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Yeah it might be hard to find the type of place of libation that Dundalk offers our Shamrock Rover's friendly visitors. If it had been a trip to Greece you could have probably bought your own little bar for €20 by Wednesday morning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
Turns out our chant against PAOK "the Greeks are going bust" was premature.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
To think that some Rovers fans used to travel to away games by helicopter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
We've had to downgrade our travel plans ever since mypost started taking his spaceship to Anfield.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Anfield Direct? (never gets old)Quote:
Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin
About 300 max at Ramblers v UCD including two Luxembourgers (is that right?) to see a game where a UCD player gets a straight red for going in studs up on Ramblers assistant manager!
God I love this league.
Good idea from us there.
Ten minutes with a full team - 1-0 up, so we'd have won 9-0 or so ordinarily. Good for confidence
Then get a guy sent off - our game plan is completely changed and the scouts learn bugger all about our regular game plan. Get 80 good minutes at defending practice. All in the baking temperatures of the sunny South East.
And it would have worked too if it hadn't been for that pesky penalty at the end
I couldn't see us getting anything but the sending off definitely changed things, that said 4-2 to U.C.D would have been a fair reflection of the play in the first half.
Kevin Mulcahy made a brilliant goal saving tackle on one of your strikers near the end.
Happy with the point in the end we might even have stolen it very late on.
345 at Waterford v Athlone.
Didnt a Dundalk Board member arrive at Oriel Park many years ago in a helicopter that landed on the pitch prematch? I think our very enthusiastic PA announcer did cartoon sketches for the programme then and the following game had cartoon drawing with the caption 'Mr X gets his chopper out for the fans'. Funny if true but could be a bit of an urban myth though it has Micky Duffy all over it. At least in a few weeks the Champions League jingle will not get any groans as it did when the players ran out last season in the Europa League games!Quote:
Originally Posted by White Horse
Week 15:
Dundalk v Limerick: 2,714
Bohs v Drogheda: 1,762
Galway v Shamrock Rovers: 1,644
Pats v Longford: 1,165
Derry v Cork: 950
Shelbourne v Harps: 614
Waterford v Athlone: 345
Cabinteely v Wexford: 150 estimate
Cobh v UCD: 300 estimate
Bray v Sligo: ?
Week 15: Missing Drogs v Derry 12th June & Bray v Sligo 27th June
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 1,837 (1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488; 1,835; 2,366)
Bray - 899 (718; 891; 965; 1,121; 952; 1,169)
Cork - 3,826 (3,777; 1,965; 2,786; 2,128 FD; 1,693 FD; 2,681)
Derry - 1,219 (1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135; 1,965 FD; 2,436)
Drogheda - 707 (1,064; 817; 977; 811; 859; 1,106)
Dundalk - 3,159 (2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355; 1,877; 2,371)
Galway - 1,476 (975 FD)
Limerick - 797 (757; 1,649; 734 FD; 569 FD; 598 FD; 429 FD)
Longford - 936 (567 FD; 379 FD; 365 FD; 315 FD; 230 FD; 260 FD)
Pat's - 1,564 (1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346; 1,756; 1,631)
Rovers - 3,148 (2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779; 3,794; 3,611)
Sligo - 1,797 (1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103; 1,807; 1,756)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 349 (653 PD; 754; 271; 200; 354; 462)
Cabinteely - 805 (No previous)
Cobh - 365 (223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681; 368; 403)
Harps - 881 (449; 479; 429; 433; 644; 480) -
Shels - 600 (713; 1,114 PD; 1,187 PD; 781; 737; 972)
UCD - 239 (397 PD; 487 PD; 506 PD; 558 PD; 610 PD; 272)
Waterford - 473 (470; 478; 453; 466; 619; 434)
Wexford - 370 (331; 227; 302; 216; 343; 494)
PREMIER AVERAGE: 1,825 (1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547; 1,512; 2,010)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 509 (495; 391; 372; 578; 682; 417)
OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,336 (1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110; 1,095; 1,175)
TOTAL WEEKLY ATTENDANCE: 9,844 (Minus Bray v Sligo)
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 31,052 (55,408)
OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 188,000 (297,334)
OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 219,052 (352,742)
Wow that's a massive drop from CaboQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Cabinteely v Wexford: Estimate from club 350. Waiting on official. Extratime were well out with that one according to the club.
Harps v Cabinteely - 679
Bit of a drop in attendance after three losses in a row, but hopefully a win in Waterford would see a good crowd for Cobh at home in two weeks time.
1,698 in The Showgrounds last night
Attendance at Wexford v Waterford was 576.
