2010 attendances

[Ciaran W]

Work is set to start on the new square end stand at tallaght stadium at the end of the season :)

[oriel]

What has happened to Dundalks crowds?
Although with the way results have been fareing for yee for the past few weeks it could be understandable.

Lowest crowd of the season, hopefully the better display and a return to winning ways soon will attract more for the next game v Bohs.

Also it might be more enjoyable for many to attend in future as the club banned a group from last night, same crowd who travel to away games in a mini bus and caused some trouble in Sligo last week. They staged a mini protest outside the ground last night and tried to get other fans to join them. They were very unsucessfull and they certainly wont be missed. Well done DFC for taking this stand.

[Candystripe]

Derry V Monaghan 1,471

[redobit]

Lowest crowd of the season, hopefully the better display and a return to winning ways soon will attract more for the next game v Bohs.

Also it might be more enjoyable for many to attend in future as the club banned a group from last night, same crowd who travel to away games in a mini bus and caused some trouble in Sligo last week. They staged a mini protest outside the ground last night and tried to get other fans to join them. They were very unsucessfull and they certainly wont be missed. Well done DFC for taking this stand.

Seen them clowns on the way out of the Showgies at the end if the game. Drunken fools mouthing off, they weren't too lippy when a few of them got put into the back of a few cop cars. Didnt seem to be any trouble during the game tho.

Did the cops let them go home that evening? - should have left them in the cells for the night and turfed them out the next morning, to get their own way back to Dundalk.

Fair play to Dundalk for taking this stance with them.

[bullit]

They are simply hoods masquerading as Dundalk fans.I was mortified by their behaviour in the showgrounds last week.When Hatswell made the mistake that led to Sligos goal,these knackers tore down a flag/banner dedicated to him that had been brought over to the match by some visiting Cambridge Utd fans(Hats is an ex CUFC player).They then stole a handbag from one of the same group.
Dundalk FC identified those involved and banned them.They will not be missed.

[Acornvilla]

200+ at the town salthill game, possibly 250-300, for those of you who disagree in between being angry and bored i counted the crowd outside of the main stand and in section a of the main stand, 120 approx there.. so easily 200-250 altogether

[Sam_Heggy]

About 70 at Harps-Mervue game Im told

[oriel]

Fair play to Dundalk for taking this stance with them.

This was the statement issued, thankfully it was carried through, too many times things like this are announced by clubs and nothing is actually done.

http://www.dundalkfc.com/news/100804_Bans.asp

[MMVIII]

About 450 in Bray. 500 at a push. A good 75 Rovers fans there too.

[Schumi]

The Times has Bray v Sligo as 527, 679 at Galway v Fingal, 1269 at Pats v Drogheda and 1200 at Dundalk v UCD for what it's worth.

[Rasputin]

4000 at the Showgies between Rovers and Everton Reserves to see the return of Seamie Coleman.

[pineapple stu]

Averages after round 25. Official figures in bold. Club averages in bold means more than half of their figures are official.


PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 2,026 (2009 - 2,366; 2008 - 1,993; 2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976) (missing Sligo 2)
Bray - 836 (1,169; 1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550)
Drogheda - 997 (1,106; 1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682) (missing Bray 2 and Sligo 2)
Dundalk - 2,007 (2,371; 1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD)
Galway - 888 (1,076; 1,393; 2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD)
Pat's - 1,683 (1,631; 1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599)
Rovers - 3,791 (3,611; 1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539)
Sligo - 1,891 (1,756; 1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD)
Sporting Fingal - 991 (635 FD; 688 FD)
UCD - 546 (272 FD; 546; 663; 546; 653; 306 FD)

FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 423 (462; 387; 670; 421; 316)
Cork - 1,854 (2,681 PD; 3,142 PD; 2,897 PD; 2,941 PD; 3,644 PD)
Derry - 1,878 (2,436 PD; 3,363 PD; 2,614 PD; 3,229 PD; 2,698 PD)
Harps - 730 (480; 1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106)
Limerick - 571 (429; 517; 670; 364; 669)
Longford - 247 (260; 406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD)
Mervue - 134 (166) (missing Shels)
Monaghan - 252 (183; 177; 292; 204; 183) (missing Mervue, Salthill and Shels)
Salthill Devon - 139 (N/A) (missing Mervue)
Shels - 707 (972; 986; 888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD)
Waterford - 673 (434; 670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD)
Wexford - 320 (494; 767; 810)

Premier Division average - 1,567 (2,010; 1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759)
First Division average - 679 (417; 641; 722; 570; 520)

Overall average - 1,105 (1,175; 1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195)

Attendances for last weekend (i.e. the figures I've gone with) -

Premier Division
Bray Wanderers v Sligo Rovers 527
Dundalk v UCD 1200
Galway United v Sporting Fingal 679
St. Patrick's Athletic v Drogheda United 1269
Shamrock Rovers v Bohs - 5000

First Division
Derry City v Monaghan United 1471
Limerick v Athlone Town 535
Waterford United v Shelbourne 580
Cork City Foras Co-op v Wexford Youths 1560
Mervue United v Finn Harps 70
Longford Town v Salthill Devon 200

[passinginterest]

There was around 5,000 maybe a bit more in Tallaght. I'm sure the official figure will pop up somewhere.

