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pineapple stu
29/04/2007, 7:05 PM
Has 1500 for Limerick (agrees to here), 1250 for Kilkenny (going to put that in instead of the 1000 here) and that's it as far as I can see.
Schumi
29/04/2007, 7:59 PM
And on that topic, apparently 323 was the official crowd for UCD-Longford last night, compared to the 410 posted earlier. Obviously, the difference is people like me, who would have been there but gone in for free as programme sellers. I'll go with the official figure though.323 is simply wrong, official or not. If official attendances don't include everyone at the game, they're useless.
pineapple stu
29/04/2007, 9:06 PM
But there's no point comparing our unofficial crowds to, say, Pat's official crowds. You have to choose one or the other, otherwise it's not a fair comparison. I've no bother upping our figure to the amount that were at the game, but then we have to go back over all the official figures and change those too.
red bellied
29/04/2007, 9:07 PM
No dodgey, you`re got your dates wrong, for the first time we went down (1998/99) we lost something like the last 8 and finished bottom and crowds def did drop to around this level for the last 3 or 4 months.
Also I`m remember many a sunday watching pats v dundalk in the 80`s in both harolds cross and the old richmond with 5 or 6 hundred in attendance being the norm.
I was in Harold Cross, pats verus Rovers early ninties and a crowd off about 300 hundred was there. Tom the Baldie Conway scored for Rovers game ended one one.
Jerry The Saint
29/04/2007, 9:47 PM
I was in Harold Cross, pats verus Rovers early ninties and a crowd off about 300 hundred was there..
Yeah but about 25,000 of those were away fans.:)
Lim till i die
30/04/2007, 9:06 AM
Was gonna guess 800-900. If Shelsw posts something different on our forum I'll post it here.
Official Attendance 894
About 30 Limerick fans :p
Battery Rover
30/04/2007, 9:19 AM
Athlone Town vs Finn Harps attendance was around 450. Nice crowd from Harps down as well. Hope they enjoyed their trip.
As it was confirmation day on both sides of town on Saturday this would have taken a few hundred of the crowd
Will post the official attendance when I hear it during the week.
Bray Head
30/04/2007, 11:42 AM
Extremely poor attandance at our game Vs. Waterford-500 at most I'd say. About 10 Waterford fans.
What's happening with your floodlights. Any update ? A 6pm kick off on a Saturday is not a great time to be playing. It's bound to effect your attendances.
dcfcsteve
30/04/2007, 12:16 PM
City v Bohs apparently 2,700 in attendance.
braysnumber1
30/04/2007, 12:56 PM
bray v galway- brutal crowd for a brutal match- 800 tops - with about 30 galway fans who made a bit of noise...
Raheny Red
30/04/2007, 8:03 PM
Official Attendance 894
About 30 Limerick fans :p
Where did you read that? 30? maybe 13! :p
superfrank
30/04/2007, 8:12 PM
Horrible attendance at Bray-Galway tonight. Well under a thousand. About 800, tops.
bray v galway- brutal crowd for a brutal match- 800 tops - with about 30 galway fans who made a bit of noise...
Did you not read through the thread earlier? :confused:
Conor H
30/04/2007, 8:21 PM
My Sentiments exactly Frank...
Also there was 53 Galway fans in the "singing" Section.
There was also 2 families and a few others down the far left of the red seated stand.
Around 65-70 in Total.
sligoman
30/04/2007, 9:09 PM
What's happening with your floodlights. Any update ? A 6pm kick off on a Saturday is not a great time to be playing. It's bound to effect your attendances.They'll be sorted for the next home game-May 12th Vs. Cork.
Shocked by the crowd at Bray.I know 800 was posted here but id be very surprised if it was over 650. Like our game against Shams fair less at it than our 1st division encounters.
On a brighter note the Pitch was brilliant so credit to all at Bray easily the best we have played on so far but its surroundings lets it down big time.
Saint Tom
01/05/2007, 7:05 PM
both sides of camac bursting, the shed more packed than it has been in years. allow one empty block in the stand and a fair few on the inchicore end and 3200 odd is ridiculous. I went in at 7.30 and they did not check a single tcket under the archways, have both the stub and ticket in my pocket.
check out the video of the game on another thread to verify
BohsFans
01/05/2007, 8:19 PM
both sides of camac bursting, the shed more packed than it has been in years. allow one empty block in the stand and a fair few on the inchicore end and 3200 odd is ridiculous. I went in at 7.30 and they did not check a single tcket under the archways, have both the stub and ticket in my pocket.
check out the video of the game on another thread to verify
one block in the scum end of the stand empty, empty seats in the Pat's end of the stand + quarter/third of the scums terrace cordoned off.
