LOI Attendances 2016

[thomas72]

1360 limerick v shels

Excellent attendance concidering Lenister v munster, Liverpool v spurs and barcalona v Madrid were all on the same time

[Jofspring]

Excellent attendance concidering Lenister v munster, Liverpool v spurs and barcalona v Madrid were all on the same time

Dublin vs Limerick in the hurling also. While that wasn't televised it still would have taken a few away that would have travelled up as we have a big following in county Limerick.

[gufct]

I would guess about 2500 at Rovers vs. Galway

Not a hope smallest crowd I have seen since we have been going to Tallaght . GUFC brought over 200 looks like the honeymoon is over for Rovers although if they keep getting refs handing them games like Paul Tuite on Friday night for their first goal they might win something this year,

[RathfarnhamHoop]

Not a hope smallest crowd I have seen since we have been going to Tallaght . GUFC brought over 200 looks like the honeymoon is over for Rovers although if they keep getting refs handing them games like Paul Tuite on Friday night for their first goal they might win something this year,

The way I was looking at it was the top half of the main stand was full up to the suit, I couldn't see past that, and it holds a bit over 3000 so thats about 1100 I could see. Add the 200 or so Glaway fans then that's 1300ish then there looked to be around 1000 in the East stand so that's about 2300 and add in the fans the other side of the suit, maybe 200 or so that's 2500.
It was a guess but that was my thinking behind it.

Edit: What honeymoon exactly? Rovers have always been one of the best supported and most successful clubs in Ireland and don't point to the Tolka attendances to say otherwise everybody knows there were other reasons for bad crowds around that time.
The refs in the league are **** get on with it. Stupid decisions go against every team in the league constantly, the linesman at the car park end was playing like a fifth defender for you at times so don't complain about decisions. What about the second goal then? was there something wrong with that too? It it ended 2-1 or 2-2 then you'd have a case but it still would have been 1-0 without Miele's goal.

[outspoken]

Galway seem to be traveling in great numbers this season. Great to see.

[Charlie Darwin]

Not a hope smallest crowd I have seen since we have been going to Tallaght . GUFC brought over 200 looks like the honeymoon is over for Rovers although if they keep getting refs handing them games like Paul Tuite on Friday night for their first goal they might win something this year,
Hahaha

There was a large crowd out for Pats a couple of weeks ago. People tend to pick and choose games they want to go to, and games against teams like Galway aren't the most attractive. There were fewer people at the game last summer, by the way.

[mcgonigle]

They were scanning ST's for a change last night, I would say it was an exact figure if all were scanned.

Mine wasn't scanned and I didn't see any scanners going into the ground.

[Ezeikial]

Mine wasn't scanned and I didn't see any scanners going into the ground.

plus 1

[disgruntled]

How many clubs actually use scanners ?

[Dalymountrower]

How many clubs actually use scanners ?
Bohs do.
We are looking to get the one Dundalk uses which scans those attending and also scans season ticket holders who would have attended if they could.

[Nesta99]

Im sure it wouldnt be a problem to ask Dundalk for theirs seeing as it's such a sophisticated system not bring used. I dont see what the big deal is a ticket is a ticket whether it is a seaon long one or not, used or not either. How many tickets for fundraisers for poor sick people are bought without the intention of actually going t the funraising night - the fundraiser hardly excludes the money from tickets that didnt turn up on the night! Im sure though that for security or health and safety the number actually present in the ground is known.

[Dalymountrower]

Im sure it wouldnt be a problem to ask Dundalk for theirs seeing as it's such a sophisticated system not bring used. I dont see what the big deal is a ticket is a ticket whether it is a seaon long one or not, used or not either. How many tickets for fundraisers for poor sick people are bought without the intention of actually going t the funraising night - the fundraiser hardly excludes the money from tickets that didnt turn up on the night! Im sure though that for security or health and safety the number actually present in the ground is known.
Maybe Nigel can start a Health and Safety actual attendance thread?

[brendy_éire]

Ticket scanners in the Brandywell, though sometimes they don't scan away fans.

They didn't scan my ticket in Dundalk last Friday, for what it's worth.

