Perhaps this has been discussed before but I would be interested to know how many fans people think Charlton have and how would you classify them?DRF said:
As for the numbers. You are comparing the number of website users to the numbers at a game or 'hardcore support'. What about the wider support who neither go to the game or read this website. I predict we probably have at least 60,000 plus fans across the globe, so that is the number you need to compare to if you are talking about clicks and how representative this site is. I suspect a large number on this site aren't 'hard core support' in that they can't get to games so need to get their fixes another way.LoOkOuT said:I hear this a lot, but there's 5,000+ uniques that check in here throughout the day, everyday, even allowing for people checking from different devices. What's that, a third of the hardcore support? Those 5,000 create over 2million impressions per month, which suggests there is interest beyond match day, even if the "active" percentage is much lower (one would expect that).
But supposing that the average Charlton fan has no interest beyond the first team and the major figures of the Club, how does that affect the situation? If I'm on a cruise ship that's sprung a leak and the crew are able to keep that knowledge away from me, it doesn't make that leak any less dangerous. I either go down with the ship having never seen it coming, or I begin to see the signs and start to think about what I'm going to do.
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Unless we copy the Ronnie Moore campaign and offer to raise funds to buy a striker then it's safe to say that it's probably best to lay off "championship manager" and look to where we can have an impact... some will not be interested at all and some might be cynical of any efforts but so what!
There are a lot of empty seats and there are probably some quick wins to make first time and occasional fans want to come back. So the basic question is how many fans are in that target group...
And are there any marketeers, graphic artists, data analysts etc who are interested in helping out put a proposal together... because something tells me the club will listen to this one
We get max about 20,000 to games these days, however in our peak in the premiership we were getting more and there was (or at least it was talked about there being) a Target 40,000 campaign. I thought that the people who had come up with this must have known that it was in some small way achieveable - and that was targeting 40,000 going to games. I think there are probably at least this many who would define themselves as fan in the UK . Therefore I did not think it unreasonable that there would be at least another 20,000 fans who are not in the UK and have no hope of every really going to matches.
I think the key thing to agree on is how you count them. Does anyone who has ever been to a game to support Chalrton (as oppsed to coming to wwatch the opposition) count as a fan. But what if you never go and support them for obscure reason from afar.
Personally I think it has to be self-defining. If you call yourself a fan you are one. But what if you are a Charlton fan and a fan of another team - does that count? Does it count if your other team are not in the same league, or the same country etc.
So for me - I would say I know 13 CAFC fans well. 3 go to games regularly. So my number alone would give 73,661 fans. If everyone updates our figure as you go through the thread, the overall number should become more accurate the longer you go on and more variables are taken in to account.
God I sound like a geek.
There are a lot of people out there who consider themselves Addicks but don't often (or at all) go. Which is just as well or we'd need a bigger ground and then we'd all be wringing our hands over a move away from the Valley!
Damo you might enjoy watching the Big Bang Theory, you sound very much like Sheldon Cooper. :-0
The power of the internet is that wherever people are in the world, they can follow the club and perhaps the Trust could run something on the site for people from different parts of the country or even an international section... but the original question is really quite commercial for there are really only a few markets for CAFC:
Lapse fans who used to go but have fallen out of the habit; brand new fans in the area - schools, universities, community groups etc. and friends & family...
Lets see if this takes off?