[Cuyahoga]

5,200 according to the Star.

[Dodge]

There was around 5,000 maybe a bit more in Tallaght. I'm sure the official figure will pop up somewhere.

Rovers haven't released any official figures this season, have they? Quite a fe empty seats in the stand facing the camera. I'd imagine msot of these would've been filled by a 3pm kick off

[Mario]

Rovers haven't released any official figures this season, have they? Quite a fe empty seats in the stand facing the camera. I'd imagine msot of these would've been filled by a 3pm kick off

I actually tried to buy a ticket for the west stand and was told it was sold out twenty minutes before kick-off.

Musta been due to season ticket holders being away on hols or not being able to make the 12:30 kick-off and people heading in the east which was overfull in the singing section.

[Dodge]

Didn't realise fans could move between the two stands.

Seemed too many seats empty for the usual season ticket absences. maybe the Garda enforced a smaller capacity too

[**FrOsTy**]

4000 at the Showgies between Rovers and Everton Reserves to see the return of Seamie Coleman.

Ye that's why they were there :p.

[passinginterest]

Didn't realise fans could move between the two stands.

Seemed too many seats empty for the usual season ticket absences. maybe the Garda enforced a smaller capacity too

East stand is usually massively overcrowded in the middle, I've a West stand season ticket and I'll often wander over to that side for a change of scenery. They say you can't switch sides but I've never seen it enforced.

[osarusan]

East stand is usually massively overcrowded in the middle, I've a West stand season ticket and I'll often wander over to that side for a change of scenery. They say you can't switch sides but I've never seen it enforced.

Doesn't that defeat the whole point of having seats?

[pineapple stu]

Unallocated seating in some grounds is a way around not being allowed have terracing any more (Ashton Gate in Bristol has it, for example). Not everyone wants to sit.

[passinginterest]

Unallocated seating in some grounds is a way around not being allowed have terracing any more (Ashton Gate in Bristol has it, for example). Not everyone wants to sit.

Yeah that's pretty much how it works. Only a small number of people opt for the reserved seat season ticket at an extra €100 a pop, those seats are all in the middle of the West stand. The unreserved season tickets are supposed to be stand specific and they do direct you to the other turnstile sometimes if you try to enter the wrong one, but inside the ground I think I can only remember there being a barrier stopping people crossing over once.

[Rasputin]

Ye that's why they were there :p.
Well I know that was the primary attraction for Rovers fans at it which constituted well over the majority.
I would hazard a guess that about 3000 were Rovers fans, the regulars with the passing interest fans who turn up for the odd big game.
Then I would say about 1000 were Everton fans with a good contingent coming down from Donegal to see Seamie.

[dcfcsteve]

Unallocated seating in some grounds is a way around not being allowed have terracing any more (Ashton Gate in Bristol has it, for example). Not everyone wants to sit.

It's a way round the difficulty of going to a game and not being able to be next to mates etc if you can't get seats together which was a big benefit of terracing and which annoys fans in busy stadiums no end.

But it's not designed to be a way round sitting down, as the presence of a seat clearly suggests. As was shown in Manchester, Health and Safety and venue livcensing rules will back any public authority which tells fans in a seated stadium that they should be using those seats whether they like it or not.

[Martinho II]

200+ at the town salthill game, possibly 250-300, for those of you who disagree in between being angry and bored i counted the crowd outside of the main stand and in section a of the main stand, 120 approx there.. so easily 200-250 altogether

I was told by someone else that there was only fifty at this game so I am very surprised that the attendance quadrupled!Anyone from Salthill at it?

[Patrick Dunne]

5,500 at Terryland Park earlier for Galway United vs Liverpool Reserves (1-0 GUFC).

[De Town]

Anyone from Salthill at it?

5 from Salthill as far as I could see.

[Straightstory]

Can't believe so many people are turning out to see Premiership RESERVE sides. Quite shocking really. We are totally in thrall to English football. When I think of what could be achieved if these people came out to support Irish sides....
Totally mad country.

[Paddyfield]

http://www.galwaynews.ie/14356-united-have-no-answer-fingal’s-passing-game



Poor attendance and financial woes continue
GALWAY United had no answer to the passing game of Sporting Fingal in Terryland Park on Friday night as the visitors cruised to a win that was far more comfortable than the final scoreline suggests.