[nigel-harps1954]

Maybe Nigel can start a Health and Safety actual attendance thread?

Sponsored by Mervue United.

[outspoken]

Cork scan tickets going into the ground, it's a great system.

[Nesta99]

Maybe Nigel can start a Health and Safety actual attendance thread?

Nah! Either way wouldnt want to show up the big club!

[nigel-harps1954]

Week 5 rundown: (All on here, quite helpfully: http://www.extratime.ie/newsdesk/articles/16209/league-of-ireland-attendances---gameweek-6/)

Dundalk v Derry - 2,105
Shamrock Rovers v Galway - 1,711
Sligo v Cork - 1,609
Limerick v Shelbourne - 1,360
Bohs v Longford - 1,340
Wexford v Bray - 465
Drogheda v Cabinteely - 449
UCD v Athlone - 250 estimate

[nigel-harps1954]

Week 5:

PREMIER DIVISION

Bohs - 1,597 (1,724; 1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488; 1,835; 2,366)
Bray - 935 (769; 718; 891; 965; 1,121; 952; 1,169)
Cork - 3,165 (3,263; 3,777; 1,965; 2,786; 2,128 FD; 1,693 FD; 2,681)
Derry - 2,000 (1,124; 1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135; 1,965 FD; 2,436)
Dundalk - 2,950 (3,158; 2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355; 1,877; 2,371)
Galway - 1,399 (1,290; 975 FD)
Harps - 2,332 (784 FD; 449 FD; 479 FD; 429 FD; 433 FD; 644 FD; 480 FD) -
Longford - 713 (803; 567 FD; 379 FD; 365 FD; 315 FD; 230 FD; 260 FD)
Pat's - 1,831 (1,321; 1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346; 1,756; 1,631)
Rovers - 2,506 (2,890; 2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779; 3,794; 3,611)
Sligo - 2,243 (1,750; 1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103; 1,807; 1,756)
Wexford - 672(553 FD; 331 FD; 227 FD; 302 FD; 216 FD; 343 FD; 494 FD)

FIRST DIVISION

Athlone - 292 (314; 653 PD; 754; 271; 200; 354; 462)
Cabinteely - 647 (610)
Cobh - 411 (366; 223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681; 368; 403)
Drogheda - 583 (813 PD; 1,064 PD; 817 PD; 977 PD; 811 PD; 859 PD; 1,106 PD)
Limerick - 1,401 (1,206 PD; 757 PD; 1,649 PD; 734; 569; 598; 429)
Shels - 619 (596; 713; 1,114 PD; 1,187 PD; 781; 737; 972)
UCD - 243 (216; 397 PD; 487 PD; 506 PD; 558 PD; 610 PD; 272)
Waterford - 720 (460; 470; 478; 453; 466; 619; 434)


PREMIER AVERAGE: 1,843 (1,681; 1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547; 1,512; 2,010)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 648 (486; 495; 391; 372; 578; 682; 417)

OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,429 (1,249; 1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110; 1,095; 1,175)


TOTAL WEEKLY ATTENDANCE: 9,289 (8 games)

OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 62,661(332,805; 297,334)
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 11,663(54,474; 55,408)

OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 74,324​(387,279; 352,742)

[nigel-harps1954]

1,505 in Galway

[Battery Rover]

Athlone vs Waterford 212

[outspoken]

Pats game just over 1000 according to RTE, from Twitter pics Turners Cross didn't exactly look up to its normal levels either. Any good attendances to report? How are things looking overall so far nigel, up or down on this stage last year?

[Hitman]

2,793 for Cork City v Wexford Youths.

[gufc2000]

From extratime:

Pats/Sligo- 1061
Drogheda/Limerick- 550 est.
Shels/UCD- 602

[outspoken]

2,793 for Cork City v Wexford Youths.

Not bad after all

[outspoken]

Our attendance once again given as over 700 tonight but no way In hell there was anymore than 450 there at most.

[shep]

I was in the main stand and there were about 60 Dundalk fans in there and I reckon about 150 over in the away section.Id say about 3 or 400 Longford fans including about 12 in section O.

