Promoting the club

[el tk]

How many of you are there el tk? Why don't you join the rest of us at the end near the programme shack/turnstiles end of the stand? I also think that you get a feeling when you come to the game that we have no support.

There's usually 3 or 4 of us but unless it's raining we go down behind the oppostion goals so we can heckle the keeper and defenders. An idea to promote the club could be maybe to sell the jerseys in the shops around the campus (not just at games) and give away free tickets with every jersey bought, Leeds used to do it years ago. Does the committee actually admit that attendances are a problem? because if they don't they'd probably be most unwilling to allow a scheme to go ahead.

Did anyone else ever notice how if we're winning more fans materialise out of nowhere?

[Poor Student]

I thought the sports centre sold jersies. I found out the other on Monday that they're €50. They're hardly going to be bought casually anyway.

el tk, do you know a club that fans don't materialise out of nowhere once they start winning?

[el tk]

I'm talking about during the match, if we go one or 2 goals up the number of cheering fans increases exponentially.

[Poor Student]

Well we have a very poorly organised fan base. It's next to impossible to tell who supports UCD at a game. Fans are colourless and dispersed all over the stand in low density makes us look far less supported than we are. As I say I reckon you and your friends should join what resembles a singing section in the entrance side of the stand and join in. I myself was sitting alone near the middle until recently. It helps to join in with a bigger group.

[el tk]

I'll consider it but also if all the fans are boxed into a corner (and let's face it, it's only that one corner taken up) it looks just as bad, if you had more clearly defined home and away seating areas it would be better. I've never seen the jersies for sale in the sports centre although I haven't looked specifically

[Poor Student]

I'll consider it but also if all the fans are boxed into a corner (and let's face it, it's only that one corner taken up) it looks just as bad, if you had more clearly defined home and away seating areas it would be better. I've never seen the jersies for sale in the sports centre although I haven't looked specifically

Well as far as people are concerned that is our support whether the rest of you spread around or not. You'll notice people on the board slagging Pinapple and Schumi as the whole UCD support. No one chants in the slightest except those gathered around the drum. It's an unwritten rule that those vocal away fans will gather in the end near the wall, those UCD fans who will chant will gather at the other end and those quiet, confused or neutral sit in the middle or stand around the ground. 3 or 4 of you would actually quite bolster the numbers. I certainly saw the jersies on sale a few years ago there though haven't noticed them recently. I have never seen anyone wear it once on campus though I've seen a fair few of the GAA shirt.

[pineapple stu]

I've never seen the jersies for sale in the sports centre although I haven't looked specifically

I think they used to be on sale in the shop just inside the Sports Centre anyway, but then it's been a few years since I was in there.

[CollegeTillIDie]

I think they used to be on sale in the shop just inside the Sports Centre anyway, but then it's been a few years since I was in there.

You can buy them in Belfield Park on Matchdays for fooks sake

[pineapple stu]

We know that! But having the jerseys in places around the college is akin to free advertising.

[CollegeTillIDie]

True, but getting geezers who want jerseys to come to games means more gate money

[CollegeTillIDie]

Where does the STIG money go btw?

I was thinking to be honest if we wanted to attract pure casual first timers from the student body that the student ticket price should actually be €4 maximum. I know you say McNally says low prices and free tickets don't work but surely once we crossed the fiver note barrier that creates a psychological feeling of too high an expense for someone wavering on going?

€5 or €6 is less than the price of two pints even in the SU Bar I don't think that should be a deterrent in these days of effluence..sorry affluence!

[Poor Student]

CTID I am just saying when you consider the total apathy of everyone towards the eL and UCD, to entice somene along particularly students you'd want the price to be on the right side of a fiver to make them think about it.

[CollegeTillIDie]

CTID I am just saying when you consider the total apathy of everyone towards the eL and UCD, to entice somene along particularly students you'd want the price to be on the right side of a fiver to make them think about it.

Students never seem to have any problem finding money for drink I notice .....

[Poor Student]

Students never seem to have any problem finding money for drink I notice .....

I don't drink myself but you know the average student holds drinking more dear and of a higher priority than the eL!

[CollegeTillIDie]

I don't drink myself but you know the average student holds drinking more dear and of a higher priority than the eL!

So going to an el Match would be good for them... keep them out of the pub till at least 10 p.m.