NY Hoop
02/05/2007, 11:00 AM
one block in the scum end of the stand empty, empty seats in the Pat's end of the stand + quarter/third of the scums terrace cordoned off.
Eh what?
Pats have problems with their ticketing no doubt. 4,000 seems about right.
KOH
pineapple stu
03/05/2007, 5:40 PM
Update after week 8.
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 2,651 (2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976; 2004 - 2,340)
Bray - 1,600 (1,027; 1,550; 818 FD)
Cork - 3,667 (2,941; 3,644; 4,033)
Derry - 3,125 (3,229; 2,698; 1,672) (missing Bohs)
Drogheda - 1,950 (1,751; 1,682; 1,554)
Galway - 2,480 (1,148 FD; 566 FD; 571 FD)
Longford - 825 (681; 1,004; 1,131)
Pat's - 2,628 (1,342; 1,599; 1,882)
Rovers - 1,680 (1,089 FD; 1,539; 1,349)
Sligo - 1,075 (1,806; 1,794 FD; 781 FD)
UCD - 712 (546; 653; 306 FD)
Waterford - 1,650 (915; 1,513; 1,753)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 1,378 (421; 316; 291) (missing Harps)
Cobh - 454 (368; 403; 240)
Dundalk - 1,850 (1,078; 474; 591)
Harps - 793 (428; 1,347 PD; 1,106)
Kildare - 237 (265; 186; 298)
Kilkenny - 155 (122; 185; 110)
Limerick - 1,046 (364; 669; 188)
Monaghan - 361 (204; 183; 182) (missing Cobh)
Shels - 1,316 (1,690 PD; 1,949 PD; 2,158 PD)
Wexford - 1,495 (n/a)
Premier Division average - 1,914 (1,535; 1,759; 1,853)
First Division average - 928 (570; 520; 512)
Overall average - 1,473 (1,070; 1,195; 1,218)
FD is an average crowd in the First Division; PD is an average crowd in the Premier Division. I've only put that in where the attendances was when the club was in a different one to their current division.
Recent matches missing -
Derry v Bohs
Athlone v Harps
Monaghan v Cobh
Only saw a bit of Cork City v Pats on tv this morning & while could not see the main stand clearly enough I would guess attendance about 3000-3500.
Moving game forward a day must have knocked 1000-2000 off the total.
NY Hoop
04/05/2007, 10:26 AM
Only saw a bit of Cork City v Pats on tv this morning & while could not see the main stand clearly enough I would guess attendance about 3000-3500.
Moving game forward a day must have knocked 1000-2000 off the total.
Interesting. Anyone else think that these live Setanta games are taking away from the attendances? We're in Derry monday week for a live game and again that night will take numbers off what the crowd would have been on the friday.
Why cant they show live games on the friday night?
KOH
Dodge
04/05/2007, 10:31 AM
Only saw a bit of Cork City v Pats on tv this morning & while could not see the main stand clearly enough I would guess attendance about 3000-3500.
Moving game forward a day must have knocked 1000-2000 off the total.
Main stand just over half full. Playing on Thursday knocked a fair whack off the away crowd definitely. Lennox had a moan about it in the programme
Pablo
04/05/2007, 10:41 AM
Only saw a bit of Cork City v Pats on tv this morning & while could not see the main stand clearly enough I would guess attendance about 3000-3500.
Moving game forward a day must have knocked 1000-2000 off the total.
Supposedly the crowd was just over 4,000 last night. People were dissapointed as they'd hope for 5,000+ anfter all the promotion.
passinginterest
04/05/2007, 11:02 AM
Why cant they show live games on the friday night?
KOH
Becuase the target audience is out watching their team playing live.
I read a figure of 'just over 500' on the Athlone forum for Athlone V Harps, but it was from a Galway Fan and I don't know where he got it.
NY Hoop
04/05/2007, 11:23 AM
Becuase the target audience is out watching their team playing live.
RTE show live games on fridays. Maybe there's an agreement there.
KOH
Dodge
04/05/2007, 11:26 AM
Setanta show celtic league rugby on Frday. We're behind them in the pecking order while the seasons overlap
lofty9
04/05/2007, 11:31 AM
Derry vs Bohs about 3100. About 500-600 more than whatever you estimated the Derry v UCD game.
don ramo
04/05/2007, 2:26 PM
Update after week 8.
Cobh - 454 (368; 403; 240)
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was our game Vs shel put in as there was 800 plus at the game
Olander
04/05/2007, 5:04 PM
Athlone Town vs Finn Harps attendance was around 450. Nice crowd from Harps down as well. Hope they enjoyed their trip.