[dundalkfc10]

Was def more away fans than home fans! Horrible to see

[outspoken]

I was in the main stand and there were about 60 Dundalk fans in there and I reckon about 150 over in the away section.Id say about 3 or 400 Longford fans including about 12 in section O.

Yep we were so bored at one stage we counted the stand, there was at the very very most 450 in the ground and that's a stretch

[Mark]

1,061 was the official figure for Pat's v Sligo Rovers.

[brendy_éire]

Various estimates for the Derry-Shams match, the mean of which would be 2,750, which would seem about right.

[nigel-harps1954]

Haven't got official figure yet, but around 1,000 or so in Finn Park tonight.

Fair play to the 20 or 30 Pats fans making the trip on a Monday night. Know just how difficult it is to get away for a game so it was good to see a few of them up.

[nigel-harps1954]

Harps v Pats a disappointing 801 official.

[ForzaHoop]

Monday nights are a bad night for HARPS, i know most lads in my job didn't bother going, bet crowd will be bigger against Bray

[joey B]

Think we've been hugely unlucky with our home games so far, 2 were on a Monday night which knocked off a fair portion of away support and obviously home fans aswell ,and one was on Easter weekend,with an Ireland game the day before and a Donegal game on tv at the same time as well as atrocious weather.

[disgruntled]

Monday nights are a killer for all clubs.
I know clubs seem to be in favor of them but surely not this early in the season.
Can't see the point of it to be honest so early in the season.
There are usually spare weekends later on in the season with teams out of cup competitions etc.

[trevy]

420 at Waterford United v Cobh Ramblers as per sullywaterford's post on the other thread.

[D24Saint]

Thought it was around a 1000 last night myself but it wasn't a bad crowd for a Monday evening.

[ger121]

Monday nights are a bad night for HARPS, i know most lads in my job didn't bother going, bet crowd will be bigger against Bray

Monday nights are bad news full-stop!

[Charlie Darwin]

Monday night last was bad news for me anyway as it entailed the highlights of Friday night's bad news.

[Mr A]

Monday nights are a killer for all clubs.
I know clubs seem to be in favor of them but surely not this early in the season.
Can't see the point of it to be honest so early in the season.
There are usually spare weekends later on in the season with teams out of cup competitions etc.

Our game was set by FAI. I very much doubt Harps had an input!

[disgruntled]

Our game was set by FAI. I very much doubt Harps had an input!

Don't know Mr A.
As far as I know Monday night games are there because the clubs wanted it that way.
I presume its to stop the season being extended with the added wages costs etc.
There are blank weekends later on in the season with clubs out of cup competitions when these games could be played.

[sulywaterfordfc]

Don't know Mr A.
As far as I know Monday night games are there because the clubs wanted it that way.
I presume its to stop the season being extended with the added wages costs etc.
There are blank weekends later on in the season with clubs out of cup competitions when these games could be played.

The Monday night fixtures are in place so the Premier Division will end the same time as the first division. Which it has to for the play off system. Otherwise the first division club in the relegation/promotion play off would be without a game for 4/5 weeks and would still have to pay players in that time without having any gate revenue. There'd be a financial strain on the club plus a lack of competitive match practice for players.

[disgruntled]

The Monday night fixtures are in place so the Premier Division will end the same time as the first division. Which it has to for the play off system. Otherwise the first division club in the relegation/promotion play off would be without a game for 4/5 weeks and would still have to pay players in that time without having any gate revenue. There'd be a financial strain on the club plus a lack of competitive match practice for players.

Cheers for that but surely there are blank weekends later on in the season when most clubs are out of the Cup competitions ?
In any case why does it have to be Monday.
Surely Tuesday would be much better especially when some clubs have to play on Saturday night as well.

[Dodge]

Cheers for that but surely there are blank weekends later on in the season when most clubs are out of the Cup competitions ?
In any case why does it have to be Monday.
Surely Tuesday would be much better especially when some clubs have to play on Saturday night as well.
It doesn't have to be Monday. It's a midweek game and clubs have found that Friday - Monday - Friday works best. Clubs that play on Saturday usually go for Tuesday

Would harps have got less crowd this week on Tuesday with champions league on? Probably

[jinxy lilywhite]

Also maybe someone can confirm thus but doesn't frank and Irene get money from uefa to not have domestic games on European nights (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday ).

