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Originally Posted by Colie

but I'd say now only a handful of students in UCD even know where Belfield Park is & it wouldn't take off at all doing an eL supporters club on campus. They should do some kind of awareness campaign I suppose.

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When I went to that horrible 3-0 defeat to UCD a couple of years ago, I had a lift to the far side of the campus. I'd only been to a game in Belfield once before and couldn't really remember how to get to the pitch having come from the Montrose side the other time. We asked a few punters who we thought would know (football jersey wearers, security guards, hot women :p ). Nobody had a clue where the pitch was. When we asked at the reception of the Sports Centre (!), they asked around and eventually put us right. I would've felt better if i thought people were having us on, but I just despaired for UCD. We eventually made the game 5 mins late having scaled a fence. If UCD can't develop awareness of the club amongst their students, what chance has anyone else of encouraging supporters societies?

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Originally Posted by bluemovie

what chance has anyone else of encouraging supporters societies?

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Well you'd like to think that the people in the society would be pro-active in recruiting more members.

But jebus ... that is a fairly bad scenario of events to be fair.
What ever about a normal supporters club, all the colleges have infrastructure in place to communicate with the masses, the problem you just spelt out should not be happening at all and with active (active being the operative word) supporters groups setup ... it shouldn't happen.