galwayhoop
21/08/2007, 12:07 PM
mind your own business, he came on here and just had a go at a mistake i made a few days ago which he already done twice in that thread!!!
in fairness your comment reflected badly on both yourself and supporters of the club. 'lets take it outside' comments have no place on a public forumn.
like serioulsy where are you getting these figures??.... have you seen the books or just guesssing?....
a mixture of sources, a calculator and a couple of very slow days at work:
Attendances:
Galway - 2,170
Rent:
2.5k per game to play there.
Season Tickets:
Last I heard on here 800 sold iirc. Can’t find thread.
Paying adults at games (excluding Season Tickets/Kids):
Estimated about 900 per game on this one. Wouldn't be a million miles away I’d think.
Running Cost for Year:
€ 1.1 million – common figure talked about all season.
With the above figures the rest is fairly straight forward.
if a club can be taking in sell-out gates,winning cups, having people left out in the cold then they will move ground, it happens all the time, its not viable at the moment but if we had people who couldnt get in terryland now the ball would be rolling already on this!!!!
i don't agree here at all. look at the average attendances at places like Turners Cross (3,256), the Brandywell (2,913) and even the Drogs who are top of the table are only getting an average of 1,889 and these are clubs who are doing well consistantly. Galway has a traditionally 'fairweather' type supporter (in all codes) and we would never be as high support wise as either Derry or Cork. The highest average attendance in the league is Cork's and that is only about a third of their capacity.
The eL is poorly supported nation wide and more and more people choose to get their football through overseas packages to places like Old Trafford, Anfield, Stadium o'Light and Celtic Park. It is sad but through. Even if we were top of the table we would still only get crowds of around 5,000 - 6,000 tops. The eL has no team which would be capable of getting average attendances of 10,000 or anywhere near it. and even if we did (by some miracle) buck this trend and get close to the 10,000 mark (highly unlikely) there is sufficient room for expansion to close to this number at Terryland. Sure even the GAA teams (which is far and away the highest supported of all sports in the country - attendance wise) only ever get massive attendances at the All-Ireland semi's and Final. They get p1ss poor figures at National League games.
You can agree or disagree with me but imo talk of a new stadium is a decade or two premature at the earliest. And even if one was ever to be built it would never be as close to town as Terryland and imo be a white elephant and serious drain on resources - unless of course if some 'sugar daddy' type comes along and builds it for free - but even then i'd rather the resources were put into the team!!!!
in fairness your comment reflected badly on both yourself and supporters of the club. 'lets take it outside' comments have no place on a public forumn.
like serioulsy where are you getting these figures??.... have you seen the books or just guesssing?....
a mixture of sources, a calculator and a couple of very slow days at work:
Attendances:
Galway - 2,170
Rent:
2.5k per game to play there.
Season Tickets:
Last I heard on here 800 sold iirc. Can’t find thread.
Paying adults at games (excluding Season Tickets/Kids):
Estimated about 900 per game on this one. Wouldn't be a million miles away I’d think.
Running Cost for Year:
€ 1.1 million – common figure talked about all season.
With the above figures the rest is fairly straight forward.
if a club can be taking in sell-out gates,winning cups, having people left out in the cold then they will move ground, it happens all the time, its not viable at the moment but if we had people who couldnt get in terryland now the ball would be rolling already on this!!!!
i don't agree here at all. look at the average attendances at places like Turners Cross (3,256), the Brandywell (2,913) and even the Drogs who are top of the table are only getting an average of 1,889 and these are clubs who are doing well consistantly. Galway has a traditionally 'fairweather' type supporter (in all codes) and we would never be as high support wise as either Derry or Cork. The highest average attendance in the league is Cork's and that is only about a third of their capacity.
The eL is poorly supported nation wide and more and more people choose to get their football through overseas packages to places like Old Trafford, Anfield, Stadium o'Light and Celtic Park. It is sad but through. Even if we were top of the table we would still only get crowds of around 5,000 - 6,000 tops. The eL has no team which would be capable of getting average attendances of 10,000 or anywhere near it. and even if we did (by some miracle) buck this trend and get close to the 10,000 mark (highly unlikely) there is sufficient room for expansion to close to this number at Terryland. Sure even the GAA teams (which is far and away the highest supported of all sports in the country - attendance wise) only ever get massive attendances at the All-Ireland semi's and Final. They get p1ss poor figures at National League games.
You can agree or disagree with me but imo talk of a new stadium is a decade or two premature at the earliest. And even if one was ever to be built it would never be as close to town as Terryland and imo be a white elephant and serious drain on resources - unless of course if some 'sugar daddy' type comes along and builds it for free - but even then i'd rather the resources were put into the team!!!!