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fairplay to Pats selling 2300 tickets maybe it will come close to full which given the north stand is only open for 500 would mean a crowd of 8500.
I wonder what the approach of the Managers will be? Two teams that will be slugging it out at the top over the course of the season.........play full teams and go for it or have a phony war with a mixed first /second choice pick
Considering last years sluggish start would have cost Rovers the title in most other years I'd imagine they want to storm out of the blocks. Statement stuff by boths side I think will be the hoped for approach.
ah… for this game. Thought you meant for league games!Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
763 at the RSC tonight for the MSC quarter final match against Wilton United.
Very healthy attendance for an LSC game of 2,061 in Oriel Park last night.
Why not ? Rovers don’t like money all of a sudden ? With the capacity of Tallaght going to 10,000 it seems to me that there’s no excuse for not selling as many tickets as you can. If we get to the stage where Tallaght is selling out 10,000 seats then that will really be great news for the league overall, and Rovers in particular.Quote:
Originally Posted by Knocklyonhoop
I’m still slightly pinching myself at the upturn in crowds for the past couple of years to be honest. Been a season ticket holder at Pats for just about 30 years now, and I never thought I’d see it. It’s absolutely fantastic, and hopefully can continue.
I don’t know of any team where there are empty home seats increase the away following? And any game where away fans sell out is likely to be fairly full too. Why give the opposition the benefit of more fans when overall its not huge in the coffers
Rovers could 100% do with any extra revenue from away fans and I can't see us turning it down unless the guards intervene. There is no loi team that can turn down money
Wasn’t last night the Malone cup ?Quote:
Originally Posted by culloty82
It was both!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by D24Saint
Well if there is any upside to ownership instability and a bunch of new signings, its the curiosity value of preseason games.Quote:
Originally Posted by culloty82
What's the LSL cut of the gate money in this years competition.Quote:
Originally Posted by joey B
Doubled up this year as both, should be re-named the Drogs pre season cup, that was their 15th win ! We seem to struggle in this match almost every year, even in SK era.Quote:
Originally Posted by D24Saint
It is their annual cup final so not unexpected that they really bust a gut to earn some silverware!Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
only Bohs Shels and Pats would want more than standard allocation and for those games, we’ll sell enoughQuote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
in the Kenny yrs Dundalk had a couple of yrs where they wanted more tickets. It didn’t happen and were empty seats
the yr Pats won the league, they had a load buying in home end as we didn’t give them more
longford and cork off the top of my head recent ish games we could have sold more but weren’t given them and 00-‘s of empty seats . Cos they don’t want to give away team advantage If reconfigured the Sligo and Dundalk too but not as many
I was hoping for that too. Especially with the Rovers ultras at the opposite end. It would really add to the atmosphere in the ground imo, and definitely improve the spectacle on tv if you could clearly see both sets of ultras behind the goals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buckett
Yeah one thing i've always thought took away a bit from the atmosphere at games and also watching them on tv is the absence of ultras behind the goals and now that Rovers are in a position to have that it's a shame if they don'tQuote:
Originally Posted by Philosophizer
Should be interesting crowds at next 2 Louth Derbys, prob won't matter too much at Drogs as their capacity is limited to 2,200 or so, but both games moved to 1PM, both on BH's too.
Green St has come to the wee county after last Fri night's events !
I think I'm right in saying the 888k total figure from last season wouldn't have included the LSC, MSC or European figures. Given the multiple 1k+ gates we have seen so far I think there's a chance we could break the 1 million figure if Rovers get to a groups stage and if we get the right cup final pairing.
It's the likes of Wexford, Treaty and Athlone in the first division which I will be the most interested to see how they fair. If those could start averaging closer to a 1k it would make up a heavy chuck of the 112k that we were short of the million in 2023.
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Originally Posted by Glen Of Aherlow
Its something to do with fan pathways into the away section.
The club offices and shop are now moving from the west stand to the New North stand so home fans will be milling around the entrances to the North stand buying gear etc and segregation becomes an obvious issue.