I remember it mentioned when we moved from Thursday to Fridays as a reason

[disgruntled]

In a few weeks time all the major Soccer leagues will be finished.
Why can't we wait until then to play our mid week games or is the annual tiddly winks championships on then ?

There are weekends every season when clubs are out of cup competitions & have no games.
They still have to play their players even though they have no income.
There are other options out there if clubs want to take them.
Whats the big rush to get all the midweek games played so early in the season.

[Dodge]

In a few weeks time all the major Soccer leagues will be finished.
Why can't we wait until then to play our mid week games or is the annual tiddly winks championships on then ?

There are weekends every season when clubs are out of cup competitions & have no games.
They still have to play their players even though they have no income.
There are other options out there if clubs want to take them.
Whats the big rush to get all the midweek games played so early in the season.
You keep mentioning cup weekends but it's really not an option. You can't leave harps v Pats (postponed in April) until October because one/both are still in the cup? Get the game played as quick as possible

The planned midweek games are a pain but if clubs want a 40 week season (and they all do) and the players want a mid season break (and they all do), then there's no other way

[disgruntled]

You keep mentioning cup weekends but it's really not an option. You can't leave harps v Pats (postponed in April) until October because one/both are still in the cup? Get the game played as quick as possible

The planned midweek games are a pain but if clubs want a 40 week season (and they all do) and the players want a mid season break (and they all do), then there's no other way

Sorry can't agree with you there Dodge.
Yes by all means have mid week games but you don't have to get them all played in the first couple of months of the season. Wait a couple of months until the Champions League & Premiership are finished. Then the clubs can have any night they want.
There are ways to avoid Mondays night games if clubs want them.
The problem is that most of the clubs are totally dysfunctional & couldn't run the proverbial in a brewery.

The clubs ran the League of Ireland for years until they ran it into the ground. The FAI have no interest in running the League but we have to have a National league & someone has to run it.
Its fine for clubs to complain about the way the FAI run the League but they won't do anything about it because most of them can't even run themselves.
Always waiting for someone else to do it for them & its been that way for as long as I can remember it.

[Yossarian]

I don't think what particular weeknight the games are on will make that much difference. If the regular games are going to be on Fri/Sat then Monday and Tuesday are the only real options. There is only one Monday night game scheduled in each round so that's three in total. The problems arise when postponed games have to be squeezed in.
This issue is not going to disappear as long as the clubs want a 40 week season and that's not going to change anytime soon.

[JC_GUFC]

Sorry can't agree with you there Dodge.
Yes by all means have mid week games but you don't have to get them all played in the first couple of months of the season. Wait a couple of months until the Champions League & Premiership are finished. Then the clubs can have any night they want.
There are ways to avoid Mondays night games if clubs want them.
The problem is that most of the clubs are totally dysfunctional & couldn't run the proverbial in a brewery.

The clubs ran the League of Ireland for years until they ran it into the ground. The FAI have no interest in running the League but we have to have a National league & someone has to run it.
Its fine for clubs to complain about the way the FAI run the League but they won't do anything about it because most of them can't even run themselves.
Always waiting for someone else to do it for them & its been that way for as long as I can remember it.

I think you've misunderstood Dodge (I'm sure he'll defend himself anyway!) but I think what he's saying is that they need to get the postponed games played as quickly as possible, which is the way it should be.

Look at the Irish League up North this season, at one stage Carrick Rangers had about 6 games in hand because their home ground was unplayable for the best part of 4 months. They ended up having to play home games in Belfast.

If a match is postponed it should be played at the earliest possible time, waiting 4 months in the hope that they both get knocked out of the cup makes no sense. What if Harps had another game postponed, or Pat's went a few rounds in Europe and had to call off some games?

I think the UEFA Competition is probably why midweek fixtures get run off early in the season. It's a bit of an inconvenience but as Dodge says if the clubs just want a 40-week season and players want their 2-week summer break there's no other way (apart from 14-team league with 26 games).