The 2017 LOI Attendance thread.

[nr637]

1,368 at the Pats Derry game

How many at the nearest beaches to the Showgrounds like Enniscrone, Standhill or Rosses Point!

[Partizan]

50 at Athlone v Cabinteely.

Yes, that's FIFTY!

[EatYerGreens]

Bray used a jaws type themed poster for the v Dundalk match at the end of June.

https://scontent-lht6-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19511127_1365987463455810_4921228945606774464_n.jp g?oh=061b2d3ca7d5e9ebb0d03b09522be33e&oe=59F9039F

That poster helps explain why their attendances have been so sh!te anyway.... ;)

[Guitd]

Here's a new one for LOI fans ,The Galway FA who rent EDP to Galway united have fined the club €100 after kids ran onto the pitch after the limerick game last week:rolleyes:

[Lim till i die]

Here's a new one for LOI fans ,The Galway FA who rent EDP to Galway united have fined the club €100 after kids ran onto the pitch after the limerick game last week:rolleyes:

Just don't pay it what are they going to do?

I saw guards lifting kids over the wall at the end to help them onto the pitch. :D

[EatYerGreens]

Here's a new one for LOI fans ,The Galway FA who rent EDP to Galway united have fined the club €100 after kids ran onto the pitch after the limerick game last week:rolleyes:

If Galway United are in charge of matchday arrangements and the lease agreement states that they have to keep feral yoof off the pitch, then what is wrong with that ?

[Partizan]

Official attendance of 1,852 announced at the RSC v Cobh.

[ger121]

Official attendance of 1,852 announced at the RSC v Cobh.

Not being smart but you'll probably do well to keep those great crowds in the PD next season. Success really does draw a crowd sometimes. Even in the graveyard.

[ToberonaTornado]

1028 Galway v Drogs

[outspoken]

Say about 150 in Wexford last night if even. Around 8 Longford town fans present

[Partizan]

Not being smart but you'll probably do well to keep those great crowds in the PD next season. Success really does draw a crowd sometimes. Even in the graveyard.

We were getting twice that when Jimmy McGeough was in charge.

[ger121]

We were getting twice that when Jimmy McGeough was in charge.

In the PD or First? If the latter, did crowds go down when you went up? I'm just making a general point that success can bring in crowds even in the FD but drop away if never the bottom in the PD. Happened to Galway I think a few seasons ago.

[Martinho II]

[QUOTE=outspoken;1929506]Say about 150 in Wexford last night if even. Around 8 Longford town fans present[/QUOTE

the eight you are counting are the ones besides us. there were at least two ex committee members there a few aisles back and then add five of them the far side. so you can double it easily!

[Partizan]

In the PD or First? If the latter, did crowds go down when you went up? I'm just making a general point that success can bring in crowds even in the FD but drop away if never the bottom in the PD. Happened to Galway I think a few seasons ago.

In our final match in the FD on 26 January 2003 (2002-03 season) v Limerick, 2,050 paid in. In the opening game of the 2003 v Shels at home, we recorded a home attendance of 3,528. We finished 6th that season but we averaged some decent attendances of 3-4500. And that was before the East Stand (1,760 seats) was built.

[bluemovie]

Yeah our attendances tend to go up when we're in the Premier Division. There's more allure to watching us play Cork, Rovers, Bohs, Derry than Cabinteely, Salthill, Shamrock Rovers B. If we were struggling in the Premier for a year or two, then I'd expect attendances to fall off but I'd be hopeful of getting over 2000 next year (as of last night, I've stopped saying IF we go up). A major difference between the First and the Premier is that you get away fans travelling. So we'd expect a much bigger crowd against say Cork. Wexford bring a decent few fans to our games and Cobh had a few, but any of the others were in single figures.

[gael353]

1327 at Limerick v Sligo as limerick inch their way draw by draw to premier survival

[JC_GUFC]

1327 at Limerick v Sligo as limerick inch their way draw by draw to premier survival

I struggle to believe that Limerick would have done any worse under Martin Russell.
I'm really unconvinced by McDonald. He changes the team and formation every week, maybe he's just planning for next season and figuring out who he wants to keep but 20 games is a long time to work that out!