Considering the weather, I still think it was a decent crowd and shows that when any Harps team shows some potential, the support is there.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Even though it is somewhat of a South East local derby of sorts and Waterford are not up to much at present, so their attraction has fallen. It is still a good attendance, considering how far out of town Ferrycarrig Park is for your average interested fan, most grounds are within a walk for alot of people.Quote:
Originally Posted by ForzaForth
Sligo are now done to their hardcore average fans, which is around 1,500 and for most clubs such as St. Pats, Bohs etc., in Dublin they would love to be in a similar situation. So, again this attendance is what Sligo should expect in their position and will only increase as the team improves, don't forget the fans in Sligo can see the players performance and will demand value for their money.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
Limerick v Bray 1400.
1400 is a great attendance and shows how decent facilities will attract fans, but sadly they won't come back according to the Limerick forum with the performance that was out there on saturday night.
1400 people left the Markets Field on Saturday night scratching their heads wondering how the f8ck a manager can pick his sorry excuse for footballer Son and Paul O'Conor and leave them on the pitch for 90 minutes - baffling stuff when you consider Hughes and Agyemang were on the bench. It's a miracle that we have 5 points on the board when you consider that we start every game with 9 players!Quote:
Originally Posted by nr637
I couldn't stand Russell in his short time with us. I was delighted when he left.Quote:
Originally Posted by donnrua
Is there any sign of ye to sign in a few decent players and not ones that ye have had before? It's the only way yel stay up but I'd imagine finances just aren't there?Quote:
Originally Posted by donnrua
We were relegated Saturday tbhQuote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
Freddy Hall is supposedly signing in the next few days - Bermuda GK, played with a few lower league teams in England Christ knows we need to get rid of that clown O'Donnell. Ali Abass is rumoured to be in hospital with malaria. Funny thing is we're probably one of the few financially secure clubs in the league!Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
That is very frustrating for Limerick to get 1400 out to a game and for the support to see a struggling team and asking questions of the manager like the ones mentioned. Timing is so important - if the move to Markets Field coincided with even a mid-table competitive side, or the resources afforded to Taylor were available this season. 1400 people back after the opening of Markets Field and a loss too shows the potential support for football in Limerick!
There's huge potential down here if we could put a decent team on the field. The support is there especially with the move back to MF but as per usual with Limerick has done things ar*e over fist - if you think about the way to go would have been to hold back on the budget until we got in there and then pushed on. Taylor was a poor choice IMO. I think we should have went with an experienced LOI manager that knew players around the league, on top of that the football he had us playing was muck and he wasted a lot of money on imports. If we could have been in the position to held on to the players we had at the end of last season and added one or two more we would have the makings of a very good side instead we have players like Sean Russell and Conor O'Donnell:mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nesta99
There was a certain strange "If we'll build it they will come, and everything will be fine then" mentality this season. Such a huge overriding focus on getting the MF finished, while the team was ignored, like just having a new stadium would mean they would start playing well when it was opened. But the team is still really low quality, and now you start to wonder if Limerick will even be able to win a game in the Market's Field before the season is over, let alone work an escape.
I mean, I understand how some of the investments made in the last two years will stand to the club in the long term certainly. But I wonder, once Limerick go down, how long will it take to get back? Because the knock on financial hit of relegation will be another wound. How many will a home game against Cabinteely attract to the MF?
And Roddy's Waterford in his second championship season has top spot nailed and with possibly one of Harps, Youths, UCD, Shels missing out on promotion it could be a toughie all right!
1105 Galway v Dundalk
Stephen Kenny was mad for the job even delayed signing anything with Dundalk in the hope of getting it and we went with Taylor instead. I'm still bitter about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by donnrua
650 announced as official attendance in Markets Field for Limerick V Galway United
About 300 max at ramblers v wexford. Had to compete against the triple whammy of cork hurlers, poxy weather and the cork city v Liverpool reserves. The perfect storm of one s*** night on and off the pitch.
1,587 in The Showgrounds
Big drop from the previous week vs Bray. Was bound to happen as Limerick can't buy a win and the novelty factor of a new stadium wears off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paddyfield
Probably more to do with Limerick playing a big hurling game on the same day.Quote:
Originally Posted by ger121
Markets Field is a very tidy ground, it's a credit to Limerick.
If there had been a few signings and hope of a win I reckon we would have got a decent crowd in. Sadly the loss to Bray, lack of changes to the starting 11 have culminated in that drop. You could nearly estimate a loss of between €7,000-€10,000 in a week on the gate.
Great attendance for a team near the bottom, great to see us bringing around 200 with us probably our biggest away following in quite a long time just a same we played utterly crap in front of that crowdQuote:
Originally Posted by Nah Nah Nah Nah
Around 120 from Longford.Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken