631 in Lissywollen for Athlone v Dundalk
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631 in Lissywollen for Athlone v Dundalk
Is that the official name of your new stadium? It's not very Rock n' Roll, is it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
Sorry for drifting off topic.
For the firsgt time in a long time we didn't annouonce an official figure. Reckonit was around 1,300 meself, about 50 from Bray.
Is it that attendances are plummeting so badly that the club doesn't want anyone to know? Wheels are not just coming off, they are off and stacked neatly in the corner.
858 at Shels v Waterford. Figure earlier is wrong.
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Originally Posted by Paddyfield
Athlone Town Stadium is the ground name at the moment. Lissywollen is just the townland it is in
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Originally Posted by gael353
Any word of the Mons Vs SF attendance?
Possibly something similar?
We had smaller crowds when we were doing well in the First Division!Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy
I'm impressed that any more than 300 would attend a game against Bray (with all due respect to Bray who are doing well this season) especially as GUFC hadn't even got a point at home let alone score a league goal. And don't get me started on the hoofball.
Maybe we will pick up 3 points in the Brandywell next weekend? :D
You support your team against whoever you play,thats a very stupid postQuote:
Originally Posted by Paddyfield
Do you get the same crowd regardless of who you play? If you do you're probably the only club in the league that does.Quote:
Originally Posted by deecay
Of course the opposition affects the crowd, as does the form of the team. Not everyone is a die hard super fan like yourself.
Point well made,we dont get the same attendance every second week.Maybe im just a perfect fan,infact theres no maybes about it:)Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
Indeed I do support my team regardless of the opposition. But others don't. I've been to the Showgrounds on many occassions when there have been over 4,000 people there. Where are they now deecay? The Irish sporting public are very fickle. Haven't you noticed?Quote:
Originally Posted by deecay
Did you read my entire post of just one sentence?
3,000 approx at the Hoops-Pats tonight... Very poor pats contingent IMO- bohs brought twice as much 2 weeks ago... Still, 3,000 for a dublin derby is pathetic.
I thought it was far, far less than that. Less than 2,000 there IMOQuote:
Originally Posted by Buller
at least about 50 from Waterford. Overall attendance was shockingly bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by LeixlipRed
I would have said around 2,500 myself. Main stand was fairly full and the Ballybough end and lego stand had a few hundred eachQuote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
Agreed, it was a pathetic attendance for a Dublin derby but I reckon it would've been a lot higher on Friday night. I heard no publicity for the game over the weekend whatsoever. With Munster, Celtic and two epl games on yesterday, the sports departments in our media forgot all about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buller
The €3,000 tv fee that Rovers got won't make up for the loss on the gate.
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Originally Posted by Fintan Cassidy
id say you have slim chance of getting that my friend. havent seen a mon attn since season started
2417 was the official Rovers-Pat's figure.
Update after week eight. Clubs who give official figures are in bold.
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 3,153 (2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976; 2004 - 2,340) (missing Bray and Derry; have asked about these)
Bray - 1,350 (1,200; 1,027; 1,550; 818 FD)
Cobh - 1,548 (681 FD; 368 FD; 403 FD; 240 FD)
Cork - 3,966 (2,897; 2,941; 3,644; 4,033)
Derry - 4,540 (2,614; 3,229; 2,698; 1,672)
Drogheda - 1,900 (1,919; 1,751; 1,682; 1,554) (missing Bohs)
Harps - 1,929 (1,164 FD; 428 FD; 1,347; 1,106 FD) (awaiting official figure for Pat's)
Galway - 1,628 (2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD; 571 FD)
Pat's - 2,271 (1,910; 1,342; 1,599; 1,882) (missing Cobh)
Rovers - 2,220 (1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539; 1,349)
Sligo - 2,100 (1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD; 781 FD)
UCD - 621 (663; 546; 653; 306 FD)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 461 (670; 421; 316; 291)
Dundalk - 1,500 (1,406; 1,078; 474; 591)
Kildare - 220 (243; 265; 186; 298)
Limerick - 598 (670; 364; 669; 188)
Longford - 650 (885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD; 1,131 PD)
Monaghan - 158 (292; 204; 183; 182) (missing Fingal)
Shels - 1,054 (888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD; 2,158 PD)
Sporting Fingal - 997 (N/A)
Waterford - 815 (1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD; 1,753 PD)
Wexford - 1,163 (810)
Premier Division average - 2,225 (1,687; 1,535; 1,759; 1,853)
First Division average - 771 (722; 570; 520; 512)
Overall average - 1,551 (1,235; 1,070; 1,195; 1,218)
FD is an average crowd in the First Division; PD is an average crowd in the Premier Division. I've only put that in where the attendances was when the club was in a different one to their current division.
