Not really surprising. Linfield dont give a crap(unlike Sligo) about the SSCQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
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Not really surprising. Linfield dont give a crap(unlike Sligo) about the SSCQuote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
Ah, thats prob why they didnt travel to travel to Tolka on a free bus then soQuote:
Originally Posted by askmehoop
I wish Rico took the Sligo job and then he could be literal...Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
"They don't give a sh1te about us over here"
WTF are you on about. take a look at the attendance figures from last season mate, Rovers are by far the best supported team home and awayQuote:
Originally Posted by redobit
First competitive home game of the new season for Shamrocks, yet only a small crowd turn up, perhaps the decline of the new rovers has started already. It is not a good sign when one looks back at what happen during Jim McLaughlin reigns and after the move to the RDS; good support at the begining followed by a steady decline leading to the clubs going bust.
Ask a Shamrock Rovers fan who hasnt been a fan for more than 5 minutes.Quote:
Originally Posted by askmehoop
"WTF are you on about. take a look at the attendance figures from last season mate, Rovers are by far the best supported team home and away"
Ahem.... we'll have to see now that City are back in the Premier :-D
i dont know anyQuote:
Originally Posted by redobit
When they have home game they don't really bother with it but they have been by far the best away supported team in the Setanta since the beginning of it. Our first game against them they brought 1,000 to Richmond and 2 years ago they brought 11 buses down on a Tuesday night. Unbelievable away followingQuote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
would be nice to have them play in the league down here with away figures like thatQuote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
I don't think many of the attendance at the Showgs are too excercised about the SC (bar the 50K prize money). I think most went because they were interested in the new squad/manager. I was at Tolka on Friday but couldn't go on Monday due to family commitments but I would loved to have went to see how we shaped after the Shels game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dunny
The gate at Tallaght had to be disapponting to the Shams board, first competitive game, new manager and new players (how many travelled). While I might be tempted by the 8/15 on Shams to retain the league title, I wouldn't take it about them being the best attended club this year even though they have Dublin advantage.
Would that be the Dublin advantage of having 4 other clubs to compete with? I'd wait until after Friday before we start talking about their attendances
As I have said before, there is a lot to have a pop at Rovers about (and I enjoy it) but crowd numbers isn't one of them at the moment
Disappointing? Disappointing as having the locals take a few craps on the away teams supporters buses? Disappointing as having a manager leaving you high and dry couple of weeks before the season starts when you should have ditched him when he touted himself to Derry.Quote:
Originally Posted by redarmyfaction
Season ticket sales at Tallaght are higher than your average attendance....wouldn't get too worried about the attendance at the Cliftonville game...
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Originally Posted by PartySaint
Those teams have a huge population base to draw in comparison to most teams and a short distance to travel for Dublin derbies, furthermore Bray Drogheda and Dundalk are mere commutes so 7 out 11 home games ought in theory to have larger away crowds that is the Dublin adavantage.
Shams have had surges followed by troughs in support before so who is to say that history will not repeat itselfbut no matter what **** you throw the gate again the Red's was poor.
I would like them in our league too yes but they could not keep those figures up if they had more then 2 trips down south a year. Im sure there away crowds would still be 3 figures consistently unlike most clubs (bar Rovers,Cork, maybe Derry) but not 4 figures that often.Quote:
Originally Posted by askmehoop
Shamrock Rovers Vs Lisburn Distillery Setanta Cup Quarter Final March 2011 - Admission 10 Euro Attendance 1500
Shamrock Rovers Vs Cliftonville Setanta Cup Quarter Final March 2012 - Admission 15 Euro Attendance 1500
€20 for the semi's in front of 1500?
or €10 and get 3000-5000
or maybe 15 for 2000-3000
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Originally Posted by HulaHoop
Was the Distillery game the first competitive home game last year?
