2012 attendances

[freewheel30]

Couple of decent figures for the first night back

3,500 at Derry-Bohs, 1,500 in Monaghan (prob about half of them Dundalk?) - anyone get a number for Drogheda - Shamrock Rovers?

[Terry]

I counted 158 at mervue -v- longford

[OneForTheFuture]

1918 Shels v Rovers

[bullit]

Couple of decent figures for the first night back

3,500 at Derry-Bohs, 1,500 in Monaghan (prob about half of them Dundalk?)

Good figures..1,000 @ Mons v Dundalk = 75/25 Dundalk

Guess*

[BonnieShels]

1918 Shels v Rovers

Where did that extra 200 come from? Or did I miss hear the announcement?

[OneForTheFuture]

Where did that extra 200 come from? Or did I miss hear the announcement?

200 ST holders were not added from Gate A

[BonnieShels]

Cheers. Was getting worried there.

[Sam_Heggy]

According to ET the Limerick-Harps attendance was 820.

[Battery Rover]

Athlone Town vs SD Galway 325

[blue til i die]

1474 at St. Pats and Bray.

[Youths4Ever]

Approx 570 in Ferrycarrig park for Wexford v Waterford

[blue til i die]

Approx 570 in Ferrycarrig park for Wexford v Waterford

Think it was 571 :D

And that's the only stat that was important about that game. :)

[Dalymountrower]

3,500 at Derry and 200 still queuing at the one window selling tickets 15 minutes after game started, ridiculous.

[Acornvilla]

I counted 158 at mervue -v- longford
extratime said 301, where were the other 150 odd hiding? :D

[Darkglasses]

Approx 570 in Ferrycarrig park for Wexford v Waterford

Looked like much more to me, the stand was almost full and there was still about 150 or so standing around the fence. 700 would be my guess

[cornflakes]

Looked like much more to me, the stand was almost full and there was still about 150 or so standing around the fence. 700 would be my guess

Looked closer to 700 for me too. Hopefully the result will help get a few more faces through the turnstiles

[nigel-harps1954]

Good crowd in Limerick. Did they get an official figure? Very high tech ticketing system going on in Jackman with the Ticketmaster tickets and scanning each of them. I had guessed in around 1,000 alright so 820 wouldn't be too far off. Encouraging from a Limerick perspective.

[bullit]

Its not 'high tech anytyhing' its just Limerick and you catching up with the rest of the world .

[wonder88]

200 maybe, not anymore at Mervue v Longford. Very dissappointing for a club that would hope to challange for promotion this year.

[bluewhitearmy]

Its not 'high tech anytyhing' its just Limerick and you catching up with the rest of the world .

I dont remember many if anyone else having it last season.
Not that i think its high teach or anything.

[El-Pietro]

I dont remember many if anyone else having it last season.
Not that i think its high teach or anything.

you obviously havent been to Cork in the last 5 seasons then, we've had it since 2008

[bullit]

I dont remember many if anyone else having it last season.
Not that i think its high teach or anything.

Bit of time boyyy,sure electricity and the whole lot like .

[bluewhitearmy]

you obviously havent been to Cork in the last 5 seasons then, we've had it since 2008

Never said other didn't have it i said i didn't remember ;).

I was at every game against Cork...This is about our 3rd season having it now.

[gufcfan]

I counted 158 at mervue -v- longford

So they took the actual attendance figure and doubled it basically.

[Sonny]

There were approximately 247,000 Rovers fans in Drogheda last night, with ~700 home fans that leaves the total somewhere in the vicinity of 247,700.

[Dunny]

I dont remember many if anyone else having it last season.
Not that i think its high teach or anything.

We have ticket scanners in place at the turnstyles.

[Longfordian]

extratime said 301, where were the other 150 odd hiding? :D

The former figure sounds the more likely but the difference is a bit odd considering I believe Terry was the person doing the extratime report!

[thomas72]

Good crowd at the Limerick v harps game almost 1000 not bad for a first division game when Limerick go up to premier they will get a couple of thousand handy especially if the club keeps on bringing in the caliber of player that there signing IMO.

[gufcfan]

The former figure sounds the more likely but the difference is a bit odd considering I believe Terry was the person doing the extratime report!
Terry isn't even the name of the guy that posts here.

Don't get me wrong, extratime is great, but a Mervue official writes the match reports for them. Terry Flaherty's reports are fine, but the attendance figures are ALWAYS inflated. He's doubled the actual attendance this time.

I can imagine the conversation in the clubhouse...

"What was the attendance tonight"

"We counted up the tickets, all the st's we sold, and all the players, officials and a few aul wans that were out walking their dogs... and we got 200."

"Right, add another hundred to that and give it to Terry, but don't give him a round number, because it will sound suspicious."

[PartySaint]

1474 at St. Pats and Bray.

Is that from Extratime? I wuld say about 1,700 myself. About 50 Bray fans

[Cuyahoga]

1,400 at Hunky Dory's Park last night according to Irish Times, I thought it was 1,800 myself.

[blue til i die]

Is that from Extratime? I wuld say about 1,700 myself. About 50 Bray fans

It's the official attendance given by the club.

[blue til i die]

Looked like much more to me, the stand was almost full and there was still about 150 or so standing around the fence. 700 would be my guess


Looked closer to 700 for me too. Hopefully the result will help get a few more faces through the turnstiles

The official attendance given by the club was 571.

[gufcfan]

It's the official attendance given by the club.

