Great attendances all round again! Really encouraging that it seems to be keeping up.
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Great attendances all round again! Really encouraging that it seems to be keeping up.
Great to see the attendances across the League staying high. Let hope the ridiculous glut of matches over the coming weeks doesn’t chase away the new devotees
cant remember our attendance tonight in CCS. but over 700 fans were at our game tonight.
375 at Finn Park
635 at Carlisle Grounds
Absolutely baltic and ****ed down the whole game at Finn Park.
Surprised it was that high to be honest. I'd said about 300 at most.
991 at our game vs Cobh tonight. It was absolutely baltic
472 (I think) at Waterford v Galway
About 400 at Cabo v Galway on Friday, I would say Cabo v Limerick last Saturday was 250 or so.
included in that galway utd attendance was a certain galway utd program editor as he said on off the ball podcast this morning he was at it!
About 200 or so in Tolka
712 very patient and hardy souls at Terryland Park tonight. Very impressive attendance when you consider we've lost 4 out of 4 home games and we've basically been awful this season. Maybe 100 or so travelling Limerick fans.
I don't even want to think what the attendance will be for Cobh Ramblers at home next week. Very disappointing.
515 at UCD v Waterford.
1878 Pats v Dundalk.
Bout 300 up from Dundalk.
Would have said 550/600. Bout 130/150 Limerick fans. Counted 145 in main stand at kick off.
Couldn't have been more than 100 in Wexford last night (although a few probably watched from the bar given the night that was in it) around 30 from Longford. Ferrycarrig is grim
2,228 in Finn Park. Rain leading up to it and the Liverpool match on Tv probably cost us a couple of hundred more.
Would be surprised if that figure from Pats-Dundalk was correct, definitely seemed like there was at least 2000 there last night. The stand was pretty full which would nearly account for that in itself, that's without taking in the rest of the ground where granted there wasn't that many of us given the weather, but enough still for that to seem a low number.
Pats had around 4K for their first game. It's a pity that just half that total were there to see them beat Dundalk. but it may have been an indication that 2K + stayed away to avoid seeing them lose handsomely, given their recent displays. This might kickstart their season now. Good attendances in general though, still holding up.
I was actually fairly happy with the attendance on Friday, with our recent results, the rain and the Liverpool game I expected loads to stay away, the official number was 1,878 which is just over 100 more than the Harps game on a Monday night, anyone who was at both games will be able to see how laughable that is. Over 2,000 there hopefully the result brings a few more back.
I was in Dublin for the night and went along to the match. Booked a ticket online early in the week, but was starting to have second thoughts with the negativity on her from Pats fans. I feared it might turn out to be a poor game and crowd. My other option was the UCD-Waterford fixture, which was appealing as I've never been to the Belfield Bowl. Once the goals started flying in at Belfield and Dundalk were dominating at the start of the game, I was thinking maybe I'd made the wrong decision. But it turned out to be a great game of ball at Richmond Park for a neutral (there were a few overseas neutrals near me as well).
The one thing I will say is that it was my first visit to Richmond Park for years, and the ground always looks a lot bigger and better on TV than when you're in it (especially from the stand). If Pats grow as a club (which hopefully all LOI teams will do over the years) then you can see the ground having limitations quite quickly. I also thought there was little singing, despite it being a great game and Pats being in the lead for most of it. A great evening out nonetheless (weather aside).
I'm sure Pat's fans would like something done about the coal bunker behind the goals where the away fans are situated. I mean, it's fine in a way, but looks only marginally better than Dundalk's away end when viewing from the TV. Would a stand similar to the one behind the other goals fit in there, space wise?
In order for us to grow as a club we have to get out of Richmond. In a few years time we'll have a 10,000 seater Stadium in Tallaght and a redeveloped Dalymount to compete with for new fans.
If a mother or father is looking to bring their kids to a game on a Friday they will be mad to choose Richmond over those two.
Was there an official for the Cork City - Rovers game?
The stand itself holds around 2800 though so even with handfuls of empty spaces the figure given seems far too low. We don't count season ticket holders as part of the attendance though which may have something to do with that.
Re the question above about the shed: it's actually due to be knocked down soon, not sure on what the plan is after that though. It's ramshackled state is why they're so hesitant to let away fans underneath it despite cases such as the weather on Friday. Seems flawed if they eventually cave in and allow fans under it regardless but that's the official stance anyway.
As an aside on that - the shed at the away end was closed throughout the first half and the half-time interval, with Dundalk fans made to stand in the rain next to it. Then at the start of the second half stewards decided to let them go under the Shed for shelter - which was good but seemed a bit late to be honest. Strange to not let them in earlier, and they must have been soaked by then.
Does anyone still pull together the weekly averages and the previous years numbers across the divisions? I know Nigel used to do it but haven’t seen anything in a while?? Is the same info available online elsewhere?
Drenched.
No small irony lost what so ever with the visiting Dundalk crowd about how awful it feels to be out in the rain but sure we sang about it all and then pats eventually opened it up :)
There are many,many supporters in Dundalk who DONT want to see any visiting supporter endure the same,and despite what some here may think,Dundalk fans are constantly urging the directors of our club to upgrade facility's at OP.
Dundalk's average so far this season is 3,100.
I always looked forward to seeing Nigel's overall summary, maybe he doesn't have the time, and to be fair he was doing it for 10 years ?