[Football] Bournemouth capacity

Simster · Monday at 3:51 PM

Austrian Gull said:
I wouldn't be particularly hopeful for their catchment area. Salisbury is to me Southampton and I would imagine Ringwood is similar. Not too sure people from Yeovil or Dorchester will become Bournemouth fans either - even in the local conurbation quite a lot of people support Poole.

We at least could hark back to the 60s/70s where we showed the potential we had in terms of big crowds. Bournemouth have never demonstrated that or travelled in numbers either.

"we showed the potential we had in terms of big crowds". Hmmm. There are no more than about 6 instances of Goldstone 30,000 crowds that anyone on this board can talk about being part of.

One of those matches was against Bournemouth - and there were well over 20,000 at Dean Court for the return fixture that season. I suspect they've travelled in big numbers a few times too. But I'm not suggesting they have the same numbers as we do - they are more like Reading than us (4-5,000 in the 80s and 90s), but then Reading are now getting 15,000 in division 3. That's how things happen. Ringwood and Salisbury could very easily move from Southampton to a mix of Bournemouth and Southampton after 20 years being well run and finally being in a decent stadium.

RandyWanger · Monday at 3:52 PM

30,000 of us paying Barbs wages...

Simster · Monday at 3:52 PM

Tom Hark Preston Park said:
Fair enough. Not seen the slightest bit of insight in your post tho

Equally, you seem to wilfully ignore the £200m debt that needs repaying. Anything to paint Bloom as someone who was given a "tap in" after Dick Knight I guess. :shrug:

Peacehaven Wild Kids · Monday at 3:53 PM

Simster said:
Because:
a) television money dwarfs all other income streams, and we're broadly at parity there.

This, end of.
Gate money is arse wipe material.

Tom Hark Preston Park · Monday at 3:59 PM

Simster said:
Equally, you seem to wilfully ignore the £200m debt that needs repaying. Anything to paint Bloom as someone who was given a "tap in" after Dick Knight I guess.

As I keep saying, and you keep ignoring, Bloom seems fairly relaxed about the debt. He just builds infrastructure instead. Fair play to the guy. Place will look like a mini-Wembley Way ten years from now :lol:

Simster · Monday at 4:23 PM

Tom Hark Preston Park said:
As I keep saying, and you keep ignoring, Bloom seems fairly relaxed about the debt. He just builds infrastructure instead. Fair play to the guy. Place will look like a mini-Wembley Way ten years from now

He is obviously fairly relaxed about the debt, but surely that's not a reason to ignore it? It simply means he won't call in that debt at times when it might put the club in jeopardy. There - I'm not ignoring it.

I'm struggling to believe that you can't see this is the real difference between ourselves and Bournemouth at this moment in time. We have a stadium, all built, but we repaying the loan required to build it. Bournemouth don't have a proper stadium at all, so haven't got to the point where there is a loan to service. :shrug:

Green Cross Code Man · Monday at 4:40 PM

Nobby Cybergoat said:
I was surprised to notice the other day that Bournemouth and Poole was the 9th biggest urban area in England with a population of 382k

Potential to grow the amount of support there

Where was that? Not according to Wiki, and in any case all of that is pretty arbitrary especially with football fans as the Wiki list for example includes Pompey and Soton in the same area. Why also does Brighton include Littlehampton which is around 20 miles away whilst excluding Newhaven and the towns between it and Brighton which is around up to 8 miles?

Nobby Cybergoat · Monday at 4:48 PM

Green Cross Code Man said:
Where was that? Not according to Wiki, and in any case all of that is pretty arbitrary especially with football fans as the Wiki list for example includes Pompey and Soton in the same area. Why also does Brighton include Littlehampton which is around 20 miles away whilst excluding Newhaven and the towns between it and Brighton which is around up to 8 miles?

These are questions I cannot answer my friend

List of primary urban areas in England by population - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Green Cross Code Man · Monday at 4:49 PM

Nobby Cybergoat said:
These are questions I cannot answer my friend

List of primary urban areas in England by population - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Weird, so it seems now we have to contend not only with Urban Areas but Primary Urban Areas. Ta!

The Optimist · Monday at 5:26 PM

Tom Hark Preston Park said:
Picky. Would still like someone to explain how AFCB survive and thrive in the EPL on gates not much more than 50% higher capacity than Withdean

According to this slightly old article we make £560,000 more per game than Bournemouth. So that’s £10.64m per season. We blew almost that much on Ansu Fati.

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seagullsovergrimsby · Monday at 5:35 PM

Whatever they do they'll still be a tinpot club alongside the likes of Luton.

Weststander · Monday at 10:15 PM

Very basic conurbation lists like that on wiki are meaningless in this context. That’s a geographer drawing boundarys on a map where they see contiguous urban sprawl being separated from another by a field.

For us that excludes a huge population within reach of the Amex that’s always contained significant Albion support …. Lewes. Eastbourne, Seaford/the Havens, mid Sussex, Worthing, Lancing and Littlehampton.

The Grockle · 2025-04-29T05:11:19+0100

Bournemouth have a huge catchment with the Bournemouth, christchurch and Poole conurbation close to 400k but the population is largely indifferent to football (although that's slowly changing)

I think it would take them a generation to attract crowds anywhere close to ours and if Poole town got their act together with a new stadium I could see them eating into the fanbase. Poole is quite a large town with 150k residents. In a bigger stadium at conference leve I could easily see them attract crowds of 3/4k. They already average 600 in the 7th tier and get 1500 against the likes of Wimborne town and Dorchester.

RM-Taylor · 2025-04-29T05:23:21+0100

Plan was (maybe still is) to completely rebuild the ground after demolishing Dean Court - suspect they’ll play at St Mary’s for a couple of years whilst it’s being done

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bhafc99 · 2025-04-29T05:31:21+0100

And don’t forget, of that 11,307 capacity, only around 8000 are actual people - the other 3300 being those giant murals they’ve added at the end of each stand to make it look ‘fuller’.

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