About 100 at Station Road tonite, about 60 from Waterford.
How the hell are Kildare still going. FFS I played Munster Junior Rugby and there were bigger crowds at that.
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About 100 at Station Road tonite, about 60 from Waterford.
How the hell are Kildare still going. FFS I played Munster Junior Rugby and there were bigger crowds at that.
938 at Terryland says it all really.:mad:
Decent budgeting?Quote:
Originally Posted by Partizan
Heard it before, troll.Quote:
Originally Posted by gufct
Not getting official crowds for UCD games at the moment, but about 700 was the estimate for UCD-Cork. When it started to drizzle, the bit under the roof (750) filled up with a few left outside.
I've heard of shoe-string budgets but thats taking the ****. I'd doubt they even took in 1k last night. How much do the County players get a week? Petrol money?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
You're saying it like its a bad thing. If they manage to survive with those crowds, good luck to them
I'm not saying its a bad thing. However a club is suposed to have ambitions to progress, build, move on etc.. Kildare seem to be content to be stuck in perpetual mediocrity. Eventually someone inside the club is going to say 'to hell with it' and pack it up. Look at what happened to Kilkenny, they continued as along as they possibily could before reality caught up with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
isnt there plans to build a 1100 seated stand at station road??!
Newbridge Town FC own the ground so it would be their decision to make I would guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by SPXcyan
What would you like them to do? They can't make people go. Unfortunately...Quote:
Originally Posted by Partizan
I'm sure they'd love to build a better ground, and pay better players to play. But they can't afford it. Its not lack of ambition. its lack of moneyQuote:
Originally Posted by Partizan
And the Kilkenny thing isn't the same. They were basically just one man. Kildare have a decent sized board AFAIK
Seen Harps have a good attendance record this season, wonder what the crowd for the Sligo Rovers game was giving for in Ballybofey? Is this giving as official?
Athlone Town vs Wexford Youths official attendance 342
Cuz that's really works in places like Gretna..... :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by irishultra
You don't build sustainable clubs and leagues by hoovering up handouts from bored millionaires who will eventually disappear sooner or later.
Not a hope! It was half-full! There were swathes of empty rows.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I was going to say that but was afraid id upset the almighty. Saw the goals on TV3 looked like about 400 at the game although there didnt appear to any Cork fans in shot.
Nope you build them by adding Linfield and hoping everything will be OK.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
400 + Cork fans gives you a crowd of about 17,400, I would have thought.
I'll try get hold of the official figure anyways.
Cobh v sligo, I would guess about 750 max.
500 at Dundalk v Limerick per the Dundalk site.
Swopping Linfied for UCD would certainly make the Eircom League more sustainable anyway......! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I like your idea, and would like to subscribe to your organisation. Though not if your newsletter is photocopied and includes Su Doku.... :p
Irish Mail reports only 1,200 at Drogs v Derry last week, more porkies down windwill (lane) rd
3,100 at Derry V Pats. 3,000 of which were very unhappy souls.
We're perfectly sustainable, thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
When was the last time you saw us needing a major favour from a local politician to avoid bankruptcy?
Not like you to miss the point Stu...... :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
The league would be more susainable if a club with a positive balance sheet and a relatively large support base (both active and latent) was swopped for a club with a positive balance sheet but a fan-base that could be fitted onto a bus, with seats to spare.
I know your usual pomposity extends to believing you're a mathematical geniius (snigger), so surely you can 'do the math' on the above......
Also - an ability to call in favours from local politicians would suggest the presence of support. A luxury that some clubs struggle to fathom, I appreciate.
Oh, so it's our fault you nearly went tits up?
My apologies. :rolleyes:
I would have guessed 600,30 Rovers fansQuote:
Originally Posted by Comic Book Guy
Yes indeed, the extra people (a few hundred, maybe a thousand extra) other clubs will get at one home game a season is all this league has ever needed to put ourselves in a position to dominate Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
It would certainly have a noticeable impact on Limerick's average attendances anyway..... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
The point is Carrick Utd is a JUNIOR club with a support base from a small town. Judging by the attendance numbers I see being bandied about here, I could not see a LOI Division side attracting such a following, even for a cup match.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy
I'm confused. You're saying a LOI side couldnt bring 2000 people to a cup final? What was the attendance at the last cup final?Quote:
Originally Posted by smasher
Look to your left, and you'll see 'the point' same way into the distance heading off down the road.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
You've missed it again....
