How many at the nearest beaches to the Showgrounds like Enniscrone, Standhill or Rosses Point!Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
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How many at the nearest beaches to the Showgrounds like Enniscrone, Standhill or Rosses Point!Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
50 at Athlone v Cabinteely.
Yes, that's FIFTY!
That poster helps explain why their attendances have been so sh!te anyway.... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado
Here's a new one for LOI fans ,The Galway FA who rent EDP to Galway united have fined the club €100 after kids ran onto the pitch after the limerick game last week:rolleyes:
Just don't pay it what are they going to do?Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitd
I saw guards lifting kids over the wall at the end to help them onto the pitch. :D
If Galway United are in charge of matchday arrangements and the lease agreement states that they have to keep feral yoof off the pitch, then what is wrong with that ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitd
Official attendance of 1,852 announced at the RSC v Cobh.
Not being smart but you'll probably do well to keep those great crowds in the PD next season. Success really does draw a crowd sometimes. Even in the graveyard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Partizan
1028 Galway v Drogs
Say about 150 in Wexford last night if even. Around 8 Longford town fans present
We were getting twice that when Jimmy McGeough was in charge.Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
In the PD or First? If the latter, did crowds go down when you went up? I'm just making a general point that success can bring in crowds even in the FD but drop away if never the bottom in the PD. Happened to Galway I think a few seasons ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by Partizan
[QUOTE=outspoken;1929506]Say about 150 in Wexford last night if even. Around 8 Longford town fans present[/QUOTE
the eight you are counting are the ones besides us. there were at least two ex committee members there a few aisles back and then add five of them the far side. so you can double it easily!
In our final match in the FD on 26 January 2003 (2002-03 season) v Limerick, 2,050 paid in. In the opening game of the 2003 v Shels at home, we recorded a home attendance of 3,528. We finished 6th that season but we averaged some decent attendances of 3-4500. And that was before the East Stand (1,760 seats) was built.Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Yeah our attendances tend to go up when we're in the Premier Division. There's more allure to watching us play Cork, Rovers, Bohs, Derry than Cabinteely, Salthill, Shamrock Rovers B. If we were struggling in the Premier for a year or two, then I'd expect attendances to fall off but I'd be hopeful of getting over 2000 next year (as of last night, I've stopped saying IF we go up). A major difference between the First and the Premier is that you get away fans travelling. So we'd expect a much bigger crowd against say Cork. Wexford bring a decent few fans to our games and Cobh had a few, but any of the others were in single figures.
1327 at Limerick v Sligo as limerick inch their way draw by draw to premier survival
I struggle to believe that Limerick would have done any worse under Martin Russell.Quote:
Originally Posted by gael353
I'm really unconvinced by McDonald. He changes the team and formation every week, maybe he's just planning for next season and figuring out who he wants to keep but 20 games is a long time to work that out!
It's still Martin Russells awful awful squad.Quote:
Originally Posted by JC_GUFC
That's a cop out and a free passQuote:
Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy
Don't think so at all I'll judge him when the club actually bothers to back him.Quote:
Originally Posted by jinxy lilywhite
2847 Dundalk v Shams
The lack of play-offs this year is an absolute disaster. We're 1/20 to win the division now which makes almost every game from now til October meaningless. Teams only trying to secure as high a finish as possible but there's no real reward or punishment so attendances will be desperate.Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
Harps v Derry - 2,896
Who will survive longer in the LOI,Athlone or Cabinteely?Quote:
Originally Posted by Partizan
I expect that Athlone in its current guise won't get a licence next year. Whatever chance they had after the public scandal, the current regime burned their bridges with their public statements against the FAI. They'll turn a blind eye to pretty much anything else (as we've seen) but that's going too far. If the fans group can get themselves organised they'll be encouraged to apply this time. Worst case scenario they're playing as Athlone FC for a year until they "buy back" their history a la Cork/Galway etc.
Where did you get this from TT, I didn't hear it announced / reported from the usual sources, DFC going with '3,000', one of the few they didn't report an exact figure, what you posted seems spot on, Rovers prob have 400, not bad for a Sunday evening I suppose.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado
Impressive, season best for Harps ? Tough one to lose though, so late too.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
That will easily be the best attendance for us this season..
Yep...only one I'd have expected to go close to that was first day of season against Cork but monsoon weather conditions and scheduling of other events put pay to that
Theres a chance we could win the league against Harps so potential for a large traveling crowd in a few weeks for that game to make up for having the game moved but probably not as large as yesterdays crowd.Quote:
Originally Posted by thebronze14
Big crowd in, Harps victory, ye get to win it at home...Everyones a winner then right?!Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Got it from one of Gavin McL's tweets or reports Oriel,can't remember offhand which?Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
282 at Wexford v Longford.
No chanceQuote:
Originally Posted by ForzaForth
Some good news on RTE regarding attendances. Makes a change from the Bray Blunderers story these last few days.
The Football Association of Ireland has revealed that SSE Airtricity League attendances have grown by an impressive 48.8% since last season.
48.8%?
Surely that's nonsense?
Judging by the more reliable figures here - and kudos to Nigel for compiling them - I'd say more than a quizzical surely! It has to be a deflection away from Bray to make the FAI look good - we all know that JD has singlehandedly knocked on every door in the country to coax people into going to games. Granted, some rolly eyes might have helped my first post! Take two now instead and lie down until all this Bray stuff passes.:rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Ah yes. Whatever did we do before rolly-eye smileys?
Could be a clever use of figures. You could take the total attendance season to date at a certain favourable point and then say if it was to continue at that rate or average till end of season, you'd see a near 50% increase. Knowing the FAI, they did it after game week one.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Bray v Harps - 563.
Easily around 80 of that Harps fans. A good crowd on the 'away' side of the ground, although quite a number of home fans out there too.