I was a bit disappointed with our crowd, but a lot of people would've prioritized the dundalk game. Weather probably played a part too. I was hoping for around about 4,500-5K.
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I was a bit disappointed with our crowd, but a lot of people would've prioritized the dundalk game. Weather probably played a part too. I was hoping for around about 4,500-5K.
Or another way of looking at last nights semi final crowd is, around 3k Cork fans turned up for a potential 'party' on Monday night.
I thought it would be a much reduced attendance and Limerick to be fair did their bit with 650, but a 50% drop is fairly significant.
It will be interesting to see the attendance tomorrow in oriel park, the main stand (1k -1.1k) was sold out on wed, and Rovers sold all their allocation (I think they only got 500 tickets, very low allocation if this is correct)
Anything over 4k should be the target but nothing is for certain in this league. (cup)
Another way to look at is that we had over 10k through the doors in 5 days. We've two home games left and chance at another 10-12k from those two games. You can colour it anyway you like but every club on this island wishes they had our ability to tap into a floating support this large. Our core is probably under 2k. But when things are good we can pull huge crowds out. Hopefully we can bring a large crowd to Lansdowne road for a potential double. Whoever makes it there against us has a rivalry with us. It's either McGregor/Diaz part three or a Bradley cup final. Massive game either way.
Ha. Fair enough El P. Morley said exact same on TV. 10k at two games. Fair point. I'd say Cork's core is more 3k than 2 though.
It's a frustrating thing though, consistency with attendances and something we might never improve, take for example the likes of a club like Northampton in England. I lived there for a bit. It's a similar population to Cork, win lose draw they will get 4-5k min at home games, loads of reasons, 3pm every second sat, biggest sport in England, then again relatively quite an unsuccessful club, but like most teams in English lower leagues, fans come out and support their team regardless of a result and without having a party to celebrate.
Whisper it, but the truth is that English ppl are a lot better at supporting their local clubs than we are.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Irish love a party and a **** up, and if there's a chance of winning something people will be bursting in the gate, but generally speaking there's no interesting in showing up week in, week it for the long slog of a football season.
It's the same for all our sports. Connacht's attendances were poor, but skyrocketed once they had a decent team doing well.
It was raining and Limerick doesn't really attract a crowd for Cork. Also, I think people are getting sick of the draws and losses.Quote:
Originally Posted by LK37oldskool
Dundalk v Shams looked close to 3,000 on TV, main stand more or less full 1,200+. About 500 away fans, another 500+ on the open seating and behind goals. The opposite side fairly packed in with another 1,000+
Anyone with the official figure for the accounts! :waiting:
I agree with the first point. At one time I went door to door selling Harps draw tickets and noticed that every house with English or Scottish people seemed to know about Harps and were automatically supportive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Philosophizer
Disagree on Connacht though- they managed to build up their crowds before the team really took off. And their facilities aren't great. An interesting case study for clubs to look at- I'd love to get a few hours with the Connacht marketing and promotion guys because they're clearly very good at what they do.
Poor attendance by Cork you have to say. In regardless of who it's against a FAI Cup semi on the normal Friday slot should be motativation in itself, opposition shouldn't matter. Poor excuse to use. Weather wasn't that bad in Friday either (I live by the ground)...
We will just have to stumble on with over 10,500 in the gate in 4 days. The weather was absolutely shocking between 6 and 7 on Friday evening as well which would have deterred a lot from walking up. I Parked up about 6.30 on the Kinsale Road and had to wait 15/20 mins in car before heading down such was the downpour.Quote:
Originally Posted by sulywaterfordfc
I'm surprised the TV Schedule didn't put the Dundalk / Rovers game on the Friday night and the "Munster Derby" on the Sunday. Would have made more sense. Great crowd down from Limerick - might have brought even more on the Sunday.
interestingly enough why did RTE stop showing cup semis back to back?Quote:
Originally Posted by Real ale Madrid
I was in the shed for the first half, and open seating section town side of main stand for the second, looked to be well over 1,000 on shed side (it has 1k seats but loads were standing at the front) and close to 1,000 in other home areas not including the stand. The terracing in front of the stand can hold a good bit too.Quote:
Originally Posted by nr637
Haven't seen a figure yet but I'd say a little over 4K
Stopped last year - there was some fixture congestion regarding Dundalk and the Europa league which necessitated a change IIRC. Lots on of a Sunday though so I don't think the Friday / Sunday time-slots are all bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martinho II
Harps v Dundalk - 626
2068 in the Showgs.
I know it was on Telly, but that is a very poor turn out for a team that was battling to stay up seeing there was ten times as many in Finn Park cheering Harps to go up last year.
Couldn't hear it clearly over the PA at the Carlisle, but 500+ was given as the official attendance. About 150 travelling GUFC fans.
