Hello one and all!
We at theLimerick.95mb.com are organising a Limerick2000 for the home fixture with Cobh in September. The basic idea is to get 2000+ into Hogan Park and have a sea of blue supporters in the stands. We're going to promote it as a family friendly event and hopefully it will be a success. Earlier in the season we promoted theGalway500, an initiative to get 500 Lims supporters to travel to Galway to cheer on the blues. The point was to create a buzzing atmosphere to what would have been just another away match with a few Lims supporters making the match. If your supporters were to start up their version of theGalway500, ie theLimerick500, and get as many Cobh supporters up to Limerick we could have a cracking derby atmosphere. We believe 2000 Lims supporters is very achievable so if ye managed a few hundred we could have a sizeable visiting support and a bit of banter!
For us theGalway500 was about galvanising support and picking ONE major away match to get sizeable support as opposed to 50 max here and there over the entire season. If your supporters were to travel to ONE away match this season, pushing this match as THE one to go to would ensure that it would be a success in terms of support and atmosphere. Also the close proximity would mean it would be very achievable.
If anyone would like to contact me for more details or ideas on this please email me at thelimerick@hotmail.com
Thanks...