[bluewhitearmy]

I struggle to believe that Limerick would have done any worse under Martin Russell.
I'm really unconvinced by McDonald. He changes the team and formation every week, maybe he's just planning for next season and figuring out who he wants to keep but 20 games is a long time to work that out!

It's still Martin Russells awful awful squad.

[jinxy lilywhite]

It's still Martin Russells awful awful squad.

That's a cop out and a free pass

[bluewhitearmy]

That's a cop out and a free pass

Don't think so at all I'll judge him when the club actually bothers to back him.

[ToberonaTornado]

2847 Dundalk v Shams

[bluemovie]

Say about 150 in Wexford last night if even. Around 8 Longford town fans present

The lack of play-offs this year is an absolute disaster. We're 1/20 to win the division now which makes almost every game from now til October meaningless. Teams only trying to secure as high a finish as possible but there's no real reward or punishment so attendances will be desperate.

[nigel-harps1954]

Harps v Derry - 2,896

[redarmyfaction]

50 at Athlone v Cabinteely.

Yes, that's FIFTY!
Who will survive longer in the LOI,Athlone or Cabinteely?

[Longfordian]

I expect that Athlone in its current guise won't get a licence next year. Whatever chance they had after the public scandal, the current regime burned their bridges with their public statements against the FAI. They'll turn a blind eye to pretty much anything else (as we've seen) but that's going too far. If the fans group can get themselves organised they'll be encouraged to apply this time. Worst case scenario they're playing as Athlone FC for a year until they "buy back" their history a la Cork/Galway etc.

[oriel]

2,847 Dundalk v Shams

Where did you get this from TT, I didn't hear it announced / reported from the usual sources, DFC going with '3,000', one of the few they didn't report an exact figure, what you posted seems spot on, Rovers prob have 400, not bad for a Sunday evening I suppose.

[oriel]

Harps v Derry - 2,896

Impressive, season best for Harps ? Tough one to lose though, so late too.

[joey B]

That will easily be the best attendance for us this season..

[thebronze14]

Yep...only one I'd have expected to go close to that was first day of season against Cork but monsoon weather conditions and scheduling of other events put pay to that

[El-Pietro]

Yep...only one I'd have expected to go close to that was first day of season against Cork but monsoon weather conditions and scheduling of other events put pay to that
Theres a chance we could win the league against Harps so potential for a large traveling crowd in a few weeks for that game to make up for having the game moved but probably not as large as yesterdays crowd.

[thebronze14]

Theres a chance we could win the league against Harps so potential for a large traveling crowd in a few weeks for that game to make up for having the game moved but probably not as large as yesterdays crowd.
Big crowd in, Harps victory, ye get to win it at home...Everyones a winner then right?!

[ToberonaTornado]

Where did you get this from TT, I didn't hear it announced / reported from the usual sources, DFC going with '3,000', one of the few they didn't report an exact figure, what you posted seems spot on, Rovers prob have 400, not bad for a Sunday evening I suppose.

Got it from one of Gavin McL's tweets or reports Oriel,can't remember offhand which?

[ForzaForth]

282 at Wexford v Longford.

[outspoken]

282 at Wexford v Longford.

No chance

[Eminence Grise]

Some good news on RTE regarding attendances. Makes a change from the Bray Blunderers story these last few days.

The Football Association of Ireland has revealed that SSE Airtricity League attendances have grown by an impressive 48.8% since last season. (https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2017/0728/893607-fans-flock-to-league-games-in-far-greater-numbers-in/)

[pineapple stu]

48.8%?

Surely that's nonsense?

[Eminence Grise]

Judging by the more reliable figures here - and kudos to Nigel for compiling them - I'd say more than a quizzical surely! It has to be a deflection away from Bray to make the FAI look good - we all know that JD has singlehandedly knocked on every door in the country to coax people into going to games. Granted, some rolly eyes might have helped my first post! Take two now instead and lie down until all this Bray stuff passes.:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[pineapple stu]

Ah yes. Whatever did we do before rolly-eye smileys?

