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    Quote Originally Posted by Martinho II View Post
    the boycott continues with them and has surged massively. You should have seen some of the Athlone town fans tweets telling club to **** off and Roddy to go!Dont blame Athlone fans reaction it must be awful seeing your club run to the ground.
    Surely the boycott ought not extend to away games, where you can support the team and not the regime, is not the real truth that there is no interest in Athlone in their club.

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    The way the club has conducted itself recently its a miracle anyone attends their home games.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MeathDrog View Post
    Not one Athlone fan? Wow.
    There were 13 Athlone fans there.
    The reason they weren't counted was because they were togged out for the team.
    14 if you count Roddy

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    1068 at Waterford v UCD which I think is our lowest crowd of the season which was surprising.

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    206 at Wexford v Cabinteely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by redarmyfaction View Post
    Surely the boycott ought not extend to away games, where you can support the team and not the regime, is not the real truth that there is no interest in Athlone in their club.
    I know up to recently that a few of the Athlone town fans that I know did that but things must be deteoriating badly for this to happen.
    Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?

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    Haven't got official figure yet but I'd be very surprised if there was 1,000 in Finn Park tonight. Rotten weather all day definitely contributed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954 View Post
    Haven't got official figure yet but I'd be very surprised if there was 1,000 in Finn Park tonight. Rotten weather all day definitely contributed.
    Looked quiet small and you only see three sides from the TV coverage, the main covered stand opposite the camera position and behind the goals. The town end terracing was populated while the river end opposite had only a car parked behind the goals. The Main stand seemed to have no one in the seats, but more standing on the terracing. You could hear fans on the gantry side , but the numbers were not seen on camera, maybe it was the 100+ Cork fans who travelled.

    Estimated attendance would be in the mid to high hundreds at a guess!

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    Quote Originally Posted by nr637 View Post
    Looked quiet small and you only see three sides from the TV coverage, the main covered stand opposite the camera position and behind the goals. The town end terracing was populated while the river end opposite had only a car parked behind the goals. The Main stand seemed to have no one in the seats, but more standing on the terracing. You could hear fans on the gantry side , but the numbers were not seen on camera, maybe it was the 100+ Cork fans who travelled.

    Estimated attendance would be in the mid to high hundreds at a guess!
    There was nobody on the gantry side. It was closed off by the TV crew. Disaster really for Harps, club shop on that side, the only half decent toilets in the ground closed off, and away fans were then dotted around the ground. The river end is also closed to supporters, and has been for ten years.

    There was around 50 Cork fans in all, and fair play to them, horrible journey on a crap Monday night.

    Didn't get official attendance yet, but it was close to 850 according to one of the directors I spoke to this morning. Naturally, the horrendous weather and game live on TV didn't help that at all.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954 View Post
    There was nobody on the gantry side. It was closed off by the TV crew. Disaster really for Harps, club shop on that side, the only half decent toilets in the ground closed off, and away fans were then dotted around the ground. The river end is also closed to supporters, and has been for ten years.

    There was around 50 Cork fans in all, and fair play to them, horrible journey on a crap Monday night.

    Didn't get official attendance yet, but it was close to 850 according to one of the directors I spoke to this morning. Naturally, the horrendous weather and game live on TV didn't help that at all.
    Are clubs getting paid/compensated now for games being live on telly ? I can't recall what the latest was on all of this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EatYerGreens View Post
    Are clubs getting paid/compensated now for games being live on telly ? I can't recall what the latest was on all of this.
    Not a cent. Enforced closure of the club shop on the night, and not a cent in compensation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954 View Post
    Not a cent. Enforced closure of the club shop on the night, and not a cent in compensation.
    Do they actually have to close it? Why not just tell RTE no? Madness to just bow to something like that unless you absolutely have to.

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    I would assume there is an obligation to allow tv coverage? FAI mandated, etc. As crappy as the deal is, I'm not sure denying broadcasts is the right response for the league as a whole.
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    RTE have the say on it, as they did with kick-off time and a full day use of the ground before the match. Club shop had to be closed despite Harps requests to have the broadcast lorries moved. They parked right in front of the club shop and the main toilet block.

    A local journo made an interesting claim afterwards too, that it was just lucky it wasn't a big game for Harps where a bumper attendance was expected or capacity would have been cut massively.

    The sooner we get into the new ground, the better.

    Official attendance was 829 in the end.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954 View Post
    A local journo made an interesting claim afterwards too, that it was just lucky it wasn't a big game for Harps where a bumper attendance was expected or capacity would have been cut massively.
    Good point, never thought of that. What if RTÉ demanded to show a north-west derby?
    Presumably also, any cup semi-final would be out of the question, given the likely decent away crowd.

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    Quote Originally Posted by brendy_éire View Post
    Good point, never thought of that. What if RTÉ demanded to show a north-west derby?
    Presumably also, any cup semi-final would be out of the question, given the likely decent away crowd.
    In the event of a daytime kick off though, presumably Aldi car-park could be used, with permission, for the broadcast vans.
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    You wold think the Premier League Club group, or whatever they're called, would be doing something about the live games.

    There is essentially nothing in it for clubs to be shown line, and it probably actually costs them in reduced gates.

    There's an argument that having the league on TV is good for it overall, but that would need some research. It also means that every club should ideally want someone else to be the ones being shown live/taking the hit for the league. I don't see crowds flocking to the Welsh Premier League btw, despite S4C regularly showing their games live.

    Somebody must be getting paid - directly or indirectly - for live games. TV content does not come free. Are RTE effectively paying the FAI via their international rights deal ? Surely Eir Sports must be paying someone for their live games ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by EatYerGreens View Post
    Are RTE effectively paying the FAI via their international rights deal ? Surely Eir Sports must be paying someone for their live games ?
    Precisely. FAI put domestic coverage in as a condition of the international rights, a long time ago, and then ignored it for years. There's no specific money for LOI coverage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EatYerGreens View Post
    You wold think the Premier League Club group, or whatever they're called, would be doing something about the live games.

    There is essentially nothing in it for clubs to be shown line, and it probably actually costs them in reduced gates.

    There's an argument that having the league on TV is good for it overall, but that would need some research. It also means that every club should ideally want someone else to be the ones being shown live/taking the hit for the league. I don't see crowds flocking to the Welsh Premier League btw, despite S4C regularly showing their games live.

    Somebody must be getting paid - directly or indirectly - for live games. TV content does not come free. Are RTE effectively paying the FAI via their international rights deal ? Surely Eir Sports must be paying someone for their live games ?
    Rovers generally have more games on TV than most other clubs and have complained in the past about the effect on gates, it does help with Sponsors as they get to see their advertising on TV, but that's a hard one to quantify.
    Overall its good for the league and for the profile of whatever clubs are on but even 3 or 4 k per match to the home club would take the sting out of it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sbgawa View Post
    Rovers generally have more games on TV than most other clubs
    I suppose this is a true statement

    But then so is "Bray have a better goal difference than most other PD clubs"

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