Less than 150 in Terryland Park, despite Devon comping all their members and having tried to give out tickets to anyone who would take them around town. Not many took them up on their offer obviously. Galwegians see them for what they are.
Salthill Devon reported the attendance as 347. The double-vision that has afflicted Mervue officials seems to be even more serious in Salthill.
150? Enough said. 500/600 hardy and loyal fans left without a team to support for the 2nd week in a row while two clubs can barely cobble that between them. The mind boggles
3,912 in Cork tonight according to ET.
There was more than 150 thereQuote:
Originally Posted by gufcfan
Extratime estimates 300 for Bray/Derry. Desperate if true
They reckon about 1500 in Oriel Park
2690 at Bohs & Shels
very good crowd in Cork, but it is sure to drop off if their performances do not improve. Already Derry, Pats and Shamrocks are 6 pts ahead of them. 150 in Terryland means that it looks like a big mistake has been made about soccer in Galway by the FAI. While it is early in the season. it seems that all the experts who were of the opinion that reducing the number of teams in Galway was the way to go may have been wrong. Do other clubs and fans of the league care about what is going on? I suppose not.
I'm sure other LOI fans do care but just dont know what to do ? What do GUFC fans expect other LOI fans to do?Quote:
Originally Posted by wonder88
I most certainly care. Always held Galway Utd in high regard and always enjoyed the trips to play them. A club I had a soft spot for you could say. But what exactly can one do apart from a Maxi job at the FAI headquarters?
Fans are completely helpless when it comes to the decision making in the league, the FAI certainly don't care about the league nor the crowds along with it so there's not a lot one can do.
Thanks for that Nigel-Harps.
One team in Galway IS the only was forward, but what can you do when the chairman of the league is a Salthill Devon man hell bent on crowning his own club kings of Galway, even if there's nobody left to worship it.
The Galway United directors are still very much on the scene and allegedly are pulling strings / threatening the FAI with all sorts, along with their usual nonsense, trying to dump their debts on somebody.
Again, what can you do when all this is going on.
2690 at Bohs v Shels according to ET. Thought it was more than that, as I had sat in both blocks E & B during the game. Would have had it at closer to 3000 myself looking at the crowd in the Jodi and Des Kelly.
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Originally Posted by ger121
At our end they didn't have the man power to cope with our ground so they opened the "exit" gate and started taking exact cash off people, saying a good 100 people went in before I did through that and God knows how many after, none of that was being recorded I'd imagine.
OK. The attendance at terryland last night was very disappointing according to my mate who is one of the head coaches at Salthill Devon. The official attendance was 233 with only apparently 64 people paying in at the gate. 100+ in attendance would have been juvenile/junior players or club members/staff of Salthill Devon who all got free season tickets.
they need to know exactly what happened in the first place to start caring, and until the GUST or whoever make public everything that went/is going on between the FAI and Salthill they will never take as much interest as we need them too.Quote:
Do other clubs and fans of the league care about what is going on?
I could start by saying that the FAI have put aside LOI clubs cash this year to pay for the rental of terryland for salthill devon for the entire season.
whoever wants to add to that can!
There was probably double that estimate from extratime at the bray game, i would have said bout 650 maybe with around 100 derry fans.
extratime says 2,950 at Tallaght
At least 3500 in Tallaght last night.Quote:
Originally Posted by El-Pietro
Extratime seem all over the place with their attendances. They had us down for 1,400 last week when it was about 1,700
463 at Waterford United v Limerick to see a surprise 3-1 win.
It would never be the case that fans are overestimating their own attendances.Quote:
Originally Posted by PartySaint
Conveniently forgetting the President of Ireland is a Galway United man ;PQuote:
Originally Posted by gufcfan
or underestimatingQuote:
Originally Posted by dong
I think there was a deliberate decision not to involve him, since he is a great supporter and could do without being uttered in the same sentence as local criminals.Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
We all know that happens but even some away fans and neutrals saying their figures are way offQuote:
Originally Posted by dong