Edinburgh City (NHC)

[BS44]

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1050 fans at Hamilton Accies today - 2200 today at Bonnyrigg and in the previous round against Montrose, 1700 against Buckie Thistle in a game televised live, Hamilton bring nothing to the game and only 900 of that crowd were home fans, a joke of a club.

No argument from me, friend. This thread is about Edinburgh City, Hamilton have probable been discussed a dozen times already

[EI255]

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Edinburgh City are the 2nd worst supported league team in Scotland.
Averaging 345 fans at home games which is 61 fans more than Albion Rovers.
Attendances down 15% from last seasons already low crowds.

This seems a hellish shame given the fight it takes to get into the big leagues.
Need to double their home attendances to make meaningful progress.

Any chance of things improving?
Any ideas why support for them is so dire?
Any good news for them on the horizon?

Atrocious support.

What's the point?

Really?

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[EI255]

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They should move to West Lothian and star... Oh its been done.

Half their fans are supermarket shoppers

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[Squealing pig]

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88 fans at Hamilton today.


Good luck to them but there must be better supported teams floating about in the lower leagues, the Shire for instance

Bo’ness united 👌

[SideBurns]

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There may well be but they are well ran club in the league through absolute merit.

Aye, can't understand any hostility towards Edinburgh City. They're no threat to us, and give a wee occasional alternative to watch a 3pm game of fitba on a Saturday if Hibs aren't playing.

If crowds are the yardstick, then the majority of clubs in Scotland are a 'joke' (including several in the premier league). The truth is they/we all suffer from people choosing to support Celtic & Rangers in a small country with small towns & cities.

[Stuart93]

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I'm presuming they would only be renting Meadowbank and that gives them flexibility to move if they need or want to in the future.
Given their 345 attendance average this season a stand that fits 500 in will work for them meantime.

Their success at the moment is a lot down to ex Hibs and Hearts players deciding to play in Edinburgh rather than doing lots of travelling to play. This geographic advantage has seen the likes of Alex Harris playing at a level below his playing ability this season which has resulted in him scoring 9 goals and getting 7 assists.

Is it below his playing ability? I wouldn’t say it is

He was massively overrated. I’d argue he’s found his level unfortunately.

[SideBurns]

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Half their fans are supermarket shoppers

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Where do the other half shop?

[CMurdoch]

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Is it below his playing ability? I wouldn’t say it is

He was massively overrated. I’d argue he’s found his level unfortunately.

He was overrated initially but he is better than the 4th tier hence despite his position he is their top scorer this season with 9 goals and top of their assists with 7.
His level may be the 3rd tier. Time will tell but he is definitely prospering in the 4th tier as evidenced by his goalscoring and assists.

[DaveF]

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1050 fans at Hamilton Accies today - 2200 today at Bonnyrigg and in the previous round against Montrose, 1700 against Buckie Thistle in a game televised live, Hamilton bring nothing to the game and only 900 of that crowd were home fans, a joke of a club.

The bonnyrigg crowd at yesterday's game had a good number of Hibs and hearts fans present so it's fantasy to think they would attract those crowds on a weekly basis. I think they get around 600 which probably on a par with most in league 2 and some in league 1.

[Cataplana]

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There may well be but they are well ran club in the league through absolute merit.

They sold their club rooms for big money a few years ago, and that might have a lot to do with their finances.

For me, buying the Loch Inn and turning it into your social club doesn't show much joined up thinking. Miles from where they play, and not in the sort of location to attract people to it outside match days.

[Diclonius]

The closed shop system of the previous league set up has resulted in a league heavily weighted towards teams from the west, which have diluted crowds as a result of the OF. If more teams from elsewhere in Scotland can force themselves into the top divisions then it can only be a good thing. I know Cove are heavily bankrolled but they can build up a genuinely big support if they keep going the way they are, especially from kids in Aberdeenshire/North Angus who want to support a different team to Aberdeen.

They're just in L2 and they already have the highest average support in the division.

[Brightside]

Far too many teams in Scotland pro leagues.

[Keith_M]

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A couple of posters have already mentioned that after your original post. They're still not a 'new' club, but I suppose we're dealing in semantics (and we agree that there is little room for a 3rd Edinburgh club to grow in support, as Meadowbank discovered).

Agreed

[greenlex]

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They sold their club rooms for big money a few years ago, and that might have a lot to do with their finances.

For me, buying the Loch Inn and turning it into your social club doesn't show much joined up thinking. Miles from where they play, and not in the sort of location to attract people to it outside match days.

Correct. They are chucking money at it. The level of players they have is far more to do with money than convenience. It’s unsustainable.

[Scouse Hibee]

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They sold their club rooms for big money a few years ago, and that might have a lot to do with their finances.

For me, buying the Loch Inn and turning it into your social club doesn't show much joined up thinking. Miles from where they play, and not in the sort of location to attract people to it outside match days.

The social club has nothing to do with the football club financially, totally different entities.

[Cataplana]

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The social club has nothing to do with the football club financially, totally different entities.

Interesting, any idea what happened to the money from the sale of the social club? Must have raised a pretty penny on that site.

[Scouse Hibee]

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Interesting, any idea what happened to the money from the sale of the social club? Must have raised a pretty penny on that site.

They must be sitting on it I guess as it all belongs to the social club not the FC. They had plans recently to expand further and buy the Chinese premises next door.

[CMurdoch]

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They sold their club rooms for big money a few years ago, and that might have a lot to do with their finances.

For me, buying the Loch Inn and turning it into your social club doesn't show much joined up thinking. Miles from where they play, and not in the sort of location to attract people to it outside match days.

Not joined up thinking but a nice wee earner on Hibs match days

[Cataplana]

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Not joined up thinking but a nice wee earner on Hibs match days

I've noticed that, I wonder if that's enough to keep the club going the rest of the time.

[CMurdoch]

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I've noticed that, I wonder if that's enough to keep the club going the rest of the time.

Probably get a lot of local trade from Lochend and Restalrig at nights and weekends to keep it ticking over.

Daytime on weekdays will be almost non existent you would think though.

[jgl07]

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Tranmere used to do that for the same reasons.

And Stockport County.

[overdrive]

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They sold their club rooms for big money a few years ago, and that might have a lot to do with their finances.

For me, buying the Loch Inn and turning it into your social club doesn't show much joined up thinking. Miles from where they play, and not in the sort of location to attract people to it outside match days.

Aside from the social club being a separate entity to the football club, it wasn’t miles from where they played at the time.

[The 90+2]

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They sold their club rooms for big money a few years ago, and that might have a lot to do with their finances.

For me, buying the Loch Inn and turning it into your social club doesn't show much joined up thinking. Miles from where they play, and not in the sort of location to attract people to it outside match days.

They sold the city club and must have been for good money of course, that premises was never busy at all, even on weekend nights most of the time. I used to play pool and snooker in there all the time and it was also further away from Meadowbank than where they moved to. I think it’s been pointed out also the social club is ran separately from the football club although there’s obviously loads of fund raisers, after dinner events etc that the club let the football club host.

[Winston Ingram]

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1050 fans at Hamilton Accies today - 2200 today at Bonnyrigg and in the previous round against Montrose, 1700 against Buckie Thistle in a game televised live, Hamilton bring nothing to the game and only 900 of that crowd were home fans, a joke of a club.

That’s an exception not the rule. Their attendance in a run of the mill league game v is a more realistic comparison