2011 attendances

**Pablo Escobar** · 25/10/2011, 7:33 AM

Originally Posted by A face

Results and adherence to licencing etc.

If it was purely results, we'd have never gone down.......and god help us, TNB might still be at the helm!

**Dodge** · 25/10/2011, 9:39 AM

Originally Posted by sligoman

No, results tells you all you need to know about where any team should be playing.

Well results and being able to pay your way

**pineapple stu** · 27/10/2011, 7:29 PM

Update ahead of the last weekend of games -

PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 1,488 (2010 - 1,835; 2009 - 2,366; 2008 - 1,993; 2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976) (missing Derry 2)
Bray - 1,121 (952; 1,169; 1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550)
Derry - 2,135 (1,965 FD; 2,436; 3,363; 2,614; 3,229; 2,698)
Drogheda - 811 (859; 1,106; 1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682) (missing Sligo 2)
Dundalk - 1,355 (1,877; 2,371; 1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD)
Galway - 852 (869; 1,076; 1,393; 2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD)
Pat's - 1,346 (1,756; 1,631; 1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599)
Rovers - 3,779 (3,794; 3,611; 1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539)
Sligo - 2,103 (1,807; 1,756; 1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD)
UCD - 558 (610; 272 FD; 546; 663; 546; 653; 306 FD)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 200 (354; 462; 387; 670; 421; 316) (missing Limerick, Longford and Wexford)
Cork - 2,128 (1,693; 2,681 PD; 3,142 PD; 2,897 PD; 2,941 PD; 3,644 PD)
Harps - 433 (644; 480; 1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106)
Limerick - 569 (598; 429; 517; 670; 364; 669)
Longford - 315 (230; 260; 406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD)
Mervue - 349 (123; 166) (missing Shels 2)
Monaghan - 372 (410; 183; 177; 292; 204; 183) (missing Athlone, Cork, Longford 2, Mervue, Salthill both, Shels, Waterford 2 and Wexford both)
Salthill Devon - 125 (122) (missing Athlone 2, Shels 2 and Waterford 2)
Shels - 781 (737; 972; 986; 888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD)
Waterford - 466 (619; 434; 670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD)
Wexford - 216 (343; 494; 767; 810)

Premier Division average - 1,547 (1,512; 2,010; 1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759)
First Division average - 578 (682; 417; 641; 722; 570; 520)

Overall average - 1,110 (1,095; 1,175; 1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195)

**El-Pietro** · 27/10/2011, 8:12 PM

what kind of crowd will Sligo be expecting for the UCD game? Theres a chance City finish with the third highest attendance in the country if they don't get an above average crowd

we would need Derry to have almost nobody at their game to overtake them though!

**nigel-harps1954** · 27/10/2011, 9:00 PM

It's been said before, but for Shels being where they are, that attendance figure is absolutely embarrassing.

**Rasputin** · 28/10/2011, 10:37 AM

I would expect about 2500.

**TiocfaidhArmani** · 28/10/2011, 11:29 AM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

It's been said before, but for Shels being where they are, that attendance figure is absolutely embarrassing.

We've had five years in the graveyard and it's done some amount of damage to us.

**S.E.P.1990** · 28/10/2011, 11:52 AM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

It's been said before, but for Shels being where they are, that attendance figure is absolutely embarrassing.

Maybe if more than 5 away fans turned up for most of our games it would have been a bit higher!! Also we have absolutely no local derbies and are competing with teams in the same city. We have brought good support to our away games (I would venture to say as good as if not better than Cork for most of our away games).

**El-Pietro** · 28/10/2011, 12:04 PM

you are aware that every away ground bar Limerick and Waterford - maybe Wexford - is closer to you than us.

once you've seen all the holes in this division there isnt much interest in going back again. still we'll bring a solid number tomorrow

**S.E.P.1990** · 28/10/2011, 12:07 PM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

you are aware that every away ground bar Limerick and Waterford - maybe Wexford - is closer to you than us.

once you've seen all the holes in this division there isnt much interest in going back again. still we'll bring a solid number tomorrow

Try seeing them for 5 seasons.........

**El-Pietro** · 28/10/2011, 12:32 PM

weve had reasonable crowds at most away games over the last two years. we brought about 150 or so to salthill a couple of weeks ago in the rain

its not like shels know what our away crowds are for games against any teams other than them

**Pablo Escobar** · 28/10/2011, 1:54 PM

Originally Posted by S.E.P.1990

We have brought good support to our away games (I would venture to say as good as if not better than Cork for most of our away games).

How do you gauge that? I certainly have no idea how many fans Shels bring away to games that don't involve ourselves.

