5000 at the RSC last night. Confirmed in The Star and on Waterford Local Radio (WLR)
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5000 at the RSC last night. Confirmed in The Star and on Waterford Local Radio (WLR)
1200-1300 at the Carlisle last night.
245 in the seats, 200-250 on the bank, 700-800 on the terraces.
Derry brought 150-200 fans who created a great atmosphere; sang their hearts out for 90 minutes, had a great repertoire of songs and a drummer with a great sense of rhythm.
Those Derry drummers are fantastic. Worth the entrance fee to any match alone. Most clubs just have a lad who likes to make noise, but they are genuinely musical. Definitely 5000 at the RSC last night....don't take the lower estimate as usual because it is incorrect.
Bohs v Longford crowd, 1,225.
I'd say about 700 at Finn Park last night :(
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Originally Posted by harpskid
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whats it going to be next year :o
REVIP, most websites and match reports are saying there were definitly 400 city fans in the Carlisle. Brings it up to 1500.
No, because the guesstimates appear to be consistently 10%-ish over when official figures come in, and they're the conservative estimates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Da Real Rover
Irish Examiner had 4600 for Waterford-Cork, I think. Will take that as it's about what's being said here anyway.
Yeah, if an attendance is in The Star, it must be true! Sure they said 5000 at Cork v. UCD recently and it was only just over 2000!Quote:
Originally Posted by Partizan
WLR also had it at that number.
You, Trevy and SPX must be having a love match. :D
I wasn't at the match but heard between 200-250 for the Kildare v Galway match
EDIT: There was actually only 94 at the match !!! SAD
How can there be 4500-5000 in the RSC?
From what i saw the stand holds approx 1300-1400. Was there seriously 3000+ people standing around the pitch? In places looked 6-7 deep but in other sections 2-3 deep. Anyone good with Maths?
Stand holds 1200, I think - or thereabouts.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
3/4 or an athletics track is probably 400 yards given the extra distance out it is. To fit 3000 people, you'd need to give everyone 1/8yd each, or about four inches. If you really want to get technical, you could take the average waist size as being 34 inches, which would be a width of roughly 12 inches, or three times wider than the space you have. Add in a bit of elbow room and you'd be looking at needing to have the area around the track at being consistently 4 or 5 deep. Personally, I'd be very peed off to have to watch a game from beihnd four other people.
Lower reasonable figure gets it - them's the rules. Prudence and all that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Partizan
2651 official attendance.
Pats season ticket holders have seats spread over two-thirds of the stand so away teams can only be allocated one-third of the stand for any game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Buller
Seeing as we're getting all scientific....!Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
I was told by a Waterford official earlier in the season that the stand in the RSC has approx 900 seats. Assuming you have 400 yards of space around the track, that's 14,400 inches. Allowing that the average supporter's span from shoulder to shoulder is 21 inches that gives space for 685 supporters. For an attendance of 5,000 you're talking about 6 people deep around the whole ground. From what I saw on EL Weekly last night that wasn't the case.
Various websites suggest that the RSC stand hold 1200-1300. If the crowd was 4,600 and the stand was full, then there would be 3,300 spectators to distribute around the pitch.
The RSC has an Athletics track around the pitch - which would be 400 m. If you allowed spectators 1 metre of space each, it would take 400 spectators to encircle the pitch. The circles would obviously need to get bigger as one moved outwards, but if they were of uniform size it would take eight circles of fans to generate 3,200.
There was maybe 200 fans on the grass bank behind the athletics track to the left of the stand.
1,493. Loads of cork "students" showed up.
We reckoned about 550 for Monaghan United v Sligo Rovers
That section was clearly over-sold though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stato
The stand holds 1300, according to city fans it was oversold with people having to stand. there was also at least 200 on the bank to the left of the stand plus the people around the track, dont think everyone would take up a metre by the way.
thats a lot of space.i'd say at least3 per metre of space along the barrier and it was a few people deep.Quote:
Originally Posted by REVIP
say people lined up 300 metres of the track = 900x3 = 2700
Cobh v Monaghan (1st game) 240
Cobh v Monaghan (2nd game) 190
Cobh v Kilkenny (22/10) 780
Cobh v Dublin C (05/11) 800
regarding the 400 yards thing. take out about 120 yards,as the main stand is on one side of the pitch,hence no one standing at the pitch on that side of the ground.so its only 3 sides of the ground with people standingQuote:
Originally Posted by REVIP
About 180 at Athlone vs Kilkenny
I'd like to see you fit three adults shoulder to shoulder in one metre of space. Perhaps if they turned sideways they might do it but they'd want to be very friendly! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ollie
Kildare -v- Galway which included the 2 mini football teams at half time.Kildare are struggling big time to get any kind of support and each time we have visited the crowd has been smaller.
Probably right, was thinking that the fences ran outside the running track (the outside of a running track is over 450m long) but forgot that they cut in to the pitch so in fact there's probably only 300m of space around the pitch. Going on my original calculations you're talking 7 deep all the way round for a crowd of 5,000, allowing for 1,200 in the stand.Quote:
Originally Posted by anto eile
I am sad & did wrong count of how many seats in 1 section of the stand at the RSC = 300 & there are 4 of those sections which makes 1200 + probably 100 over the tunnel & say another 100-150 oversold, so makes 1450 approx.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stato
I would say around the pitch was 4-5 deep behind both goals & maybe 2 deep oppose the stand. I'd guiess looking at 3500 max.
this must be the longest debate for a crowd ever. dont forget about the few hundred on the bank to the left of the stand, and the lads in the dugout, not to mention the players and referee's assitants and the fourth official and the dog that somehow got in.:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
This is a Maths debate! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by blutil
True, but don't forget that an athletics track is 440 yards long, BUT you're standing a good 10/15 yards beyond it (I think - isn't there a grass verge between the track and the fencing?), so while you lose the main stand section, you gain extra circumference because you're describing a bigger arc.Quote:
Originally Posted by anto eile
I love the way everyone else just posted my calculations over and over again!:)
Lads ye are gone very nerdy there :D There was a crowd of at least 4500 there,end of.Every media source I've seen has quoted 4500 to 5000 and thats what I'd have said myself.
Science be damned! If it's written down it must be true! This is starting to turn into the Evolution/Intelligent Design debate... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by trevy
The media just guess attendances. The FAI are even worse as quote these on their websites.Quote:
Originally Posted by trevy
All match reports on the FAI website are submitted by the SWAI. The FAI just bang them up without even reading them. Then ironically, they (well, the eL - but it's the same thing) tell clubs they are 100% responsible for material on their club websites.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
Why doesn't someone just ring the Waterford secretary and ask him how many were at the match? Simple.
Or is it that they do not know, as they are required to under licencing.
and if they dont know then they will have broke the licensing regulations and will be deducted points?saving us from possible relegation!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam Savic
brilliant thinking sam savic!
1,713 tonight, 341 from waterford.Quote:
Originally Posted by anto eile
Because of season tickets the increase in gate money was 70% even though its only a 55% increase on the average attendance.
NB, doesnt include the guests from the away team, players guests and club guests, approx 30 more.
Reckon 3,600-3,800 at Shels/Cork