2,308 saw Markets Field opened up.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
Biggest attendance at a Limerick home match since April 2nd 2013 against Shamrock Rovers in Thomond Park which had 3,006 at it.
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2,308 saw Markets Field opened up.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
Biggest attendance at a Limerick home match since April 2nd 2013 against Shamrock Rovers in Thomond Park which had 3,006 at it.
Great crowd. Keep the faith lads. The great escape is still on.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
Fair few were heading for the exits early, according to people who were there. It's MF opening night all over again.
Just stay up! That is a great crowd for a team in the doldrums fr so long, bottom of the league and moving around grounds for years. A settled home and a chance of staying up and 2.5k show up. With no waxing lyrical of marketing campaigns either!Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
Smallest crowd of the season in Finn Park by a long margin, only held up slightly by a large travelling crowd from Wexford. A lot of Harps fans saving themselves for the play-offs. 300 is the estimate given by someone at the game.
Good run of form recently, excitement of a relegation scrap, and a perception that Limerick were likely to beat Derry tonight would all have been factors in a big crowd. Limerick have been higher in the table at this point in other seasons and been getting three figures. That less than hardcore support is very fickle in Limerick.
I know that attendances don't count for everything, that Wexford have done wonders of the last couple of years and deserve their place in the Premier Division, Limerick and Sligo have been poor for most the season... But... its a bit of a kick in the teeth for the top flight if both Sligo and Limerick are possibly replaced by Wexford and UCD.
A good 500 people had left MF with 5 minutes to go, nearing 1,000 before the whistle went I'd say, decent atmosphere otherwise. Bit annoyed that I turned up 45 minutes early and was told that tickets to the main stand were already sold out, with there being at least 50 empty seats in there for the entire match..
Derry were decent, nothing special, but made it difficult for Limerick to get time on the ball, deserved to win. Match being on TV next week and the loss, will probably half the crowd.
So, turns out initial reports from Finn Park were greatly exaggerated. There was 20 Wexford fans in a still very disappointing crowd of 540.
Youths twitter say there was 100 Wexford fans there. That is a good crowd in Limerick but as others have pointed out their core support is still fairly small. I was at the other home fixture v Derry early early in the season, Monday night game, and I think it might have been their smallest gate. The move to the Markets Field and a quite remarkable turn-around in results have helped in getting the public interested again.
Ya our core support is about 500 people. The crowd started turning on the team at 1 down.
Shows the potential if we actually had a very good team challenging.
There's an awful lot of people that's had a great laugh at that.Quote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
I'm friends with the Wexford lads on snapchat, there was no more than 30 on their bus that's for sure. Some monster of a journey though they were on the beer from 9am this morning, brings back memories of our celebration last yearQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
No doubting the journey alright and fair play to them for a game that had no significance toward their season at all. Most Wexford fans I've come across are a good laugh and will be a welcome addition to the Premier Division and I only hope they can go from strength to strength.
Yeah I don't know any of them personally to be honest but they've always seemed a good bunch who love their football. They deserve a crack at the Premier, they haven't thrown big money at it just got a shrewd manager and the best talent in the area. I'm not sure the expenses only model will work in the Premier but they deserve to be able to try it.
You could hear on the radio the way the atmosphere just died after the first goal, and after the second even the commentators had to talk about how quiet it had gotten.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jofspring
In the event Limerick managed to challenge for a title - and this being the crazy rollercoaster that is LOI, that could be next year for all I or anyone else knows - I'd bet money that you could get 3'000 in the gate for home games, capacity providing. Plenty of "soft" support there who would come along if they football was good and the team was competitive enough. Bandwagoners of course, but asses in seats are asses in seats.
But I suppose that true, to some extent, for every team in the LOI.
It was quiet all night really. The whole place was nervous.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
This totally amateur line floating about isn't totally true either, one or 2 of their lads are being paid, and I'd imagine if they want to compete next season a few more might need moneyQuote:
Originally Posted by Longfordian
1,882 in The Showgrounds last night
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Originally Posted by toffeejay
Cannot see any first division team beating a premier division team tbh
based on what I saw earlier in the season, Harps will cause a lot of difficulties in the playoffs and would make it hard for Prem Div sides to beat them in the playoffs. Even though I dont want it to happen I think Harps could beat Sligo in the playoffs!
Yep if we had to play a play off harps would be the ones to avoid but as Marty said they are going to be hard to beat which means if you can get your defensive set up right then a chance should come along at some stage given the difference in standard from PD to FD all year. Don't take that chance though and nothing to say harps couldn't sneak through over extra time or penalties.
I would estimate around 900 at the Bray Rovers game! Very poor crowd for it!
Roundup of week 28:
Dundalk v Galway: 3,122
Limerick v Derry: 2,647
Cork v Longford: 2,011
Sligo v Bohs: 1,882
Bray v Shamrock Rovers: 900
Pat's v Drogheda: 836
Finn Harps v Wexford Youths: 540
Cabinteely v Athlone: 500
Shelbourne v Cobh: 406
Waterford v UCD: ?
Updated to include Pats v Cork 19th Oct.