Recent games missing -
Monaghan v Fingal[/QUOTE]
I know it was a sunday and got no media coverage build up but thats shocking...Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
rovers bohs missing off the list?
A mate of mine arrived 40 mins early and didn't get a free scarf. Was there really 1000 given out?:confused:
Nope. 4300.Quote:
Originally Posted by CvilleRovers
I got one. I was there about 40 minutes before kick off myself. Pretty much every Rovers fan I saw had one so I'd say there was one thousand.. They weren't given out down the Pat's end, he wasn't down there was he?Quote:
Originally Posted by Poor Student
Oh no Holidaysong.Quote:
Originally Posted by holidaysong
You're not going to wear it in Trinity's library with your Dundalk top and confuse me?
:p
No, I'm normal. I only wear the colours of the team I actually support. :p You couldn't pay me to wear a Rovers scarf anyway. :D It says 'Proud to be a Hoop' on it.. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by hedderman
Traitor...:pQuote:
Originally Posted by holidaysong
I think overall trend seems to be up significantly although would be interesting to know average after 8 games last season. I think crowds do tend to drop a bit in the summer months though but could come back up for crunch games later in the season.
Poor on Friday night, about 100 I'd say. SF took 2 busloads of supporters, fair play to them. It was an entertaining game too. Plenty of work for our new CPO to do!Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I thought it said 'Proud to be a Hood'..... :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by holidaysong
;)
Fair play to Rovers. You could tell something was going on when you saw so many identical scarves on the TV.
Was it sponsored, or did the club pay for it themselves ? Must have cost at least a couple of thousand Euro
That cycle happens every year, and is entirely predictable.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
Still - I can't help feel there is a bit more support out there than usual this season. Which if it lasts across the season will be great.
There's no doubt that MNS will deliver mnore supporters to the league. It might only be football-mad young kids who love watching the game and who will pick a favourite team in Ireland from watching the show, and do little more than just keep an eye out for them, but it all helps one way or another.
A good few of mates watch MNS as it was on at a normal time unlike EL Weekly. A couple have been impressed and are thinking of heading along to UCD-Bohs on Friday. I'm sure there's plenty of similar cases all over the country.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
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Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge
Ya there sure is. At the beginning when people where saying it would improve attendances, I would tend to disagree but now i'm convinced that it actually makes a difference. Although the First Division is not shown on MNS, it has convinced two lads that i'm in college with to go to Limerick-Monaghan next week. One is from Galway and the other from Waterford but they have to stay around until Saturday for an exam. After watching MNS, and knowing my huge interest in the League, they asked were Limerick playing that weekend. I'm going to bring them along. (Anything to get away from study i'd say:D)
Hence this Derry fan's attendance at Tolka on Sunday night. Anything but study...:pQuote:
Originally Posted by L37Ultra
They took two bus loads and there was still only 100 at the game? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by monutdfc
They were small busses!Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Is "cars" the word you're looking for? ;)
Bicycles with newspapers held up by the guy on the back :DQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Possibly Five hundred on the ballybough end and a further 150 in the stand would have been my guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stato
Ironic given that rovers only fileld two blocks in the stand at Inchicore for many years...
Moving the game to sunday was always going to have a big impact on the attendance. Rovers filled half of the old stand, maybe two hundred in the new stand and less than 50 on the riverside... hardly a sterling home support now is it?
Nope its not! Then again, Tolka Park isn't our home ground... Tallaght Stadium is. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Saint Tom
What's the atmosphere like there on match day:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Buller