**S.E.P.1990** · 28/10/2011, 2:05 PM

Originally Posted by Pablo Escobar

How do you gauge that? I certainly have no idea how many fans Shels bring away to games that don't involve ourselves.

You're right but from talking to opposition fans at those away games......am not saying it for definite, that is why I didnt say "we definitely brought more fans than Cork". Cork away strangely was probably one of our poorest turn outs this season.

**Patrick Dunne** · 28/10/2011, 2:21 PM

852 for Galway United is the stand-out figure - higher than two other Premier teams and all in the First Division bar Cork City.

Incredibly loyal support for what is probably the worst team in the top flight since Bray Unknowns !

**S.E.P.1990** · 28/10/2011, 2:23 PM

Originally Posted by Patrick Dunne

Incredibly loyal support for what is probably the worst team in the top flight since Bray Unknowns !

Who are they!!!

**PartySaint** · 28/10/2011, 3:49 PM

Originally Posted by Patrick Dunne

852 for Galway United is the stand-out figure - higher than two other Premier teams and all in the First Division bar Cork City.

Incredibly loyal support for what is probably the worst team in the top flight since Bray Unknowns !

The most impressive one for me is Finn harps, They have the 5th highest average attendance in the First Division upto this weekend, The have feck all to play for all year and they still manage to get crowds of over 500 for games against Mervue and the likes somtimes, Afetr a few years in the Firt Division doing absolutley nothing I doubt there is many teams in the country they could do that

**nigel-harps1954** · 28/10/2011, 4:41 PM

Originally Posted by S.E.P.1990

Maybe if more than 5 away fans turned up for most of our games it would have been a bit higher!! Also we have absolutely no local derbies and are competing with teams in the same city. We have brought good support to our away games (I would venture to say as good as if not better than Cork for most of our away games).

......this....

Originally Posted by PartySaint

The most impressive one for me is Finn harps, They have the 5th highest average attendance in the First Division upto this weekend, The have feck all to play for all year and they still manage to get crowds of over 500 for games against Mervue and the likes somtimes, Afetr a few years in the Firt Division doing absolutley nothing I doubt there is many teams in the country they could do that

..what he said.

You're sitting top of the league running away with it most of the season, in one of the closest title run-ins in years and playing good football, and your average attendance is 781. You're only 2 and a half hours from Galway, 2 from Cork, and hour and a half from Longford, Athlone, Wexford, Waterford and Monaghan. Your furthest journeys are Finn Harps and Limerick.

All of Harps games (aside from Monaghan) are more than 3 hours away. Yet every game there is at least 20 fans travelling away.

If we were sitting where you are now, I'd be shocked if we were getting any less than 1,500-2,000 every game.

**TiocfaidhArmani** · 28/10/2011, 4:58 PM

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

weve had reasonable crowds at most away games over the last two years. we brought about 150 or so to salthill a couple of weeks ago in the rain

its not like shels know what our away crowds are for games against any teams other than them

Credit to Cork your support has been excellent, 3,500 the other night - excellent.

Shels have never had a big support and a lot deserted us once we got demoted. Going off memory here but big games we used to get quite decent crowds but the longer we remained in that division even the big games failed to attract a crowd. I'm a bit fearful that we might not get much more in the Premier if we're a mid-table team but nothing to play for.

That said the Dublin teams seem to like the trip to Tolka and will boost our numbers.

**GalwayRed** · 28/10/2011, 5:05 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

......this....

..what he said.

You're sitting top of the league running away with it most of the season, in one of the closest title run-ins in years and playing good football, and your average attendance is 781. You're only 2 and a half hours from Galway, 2 from Cork, and hour and a half from Longford, Athlone, Wexford, Waterford and Monaghan. Your furthest journeys are Finn Harps and Limerick.

All of Harps games (aside from Monaghan) are more than 3 hours away. Yet every game there is at least 20 fans travelling away.

If we were sitting where you are now, I'd be shocked if we were getting any less than 1,500-2,000 every game.

We take a healthy away support pretty much everywhere we go in the first division and have done ever since we got demoted. Our home attendance is nothing special but it's certainly not embarrassing. This is the first division after all and we've had 5 years of it. People tend not to take very much interest regardless of how we do in this division. Especially when there's 3 premier division clubs in the same county to keep them occupied.

**Patrick Dunne** · 28/10/2011, 5:23 PM

When you consider Harps position in the table, the lack of any away fans for half the teams the play, and the fact that there are based in a town with a relatively small population, it is a very impressive figure.

Our average attendances are boosted by the fact that we sold 600 season tickets at €99 earlier in the year, an element of cheating there !