LOI Attendances 2016

**Ezeikial** · 14/04/2016, 12:30 PM

Originally Posted by JC_GUFC

if the clubs just want a 40-week season and players want their 2-week summer break there's no other way (apart from 14-team league with 26 games).

While there is 2 weeks between matches either side of the mid-season break most players would have only 1 week off (some even less)

**Charlie Darwin** · 14/04/2016, 12:32 PM

Originally Posted by disgruntled

Sorry can't agree with you there Dodge.
Yes by all means have mid week games but you don't have to get them all played in the first couple of months of the season. Wait a couple of months until the Champions League & Premiership are finished. Then the clubs can have any night they want.

There are only three rounds of midweek fixtures in the season and two of them are during the summer. I don't know where you're getting this "all played in the first couple of months" from.

**Dodge** · 14/04/2016, 1:14 PM

Originally Posted by disgruntled

There are ways to avoid Mondays night games if clubs want them.
The problem is that most of the clubs are totally dysfunctional & couldn't run the proverbial in a brewery.

Or, they think it's the best night for midweek games. How does Wednesday sound with league games to follow on Friday? As has been pointed out several times; once the clubs and players want to start in March and end in October (with a break in June), midweek games are a must.

Originally Posted by JC_GUFC

I think you've misunderstood Dodge (I'm sure he'll defend himself anyway!) but I think what he's saying is that they need to get the postponed games played as quickly as possible, which is the way it should be.

Absolutely

FWIW, the Midweek scheduled games;
14 March
9-10 May (most clubs going with Tuesday 10)
15-16 August

**disgruntled** · 14/04/2016, 1:42 PM

This is Cork City's fixture list between April 15th & April 29th.

April 15th,. Galway vs City.
April 18th. City vs Waterford.
April 22nd. City vs Harps.
April 25th City vs Rovers.
April 29th City vs St Pats.

That's 5 games in 14 days.
Pure madness. Yes 4 of the games are at home but its still madness with fans expected to shell out for that amount of games in such a short space of time.

There has to be a better way ?

**vinnie** · 14/04/2016, 1:46 PM

To be fair, the Game against Rovers is the one that was postponed because of the under 21s International, there is no other time to play it until one of us get knocked out of the cup which might not happen too early

**Charlie Darwin** · 14/04/2016, 1:48 PM

Originally Posted by disgruntled

This is Cork City's fixture list between April 15th & April 29th.

April 15th,. Galway vs City.
April 18th. City vs Waterford.
April 22nd. City vs Harps.
April 25th City vs Rovers.
April 29th City vs St Pats.

That's 5 games in 14 days.
Pure madness. Yes 4 of the games are at home but its still madness with fans expected to shell out for that amount of games in such a short space of time.

There has to be a better way ?

Not asking the FAI to postpone games would be a start.

**seand** · 14/04/2016, 3:53 PM

Originally Posted by disgruntled

This is Cork City's fixture list between April 15th & April 29th.

April 15th,. Galway vs City.
April 18th. City vs Waterford.
April 22nd. City vs Harps.
April 25th City vs Rovers.
April 29th City vs St Pats.

That's 5 games in 14 days.
Pure madness. Yes 4 of the games are at home but its still madness with fans expected to shell out for that amount of games in such a short space of time.

There has to be a better way ?

Hardly madness. It's 5 games in 15 days. Put another way it's 3 league games on three successive weekends, with a League Cup tie for the reserves one midweek and a rearranged league game the next midweek- which your club requested to have postponed!

**Nesta99** · 14/04/2016, 4:31 PM

I dont get this fatigue issue in football that is rolled out by managers. High intensity and impact sports like rugby during 6 nations, for example, have 6/7 days recovery between games over a month and then provincial competitions too. Tennis players can be on court for 3 or so hours days in a row. Cyclists doing 1000's of km's over 3 weeks day after day. In gaelic games, albeit less common now, you had dual players at inter-county and club games in both codes certain times of the year + training. Maybe i'm missing something and it is a different type of fatigue for the association footballer but when you hear a manager complain about even 2 games in 7 days it seems like complaining for complaining's sake or maybe its a mind game bluff even. It may not be at the highest levels of sport but I know plenty of chaps who were playing GAA, football, maybe even rugby, all year round with the odd 10k local run or golf etc and very little complaint about physical fatigue. Is it just a mindset?

**disgruntled** · 14/04/2016, 4:34 PM

Originally Posted by seand

Hardly madness. It's 5 games in 15 days. Put another way it's 3 league games on three successive weekends, with a League Cup tie for the reserves one midweek and a rearranged league game the next midweek- which your club requested to have postponed!

You still have to play them no matter what type of games they are

**disgruntled** · 14/04/2016, 4:37 PM

Some of the excuses put up by some around here are funny especially coming from guys who spend most of their season inside the M50

**sulywaterfordfc** · 14/04/2016, 8:04 PM

Originally Posted by disgruntled

This is Cork City's fixture list between April 15th & April 29th.

April 15th,. Galway vs City.
April 18th. City vs Waterford.
April 22nd. City vs Harps.
April 25th City vs Rovers.
April 29th City vs St Pats.

That's 5 games in 14 days.
Pure madness. Yes 4 of the games are at home but its still madness with fans expected to shell out for that amount of games in such a short space of time.

There has to be a better way ?

Our game against Cork Monday will be our fourth game in 11 days and on top of that next week is the third time from the last four weeks we're playing Friday and Monday and we're part time and ya don't see us on here complaining (Not *counting having three away games in arrow in the league). Youse are supposed to be full time and your moaning build a bridge........

**disgruntled** · 14/04/2016, 9:03 PM

Originally Posted by sulywaterfordfc

Our game against Cork Monday will be our fourth game in 11 days and on top of that next week is the third time from the last four weeks we're playing Friday and Monday and we're part time and ya don't see us on here complaining (Not continuing having three away games in arrow in the league). Youse are supposed to be full time and your moaning build a bridge........

1st Div games aren't real games anyway so they don't count

**Nesta99** · 14/04/2016, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by disgruntled

1st Div games aren't real games anyway so they don't count

I disagree they are all too real, seem twice as long as premier games and they scar forever!!

**patrickccfc** · 14/04/2016, 11:10 PM

Originally Posted by Nesta99

I disagree they are all too real, seem twice as long as premier games and they scar forever!!

Yeah, still can't get over losing 2-1 at home to salthill devon.. shivers

**nigel-harps1954** · 14/04/2016, 11:52 PM

Away and sh!te all of ye. You're ruining my nice thread.

**disgruntled** · 14/04/2016, 11:53 PM

Originally Posted by Nesta99

I disagree they are all too real, seem twice as long as premier games and they scar forever!!

Thanks for reminding me just as I thought I had forgotten

Its not the games themselves, its the standard of the referees who are even worse than the Premier Div if that were possible

**disgruntled** · 14/04/2016, 11:55 PM

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Away and sh!te all of ye. You're ruining my nice thread.

Sorry Boss.
Wont happen again.
Well not tonight anyway

**oriel** · 15/04/2016, 10:14 PM

2,339 at Dundalk v Sligo. All present and counted.

Joking aside you can see the gaps from last year, I moved from the stand for the second half to the open seating town side and that area would have been well packed last season, was less the half full. The shed side is keeping its numbers, stand probably ok too, granted the away support was low, but you can't be counting on away fans to boost your figures.

Overall Dundalk are down around 600 on their 2015 average (to date) if you look at the last 2 games, maybe complacency is creeping in, but it's early days I suppose. There can be no blame on tv tonight though, and although it was around 250 more than the Derry game, it's still a disappointing turn out.