I agree though from a TV perspective it would be great to have away fans behind the goal, on the other hand for some matches that might be only a handful which could look worse
On the flip side, it would look dreadful having away fans in such a huge stand too. If there's less than 100 away fans in a 2000+ seater stand it would look awful. Doesn't look like the sort of stand you can easily cordon off either.
A really odd decision to put the store and offices there , on a match night the away crowd will be walking past and maybe through a load of home fans. Not generally a problem but the derby? We both have enough gob****es to make that a problem unfortunately.
7000 tickets sold for Presidents Cup final.
Few days to go. Last season over 30k attended opening night. This Friday Derry likely to be smallest attendance in prem, more to do with capacity, 3k plus, 4k plus for Bohs and Galway and possibly Waterford - stands on both side sold out for home fans, Rovers 6K plus. Cork hard to know, but would expect 3k plus with the other 4 fixtures likely over 1k.
Post match there was a Garda cordon forcing all away fans out to the right towards the blue bridge over the road that leads to the square carpark. I went the same way to the ground pre-match but there didn’t appear to be that same cordon pre-matchQuote:
Originally Posted by Dermobohs
Safe estimate of about 8-9k in the First Division, about 23-24k in the Premier Division.Quote:
Originally Posted by LTFC
Outside chance that Tallaght sells out at 10k as well.
Great times for the league. Up to each respective club to take advantage of it.
Seen somewhere today, we are being advised to go over the bridge pre match on Friday night aswell as after the gameQuote:
Originally Posted by Dermobohs
Always laugh at that. Force everyone to go over the bridge into a car park where home and away fans are all parked together anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by dundalkfc10
What was the final/official attendance for the President's Cup, does anyone know?
8,053Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
Opening Premier League fixtures and estimated attendance!
Bohemians v Sligo Rovers 4,500 - Sell Out, with Sligo taking up its full away allocation of about 450
Derry City v Drogheda United 3,700 - Sell Out
Galway United v St Patrick's Athletic 4,300 - Sell Out, with St. Pats taking up its full away allocation of about 430
Shamrock Rovers v Dundalk 8,000 - Possible Sell Out
Waterford v Shelbourne 4,000 - Sell Out, with Shels taking up its full away allocation of about 400
Can't Wait, Live home domestic football!
With Rovers being the only club with the possibility of increased attendance and the new boys Galway and Waterford having fantastic interest it makes for a bumper year. All of the rest will have full or very close to full houses each week. If the new boys get off to a good start the may take up their allocation of away tickets providing banter and atmospher at the games. It's all really positive. Best of luck to all tonight and for the season ahead, except of course if you are playing Bohs.Quote:
Originally Posted by nr637
3,302 is the temporary capacity of the Brandywell now.Quote:
Originally Posted by nr637
Waterford and Rovers still have tickets available, but should be 25k plus at prem tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by nr637
As do Galway, who are putting them on sale in person again from 5pm onwards. They say they expect it to sell out though. With the amount of ticketless Pats fans heading down I’d say there’ll be a lot of practising of Galway accents going on on the train down to be ready for 5pm ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by LTFC
Rovers won’t sell out tonight. Not selling east stand tickets yet so that stand likely to have Dundalk only and probably 400 / 500?Quote:
Originally Posted by nr637
On that basis unless the other stands are jam packed there will be less people then for the Presidents cupQuote:
Originally Posted by Knocklyonhoop
Was on train Athlone to Galway earlier couldnt get a seat earlier full of St Pats fans headin to game!
Opening weekend last year had a bit shy of 31,000, and opening 2 weekends came in a bit under 60k.
Losing Cork and UCD kind of balance out really. A little hard to see the average across the 5 games being more the 6k without Turners X.
It's the first division where I'll be really interested to see how the numbers fair week 1 and month 1. It's not the graveyard anymore and clubs like Athlone, Treaty and Wexford should be aiming for regular crowds over 1k.