigger and better players and overtake you in the league and probably progress. perhaps ricay missed the boat last year which is a real shame. i really like ricay so hope they continue to push for promotion but i must say they are not reaching expectations at present.

[Balmoral Claret]

Thanks for that link Ryan - one lives and learns.

But we must be realistic about this - the diocese includes Billericay for instance, so that's the number available for City games whittled down to 2,699,500 already. And it's only fair to assume that 2,550,000 of the remainder live closer to football clubs other than Chelmsford, so the true percentage turnout is around 1% of the total available - still not ideal I agree, but better than nothing I suppose.

[Ryan.c]

Yes BC, Billericay has a population of just 500. That however gives us a near 100% backing from the good people of our fair town. NOW IS THAT IMPRESSIVE OR WHAT? It would be 100% but 'HT Rob' just can't be bothered anymore!

[Balmoral Claret]

Wasn't inferring that Billericay has a population of 500 Ryan - just that your hard core support would not watch the Clarets. I am assuming that the rest of the Billericay population would prefer MP to New Lodge (probably due to their athletic tendencies).