2013 Attendances

[dundalkfc10]

Interesting choice of words Bullit in needed to know. Everyone needs to know of course, people who are regular supporters will already know so trying to pick up floating customers like visitors to the town, those in the hinterland eg Carrick is the difference between 1800 and over 2000. There is too much focus on preaching to the already converted imo. It is regularily asked of us up town after a match what the score was followed by who were we playing, so the message is falling short somewhere. Those roadside signs going in and out of every major route in town were a great job in the past assuming they are updated first thing on the saturday with the following home fixture! There are times when you can be sure that the town knows that there is a big night in Oriel and feel the buzz, 1st European match couple of years ago and cup semi 2002 are standouts where even non Dundalk based family were seeking info and tickets

All football fans (armchair, floating fans etc...) know the LOI is generally always Fri nights

Everyone who wants to go to Oriel will in my opinion find out when the next home game is on IMO

All the advertising in the world wont change that

[Nesta99]

All football fans (armchair, floating fans etc...) know the LOI is generally always Fri nights

Everyone who wants to go to Oriel will in my opinion find out when the next home game is on IMO

All the advertising in the world wont change that

Thats fair enough, people who want to go will make it their business to find out. Some though need it under their noses to notice and with lapsed or disillusioned fans decent match advertisment give a better impression than past days and give an incentive or curiosity to tip back up to Oriel to see how things are going and with current levels of positivity throughout the place they may turn regulars again.
I do recognise that there limitations or no quick fixes.

[buttyk]

to be honest clubs do need to advertise matches more and where their ground is. i also think it shud be advertised how much it is into games. the fai have a lot to answer for. we played bluebell in cup and they tried to charge us 15e to get in. kids and all. and I don't think u shud have pay 10e into salthill r mervue as neither have a stand r seat in their grounds. ooo I do reckon athlone will keep getting about 600 mark. but it don't help when away teams r not bringing fans to matches. kills atmosphere

[oriel]

People have so much more choices these days and its always going to be a hard sell for all LOI clubs. Also all of our home matches for e.g. are live on the radio, there are twitter updates every 5 mins, other internet updates, all great information sources, but also easy for people not to go.

Our crowds are not bad for our position, they'll probably increase a little if we maintain our good form, Rovers and Sligo visiting next month are always good attractions, but as ever people will find excuses not to go to some games, thats just the way it is these days.

In saying that, I think the club should be reasonably happy with the crowds so far.

[nigel-harps1954]

Can i ask in what way are Finn Harps a bigger club than Athlone haha They have 1 First Division Title and one Fai cup in their history.

You're just making yourself look very silly now and you're not even worth the argument.

[Bosco]

Everyone knows Athlone have the biggest hypothetical attendances in the league, stop being bitter lads.

[ATFC-1887]

Very good Bosco, but no, We just have the biggest attendances in the league....

[ArdeeBhoy]

This whole exercise does rather strike me as a good number of bald men fighting over a comb...

[Charlie Darwin]

Can i ask in what way are Finn Harps a bigger club than Athlone haha They have 1 First Division Title and one Fai cup in their history.
And more fans.

[Sean South]

This is like Ray Darcy always arguing over his height. He's a shortarse and Athlone, Finn Harps, Longford are all small clubs with small attendances. Get over it.

[ArdeeBhoy]

Actually I'd say RD is just below average height...

[ATFC-1887]

This is like Ray Darcy always arguing over his height. He's a shortarse and Athlone, Finn Harps, Longford are all small clubs with small attendances. Get over it.

Haha Coming from a limerick fan. One year back in the premier (because ye have a lot of money) and ye think yer a big club. Dont be deluded

[Charlie Darwin]

Sean South is a Sligo fan. Good job living up to the bald man/comb analogy though.

[Bosco]

This is like Ray Darcy always arguing over his height. He's a shortarse and Athlone, Finn Harps, Longford are all small clubs with small attendances. Get over it.

I don't see any Longford fans on here claiming anything different.

I'm just glad Roddy has finally awoken this sleeping giant of Irish football.

A half decent showing in the first 17 games of one of the poorest first divisions in a long time and they are already back to being one of the biggest clubs in Ireland.

[Dodge]

You can't use this line on Longford fans

I don't see any Longford fans on here claiming anything different.

and then claim Athlone fans are saying this..

A half decent showing in the first 17 games of one of the poorest first divisions in a long time and they are already back to being one of the biggest clubs in Ireland.

