Have to wonde r is that a mistake west stand was full (top deck anyway and I rarely seen east stand so full
I wonder did they count all the season ticket holders who came in through t he bar ?
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Have to wonde r is that a mistake west stand was full (top deck anyway and I rarely seen east stand so full
I wonder did they count all the season ticket holders who came in through t he bar ?
Just saw a photo of the stand, had to be over 5000 there, no way there were 2000 empty seats.Quote:
Originally Posted by Asterix
Undeclared cash to help boost player wages with ?Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
What was the estimated Dundalk support last night in Tallaght?Quote:
Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado
Dlk fm said around 1,000. Seems a very high figure, but I wasn't there, can't comment.
My guess for Bray last night would be around 1300 in the ground and another 500 stuck in the ticket que debacle outside.
It was about 650.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
575 official figure for Longford and 2225 at Limerick, official as well.
Seems to be bumper crowds all round.
http://www.punditarena.com/football/...ue-of-ireland/
Tallaght stadium was close to capacity, certainly looked like over 5000.
Happy with 575 for Longford, if we can maintain that all season I’d be happy
Seemed like a good Pats crowd there.Quote:
Originally Posted by D24Saint
especially with so few from Cobh.Neale Fenn and Daire Doyle going around the local schools was a spectacular success.. I was speaking to Daire Doyle after the game and they are going to do more of this! Daire was superb with Kyle my nephew and recognised him straight away and had a great chat with him! you can safely assured that Kyle will be at more matches and maybe Rhyse my other nephew if he behaves himself that is!Quote:
Originally Posted by outspoken
20% VAT in the north.Quote:
Originally Posted by micls
Was more than the semi final replay last season and u limited us to 700 tickets that day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Asterix
Stewards caught on a hop with the traveling crowd, having to remove netting at back corner and front
Great to see though
Waterford FC -v- St Pats ; 1,859
Very good for a cold Monday night.Quote:
Originally Posted by sulywaterfordfc
1842 at Sligo v Cork on a ridiculously cold night.(well it is in North Louth atm anyway)
Roughly 4,400 between our two home games and a 2-1 win over Derry followed by a 2-0 win over Pats. I expect to see an increase for the next home gameQuote:
Originally Posted by ger121
and 1525 at Shams v Bray, brings tonight's total attendances up to 5226.
That Rovers attendance is shockingQuote:
Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado
Poor attendance all right Baltic conditions and bray had virtually no one but still and all would have expected 2k at least.
Rovers fans distracted by news of snow falling from the sky later this week maybe?
Perhaps Tallaght will feel a bit warmer once the 3rd Stand goes in.To be fair, the weather's so bitterly cold that it's hard to be too critical of low attendances tonight.. Very decent attendances all round in general. Cork's gate Friday night was phenomenal.
While it is not unique in the LoI it seems from that attendance in Tallaght that the Hoops are finding it a struggle to make an impression on the local population. It would be interesting to conduct a survey on the percentage of fans who walk to the ground to support their team. Many on this forum live within walking distance of their home ground?
Always difficult when you have a big game on Friday, like rovers did against dundalk, and then have another game on Monday against a so called lesser side. They might've expected a bit more tonight but the cold weather would've put a few off I think
I now live about a mile from the Showgrounds and walk on most occasions. I was reared five minutes from the ground but before the floodlights came there used to be early kick offs for 2.30 on Sunday afternoons during the Winter months. It was always a rush getting the dinner in and then down the road trying to make the kick off.Quote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
City fans come from all over the city and county, and further afield. We have a bit of a connection with Killarrney Celtic, their underage teams have played the half time games on occasion, the trophies have been sent down there repeatedly, so we do see some fans travel from Killarney as well as other parts of Kerry and Tipperary.
Parking is becoming more and more of an issue as crowds increase.
That attendance at Rovers was what i expected, i know of loads of season ticket holders that did not attend, we would have numerous fans around the commuter towns, myself included who got home had some grub and probably said me ring not driving back up to Tallaght to see them play Bray.
Phenomenal! Considering the population they have to attract its fine.Quote:
Originally Posted by CorribsideSteve
I actually agree with this. It's still a very small portion of the population. In gross LoI terms it's excellent, but when you scale it, it really is pretty average.Quote:
Originally Posted by redobit
Munster only gets crowds of 8-9 K when they play in Musgrave so it's really very good, Cork's last attendance. Judging football ground capacity and in turn, crowd sizes when in comparison to a city's population is a bad metric for measuring attendances. Barcelona has a population of 1.8 million people but the Nou Camp when it's full can only accommodate 5-6 % of that.
1843 @ Oriel tanight for the demolition :p
I find comparing to population size a bit pointless with all the outside factors that have an influence.Quote:
Originally Posted by redobit
But, our average crowd 2 years ago was 2500. Our average crowd last year was 4500. This was our largest first day crowd by a large margin in the decade I've been around. That's a phenomenal start to me anyway. It's all relative.
Population is a rubbish argument. Finn Park saw an average of 1,200 people through the gates last season. That's a quarter of the population of Ballybofey. Doesn't mean anything though.
If everyone in the league was averaging out 4,559 people like Cork did last season, and attract seven 5,000+ attendances over the season, we'd be in a much healthier state altogether.
RTE giving Bohs attendance as 1183.
It's the small things in life so I can't help but be possibly irrationally pleased that Waterford's attendance was the highest of the series even if it was by a very slight margin.
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Originally Posted by ToberonaTornado
Decent turn out in absolute baltic conditions. The big loser in a lot of these ‘mid week’ games in the vast amount of school kids who are absent for obvious reasons and the bad weather obviously didn’t help. I’d fully expect this to be Dundalk’s season lowest.
Looking forward to Derry away now, hopefully we can get up there and it goes ahead.
Yeah, we'd have a few hundred kids at most home games but there were very few there on Monday night. Not an excuse obviously - Rovers fans are probably more fickle than most about 'difficult' fixtures, but ~60% of last season's average attendance isn't awful.
True but the Barcelona province is 5 million. They could build it higher/ bigger but Barcelona came out before and said they can't make the Nou Camp any bigger because people will just be too far away from the pitch. 80 to 90k seems to be the threshold on large stadia.Quote:
Originally Posted by CorribsideSteve
If you don't compare average match attendances to a population, then what is the comparison based on.
Does it really need to be compared to anything other than previous attendances?Quote:
Originally Posted by redobit
I was just going to post the same argument, I read before that even though Old Trafford fills the 78,000 seats virtually each match, that is still only 1.7% of the Manchester population.Quote:
Originally Posted by CorribsideSteve