Attendances 2014

[nigel-harps1954]

400 or so in Finn Park tonight. Pleasantly surprised by the crowd.

[Battery Rover]

328 in Athlone Town Stadium

[Martinho II]

very poor athlone crowd. only for the section o lads there would have being no atmosphere! wonder has the wrong team being promoted?

[Longfordian]

I doubt our crowd would have been any better for a Monday night league cup game to be honest.

[Charlie Darwin]

very poor athlone crowd. only for the section o lads there would have being no atmosphere! wonder has the wrong team being promoted?
I doubt Mervue would have brought many more.

[Acornvilla]

We've won our opening two matches and Shels will bring a decent crowd given that we're a pretty handy away trip, so I'll make an estimate that we'll get around 5/600 at the CCS this weekend :P

[ATFC-1887]

I doubt our crowd would have been any better for a Monday night league cup game to be honest.
Exactly. It was a minor game on a monday night. Wasnt much to be singing about either. I wouldnt call it a very poor crowd either.

[ATFC-1887]

328 in Athlone Town Stadium
Is that all? Look alot better than that. Surprised. Im sure we will more than make up for it Friday night.

[Charlie Darwin]

Exactly. It was a minor game on a monday night. Wasnt much to be singing about either. I wouldnt call it a very poor crowd either.
Even allowing for the short travelling distance, it was probably a difficult one for a lot of people to make. You're basically writing off your entire Monday evening, which is difficult for people with families to do.

[wonder88]

648 at Pats, the interest seems to be gone for the Setanta Cup, a competition that I hoped would be a big success and maybe lay the foundations for an All-Ireland league. Really can't see any future for it now even without any prospect of an AIL arising from it. This year there will be 4 teams that will play another side at least 5 times, which can't help bringing in a crowd. Unless there is a very big attendance at the final, this year should be the end it.

[Titan]

Even allowing for the short travelling distance, it was probably a difficult one for a lot of people to make. You're basically writing off your entire Monday evening, which is difficult for people with families to do.

Yep very true. And athlone have only 2 home games in April. Both on Mondays. Cheers fixture computer cheers a lot!

[Trainee]

reports on galwayunitedfc.net of approx 150 in Terryland for LC v Mayo league

[ATFC-1887]

Yep very true. And athlone have only 2 home games in April. Both on Mondays. Cheers fixture computer cheers a lot!

Just noticed this. Absolute jokeshop. Bohs and Dundalk. What would of potentially been massive crowds will probably be severely affected by this.

[outspoken]

Is that all? Look alot better than that. Surprised. Im sure we will more than make up for it Friday night.

Looked a lot less to me we brought around 40-50 with us and the home end was virtually empty. 328 actually isn't a bad crowd for a Monday night LC game.

[nigel-harps1954]

Do Athlone have much advertising around the AIT campus these days? There's a huge number of foreign students in there who do nothing but chat about, and play football. When I was there, a great number of them didn't even know there was a team in Athlone. A market for Athlone Town to break into. Especially with those Monday night games, when the attendance won't be too great, an idea would be to go into college during the day and hand out hundreds of complimentary student tickets for one night. Not making any loss when they wouldn't have been there otherwise, and could make a few quid off merch and snack sales.

You can thank me later.

[oriel]

Just noticed this. Absolute jokeshop. Bohs and Dundalk. What would of potentially been massive crowds will probably be severely affected by this.

Agree it's not ideal, but having both early in the season means you will have both at home again later in the season. Plus you never know, the novelty factor of both first visiting in a PD game might bring a decent away support.

Edit just checked, you have Bohs at home again in Sept and DLK in Oct, both should be Friday nights.

[atfconline]

The Dundalk game is on Easter Monday, whether that makes any difference either way.