You had a point?
Or shoud that be - You had a point? :D
Been told UCD v Cork was 550 official. Away end must have been a lot less crowded than I thought. If only there was a way of getting rid of Cork and replacing them with, say, Linfield, they might bring a larger away support and generate more interest in the game, and we wouldn't be in the position we're in at the moment. :(
How do you get away wih your posts they are complete rubbish.
Away "end"? There was an away "end"? Looked like an away 'general but unenforced side of the only stand' to me. Besides, we may have only brought about 100 people but that pales in comparison to the traveling attendance in our last game at Windsor. Perhaps people just didn't particularly want to take a half day from work to see us strolling around Belfield? Perhaps UCD should advertise their charity ice-cream sales a bit better, it could have increased the numbers traveling from Cork, or indeed from across the road. Must email that idea to Noel Mooney.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Forgot to post this last weekend;
Galway United v Drogs : official attendance 938
just over 400 at the Bray game about 40 Bray fair play to them.
Update after last weekend. Clubs who give official figures are in bold.
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 2,298 (2007 - 1,924; 2006 - 1,463; 2005 - 1,976; 2004 - 2,340) (missing Sligo)
Bray - 1,500 (1,200; 1,027; 1,550; 818 FD)
Cobh - 1,303 (681 FD; 368 FD; 403 FD; 240 FD)
Cork - 3,661 (2,897; 2,941; 3,644; 4,033)
Derry - 3,528 (2,614; 3,229; 2,698; 1,672)
Drogheda - 1,925 (1,919; 1,751; 1,682; 1,554)
Harps - 1,977 (1,164 FD; 428 FD; 1,347; 1,106 FD)
Galway - 1,313 (2,199; 1,148 FD; 566 FD; 571 FD)
Pat's - 1,952 (1,910; 1,342; 1,599; 1,882) (missing Bray)
Rovers - 1,870 (1,715; 1,089 FD; 1,539; 1,349)
Sligo - 2,000 (1,448; 1,806; 1,794 FD; 781 FD)
UCD - 546 (663; 546; 653; 306 FD)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 437 (670; 421; 316; 291)
Dundalk - 1,281 (1,406; 1,078; 474; 591)
Kildare - 167 (243; 265; 186; 298)
Limerick - 488 (670; 364; 669; 188)
Longford - 600 (885 PD; 681 PD; 1,004 PD; 1,131 PD) (missing Waterford)
Monaghan - 185 (292; 204; 183; 182)
Shels - 974 (888; 1,690 PD; 1,949 PD; 2,158 PD)
Sporting Fingal - 809 (N/A) (missing Kildare and Waterford)
Waterford - 761 (1,181 PD; 915 PD; 1,513 PD; 1,753 PD)
Wexford - 952 (810)
Premier Division average - 1,966 (1,687; 1,535; 1,759; 1,853)
First Division average - 663 (722; 570; 520; 512)
Overall average - 1,376 (1,235; 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.
Estimates in but official figures missing -
Pat's v Bohs
Recent games missing -
Longford v Waterford
Thats bull, there was easily 7000 maybe 8000 at the game between Harps and Derry early on in the season, there was around 4000 in the return fixture (smaller ground), Dundalk - Drogheda would fetch high numbers maybe 5000 or so, Bohs - Rovers crowds seem to be dropping yet they are still in the region of 3500 - 4000.Quote:
Originally Posted by smasher
Last season for the final league game of the season, we had 800 fans in Kilkenny, for the play-offs in waterford we had the same if not more.
The cup final last season had much more than 2000 fans from either club.
Point is, LOI clubs have their "hard core" of fans and then the band wagon jumpers, I guarantee you if even Monaghan (no offence) were to be in the FAI Cup final, they would be fit to bring that sort of numbers. Junior clubs up here are the same, there was a crowd of around 1500 2 seasons ago for a league game between Kildrum and Fanad, 2 very small villages. If either of those sides (or any other USL side) were to make the cup final they would be able to gather up 2000 folk for it. Its the kind of country we live in.
1,800 @Derry V Bohs LC 1/4 final 1,760 of which were very happy souls.