In general LOI clubs arguing about "big" clubs is ridiculous. They're all tiny. Some more tiny than others, but it's mostly cyclical

[Bosco]

You can't use this line on Longford fans


and then claim Athlone fans are saying this..


In general LOI clubs arguing about "big" clubs is ridiculous. They're all tiny. Some more tiny than others, but it's mostly cyclical

I'm not sure if I follow you? The first part was referring to the fact that no Longford fans were claiming to be anything but a small club.

The second part is clearly meant sarcastically referring to Athlones inflated opinion of themselves this year.

Of course the big clubs argument is ridiculous, similarly the majority of all boosting/slagging over attendances is ridiculous considering we are all in the same boat.

[nigel-harps1954]

Well, for a start, I never called Harps a big club. Never would.

My point simply was, based on relative recent history and evidence, that were Harps and Waterford to be pushing for promotion, they would be getting large first division attendances. You just have to look back at the past few years to see this.

Athlone are already achieving in around 500-600. They're going as well as they have in about 10 years in a town that hasn't supported the club in about just as many years. I don't see where they're going to be outnumbering other supports that have an already large enough 'sunshine support' base.

Wasn't trying to start any argument, nor was I explaining any 'anti-Athlone' agenda that I have. Some people just decide to read from it what they want to hear.

[ATFC-1887]

Fair enough but Waterford are pushing for promotion and they still have **** crowds. I know Harps would get good crowds but i dont see this Waterford would be getting big crowds.

[Keen2win]

I think I'm losing my mind! :knife:

[Town Legend]

This is like Ray Darcy always arguing over his height. He's a shortarse and Athlone, Finn Harps, Longford are all small clubs with small attendances. Get over it.

Where are you going calling us a small club?? We have huge finance coming in from our oil tycoons out in the Far East which enables us to have top quality facilities and sign all the top players on this island and abroad. Well that's what Roddy says so it must be true!!!

[ATFC-1887]

Funny thing is only thing Roddy said was that ye offered Curran more money than us which we couldnt compete with. Saying that things have changed and there should be some news soon :P Love having a college in Athlone :P

[nigel-harps1954]

Love having a college in Athlone :P


Even if it's not very good for anyone that's not interested in sport.

[Town Legend]

Funny thing is only thing Roddy said was that ye offered Curran more money than us which we couldnt compete with. Saying that things have changed and there should be some news soon :P Love having a college in Athlone :P

Wrong there. Roddy said earlier in the season that with the finances we have we should be winning the league hands down!! But we all know one thing for sure....Roddy is one of the biggest spoofers out there!! And we turned curran down from what I was told back in Salthill a couple of weeks ago!! We have a new striker signed from Rovers so why the need for another one!!

[Acornvilla]

This is getting a bit silly.

[Town Legend]

You're being a bit silly!!! :D

[buttyk]

to be fair any support at these times is good as people don't have money in general. clubs have balance books better.

[bullit]

It dosn't matter how low the attendances go,as long as you can swing a slagging on the back of it. Specially on the LOI banter page :D

[Battery Rover]

Athlone Town V Salthill Devon 415 Official

[oriel]

As the Longford lads mull over their response when they return from sunbathing. 4 hours and still nothing in. Is there peace at last ?

[Charlie Darwin]

I assumed they'd gone off to hijack the Enda Curran deal.

[Acornvilla]

They're down in Cobh having money fights.

A bit annoyed I couldn't go :(

Edit: 1-0 ahead!

[Acornvilla]

355 at the match, via Cobhs twitter account.

[nigel-harps1954]

Bray v Bohs - 2,500 est
Shels v Limerick - 783
Shamrock Rovers v UCD - 2,300 est
Cork v Dundalk - 1,670

Cobh v Longford - 355
Athlone v Salthill - 415
Mervue v Harps - 206
Wexford v Waterford - no figure given.