[wonder88]

Agree that foreign students should be a target market for Athlone (all LoI clubs). I always used to notice a group of them in Terryland back in the Galway Utd days. Did not spot any last friday but some could have been in the fairly big crowd. Last year at Richmond Park for Pats v Bohs a group of approx 20 Dutch students on college trip to Ireland where in attendance. I got talking to a few of them on the bus back into town and they told me they went on their own accord after finding out there was a Dublin derby on. Never asked the groups I saw in Terryland who, if anyone recommended they sample the league of Ireland (many in Galway would have been American).

[ATFC-1887]

Do Athlone have much advertising around the AIT campus these days? There's a huge number of foreign students in there who do nothing but chat about, and play football. When I was there, a great number of them didn't even know there was a team in Athlone. A market for Athlone Town to break into. Especially with those Monday night games, when the attendance won't be too great, an idea would be to go into college during the day and hand out hundreds of complimentary student tickets for one night. Not making any loss when they wouldn't have been there otherwise, and could make a few quid off merch and snack sales.

You can thank me later.

Nigel never mind the AIT, the club havent even a single poster up in town for the game Friday. Worse and worse it is getting and alot of people are getting ****ed off. Our biggest game in years and not one bloody poster. Build up to the game has been pathetic. Only for our fans page there would be little to no mention of the game.

[peterc1992]

Is there no signs up?

Our attendance at the weekend is likely to be very good although a lot will be Rovers fans but I do expect us to well break last season with maybe 2500+. But we could be doing so much better.

Most of the people coming Friday are the same who came at the end of last year. It's great to be back and there is a bit of a buzz but i feel it could be more. There is still a lot of people who have zero interest and dont have a clue that the season has started again.

As someone said there is a chance to pull in another 100-200 people from AIT this weekend if they just gave away a few free tickets. A fiver spent in the shop off each of themm is 500-1000 euro in revenue. A decent percentage of that will get hooked and come back with their tenners and pay at the gate.

Is there any posters up like the back end of last year? I wouldnt mind sticking a few around but its a bit late at this stage.

[peterc1992]

very poor athlone crowd. only for the section o lads there would have being no atmosphere! wonder has the wrong team being promoted?

Cold Monday night. 2 days since last game. Most of the town didn't know it was on.

I was disappointed at first thoughts but then again League cup games arnt really known for pulling attendances out of the bag. Even in England attendances are down hugely for early round league cup games.

[ATFC-1887]

Is there no signs up?

Is there any posters up like the back end of last year? I wouldnt mind sticking a few around but its a bit late at this stage.

Nope and nope. Myself and a few others had to put up the posters last year. Club done nothing.

[wonder88]

Is Athlone a members club or is it owned by a private company/individuals. The lack of promotion is really bad, and unbelievable after such a good season last year. I know that people will say that with the proliferation of media these days that anybody likely to be interested is already aware of the big game, but people still need a little nudge often to make a decision, and a few posters/leaflet drop or free/discounted tickets etc could add a fair number to fridays crowd.

[dundalkfc10]

The Dundalk game is on Easter Monday, whether that makes any difference either way.

That should mean we will bring a decent crowd (decent number wise, the scummers that will be with us not so much decent)

[wonder88]

610 at Waterford v Galway

[wonder88]

1793 at Athlone v Shamrock R, official.

[ger121]

1793 at Athlone v Shamrock R, official.

Score.ie had 793. Glad now I didn't post that comment critising the attendance for their 1st home game in Premier for 18 years.

[Keen2win]

Still poor considering Shams prob brought 4-500?

[nigel-harps1954]

Certainly, I'd say most Athlone fans would have hoped to see closer to a sell out.

[Keen2win]

I wouldn't be happy if I was an Athlone fan. Why aren't the club putting more effort into marketing the club? Nothing only bitching and fighting on the fan pages too.They were not expecting to go up and it looks as if they are a bit lost now. If they stay up this year, then they might start pulling away because there is great potential, but I don't see it happening! Pity, if we go up, I'd want them to be there too!

