2008 attendances

Going to start up the all new, all unofficial (except where the figures are official) attendances thread for this year. Bets now open on the first club's fans to take these figures as gospel proof that they're bigger than another, or the first club's fans to accuse Galway of inflating figures. :)

Recap of last year's averages -

Team Average
PREMIER DIVISION
Cork City 2,897
Derry City 2,614
Galway United 2,199
Bohemians 1,924
Drogheda United 1,919
Saint Patrick's Athletic 1,910
Shamrock Rovers 1,715
Sligo Rovers 1,448
Bray Wanderers 1,200
Waterford United 1,181
Longford Town 885
UCD 663


FIRST DIVISION
Dundalk 1,406
Finn Harps 1,164
Shelbourne 888
Wexford Youths 810
Cobh Ramblers 681
Athlone Town 670
Limerick FC 670
Monaghan United 292
Kildare County 243
Kilkenny City 191

I'd expect our average to go up by a good bit.

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Going to start up the all new, all unofficial (except where the figures are official) attendances thread for this year. Bets now open on the first club's fans to take these figures as gospel proof that they're bigger than another, or the first club's fans to accuse Galway of inflating figures. :)

Recap of last year's averages -

Team Average
PREMIER DIVISION
Cork City 2,897
Derry City 2,614
Galway United 2,199
Bohemians 1,924
Drogheda United 1,919
Saint Patrick's Athletic 1,910
Shamrock Rovers 1,715
Sligo Rovers 1,448
Bray Wanderers 1,200
Waterford United 1,181
Longford Town 885
UCD 663


FIRST DIVISION
Dundalk 1,406
Finn Harps 1,164
Shelbourne 888
Wexford Youths 810
Cobh Ramblers 681
Athlone Town 670
Limerick FC 670
Monaghan United 292
Kildare County 243
Kilkenny City 191

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We never averaged 810:confused:

Just renewing my objections to figures that include fan guesses

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Originally Posted by Dodge

Just renewing my objections to figures that include fan guesses

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Especially Galways.

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Originally Posted by Dodge

Just renewing my objections to figures that include fan guesses

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And I'm renewing my objection to Dodge's objection.

Could we arrange for these things to be taken as read in future seasons?

Nope, things may improve.

Until then...

Shelsweb will have an official attendances thread (directly from the stiles) on a sticky in the Shels Talk section of the message board Stu if you want to just take the figures from there

I'll be posting the Shels official attendances - but really, the eL/FAI should be issuing/publicising the figures officially reported to them by each club every weekend.

That would solve all arguments and give us a realtime picture of actual attendances.

i know im probably just biting on the wind up bait here but i have to say it.attendances are annouced midway through the second half over the P.A as offical figures.and besides,its not like anyone connected with galway utd has ever mishandled figures before in their past jobs:p.

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Originally Posted by eamo1

i know im probably just biting on the wind up bait here but i have to say it.attendances are annouced midway through the second half over the P.A as offical figures.and besides,its not like anyone connected with galway utd has ever mishandled figures before in their past jobs:p.

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Now now Eamo don't you know that these lads know better even though they are not the ones there in attendance every second weekend.:D

Yep, and none of us have eyes either...

Just to emphasise, I've no problem with collecting the info from official club sources (published, no announced)

I know several clubs have the crowds on their websites. As Fintan said it should be an FAI thing

Most of those average's are b******t

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Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy

Especially Galways.

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I take your concerns on board Heggy but I think that the figure given for Galway is more or less on the money.

But Jesus did we not all have this arguement all season long last year, and the year before if i'm not mistaken.

I wonder why clubs can't release official attendance figures in any case, unless they have something to hide? I'm not saying anything, but it would make sense to release them.

Hopefully GUFC will see a good increase this year. It won't happen so much in the bigger games, IMO. What I would like to see is greater retention of fairweathers from the bigger matches.

Obvioulsy this is directly tied in with GUFC playing good football and picking some wins at home. Doing so earlier in the season should create greater hope of a good season all round.

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Originally Posted by Dodge

I know several clubs have the crowds on their websites. As Fintan said it should be an FAI thing

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Definately, I'm gonna contact the FAI about it to see what answer they have for it...

I think Harps' attendances on average will increase significanylt this season despite the probability of being relegated.

Does anyone know what FIFA's or teh FAI's rules are on keeping attendances and getting accurate attendances? Do the FAI have to do it, do the clubs have to do it, does it have to be done at all? What section of the FAI deals with it?

Drogs attendances cannot exceed 2000 due to the safety regulations

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Originally Posted by gufcfan

I take your concerns on board Heggy but I think that the figure given for Galway is more or less on the money.

But Jesus did we not all have this arguement all season long last year, and the year before if i'm not mistaken..

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It was a joke (see stu's post) I couldn't care less what other clubs are getting, so long as our own are good then im happy.

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Originally Posted by finnpark

Does anyone know what FIFA's or teh FAI's rules are on keeping attendances and getting accurate attendances? Do the FAI have to do it, do the clubs have to do it, does it have to be done at all? What section of the FAI deals with it?

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It is up to the clubs to sumbit attendences. Their is an FAI assesor at every game who estimates the crowd so when they are sent to Noel Mooney by the CPOs they can tell whether they are believable or not.

The bohs game so not only will we be accuarately able to confirm attendances we will also know the colour of your underwear.