552 announced - 400 home fans with the club chasing a spot in Europe. Sad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olander
100% agree, disgraceful turnout, Donegal is supposed to be a sport mad county but only when the goings good, embarrassing.Quote:
Originally Posted by redarmyfaction
From the vantage point of the live stream, it looked virtually deserted. Fantastic away support though. I would expect 2 k for our game next week v Pats.
Substitute Galway for Donegal and it's the same thing. Massive game at home to Pats next Friday, but doubt we'll top 2,500. In a 'sports mad' city of almost 80,000, and a county population of a quarter of a million.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
No place in Ireland can get on the moral high ground when it comes to support.Quote:
Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy
Not even Cork!
Wow if thats not a reason for the fai to keep you in the premier over bray then what is. Were you on the galway set up years ago when in the first div claiming 1500 at every game trying to justify premier licence when your attendances included the swans from louch ataliaQuote:
Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy
If Galway hit 2000 for the pats game I will be surprised.Quote:
Originally Posted by gael353
3437 in the SDCC tanight.700 Dundalk!
A small tangent, an odd one even.....I had hoped that a Kerry team would eventually push for LOI membership - especially considering the previous involvement at league cup level, and the current involvement in the national underage leagues - but one of the aspects that constantly gets thrown around is support levels.
All the local sports teams are well supported in Kerry, Gaa naturally, but also basketball. The Tralee team are pulling in 800+ attendances for the home matches in the SuperLeague, and while basketball has a great tradition in Kerry funnily enough, I would not have anticipated those figures. It would give me hope that a 1st Division Kerry League side would be able to at least pull the same regularly for a home game. Mounthawk Park while very acceptable as a local league venue, would need improvements to bring it up to LOI standard.
Not much over 50% of capacity, and they restricted Dundalk's allocation to the minimum. Gottta love this league.Quote:
Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado
Counties from the 26 that have never had senior football.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kingdom
Ulster - Cavan.
Connacht - Roscommon, Leitrim, Mayo.
Leinster - Carlow, Laois, Meath Offaly.
Munster - Clare, Kerry
So 10 out of 26 or nearly 40% have never had a club, until the 70's only Louth, Sligo, Dublin, Westmeath, Cork ,Limerick and Waterford held the privilege AFAIK , or did Bray Unknowns hold membership, anyways each of the old port towns was represented except Wexford (too small) and Galway(too poor), with Athlone thrown in as a wild card.
Bray Unknowns were active for quite a while many years before Wanderers entered the league, and Transport, the railway side, played out of the Carlisle Grounds for a bit in the '40s/'50s also.Quote:
Originally Posted by redarmyfaction
Point is still valid, though, if I read it right - aside from all the other problems, there's a fair chance any new league clubs will have to battle against zero tradition of senior football in their area.
2,164 in terryland tonightQuote:
Originally Posted by red bellied
Of those 10 only Kerry, Mayo, Carlow and possibly Meath really have the potential for a LOI team. The others are either too small or too Gaa.Quote:
Originally Posted by redarmyfaction
Nothing less than pure arrogance or couldn't be bothered by Rovers. Dlk had 1k enquiries. 300 were left without tickets, Rovers could easily have moved home fans up towards the end opposite to the square but it was too much hassle.Quote:
Originally Posted by seand
For the match last Sunday week, Dlk were restricted to selling 500 tickets for the match in oriel park due to the extreme limited facilities and capacity. They had no option.
There should have been no such excuse last Tuesday not to extend sales to meet demand, but it would appear that Rovers made that decision themselves.
The attendance figure as a result was probably a little disappointing but maybe not unexpected.
Small minded, small club thinking that is below the standing of Shams in the domestic game tbh, misguided arrogance too possibly.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
1,700+ at Derry city v Finn Harps according to the Guards.
[QUOTE=Candystripe;1939849]1,700+ at Derry city v Finn Harps according to the Guards.[/QUO
I hope the 'Garda' figures add up! :struggle:
The pettiness they display is a betrayal of their history. If I was a rovers fan, I would find it embarrassing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
Really disappointing attendance. Rovers must take a lot of the blame. Game of the season - no doubt. Brilliant entertainment.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Rovers though were within their rights to limit the amount of travelling supporters by giving Dundalk just 10% of the capacity of the ground.Dundalk got exactly that.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
It didn't work out for them(Rovers) in the end but there was a purpose to it all.
Of the teams from new towns/areas/counties in the 26 that came since in since 1970 none have won a league , I think they have 5 cups between them and for each cup there had been at least one failure and for each failure, roughly, at the time of writing one success.
I thought there was a much bigger crowd the last time out between the sides at Maginn. Definitely less Harps fans traveled this time. Really disappointed with the size of the traveling support.Quote:
Originally Posted by Candystripe