I read a figure of 'just over 500' on the Athlone forum for Athlone V Harps, but it was from a Galway Fan and I don't know where he got it.
dont think hes a galway fan . ... :o
FAO, David, Steve Bruce and BleusAvantout - are there any similar postings for IL games anywhere ? As the 3 of you have been on here quite a lot any chance one of you could give a quick comparison to IPL crowds ?
Paddyfield
04/05/2007, 9:53 PM
Galway United v Derry City - official attentance 2580
City brought about 250 fans.
Our next home game is against UCD. This should bring another massive crowd to Terryland. It's not because De Students are such a big attraction either! Tickets for the Galway United V Sunderland game will go on sale at half time. There will be no other way of buying tickets for the Sunderland game which will take place on Aug 1st.
DmanDmythDledge
04/05/2007, 10:18 PM
Guess between 2100-2500 at Bohs-UCD.
kdjaC
04/05/2007, 10:30 PM
Pats have problems with their ticketing no doubt. 4,000 seems about right.
And Rovers seem to have a problem with the amount of people they can fit into their home stand.
kdjac
gael353
04/05/2007, 10:36 PM
650, sunny weather very warm and good atmosphere
pineapple stu
04/05/2007, 11:13 PM
FAO, David, Steve Bruce and BleusAvantout - are there any similar postings for IL games anywhere ? As the 3 of you have been on here quite a lot any chance one of you could give a quick comparison to IPL crowds ?
I kept the same thread on ILF for a while this season; it died in part because ILF went down for a couple of weeks, and I never bothered resurrecting it. Had attendances for about 60% of games, but basically Linfield and Glentoran were top half of eL Premier level, Portadown and one or two others were UCD/Longford sort of level and the rest were lower Division One level.
Guess between 2100-2500 at Bohs-UCD.
Wouldn't have put it that high, to be honest. About 1800 tops. Bohs end looked a lot emptier than usual when I wandered up that way.
bohs til i die
05/05/2007, 8:18 AM
Guess between 2100-2500 at Bohs-UCD.
1443 was the crowd. Jodi always looks fuller when your in it but it was a **** poor crowd
geezer
05/05/2007, 9:45 AM
another big crowd considering Utds position in league 2580 was the official attendance
trevy
05/05/2007, 11:04 AM
About 1200 at Waterford United v Drogheda last night.
Harps had about 480 at the Kilkenny game.
pineapple stu
05/05/2007, 3:10 PM
About 1200 at Waterford United v Drogheda last night.
900-1000 mentioned here (http://foot.ie/showpost.php?p=679723&postcount=25)?
Frankfurt Hoop
05/05/2007, 7:27 PM
1126 in Tolka last night. 30 or so from Sligo.
sligoman
05/05/2007, 7:31 PM
30 or so from Sligo.More like 50 or so. About 20 of those got in for free:p.
Philly
05/05/2007, 10:09 PM
KCFC V Dundalk. 401. Official.
Buller
05/05/2007, 10:12 PM
Great crowds in Galway
Someone's bitterly jealous...
sligoman
05/05/2007, 10:16 PM
Someone's bitterly jealous...Or just stating the obvious?:rolleyes:
pineapple stu
05/05/2007, 10:34 PM
"Over 600" on the Cobh forum for Cobh v Athlone, so will go with 600.
don ramo
05/05/2007, 10:35 PM
601 was the official announcement:D
steno
05/05/2007, 10:43 PM
KCFC V Dundalk. 401. Official.
Tis indeed!:ball:
Steve Bruce
06/05/2007, 1:11 AM
I kept the same thread on ILF for a while this season; it died in part because ILF went down for a couple of weeks, and I never bothered resurrecting it. Had attendances for about 60% of games, but basically Linfield and Glentoran were top half of eL Premier level, Portadown and one or two others were UCD/Longford sort of level and the rest were lower Division One level.
Wouldn't have put it that high, to be honest. About 1800 tops. Bohs end looked a lot emptier than usual when I wandered up that way.
I would agree with that observation, I think Linfield at the time where averaging around 2800 - 3000, cannot remember off hand.
By and large the LOI is a better supported league. Which I suppose is expected with a bigger populated country that our own, plus the general apathy shown towards IL.
At the moment IL football can only look in envy at the way things are developing down south, with different tv and sponsorship deals.
Although I think the IL is now starting to move in the right direction, in five years or so time, I would hope that our attendances will close the gap with the LOI. I mean that by our attendances rising rather than yours going down as I think it is great to see Irish teams North or South of the border make a small foot print in Europe and also command a support worth noting.
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