[nigel-harps1954]

Week 18:

PREMIER DIVISION

Bohs - 1,588 (1,496; 1,488; 1,835; 2,366; 1,993; 1,924; 1,463; 1,976)
Bray - 1,023 (965; 1,121; 952; 1,169; 1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550)
Cork - 1,979 (2,786; 2,128 FD; 1,693 FD; 2,681; 3,142; 2,897; 2,941; 3,644)
Derry - 1,588 (1,460; 2,135; 1,965 FD; 2,436; 3,363; 2,614; 3,229; 2,698)
Drogheda - 893 (977; 811; 859; 1,106; 1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682)
Dundalk - 1,767 (949; 1,355; 1,877; 2,371; 1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD)
Limerick - 2,028 (734 FD; 569 FD; 598 FD; 429 FD; 517 FD; 670 FD; 364 FD; 669 FD)
Pat's - 1,395 (1,474; 1,346; 1,756; 1,631; 1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599)
Rovers - 2,927 (3,127; 3,779; 3,794; 3,611; 1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539)
Shels - 1,041 (1,187; 781 FD; 737 FD; 972 FD; 986 FD; 888 FD; 1,690; 1,949)
Sligo - 2,599 (3,007; 2,103; 1,807; 1,756; 1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD)
UCD - 407 (506; 558; 610; 272 FD; 546; 663; 546; 653; 306 FD)

FIRST DIVISION

Athlone - 460 (271; 200; 354; 462; 387; 670; 421; 316)
Cobh - 493 (2008 - 1,122 PD; 681; 368; 403; 240)
Harps - 559 (429; 433; 644; 480; 1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106) -
Longford - 360 (365; 315; 230; 260; 406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD)
Mervue - 249 (243; 349; 123; 166)
Salthill Devon - 130 (182; 125; 122)
Waterford - 408 (453; 466; 619; 434; 670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD)
Wexford - 238 (302; 216; 343; 494; 767; 810)

PREMIER AVERAGE: 1,607 (1,630; 1,547; 1,512; 2,010; 1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 364 (372; 578; 682; 417; 641; 722; 570; 520)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,156 (1,125; 1,110; 1,095; 1,175; 1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195)

TOTAL WEEKLY ATTENDANCE: 8,579 (8 games)
OVERALL ATTENDANCE: 225,517

[Dodge]

Bray v Bohs - 2,500 est


I was talking to a friend and he reckoned there was 1,200 tops at the game. He felt he was being generous. How is it so different on ET?

[Grey Boy]

Definitely an over estimate from ET. More in the region of 1800 or so.

[nigel-harps1954]

I've sent off an email, looking for an official attendance. I do it most weeks when there's no official attendance given, but we'll see if there's a response.

[bennocelt]

Bray v Bohs - 2,500 est
Shels v Limerick - 783
Shamrock Rovers v UCD - 2,300 est
Cork v Dundalk - 1,670

Cobh v Longford - 355
Athlone v Salthill - 415
Mervue v Harps - 206
Wexford v Waterford - no figure given.

Wow thats a cracking crowd for two teams near the bottom of the league

[oriel]

Bray v Bohs - 2,500 est

Unless you havent seen above posts, this crowd is 'under review' Benno, seems to be way out and not just from above posts either.

[bennocelt]

Bray v Bohs - 2,500 est

Unless you havent seen above posts, this crowd is 'under review' Benno, seems to be way out and not just from above posts either.

Yeah didnt notice that!

[buttyk]

their looked to be more than 415 at athlone v salthill game

[ForzaForth]

Wexford v Waterford attendance was 365.

[nigel-harps1954]

No reply from Bray as of yet. Anyone here with any sort of knowledge of Bray that'd be able to help out? Or a more realistic estimate?

[Green&whitearmy]

I would have to say extratime is well over estimated, in my opinion I would have said there was around 1800 or so.

[Dillonman]

From the highlights on MNS the home canvased stand looked half empty so that big attendance seemed far fetched. unless Bohs had nearly 1500 under the cameras!

[nigel-harps1954]

If I don't get any reply from the club before next updates on the thread, I'll just go with 1,800.

[oriel]

Dundalk V Bray

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Attendance: 1,684.

Other PD as per ET

St Pats v Cork 1,094
UCD v Shels 602
Bohs v Drogs 1,194

[culloty82]

Did the crowd at the RSC last night at least reach four figures, after the online campaign?

[trevy]

Did the crowd at the RSC last night at least reach four figures, after the online campaign?

No 671 there as per extra time. Biggest crowd of the season so far I'd say.

[Spudulika]

All things considered that's good in Waterford. I think it was yesterday, or the day before, I was listening to RTE or Newstalk about how the city and county is one of the unemployment blackspots in Ireland. I know it has a base from the late-90's with Crystal etc, but just keeping the club going is a real ask.