Could be anything from 900 to 1300.
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Could be anything from 900 to 1300.
Which side were you watching the game from? Its difficult to judge a crowd size if you are in the middle of it.
A guesstimate from looking over at the Drogs side would be roughly 600 or so in there, plus whatever the seated stand hold plus around 60 of us.
Do you have to pay in before getting into the bar?
i was on the home terrace .stand holds about 300 , and there was a good few in the bar .admittance to the bar is ticket only .
Not trying to patronise UCD fans, but can anyone tell me what their record attendance is? Always wondered.
True, but we deserved more in both games so i hope we will come good. In fairness thought, for a team who have just won the cup, about to play in Europe and are pushing for the top of the league - bringing 8 fans to an away game when you have only a couple of away games outside of Leinster all season is shameful.
Sligo is too far away, they should be made to play their games in Dublin to make it fairer on us :)
We've to travel (apart from Galway, 1 1/2 hours or so) at least 2 hours to all our away games and we still manage to bring around 100 to away games on Friday nights. Surely Fingal could manage more than 8 to the west on a Saturday night??
Athlone Town vs Limerick Official attendance 533
Depends (typical Irish answer).
Absolute record, so I've heard, 80000 against the Jordanian or Chinese or Iranian national team in the late 70s. That was an away game, obviously.
Record in Dublin was about 23000 against Liverpool in Lansdowne Road in 1995, a game held to mark our centenary and also, I think, to present Dundalk with the Premier Division trophy after the FAI didn't bother having one at Oriel on the last day of the season, when Dundalk came from third to win the league.
In home competitive games, we got 9000 v Everton in Tolka Park in the 1984 Cup Winners' Cup Final. The FAI Cup Final v Rovers probably beat that, but wasn't a home game for us obviously.
In domestic competition, you'd be looking at the 2174 v Derry City in the League Cup Final of 2005. I think the record books note 3500 against Derry CIty in the First Division in 1985, Derry's first season.
In the Bowl, I think it's about 1300; I'd have the stats at home somewhere. That may be under threat on Friday.
Averages after round 13. Official figures in bold. Club averages in bold means more than half of their figures are official.
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 1,913 (2009 - 2,366; 2008 - 1,993; 2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976)
Bray - 700 (1,169; 1,106; 1,200; 1,027; 1,550)
Drogheda - 1,124 (1,106; 1,631; 1,919; 1,751; 1,682)
Dundalk - 2,506 (2,371; 1,459 FD; 1,406 FD; 1,078 FD; 474 FD)
Galway - 911 (1,076; 1,393; 2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD)
Pat's - 1,955 (1,631; 1,795; 1,910; 1,342; 1,599)
Rovers - 3,773 (3,611; 1,468; 1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539)
Sligo - 2,112 (1,756; 1,960; 1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD)
Sporting Fingal - 1,189 (635; 688)
UCD - 491 (272 FD; 546; 663; 546; 653; 306 FD)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 559 (462; 387; 670; 421; 316)
Cork - 2,308 (2,681 PD; 3,142 PD; 2,897 PD; 2,941 PD; 3,644 PD)
Derry - 2,303 (2,436 PD; 3,363 PD; 2,614 PD; 3,229 PD; 2,698 PD)
Harps - 691 (480; 1,607 PD; 1,164; 428; 1,347 PD; 1,106)
Limerick - 714 (429; 517; 670; 364; 669)
Longford - 265 (260; 406; 885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD)
Mervue - 160 (166)
Monaghan - 286 (183; 177; 292; 204; 183)
Salthill Devon - 162 (N/A)
Shels - 773 (972; 986; 888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD)
Waterford - 754 (434; 670; 1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD)
Wexford - 295 (494; 767; 810)
Premier Division average - 1,678 (2,010; 1,746; 1,687; 1,535; 1,759)
First Division average - 740 (417; 641; 722; 570; 520)
Overall average - 1,198 (1,175; 1,221; 1,235; 1,070; 1,195)
Attendances for last weekend (i.e. the figures I've gone with) -
Sligo v Bohs 2200
Pat's v Dundalk 1860
Rovers v Galway 3417
Drogheda v Fingal 900
Bray v UCD 350
Salthill v Longford 86
Athlone v Limerick 533
Wexford v Cork 462
Shels v Waterford 807
Monaghan v Derry 732
Harps v Mervue 463
I would say about the same, maybe 40/50 more. Alot of people wouldn't be working that day so they'd take the trip to Dublin/East/Galway. Depends on the importance of the game too.
ie. IF we had Pat's away on a Saturday night and we were going for Europe we could bring 300+.
Stu i have a few question for you, I am planning on heading to the UCD match on Friday, Is there any chance this will sell out before Friday??
And
Regards this thread, If the club dont give an official attendance what you prefer to use as a rough estimate, do you just take peoples word or do you prefer one paper to another because there seems to be some papers that get the numbers well wrong
2,000, For some reason i thought the bowl only held 1,400 at most
So how can the Irish Times and Extratime get an agreed figure of 650 for Drogs V Fingal then ? Is one feeding the other, or are both from the same source ? And on the estimates of two fans here the figure is increased by 250.
Once again it would make things so much easier if clubs reported crowds in their website match reports, DFC have finally started giving esitmated figs in our website, but even this has changed from official figures given previously in the season.
I dont think its beyond the realms of reality to think that the Irish Times looked up Extratime and just took that to be the attendance. Extratime have it as an estimate, which is what we are doing.
I also believe that a Drogheda fan would have a better idea of what crowd was in their ground (as long as they are being honest of course) than somebody who doesnt go to the ground that often (me and extratime). When extraime try to judge attendances they tend to be off by quite a bit.
As for clubs giving out attedances. I totally agree. I dont understand why its not done.
Plenty of journos ask each other for details but there's no way the IT are looking up extratime for the attendance.
Would they be better of just ringing the club for the official figure ?
Maybe they care as much about the numbers as I do
we can all see what the crowd is. The actual figures mean nothing
The guys writing the two reports were most likely sitting beside each other in the press box and either came up with a guess between them or got the figure from someone. I know that the press are given the official figure by a club official in Belfield soon after half time.
I use fans' guesstimates. I'll tend to use the lower or lowest reasonable guesstimate (so if someone says there were 2000 at a match, and someone else says it was more like 1700, I'll go with 1700) because history has shown that people generally overestimate.
I generaly ignore newspaper figures after seeing how laughably inaccurate the likes of the Star were. However, as schumi noted, I know the press get the official figure in Belfield these days, and they've been appearing in the Irish Times all season. I've taken to assuming they do that at all other grounds, and so any irregular figure (like the 3417 at Tallaght) I assume is official unless anyone wants to contradict it.
Well that 3417 figure was actually estimate at 2,200 on extratime...
Doh!
That's in the alternate reality where Joe Hanrahan scored late on in Goodison instead of hitting the bar...
Yeah, it was the following day, I think. Certainly the same week. The Bohs and UCD keepers were brothers too. Howard Kendall mentioned it in the programme notes for the away leg to point out that Irish clubs aren't walkovers at all.
1348 at rovers-ucd tonight. . Looked like there was about 800 rovers