Weird how you can write something and people read the opposite. Coventry have potential, they also have the biggest obstacle in the way of fulfilling that potential, their current owners and the ground. That puts them behind a lot of what would be 'smaller' clubs on the face of it. Can it be...
Not at the moment.
As for the Den, you are correct, it is often half full, rather than that half empty feeling of much bigger grounds, but has nothing to really to do with the point I sought to make, in that Coventry shot themselves in the foot with that ground and are now a much much smaller...
Think you have to divorce ancient history and success from these calculation.
Crowd size also isn't the be all and end all of it. Think you have go at it with a fair helping of 'potential'. What are the chances of the club being successful and how sustainable is it.
Take Coventry for example...
They would limit the away fans to the top tier only for 'security' reasons so around 2,4000, but will probably 'match' the number Bradford will give if lower, should we face each.
Been to 106 grounds in this country, but only 69 of the current '92' current grounds.
Going to lose Dagenham & Redbridge from that, might get Grimsby or Tranmere back in return.
I was at both those away games, plus the home games. Nothing in any of the games, should have equalised at Barnsley late on when we went for it.
Neither of those teams are anything but Decent/competent League One teams.