2010 attendances

[oriel]

Overall average of 1093. Think the IL average last season was round the 900 mark, not a big pile of difference really.

That cant be right, majority of IL Prem div games i checked out recently had crowds of 6 or 700 max and some were low hundreds. Linfield seemed to get 1,800 on avg, and they were the highest..

[pineapple stu]

1093 is the average here including the First Division. 900 is the IL average for the Premier only.

[Steve Bruce]

Incidently, the Irish league Premier Crowds are up this season, it'll be interesting to see what the end result will be.

On a side note, there's no point in comparing the LOI & IL as like for like as one country is 3 times the size of the other. It's like comparing Scotland to England. It's a futile comparison and the bigger country should always have the larger averages.

[Rasputin]

Incidently, the Irish league Premier Crowds are up this season, it'll be interesting to see what the end result will be.

On a side note, there's no point in comparing the LOI & IL as like for like as one country is 3 times the size of the other. It's like comparing Scotland to England. It's a futile comparison and the bigger country should always have the larger averages.
Not necessarily when there are much larger and many more social factors which influence attendances.

[Steve Bruce]

I really can't see how the ROI would have many different factors to NI considering nearly half of NI have the same cultural identity as the rest of people in NI. The only factor that we have up here that wouldn't be an issue down South is the marching season & even then that only has a limited effect as on the start and tail end of the marching season coincides with the Irish league.

[punkrocket]

The parade on Rossnowlagh Strand dents Finn Harps' (and Sligo's apparently) attendances big time:pumpkin: (closest to an orange I could find, sorry:shame:)

[Sam_Heggy]

Harps - Mervue att of 402. God damn parade's on the 12th of July effecting our attendance's in October.

[Oldred]

"The players are babies now," he said. "In my day you had to hit someone with a hatchet before a referee booked you. It's a different game now."
Fergie in todays Indo.
Maybe thats why attendances are nothing like they were in the 60's.!!!

[stann]

1462 at the RSC last night.
Good to see they're still out there, and on a bad night with CL on as well.
Now if only we could have a play-off every week (yes, yes, we might win one at some point, very droll...)

[AnnaghRed]

Not necessarily when there are much larger and many more social factors which influence attendances.

The bigger population a town or city has the more people there are to feel an affinity with the football club and perhaps go along to watch that club, even if only occasionally.

[dfx-]

There was easily 4250 at the last Rovers Fingal game

[legendz]

I was across the water and as I was there, went to a game across the water as well, being a fan of football and all that.
In terms of being a paying punter, unless you are looking for premium level, from a facilities point of view as long as there are stands like the Tallaght stadium, it's a good start for all supporters going to games. In terms of going to a match, it's not much different than from being in the Aviva, Croke Park or Thomond Park either. You get you're seat and a good view of the game. You can get you're grub before and during half-time of the game.

[John83]

...In terms of going to a match, it's not much different than from being in the Aviva, Croke Park or Thomond Park either. You get you're seat and a good view of the game. You can get you're grub before and during half-time of the game.
That's it, I'm never visiting the new Lansdowne Road: €50 and I have to be my own seat and grub? Bloody FAI, ripping the average fan off.

[historynut]

Will play-off attendances be included in final round up ?

[Hitman]

That's it, I'm never visiting the new Lansdowne Road: €50 and I have to be my own seat and grub? Bloody FAI, ripping the average fan off.

It's a cunning plan to ensure nailbiting fixtures.

[peadar1987]

Probably 1300-1400 in the Carlisle tonight. I reckon losing to Galway was just Bray's way of snaring the money from an extra home game! I was never worried! ;)

[pineapple stu]

Will play-off attendances be included in final round up ?
Nope.

[gufcfan]

I know these are only guesstimates but the fact that half the premier division is in the hundreds shows the ten team idea has not worked.
The amount of people who point at figures and randomly pin it on one factor over all others is quite annoying. Any number of things can be part of the cause.

I could say the same for people calling for the return of winter football, as if summer soccer is in some way obviously the cause of everything wrong with the league.

[Dodge]

Spot on gufcfan. Similarly as there isn't one problem, there isn't one solution either (league size, season, etc etc)

[oriel]

Incidently, the Irish league Premier Crowds are up this season, it'll be interesting to see what the end result will be.

On a side note, there's no point in comparing the LOI & IL as like for like as one country is 3 times the size of the other. It's like comparing Scotland to England. It's a futile comparison and the bigger country should always have the larger averages.

I had a look on the excellent website http://www.carlingpremiership.com/ today, I like the way they give exact attendances for every game, (only one had n.a), but I noticed the average for the last w/e in Dec was 800 and for the first round in Jan it was down to 600, one of the 'na' was for Glentoran, and Linfield were the only side with a crowd in 4 figures (1,500), so I was wondering is this a seasonal adjustment downwards ? or is 700 the revised average for the IL Prem ? Seems quite low.