Norwich are a bigger club than Blackburn despite their historic honours

Same applies to Bolton, Preston, Wigan, Huddersfield and anyone else you want to throw out there who won the league or the FA Cup in 1890 something or indeed in Blackburn’s case more recently.

We may not always have been bigger, it may have fluctuated, but right now we are in my opinion and if we’d had more ambitious or forward thinking owners the gulf could have been bigger.

Posted By: Jim on September 23rd 2020 at 18:42:56

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NBTTT: who’s a bigger club, Norwich or Blackburns? (NCFC) - lurd, Sep 23, 11:50:30
- More holes in Blackburn - they win that hands down (n/m) (NCFC) - JoeyDeacon, Sep 23, 14:07:29
  - But is that true? (NCFC) - Miles Dewey Creosote, Sep 23, 15:46:15
    - I believe there are 3672 (NCFC) - JoeyDeacon, Sep 23, 16:11:00
      - In 1967 when my Dad was a leading draughtsman in PO Telephones in Norwich (NCFC) - watfordcanary, Sep 23, 17:07:09
      - You problem is (NCFC) - Miles Dewey Creosote, Sep 23, 16:36:24
        
        😂 (n/m) (NCFC) - JoeyDeacon, Sep 23, 16:42:42
- Would it be fair to say we have grown as a club massively (NCFC) - JoeyDeacon, Sep 23, 14:06:58
  - This is fair comment. I don;t think historical trophy wins are particularly relevant (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 23, 17:05:09
    - so just 1 League Cup then (or is '85 historical too?) (n/m) (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Sep 23, 17:50:30
      - It’s not relevant to who is the bigger club (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 23, 17:58:27
        
        just the FOUR League titles & SIX FA Cups!!!! (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Sep 23, 18:12:05
        
        Norwich are a bigger club than Blackburn despite their historic honours (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 23, 18:42:56
  - Yes, it’s easy to forget how small our crowds were before Andrew Cullen (NCFC) - Adster, Sep 23, 14:10:34
    - Kids for a quid was a master stroke (NCFC) - JoeyDeacon, Sep 23, 14:20:32
      - It really was (NCFC) - Cardiff Canary, Sep 23, 15:47:56
    - spot on. Av gates up 40% in just 5 seasons (n/m) (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Sep 23, 14:15:11
      - Less than 21000 at the Bayern Munich home game (n/m) (NCFC) - Adster, Sep 23, 14:21:45
        
        Wasn’t the capacity only around 21,500 at that time? (NCFC) - JoeyDeacon, Sep 23, 14:23:00
        
        I don’t remember. In any case our av league attendance that season was only 18000 (n/m) (NCFC) - Adster, Sep 23, 14:56:02
        
        Yep. (n/m) (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Sep 23, 14:51:13
- no contest (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Sep 23, 14:02:23
  - Using old stats means we would be unlikely ever to be bigger (NCFC) - Kar1, Sep 23, 14:26:45
    - in the PL era - so last 29 seasons (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Sep 23, 14:50:58
    - they are not old stats. They are just stats. (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Sep 23, 14:37:07
      - That's like saying Britain's the most important country in the world because of the Empire (n/m) (NCFC) - Old Git, Sep 23, 15:03:48
        
        You mean it isn't?! (NCFC) - jamesward, Sep 23, 15:21:13
        
        Just because we aren't (NCFC) - Old Git, Sep 23, 16:00:37
        
        Rubbish! (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Sep 23, 15:20:01
        
        I think that is a stretch! There are no Leagues for being a countyr (n/m) (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Sep 23, 15:12:03
        
        There are lots of stats, though - GDP, subjects, tax revenue, size of armed forces, value (NCFC) - Old Git, Sep 23, 15:58:27
      - Sorry, your are right but using all stats gives same outcome (n/m) (NCFC) - Kar1, Sep 23, 14:50:55
      - Why is club size static? (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Sep 23, 14:42:36
        
        it can change, of course, but it leads to greater anomalies (NCFC) - Henclrikus, Sep 23, 15:07:52
        
        Its largely irrelevant to the size of the club, esepcially when the majority were won (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 23, 17:04:35
- If it was possible to define 'big' this may get somewhere. (NCFC) - norwaay, Sep 23, 13:40:46
- Probably Blackburn (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, Sep 23, 13:11:05
- A simple, modern metric would be Twitter followers of the main account (NCFC) - Knitted Jesus, Sep 23, 13:11:03
  - Twitter? Get with the times grandad (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Sep 23, 14:43:33
- We are,have a look at their gates in early 80s,they were alot (NCFC) - protheroe fitzgibbon, Sep 23, 12:43:09
- The question yesterday was whether they were bigger than us when they bought Sutton. (NCFC) - Adster, Sep 23, 12:28:53
  - Rich does not equal big (n/m) (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 23, 13:18:22
    - Outbidding everyone else and winning the league equals bigger than we were though (n/m) (NCFC) - Adster, Sep 23, 13:50:21
- No way. During the Walker era similar size. 100 years ago maybe. Fundamentally though (NCFC) - Jim, Sep 23, 12:19:55
- Pre Walker,no difference.... (NCFC) - yellowman, Sep 23, 12:04:52
  - If only Chase had backed him (NCFC) - Miles Dewey Creosote, Sep 23, 13:28:27
    - Lolf (n/m) (NCFC) - yellowman, Sep 23, 16:17:41
- Because they won the prem, or some other reason? (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Sep 23, 12:01:55
  - They’ve won every major domestic trophy (NCFC) - lurd, Sep 23, 12:42:22
    - Presumably Ipswich bigger than Norwich too? (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Sep 23, 13:00:20
      - All three are probably equal (n/m) (NCFC) - lurd, Sep 23, 13:20:46
      - I guess that's not quite right....Blackburn were fairly decent until 2010 (n/m) (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Sep 23, 13:01:35

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