Cobh v Limerick around 375
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Cobh v Limerick around 375
Is it just me or all the clubs, which played tonight, enjoying a slight increase( on average) in their crowds?
It probably won't last but it's a nice beginning. So well done to the FAI promotion people. Hats off to Noel Mooney and the Club Promotion Officers.
The Bohs attendance was about the same as our last 3-4 home games combined last season. If we can keep it to between 2500-3000 then it'd be a great start. The kids go free was a reasonable success. It needs to be build on but it was a solid start.Quote:
Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
We have Shamrock Rovers next [3500-4000] and Sligo on good Friday [3000 with kids go free]. If we can get those sort of numbers and a few wins then it'll make a big difference
Not sure we'll get that turn out for the Rovers game now its on a tuesday. I'd be confident of at least 4,000 if it was going ahead in its original slot.
Saw it on the Shels web forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Yeah I'd agree there was about 3000 there at the RSC.Great crowd,great atmosphere and great result :)
The first games of the season usually get decent crowds as there hasn't been a game in 16 weeks. Also, a lot of the games were local derbies, which would have helped.Quote:
Originally Posted by CollegeTillIDie
Edit - 309 appears official for Monaghan-Wexford, including about 60 away fans.
Was way more than that, it had to be round the 2500 markQuote:
Originally Posted by bohs til i die
Maybe that was excluding season ticket holders?
The Irish Times has 'the near-capacity 3,500 crowd' for UCD-Rovers.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
:D
That's just nonsense. Capacity is 2500 for a start!
A Rovers fan beside me at the bus stop reckoned at least 3,500-4,000.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Seagull
the brother was at the match and gave it at approx 3000.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I just remembered their been 3000 at a longford match few seasons ago.. if there were 3000 at that then 3000 for the cork game at least!
I heard 2500. Can't see how the RSC can fit 3000 anyway as seen some pictures & few people trackside. I'd guess 2000 more realistic as stand only holds 1200 or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Partizan
Is there any official figures from galway of how many rovers fans were down there last nite??
Heard 300.
Think 1700 in fairer fo our game, in hindsight.
In the second half anyway, the main stand was pretty much full (a few empty seats at the end I was in offset by the Rovers end overflowing) - say 800 (holds 848). We reckoned about 600 standing around the ground and the Cascarino stand (which is supposed to hold now 650) was about half full. So total is 800+600+300 = 1700.
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Originally Posted by Comic Book Guy
250 tops!
Supposedly Longford have a dismal crowd there tonight :confused:
Shels fans desperately looking for someone to look down on!Quote:
Originally Posted by Raheny Red
300-350 mentioned on the Limerick forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by gael353
CBG is usually reliable with his estimates, as far as I can see (think he has access to official figures more often than not)
YUP :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by sonofstan
People from both sides who were at the game all say 3000, you were told 2500, and yet you say 2000 because you can't imagine any more fitting in????Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
I counted over 2600 from where I sat and I couldn't see all the ground. The stand was packed (1300), there was 350 strung along the far side of the pitch, and another 150 scattered in front of and behind the fence at the city end, and 50 or so along the county end around to the entrance gate. Then there was 4 sheep pens trackside on the stand side which each held 200, the maximum the FAI fella would let in each. The one nearest the city hadn't as many in it. I couldn't see how many were standing either side of the stand, but there's normally a good few on the bank at the city side.
:eek: Any pictures of these?Quote:
Originally Posted by stann
:D Not really. 'Enclosures created by linked crush barriers' lacked a bit of descriptive colour I thought. ;)
1800-2000 mentioned for Athlone-Kilkenny on the Athlone forum.
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Originally Posted by bohs til i die
Exact figures are not available but 2,500 is the estimated figure as now reported by local radio, one local paper and the dfc.com
Just back from Longford v Pats. My guess is about 1800. Don't think I'd be too far wrong. Pay at the gate and no tickets given out, so who's to say or who can say, how many attended. A great travelling support. Fair balls to the Red Army!
YA can catch a short glimpse if lucky at the layout of the RSC with this clip..
I would've guessed at least 2,000 - goes to show guesstimates. It honestly looked like the biggest Rovers UCD crowd at Belfield for at least 4-5 years. Never needed the seating behind the goal either and not much space around the perimeter fence either..:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Yeah. I'd agree. Good Pats support. Hard to quantify it but also more home fans than nearly all games last year which ain't saying much but it's a startQuote:
Originally Posted by Buffalo Saint
Are you having a laugh? The capacity of the Flansiro is 6,900 as far as I'm aware, there's not a chance that the place was a quarter full. My estimate was no more than 1,000. The main stand has a capacity of 1,500 and there was a huge amount of empty seats around us, I'd guess 400 in there at the most. From my view across to the open areas I had guessed around 500 supporters.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buffalo Saint
I'd go along with that. From last years guesstimates it looks like the D*ndalk boys are getting a bit carried away with themselves. The shed might have been packed yeah, but its feckin tiny lads!!Quote:
Originally Posted by bohs til i die
See pic - http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s...lk/newshed.jpg
BTW, bohs till i die, what was the figure for our away support on Friday?
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Originally Posted by WindmillWarrior
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Originally Posted by Bohs til i die
So what are we saying on the ones where there's a dispute?
Longford v Pat's - Town fan and a Pat's fan agreeing on roughly 1800; Stato saying 1000 tops.
Dundalk v Harps - Dundalk fans and website saying 2500; Drogs and Bohs fans (don't know if either were at the game though) saying 1800.
Athlone vs Kilkenny
The seats in the stand were 95% full and there was about 50 standing up at the back. Another 100 standing round the pitch. So 2000 would be right.
Go with less than a 1000 for longford game about 200 pats fans.
kdjac
OK, so on that basis (feel free to argue, those who have other figures), the first update is as follows -
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 3,078 (2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976; 2004 - 2,340)
Bray - --- (1,027; 1,550; 818 FD)
Cork - --- (2,941; 3,644; 4,033)
Derry - 4,000 (3,229; 2,698; 1,672)
Drogheda - --- (1,751; 1,682; 1,554)
Galway - 3,314 (1,148 FD; 566 FD; 571 FD)
Longford - 1,000 (681; 1,004; 1,131)
Pat's - --- (1,342; 1,599; 1,882)
Rovers - --- (1,089 FD; 1,539; 1,349)
Sligo - --- (1,806; 1,794 FD; 781 FD)
UCD - 1,700 (546; 653; 306 FD)
Waterford - 3,000 (915; 1,513; 1,753)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 2,000 (421; 316; 291)
Cobh - 375 (368; 403; 240)
Dundalk - 2,500 (1,078; 474; 591)
Harps - --- (428; 1,347 PD; 1,106)
Kildare - --- (265; 186; 298)
Kilkenny - --- (122; 185; 110)
Limerick - --- (364; 669; 188)
Monaghan - 309 (204; 183; 182)
Shels - 1,572 (1,690 PD; 1,949 PD; 2,158 PD)
Wexford - --- (n/a)
Premeir Division average - 2,371 (1,535; 1,759; 1,853)
First Division average - 1351 (570; 520; 512)
Overall average - 1,907 (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.
It would be interesting to see what the averages were for first weekend last season. By all accounts seems like decent 16,000 at the Premier division this weekend.
Looking at the games for next week i see no reason figures can't be kept up at these levels.
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