1517 at Waterford v Athlone.
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1517 at Waterford v Athlone.
"with all but two of the SSE Airtricity League clubs experiencing growth"Quote:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
False. Shels, Athlone, Longford, Wexford, Cabinteely are FIVE clubs all conclusively seeing drops in attendances this season, maybe a few others
I do believe there has been an increase in overall attendances across the league mainly because you have a Turner's Cross full most weeks, Limerick & Drogheda replacing Wexford & Longford in the Premier Division and a Waterford with investment and cheap tickets but I'm calling that report from the FAI of 48.8% attendance growth an outright lie and fabrication.
If the FAI and the clubs compulsory published their actual attendances every week we might have some transparency instead of false figures to hide from sponsors how bad things really are and not needing threads on internet forums like this.
Nigel's stats suggest much of the gain is just reversing last year's drops anyway.
You can force clubs to announce official attendances, but you can't force them to announce correct official attendances. They can easily bump the real figure up by a couple of hundred freebies if they want to make the figure sound better. Even in England, attendance figures are often nonsense
Figure given for UCD v Cabo - 302
4,534 at rovers bohs. Thought it was more to be honest but I can't see the gap of segregation between the fans from where I sit so that could explain that
Yeah felt like more but I watched it back on eir later and there was a big gap between bohs fans and the normal humans in the west stand.
Given there is no compulsion to report accurate attendances - and therefore lots of clubs don't - there is simply no way the FAI actually know what the attendances are in the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eminence Grise
This is classic Trumpian diversion tactics. 'Hey everyone - stop talking about Bray and Athlone, because 2million people are now going to League of Ireland games !"
Desperate and transparent.
That's a decent turnout by Bray fans to be honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Particularly given how many of them have been sent to work in the salt mines just outside Pyongyang
From the TV it looked like there were, at a complete guess, about 800 in the Bohs end ? Certainly a decent crowd anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by RathfarnhamHoop
Given that clubs in England have to pay 20% VAT on their gates, there is no incentive for them to overstate crowds though.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
There's every incentive. It's that bit easier to sell advertising if you attendances are 10% higher for example. And it's very much done.
There's no VAT issues - season ticket holders are counted whether or not they turn up for example. Then, as I note, you've got the "complementaries"
And anyway, who's counting? If Rovers say their crowd was 4,524 against Bohs (or whatever it was), how do we know it wasn't actually 3,816? What's to stop them just adding on that extra 20% or so?
Attendances and the tracking of attendances are in my top 25 pet peeves about the league.
God help me I'd say I've been in pretty much every ground a half dozen times at this stage, a good few a lot more.
No club in the league gives out accurate attendances. Most over count some under count, every one of them are absolute ******.
What a muppet :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Was wondering would I get away with that 😀😀
3,500,000 at Turners Cross tonight to see City defeated 1-0 by a dodgy penalty ref!
Just thought I'd help out with the 48.8%.......increases :rolleyes:
it was actually 3,900 ish I think. Great crowd for a Monday, especially as we played at home Friday too.
3590 was the artendance. Announcer called 3950 in error I believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
251 at Wexford v Cobh.
Typical attendance number 251, I bet 250 is the reference figure and the (1) is the guy at the gate counting! :nerd:Quote:
Originally Posted by ForzaForth
Thought around 200 myself but I won't argue with that. My first visit there in a good while.Quote:
Originally Posted by ForzaForth
I'd expect Wexford would get much better crowds if they were nearer to the town. Similar problem that Longford have I imagine, which when you think of our paltry crowds and our position close to the town and our league position it makes it all the more baffling.
2083 Dundalk v Limerick.Lowest figure from us this year and maybe last couple of years.
August bank holiday, no league challange, not really being under pressure currently for EL slot, poor perfromance with a good crowd v Rovers last home game - i think all considered above 2000 is not so bad and with a cup tie up.
1718 at the home of Irish Football tonight.
Harps v Galway 1,214
About 250 at Stradbrook for Cabinteely v Waterford according to eyewitness.
Approx 150 Blues fans in attendance.
Around 300 at Shels v UCD
I'd have said more. Maybe 350.Quote:
Originally Posted by Partizan
1,788 in The Showgrounds
2,872 in Tallaght for Shams-Derry.
Week 23:
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 1,955 (1,627; 1,724; 1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488; 1,835; 2,366)
Bray - 1,095 (957; 769; 718; 891; 965; 1,121; 952; 1,169)
Cork - 4,226 (2,533; 3,263; 3,777; 1,965; 2,786; 2,128 FD; 1,693 FD; 2,681)
Derry - 1,506 (1,563; 1,124; 1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135; 1,965 FD; 2,436)
Drogheda - 908 (583 FD; 813; 1,064; 817; 977; 811; 859; 1,106)
Dundalk - 2,858 (2,738; 3,158; 2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355; 1,877; 2,371)
Galway - 1,218 (1,169; 1,290; 975 FD)
Harps - 1,294 (1,216; 784 FD; 449 FD; 479 FD; 429 FD; 433 FD; 644 FD; 480 FD)
Limerick - 1,703 (1,131 FD; 1,206; 757; 1,649; 734 FD; 569 FD; 598 FD; 429 FD)
Pat's - 1,482 (1,088; 1,321; 1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346; 1,756; 1,631)
Rovers - 3,032 (2,041; 2,890; 2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779; 3,794; 3,611)
Sligo - 1,675 (1,750; 1,750; 1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103; 1,807; 1,756)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 163 (156; 314; 653 PD; 754; 271; 200; 354; 462)
Cabinteely - 345 (352; 610)
Cobh - 371 (403; 366; 223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681; 368; 403)
Longford - 337 (488 PD; 803 PD; 567; 379; 365; 315; 230; 260)
Shels - 490 (554; 596; 713; 1,114 PD; 1,187 PD; 781; 737; 972)
UCD - 246 (297; 216; 397 PD; 487 PD; 506 PD; 558 PD; 610 PD; 272)
Waterford - 1,527 (314; 460; 470; 478; 453; 466; 619; 434)
Wexford - 303 (585 PD; 553; 331; 227; 302; 216; 343; 494)
PREMIER AVERAGE: 1,920 (1,476; 1,681; 1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547; 1,512; 2,010)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 464 (476; 486; 495; 391; 372; 578; 682; 417)
OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,359 (1,117; 1,249; 1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110; 1,095; 1,175)
TOTAL WEEKLY ATTENDANCE: 12,785
OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 282,193 (292,204; 332,805; 297,334)
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 42,721 (52,807; 54,474; 55,408)
OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 324,914 (345,011; 387,279; 352,742)
No more than 150 at Cobh v town on Saturday
It's been given double that.Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
Must be counting season tickets or something you could literally count on one hand the people sitting in the main stand and there was only a few scattered behind the dugoutQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
We had a few under 2k in the 3 in a row league winning seasons, I think at least 2 and all were Mon/Tues night games, one was v Galway I think. I'd have to check back but from memory these were around 1700-1800. A lot of crowds down last week due to holidays, at least 6 of us missed the Dlk v Limerick game due to hols.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado
How many were at the two League Cup semi-finals this week ?
1300 in Tallaght,poor crowd expected more tbh
I would be curious to what the attendance of first cobh Longford town match originally was as last Saturday the attendance was considerably down on the first game.Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
Id say about 800 max in galway, 100 if even Dundalk fansQuote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
1017 was the official attendance Galway v Dundalk league cup
About 150 Dundalk supporters there.
Was their one official attendance figure given for any fai match this weekend? :D:confused:
Dundalk v Derry i'd guess 2850.Good crowd down from Derry.