[ger121]

48.8%?

Surely that's nonsense?

Could be a clever use of figures. You could take the total attendance season to date at a certain favourable point and then say if it was to continue at that rate or average till end of season, you'd see a near 50% increase. Knowing the FAI, they did it after game week one.

[nigel-harps1954]

Bray v Harps - 563.

Easily around 80 of that Harps fans. A good crowd on the 'away' side of the ground, although quite a number of home fans out there too.

[trevy]

1517 at Waterford v Athlone.

[total hoofball]

Some good news on RTE regarding attendances. Makes a change from the Bray Blunderers story these last few days.

The Football Association of Ireland has revealed that SSE Airtricity League attendances have grown by an impressive 48.8% since last season. (https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2017/0728/893607-fans-flock-to-league-games-in-far-greater-numbers-in/)

"with all but two of the SSE Airtricity League clubs experiencing growth"

False. Shels, Athlone, Longford, Wexford, Cabinteely are FIVE clubs all conclusively seeing drops in attendances this season, maybe a few others

I do believe there has been an increase in overall attendances across the league mainly because you have a Turner's Cross full most weeks, Limerick & Drogheda replacing Wexford & Longford in the Premier Division and a Waterford with investment and cheap tickets but I'm calling that report from the FAI of 48.8% attendance growth an outright lie and fabrication.

If the FAI and the clubs compulsory published their actual attendances every week we might have some transparency instead of false figures to hide from sponsors how bad things really are and not needing threads on internet forums like this.

[pineapple stu]

Nigel's stats suggest much of the gain is just reversing last year's drops anyway.

You can force clubs to announce official attendances, but you can't force them to announce correct official attendances. They can easily bump the real figure up by a couple of hundred freebies if they want to make the figure sound better. Even in England, attendance figures are often nonsense

[nigel-harps1954]

Figure given for UCD v Cabo - 302

[RathfarnhamHoop]

4,534 at rovers bohs. Thought it was more to be honest but I can't see the gap of segregation between the fans from where I sit so that could explain that

[sbgawa]

Yeah felt like more but I watched it back on eir later and there was a big gap between bohs fans and the normal humans in the west stand.

[EatYerGreens]

Some good news on RTE regarding attendances. Makes a change from the Bray Blunderers story these last few days.

The Football Association of Ireland has revealed that SSE Airtricity League attendances have grown by an impressive 48.8% since last season. (https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2017/0728/893607-fans-flock-to-league-games-in-far-greater-numbers-in/)

Given there is no compulsion to report accurate attendances - and therefore lots of clubs don't - there is simply no way the FAI actually know what the attendances are in the league.

This is classic Trumpian diversion tactics. 'Hey everyone - stop talking about Bray and Athlone, because 2million people are now going to League of Ireland games !"

Desperate and transparent.

[EatYerGreens]

Bray v Harps - 563.

Easily around 80 of that Harps fans. A good crowd on the 'away' side of the ground, although quite a number of home fans out there too.

That's a decent turnout by Bray fans to be honest.

Particularly given how many of them have been sent to work in the salt mines just outside Pyongyang

[EatYerGreens]

4,534 at rovers bohs. Thought it was more to be honest but I can't see the gap of segregation between the fans from where I sit so that could explain that

From the TV it looked like there were, at a complete guess, about 800 in the Bohs end ? Certainly a decent crowd anyway.

[EatYerGreens]

Nigel's stats suggest much of the gain is just reversing last year's drops anyway.

You can force clubs to announce official attendances, but you can't force them to announce correct official attendances. They can easily bump the real figure up by a couple of hundred freebies if they want to make the figure sound better. Even in England, attendance figures are often nonsense

Given that clubs in England have to pay 20% VAT on their gates, there is no incentive for them to overstate crowds though.