Week 28: Final round of First Division fixtures. Missing Waterford v UCD
PREMIER DIVISION
Bohs - 1,712 (1,395; 1,597; 1,496; 1,488; 1,835; 2,366)
Bray - 775 (718; 891; 965; 1,121; 952; 1,169)
Cork - 3,305 (3,777; 1,965; 2,786; 2,128 FD; 1,693 FD; 2,681)
Derry - 1,146 (1,106; 1,446; 1,460; 2,135; 1,965 FD; 2,436)
Drogheda - 767 (1,064; 817; 977; 811; 859; 1,106)
Dundalk - 3,141 (2,534; 1,997; 949; 1,355; 1,877; 2,371)
Galway - 1,293 (975 FD)
Limerick - 1,159 (757; 1,649; 734 FD; 569 FD; 598 FD; 429 FD)
Longford - 816 (567 FD; 379 FD; 365 FD; 315 FD; 230 FD; 260 FD)
Pat's - 1,345 (1,386; 1,687; 1,474; 1,346; 1,756; 1,631)
Rovers - 2,946 (2,269; 2,763; 3,127; 3,779; 3,794; 3,611)
Sligo - 1,756 (1,959; 2,342; 3,007; 2,103; 1,807; 1,756)
FIRST DIVISION
Athlone - 314 (653 PD; 754; 271; 200; 354; 462)
Cabinteely - 610 (No previous)
Cobh - 366 (223; 439; 2008 - 1,122 PD; 681; 368; 403)
Harps - 784 (449; 479; 429; 433; 644; 480) -
Shels - 596 (713; 1,114 PD; 1,187 PD; 781; 737; 972)
UCD - 216 (397 PD; 487 PD; 506 PD; 558 PD; 610 PD; 272)
Waterford - 460 (470; 478; 453; 466; 619; 434)
Wexford - 553 (331; 227; 302; 216; 343; 494)
PREMIER AVERAGE: 1,685 (1,502; 1,566; 1,630; 1,547; 1,512; 2,010)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 488 (495; 391; 372; 578; 682; 417)
OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,238 (1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110; 1,095; 1,175)
TOTAL WEEKLY ATTENDANCE: 13,567 (Minus Waterford v UCD, including Pats v Cork midweek)
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 54,124 (55,408)
OVERALL PREMIER ATTENDANCE: 313,477 (297,334)
OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 367,601 (352,742)
723 at Pats v Cork last night. Updated above to reflect this.
350 at Waterford v UCD.
Was the Pats v Drogs game really that small, there looked to be a decent crowd in areas in some of the clips on soccer rep, fair few in the camera side and a few from the away side too. It must have been as they gave an actual figure but it looked more?Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
I was watching the game live and was surprised the attendance figure was that high tbh..Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel
Without repeating the whole thing, since I can no longer edit the last post, updates of changes:
Waterford - 453 (470; 478; 453; 466; 619; 434)
FIRST DIVISION AVERAGE: 486 (495; 391; 372; 578; 682; 417)
OVERALL AVERAGE: 1,235 (1,160; 1,140; 1,125; 1,110; 1,095; 1,175)
TOTAL WEEKLY ATTENDANCE: 13,917 (including Pats v Cork midweek)
OVERALL FIRST ATTENDANCE: 54,474 (55,408)
OVERALL COMBINED ATTENDANCE: 367,951 (352,742)
Interesting. Our attendance this year is exactly the same as 2009. Which was an Ok year, getting to a FAI cup final and a mid-table finish.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Sligo's crowds and especially fundraising have been one of the stories of the season. Both impressive in a very hard year.
973 the official attendance at the bray v rovers game.
1960 at Limerick/Shams. Wonder how many in first game at MF next season...
A sellout at home to the champions or a derby to league and cup runners up - positive thinking Limerick fans!!Quote:
Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter
Think I seen 479 as official attendance at the Bowl. At minimum, there was 200 of that Harps.
2,618 at The Box last night.
Hopefully Bray will push for 1,000 again tonight for last home game vs Galway..
I think considering nothing to play for really, this was a decent crowd, as I'd imagine we had less than 100 at it, also if boot on other shoe, I'd have been reasonably happy with this.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Donie Forde
However for stats, its a huge reduction on the game in April, I think that was 6,900. I was at it, my first trip to TC, perfect night for football, granted your crowds have dropped off significantly, but few clubs will ever get more than 5k at a league match. Our season high last year was 5,500 v Cork in the last game. This year with not so many big games having an edge, our highest was just under 4k, and I very much doubt we will exceed that on Friday for the trophy presentation.
I would also think, from the last 10 years, there won't have been too many higher than the Cork v Dundalk match last April for a league game, I think Cork v Derry for the final game when Cork won the league was bigger though ? Possibly as more could stand at the time, I could be wrong, anyway it would be interesting to see a list of the top 10 or so biggest league crowds for any games over the past 10 years. I might try and see if I can dig it out when I have more time.
We had at least three times that. The away section was overfilled. Also, not sure why they didn't open another section as there was nobody in the next two blocks.Quote:
Originally Posted by oriel