Fanbase demograph

[sufcstudy]

Evening all!

I'm doing a bit of research for a project. I've decided to use Sutton UTD FC as my subject. This part is based around market segmentation. 
Being a smaller club, a lot of information is somewhat limited! What better place to ask the fans themselves?

I'd love it if you could answer the poll please  

As an extra, it'd be great if you wanted to reply with any of the following:

1) What made you follow Sutton UTD? (e.g: born locally, influence from older family generations)
2) Do you go to regular fixtures (home & away).
3) How do you think the club brand themselves? (e.g: A club that stands by traditional values? Or.. A forward thinking inclusive, club that cares about the local area) etc.

Thanks in advance!

[davethegrave]

I hate all those ridiculous titles but between 1946 and 1964.

I was born in Sutton.
I've got a season ticket but very rarely travel away.
No sure about the branding. I am a tradionalist and find some of the things they're doing quite embarrassing.

[sufcstudy]

Oct 9, 2024 17:54:32 GMT davethegrave said:

I hate all those ridiculous titles but between 1946 and 1964.

I was born in Sutton.
I've got a season ticket but very rarely travel away.
No sure about the branding. I am a tradionalist and find some of the things they're doing quite embarrassing.

Thank you Dave! Agree! The titles are silly. There's no wrong answers here. Could you elaborate on any of the embarrassing things? Feel free to DM if you wanted.

[baboonfish]

Your Gen X / Millenial demarcation is questionable. There is actually a micro generation of those born in the late 70s/early 80s as we fell between the cracks. I lean more towards millenial (1979 born), but us Xennials really do straddle the line pretty hard.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xennials

[Jared]

Anxious millenial here.

To answer your questions
1) A question that will inevitably be asked at the intervention that my friends and family are almost certainly planning for me. I grew up near Sutton, they won 4-1 the first time I saw them and they imprinted on me
2) I live 200 miles away and I don’t drive. So I’m not as regular an attender as I used to be.
3) Probably the same as most, if not every, clubs at this sort of level: a community focused club offering a more affordable, accessible and alternative to the upper echelons of the game

[markf]

The first time I heard the label Baby Boomer was when the second Trivial Pursuit edition was released.

1/ family, grandfather was reserved sponhe man in the 1930s

2/ home and away since late 1969

3/ jury's out. There is still a community aspect to the club in the fact that it runs a lot of teams for both men and women's football and has a successful Community team too. There was also a strong traditional feel to the club but I would need to be persuaded that it has not been diluted in recent seasons. Needs must though.

[sallycat]

My parents had that Trivial Pursuit edition and it was the first I heard of the phrase too.

1) Born locally. Family all hated football so it would have been the only club accessible to me as a teenager even if I hadn't wanted to show loyalty to my home town.

2) I go to all home and away games

3) I think the club tries very hard to maintain and promote the community ethos it's always had and prided itself on. In some ways it does this very well. However, it has been very difficult to maintain a lot of the traditional ways owing to new rules/things that need to be done differently to ensure financial viability etc. that we never used to have to worry about so much.

Oh, and I'd bear in mind for your research that any demographic info you obtain by asking on here will be a more accurate representation of the user base of this forum than of the club itself - they will be two very different things.

[davethegrave]

Oct 11, 2024 12:33:03 GMT sallycat said:

My parents had that Trivial Pursuit edition and it was the first I heard of the phrase too.


Oh, and I'd bear in mind for your research that any demographic info you obtain by asking on here will be a more accurate representation of the user base of this forum than of the club itself - they will be two very different things.

Me too about Baby Boomers. Must be an Americanism.

And yes - it looks like all our supporters are old gits.

[Stewart]

Oct 12, 2024 10:53:04 GMT davethegrave said:

Oct 11, 2024 12:33:03 GMT sallycat said:

My parents had that Trivial Pursuit edition and it was the first I heard of the phrase too.


Oh, and I'd bear in mind for your research that any demographic info you obtain by asking on here will be a more accurate representation of the user base of this forum than of the club itself - they will be two very different things.

Me too about Baby Boomers. Must be an Americanism.

And yes - it looks like all our supporters are old gits.

No, it’s just the ones who use this forum

[CubReporter]

We are not old, merely vintage.