Liam Buckley’s side played in their usual 4-3-3 formation, which United tried to counteract by playing five across the middle, but the home side never looked like gaining a foothold in midfield as Shane McFaul and the peerless Ronan Finn completely dominated proceedings for the visitors on what was an immaculate playing surface that perfectly suited their playing style.

With the home side playing Derek O’Brien and Steven Walsh out wide, and tucking Stephen McDonnell, Gary Curran and Ciaran Foley inside, the hope was that United could contain Sporting’s playmakers and get at the visitors out wide.

Sadly, that never happened as United either didn’t try, or failed miserably if they did, to get behind the visitors defence out wide, and in the end they had a combination of Barry Ryan and some woeful finishing from the visitors to thank for losing by the small margin they did.

Sean Connor’s side did trade somewhat on parity in an entertaining first half that saw chances for both sides, but the second 45 minutes was a vastly different story as United struggled to get out of their own half, creating just one decent chance compared to the dozen or so carved out by the visitors.

All of that pales into insignificance, however, given the financial trouble the club is in. More than 40,000 Irish people turned up at the Aviva Stadium last Wednesday to bleat their support for Manchester United against an Irish side. On Friday, at a game that actually mattered, only 679 showed up at Terryland Park, including some who were in Galway for the Umbro Cup, and a group of six Eintracht Frankfurt fans who were visiting a friend in the city for the weekend. Unless gates improve, losing to as good a footballing side as Sporting Fingal will be the last thing United will have to worry about.

Reports emerged at the weekend in which Shamrock Rovers manager Michael O’Neill claimed that he was contacted by United CEO, Nick Leeson, asking if would be interested in signing striker Karl Sheppard. Such a sale would sorely hurt United’s chances of staying up this season, but shows the precarious situation the club is in, having already had to release five players last month.

[blueblood]

Does anybody know how many (if any) at FAI Cup replay Mervue v Fingal? :)

[sligo23]

Does anybody know how many (if any) at FAI Cup replay Mervue v Fingal? :)
http://www.showbizgalore.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Two-and-a-Half-Men.jpg

[gufc2000]

Does anybody know how many (if any) at FAI Cup replay Mervue v Fingal? :)
100 approx according to extratime

[pineapple stu]

Was in one of the Galway papers that there was about 100, including 6 from Fingal. Made a bit more of that fact than really they needed to.

[blue til i die]

A miserable 325 tonight :(

[The Lep]

Does anybody know how many (if any) at FAI Cup replay Mervue v Fingal? :)

I was told there was a count of 62 at it.

[Darkglasses]

A miserable 325 tonight :(

Is that all? Looked a fair bit more. At least 60-70 from Wexford.

[Lim till i die]

142 at Mervue Limerick

108 from Limerick

[Ciaran W]

900 rovers-500 drogs

[pineapple stu]

The Irish TImes today has I think 719 for Fingal v Dundalk, 1200 for Drogs v Rovers and 1100 for Bohs v Galway (which is shocking if true, given the meeting the day beforehand; almost like Bohs fans are resigned to the inevitable). Can't remember what it had for Bray v Pat's.

[Acornvilla]

200-250 at town harps

approx 5 harps fans and 5 from sligo as well :D

[Riddickcule]

It had 1,500 for Bray-Pats.

[Candystripe]

Derry City V Cork 1,811

[GalwayRed]

702 at Shels-Mons

[pineapple stu]

Sligo have their attendances in the programme; some round figure, some not. Also has their last two games down as 1337, which I assume is a typo (or a quite remarkable coincidence). Anyway, the average is 1698, compared to 1891 here. Seeing as that's what the club are reporting in their official programme, I'm going to revise Sligo's attendances accordingly.

[poster]

The attendance was given as 1,200 tonight. We thinks it was miles out.

[PartySaint]

It had 1,500 for Bray-Pats.

Never that many, maybe 1,000 at a push 600 Pats fans

[danthesaint]

Never that many, maybe 1,000 at a push 600 Pats fans

you saying there was 400 bray fans, that optimistic!!

[Dublin Red]

The attendance was given as 1,200 tonight. We thinks it was miles out.

Not a chance. The Red stand holds 1,800+ .. means they're saying if you packed everyone who was in the stadium on the night into the red stand... it'd only be 2/3rds full?

[pineapple stu]

Yeah, 1200 looks way out. There was a good crowd standing behind the old Shed end as well as the Forza lads in the bird-shít stand and a few on the terrace. The terrace end of the stand was fairly empty, but 1700 was the figure I was reckoning during the game.

[poster]

Either you flew home Stu, or you've broadband in the car. You were very quiet in the corner in Mooney's this evening.