As League of Ireland fans, we should know that offical attendances can often be substantially different to the actual attendance. Leeson fiddled attendances for almost every match, Mervue have never published a truthful attendance figure since their debut in the LOI.

[Longfordian]

Terry isn't even the name of the guy that posts here.

Don't get me wrong, extratime is great, but a Mervue official writes the match reports for them. Terry Flaherty's reports are fine, but the attendance figures are ALWAYS inflated. He's doubled the actual attendance this time.

I can imagine the conversation in the clubhouse...

"What was the attendance tonight"

"We counted up the tickets, all the st's we sold, and all the players, officials and a few aul wans that were out walking their dogs... and we got 200."

"Right, add another hundred to that and give it to Terry, but don't give him a round number, because it will sound suspicious."

Ah right my apologies to "our" Terry then. I didn't know the other guy was a Mervue official and the poster Terry just seems to be at Mervue games a fair bit. 2 + 2 = 5.

[Lim till i die]

As League of Ireland fans, we should know that offical attendances can often be substantially different to the actual attendance. Leeson fiddled attendances for almost every match, Mervue have never published a truthful attendance figure since their debut in the LOI.

Finally, some closure. :p

Official attendances are bar some notable exceptions (and then only when it suits the clubs) absolute nonsense.

Also fans always, always, always, overestimate their own crowds.

This thread, while fun and an indication of overall trends, is, as a guide to the actual amount of people attending LoI games, about as useful as a paper Paul Green.

[gufcfan]

Ah right my apologies to "our" Terry then. I didn't know the other guy was a Mervue official and the poster Terry just seems to be at Mervue games a fair bit. 2 + 2 = 5.

2 + 2 = 8 would more accurately describe what Mr. Flaherty did.

[gufcfan]

Also fans always, always, always, overestimate their own crowds.

I agree, although in the case of Terryland the discrepancies were fairly large at times. When GUST took over, the figures were accurate. We scanned season tickets and counted the match tickets (obviously).

[micls]

What on earth would be the benefit of 'fiddling' the number attending, especially fi you're underestimating!

[gufcfan]

What on earth would be the benefit of 'fiddling' the number attending, especially fi you're underestimating!

This is all hypothetically speaking of course, but say a football club had banking facilities withdrawn from it and its CEO was dealing largely in cash and wanted to compensate himself more than was agreed as per his contract, one way of concealing parts of this would be to under-report revenues. "Fiddling" the attendance figures would be just one way of doing this.

"The takings at the gate for this month should have been a minimum of X. Where has the money gone if you haven't paid Y and Z?"

Of course if a person was lucky enough that the people with the authority to challenge you on this never actually ask this type of question, fiddling of attendances to cover tracks might sound unnecessary.

Other inventive ways of under-reporting or indeed complete non-reporting of revenues could include trying to convincing sponsors / makers of goodwill gesture payments to make cheques out to "Cash", offering local businesses opportunities to invest in mutually beneficial events which never materialise or perhaps my favourite, claiming four figure "administrative errors" when challenged about the proceeds of club fund-raising ventures.

The above is just a sample of what can be done, none of which we have any experience of whatsoever in Galway and this is purely hypothetical.

[freewheel30]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvnyH5jtH7o

[sadloserkid]

To be fair to Mervue they probably feel that they have to steal some of GUFC's old moves just to keep up with SD Galway.

[gufcfan]

To be fair to Mervue they probably feel that they have to steal some of GUFC's old moves just to keep up with SD Galway.

They didn't give one truthful attendance last season, so it is not a new idea for 2012.

[sadloserkid]

They didn't give one truthful attendance last season, so it is not a new idea for 2012.

Maybe it's just a Galway city thing then? :) Ah no, I kid mostly, as both yourself and LTID have observed clubs inventing attendances more or less on a whim is a long, established tradition in this league, right up there with such embarrassments as an inability to manage player registrations and suspensions properly, terrible refereeing, FAI indifference and Pat Dolan.

[Terry]

Ah right my apologies to "our" Terry then. I didn't know the other guy was a Mervue official and the poster Terry just seems to be at Mervue games a fair bit. 2 + 2 = 5.

I live less than 100 yards from fahys field. I went in for free at half time and was still bored enough to do the count. Apology accepted Longfordian by the way ! On the issue of the attendance I'm sure I was fairly on the button, if anything, I would probably add on another 30-40 for players/management and match officials !!!!!!!!!

[cornflakes]

The official attendance given by the club was 571.

fair enough, just seemed a bit off to me. I'l bring my abacus for the next match

[nigel-harps1954]

We'll have to see now just how good Mervues support is for the game on Saturday against Harps. I expect to see all the fans up for this game seeing as it's a Saturday...

[Shannonsider]

Good crowd in Limerick. Did they get an official figure? Very high tech ticketing system going on in Jackman with the Ticketmaster tickets and scanning each of them. I had guessed in around 1,000 alright so 820 wouldn't be too far off. Encouraging from a Limerick perspective.

820 was the official attendance from Jackman Park.

[Macy]

Terry isn't even the name of the guy that posts here.

Don't get me wrong, extratime is great, but a Mervue official writes the match reports for them. Terry Flaherty's reports are fine, but the attendance figures are ALWAYS inflated. He's doubled the actual attendance this time.
Just interested, not doubting, but who was doing the liveupdates on extra time? Seems odd to have someone doing the live updates, and someone else doing the actual match report, as it was pretty neutral (yes that is how I spent the first part of friday night - I'm total rock n roll me!).

[sadloserkid]

I live less than 100 yards from fahys field.

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