[Battery Rover]

Other stuff going on in Town last night would have taken a couple of hundred off crowd last night with Buccaneers playing a rugby game and I believe top junior side Willow Park playing and going for seven in a row CCFL titles which they achieved.

As for attendance given our new ticket scanning system hit a few glitches early in night resulted in tickets dailing to scan. So could add another 150 to that as I would have thought 1900 myself.

Some people stayed away thinking of the potential for something to kick off afrer witnessing Dubarry in 2006.

Main thing was night passed off without incident and all got home safely.

[Keen2win]

^:rolleyes: Stop making excuses! First home league game in how many years? I'm gonna guess that you are involved at the club?

Off to a flying start already. If the usual predictable pettiness of this thread starts to wear you down, why not pass the time playing Attendance Excuse Bingo:


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[oriel]

@dundalkfc Attendance of 1,654

A little disappointed with this even with very small away support.

[PartySaint]

Poor crowd in Richmond last night, over 1,000 but not by much. It will be even lower next week as we play Limerick at quarter past 3 on Saturday, I'd be surprised if we got over 1,000

[pineapple stu]

2500 estimated on extratime. I think somewhere in between is about right.

[wonder88]

Extratime gave 2.5k estimate last night? Very poor, did Pats do any promotion for the game, you would expect the owner would have know some marketing people that could come up with some ideas. Was there at 2 games last year and lovely soccer played by Pats, maybe location of ground does not help?

[PartySaint]

2500 estimated on extratime. I think somewhere in between is about right.

Wow, it wasn't anywhere near that.

[pineapple stu]

I thought a couple of minutes before the start that it wasn't a great crowd, but it filled out a bit. In particular, the "new" stand (as someone who doesn't visit the ground that often) is kind of deceptive; the main stand does be that bit emptier as the crowd is spread out more. 1000 is way too low anyway.

[Green&whitearmy]

Decent crowd in bray last night, I'd say about 1100 at it, thought sligo would have had a few more. Extratime is wrong in this case with saying 550.

[Martinho II]

what happened in Dubarry Park in 06 that puts off Athlone fans from attending?

[atfconline]

We lost.

There may have been some Bebo Brigade stuff at it as well. It was the Galway game a few weeks later that I really remember them shaming the Club live on TV.

Organisation wise it all seemed to go off well last night at least.

[Battery Rover]

what happened in Dubarry Park in 06 that puts off Athlone fans from attending?

Crowd trouble in the ground and around the town when the clubs played in the FAI Cup Quarter Final.

[avvenalaf]

Decent crowd in bray last night, I'd say about 1100 at it, thought sligo would have had a few more. Extratime is wrong in this case with saying 550.

1100? Get real. Extra time is spot on.

[Grey Boy]

1100? Get real. Extra time is spot on.

Extratime was wrong. 1100 was about right.

[wandererfan]

extratime is 100% wrong on the Bray game, 1,000 min

[avvenalaf]

Unless you sawyed them in two and counted then, there is no way there was 1000 in Bray on Friday night.

[nigel-harps1954]

400-ish in Tallaght. Was fairly disappointed with the crowd to be honest. Thought more Rovers fans would make the trip in. Stephen McGuinness, Paul Osam, Trevor Crolly all interested spectators, as well as a handful of the Rovers first team squad.

50 or so from Harps down.

[avvenalaf]

Harps v Shams B or Utd/Pool and Spurs/ Arse. Tough decision that.

[Grey Boy]

Sheesh, are you the guy who gives the extratime.ie estimates? You have 4 or 5 Bray fans on here telling you more than 1000. Last year I objected to an over estimate and an under estimate and was shot down on both occasions. No on is on here making it up, just want a bit of accuracy as our club don't/won't give anything official. 1100.

[avvenalaf]

If its accuracy you're after forget about 1100. Half that nearer the picture. I am now resigning from this debate so you can have the last word on it.